How to get from Clapham to Basingstoke at 3am on New Years Day without spending loads of money

dylantombides

Four of us (including myself) bought tickets to a New Year's Eve event a few months ago.

Train strikes have meant trains are running even more infrequently when the event finishes in the early hours of 1st January. The last train is quite early while the train the next morning is a very long wait.

There doesn't seem to be any cheap hotels around as we've left it too late so I was wondering what the cheapest way to get home to a nice comfy bed will be?

Hostels seem about £45 per person so i think it'll be cheaper to get a taxi and split it.

Voyager2002

Take a few blankets and maybe a tent.

esuhl

dylantombides wrote: »

The last train is quite early while the train the next morning is a very long wait.

I just had a look at the sites below, and supposedly you can get a bus to Waterloo station, then the 3.05 or 4.05 trains (subject to strike action).


Alternatively, you could get a bus to Paddington, and get the 5.20 train from there, changing at Reading. Apparently that route isn't affected by strike action.


https://www.traveline.info/
https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

tacpot12

Have you tried Airbnb?

Savvy_Sue

tacpot12 wrote: »

Have you tried Airbnb?

And Travelodge and Premier Inn and simple google 'hotel near Clapham'? I suggest the latter because I've found it brings up options I'm not seeing in other searches.

My first response was hitch-hike but for 4 that could be tricky.