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Having spent my three years of university at the quintessential Place In The Middle Of Nowhere (the locals call it Aberystwyth) and all my holidays back at home separated from my friends by the whole Irish sea, I'm happy to have finally settled (for the time being, at least) in the South east of England. At least I'm on the same landmass as everyone else now. At least there's an airport half an hour away, and decent rail links to everywhere I could ...
...little trip to London to visit my very best friend, see a gig and just generally enjoy a wander round the city, I blithely thought would be a piece of cake. That is, until I got to looking up train prices. You want HOW much?! But it's only up the road! I'm not trying to buy the train, just a seat on it for one short hour! Jeezy creezy, people – it's gotten expensive to travel these days. Eco-loving non-driver that I am, I rely entirely on public ...

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So, I am always looking for ways to save money. My sister lives down in Manchester and I usually take the car when I visit but the money it was costing in petrol was just getting too ridiculous. I decided to start looking for alternative means of transport so I looked up train fares which were ok but still not the cheapest and flights were a lot so then I thought about coaches. I had passed the megabus while driving up before and heard many people ...
...this. I went on the website 3 days before I was due to leave and surprisingly enough I still got what I would consider a cheap ticket. It cost £24 for a return to Manchester and back up to Scotland. The website is easy enough to use you pick your starting point and where you want to go, choose the dates and passengers. They travel to basically every city in the UK, all major cities like London, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and so on. I went to ...

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I like weekends away visiting my friends. It really cheers me up. The only problem is I do not drive (I am not allowed to as I am partially sighted) and have to rely on public transport. I have tried National Express coaches and trains and have had very mixed results. One thing I do find that unless you book about three months in advance (especially with the trains) traveling within Britain via public transport can be quite expensive. On my last ...
...company www.megabus.com. This is a subsidiary of Stagecoach and offers dirt-cheap intercity coach travel As the name suggests they are an internet company and that is the only way you can book the travel which may be a hindrance for those who do not have internet access or credit or debit cards. The brilliant thing about them is that they offer travel from as little as £1 single to a number of destinations including London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, ...

duskmaiden 12.10.2004 · Read full review
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Megabus is a fantastic bus service. I was £4 return to go to Glasgow and back for a day trip shopping. Its simple to book, although you do have to book online. My friend came along with us on the day of the trip but didnt have a ticket and they let him on by just paying the bus driver on site at no extra cost. This was completely unexpected. With the cheap deals I expected the bus to be overcrowded but it wasnt. Even though there is not much leg ...
...and back we managed to take two seats each. The toilet did leave a lot to be desired but then i never seen a clean bus toilet!!!!!!!!And what do you expect for £2 each way. The bus to Glasgow dropped us almost in the centre of town. Less than a five minute walk away from the St Enoch Centre. It was perfect and was just in time for the shops opening at 9am It is a long journey about 3.15 hours and this would have only been 2.15 in the car but wih ...

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If you are thinking about travelling there seems to be some pretty good deals around, well at least if you believe the posters anyway. According to the posters London to Sheffield return by Midland Mainline train will cost you just £10, but wait before you all get yourselves too excited I suggest that you get out your magnifying glasses and read the tiny terms and conditions at the bottom (not easy I know when the poster is ten feet above the ground). ...
...of a Midland Mainline return train ticket to London was in reality £44. To get this special offer you needed to meet some pretty tight criteria, book several days in advance, travel off peak Monday to Thursday etc. All very well but no good for me because I was on a tight schedule and not flexible. I had resigned myself to having to part with £33 more than my original budget but then a friend of mine said "Have you thought about going by Megabus?" ...

micksheff 02.07.2005 · Read full review
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Well firstly Megabus are a product of Stagecoach, an excellent bus service which runs locally in my area. Megabus is the budget end of the market (which suits me fine being a not-exactly-wealthy student), however this does not by any means in my opinion detract from the service overall. I have myself used them approximately 5 or 6 times as an excellent means of travelling from the south west of England to London - and this shall be the route and ...
...journey. BOOKING Well the journey on a megabus differs slightly from that of a normal stagecoach bus. For one, you must book either online or by phone prior to travel. The phone booking is an extremely recent addition to the company and a welcome one in my opinion. Very useful for when your computer or ISP aren't playing the game! Lines are open from 8am to 9pm seven days a week - allowing excellent access, as well as having a thorough and easy ...

laura_harley 12.06.2005 · Read full review
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INTRODUCTION I live near Preston and every year i like to go on a weekend break to London. I had booked the hotel for February and was looking for some travel. The train - fast but expensive! National Express - Resonably priced but very slow stopping everywhere. I had tried this option a year before and it took 7hr. While searching I came across Megabus, i had heard of it before but never really took much notice. In a moment of madness, I booked ...
...later. In total £4.50! An absolute bargain!!! FARES Although fares start at a pound this is only if you book early! As the date of travel nears the price will rise as more people book! Generally the first 3 passengers to book would get pound seats. Having said that the most for a seat i have seen is £11 which still represents great value for money! There is a 'minicatch' there is a 50p booking fee but that is per transaction not per person. So ...

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...blue, fairly prominently marked with megabus.com and a smiley driver icon> I have no idea what vehicles they use on other routes, they could be brand new coaches as far as I know but I doubt it with fares this low The driver checked my reference against a manifest, as I was the only person on that trip it was not a problem but if you had 50 people with scraps of paper to check this might delay things You cannot pay cash fares, you must pre-book ...
...St), fairly convenient. They do not use the swanky bus stations at Glasgow and Edinburgh, just bus shelters so this may be a consideration in deep winter or if you have luggage The driver dutifully waited till the departure time, not sure why as I was the only person on his list The bus was clean and had coach style seats but no seat belts as some coaches do It had 'real radio' piped through the top deck which didn't bother me but it might annoy ...

mark-southside 02.10.2003 (20.03.2004) · Read full review
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I used this service to book tickets for 2 adults and 2 children to go on a day trip to London from Birmingham in half term. The website was clear and gave you all the information you need. Its a fairly basic service of buses between some of the major cities, currently (June 2004): Birmingham, Oxford Swansea/Cardiff, Bristol, Plymouth/Exeter, Bournemouth, Southhampton, Portsmouth and Brighton to and from London, Liverpool - Manchester - Leeds ...
...Glasgow - Edinburgh, St Andrews to Edinburgh By booking two weeks in advance we managed to buy tickets from Birmingham to London £1 each way per person plus 50p booking. My understanding from other passengers was that the later you leave it to book the more it costs. There were rail works on the main east coast train line so a number of passengers were late bookers, none had paid more than £3 each way. This compares to £50 single by rail, with ...

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Being a non-driver, coaches, buses and trains can seem to rule my life at times. During my 3 years at university i became quite an expert at mastering the various forms of travelling home, as well as the variable cost and duration of the journey. I often found myself choosing between the comfort and relative proximity of the train, or the cheap ticket prices of the coach. Then Megabus was introduced! Megabus, in case you didn't already know, is ...
...Destinations: They run services to and from 30 destinations, including Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton, Cardiff and of course, London. Some of the services only run to London, but many offer a choice of at least 4 other destinations. How It Works: As previously mentioned, Megabus is an online service, found at megabus.com. Upon visiting the site you choose your departure and arrival locations from the drop down list, ...

katsthebest 14.10.2004 · Read full review
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Having been a Megabus customer for about a year now, regularly using their services between Edinburgh and Glasgow, I was excited to see their new provision of longer distance travel between Scotland and London. Well perhaps excitement is slightly too strong a word but I was defintely intrigued and willing to give it a go. The orginal concept is simple. Stagecoach operates two low-cost forms of bus transport in both England and Scotland. Firstly ...
...as First in Glasgow and Finglands and UK North in north of England cities such as Manchester. Magic bus provides cheap transport around the UK's major cities. Secondly is Megabus providing cheap, no-frills bus travel between major cities. Originally this only went as far as say Edinburgh to Glasgow, Glasgow to Dundee, Manchester to Leeds and many English cities to London. Now however a new competitor to firms like National Express has emerged in ...

lwbusiness 27.09.2004 · Read full review
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I seem to be obsessed with finding bargains recently and I am amazed at just how many there are to be found out there currently. One of the things that had been recommended to me recently was megabus.com. I have always booked my journeys via the trainline.com, but had been advised that if you were booking a journey way in advance, you could possibly get an even better deal through this website. Finding the site was easy and Google had it as their ...
...I was not intially impressed with the website on entering it. I found it looked a bit...well...cheap. It reminded me of the Ryanair website, it is cluttered and somewhat confusing looking. Entering the details of my journey was straight forward enough, but it had one annoying feature, the journey planner needed you to enter how many tickets you wanted to purchase, it does not seem to many to be a big problem, but it actually meant that I had to keep ...

excelsior81 02.08.2009 · Read full review
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Living in the middle of a 'credit crunch' and trying to organise a holiday to Glasgow is where I had my first experience of the catastrophic Megabus. == Booking == Booking was easy enough and with the excitement of the impending holiday fuelling my (in hindsight, questionable) taste of the cheap, I found the website pretty easy to use with any difficulties quickly forgiven when I saw how cheap it was for me to travel from Manchester to Glasgow. My ...
...seemed pretty much exactly the same as any other National Express coach. == Arrival == Upon arrival and nearly an hour early for departure, my partner and I were met by a long queue and a driver resembling Wurzel Gummidge throwing people's suitcases into the boot of the coach and giving no indication as to when we were able to sit on the coach and when to present our tickets. Naturally, wanting to get the best of a bad bunch of seats on the coach, ...

mademoiselle-b 13.10.2009 · Read full review
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On the 18th december my boyfriend, son and i took a megabus from birmingham to london for 4 days. It cost £26 and to be honest i can't fault it. I spotted the megabus sign when i went on holiday to scotland, i never used the bus but noticed the £1 sign on the sign and looked it up when i got home and noticed it went from birmingham to london. Well the travelodge had a £10 a night deal on so i booked 4 nights and booked the bus with it. It was there ...
...the time they said on the timetable. The only thing i could say maybe was that it was a bit cold. but it is the winter, and for the price we paid i didn't really care. The priced start from £1 and worked out that next time we go if we book early enough i can probably get it down to around £2-£3!!! you can get more infomation from www.megabus.com. Im just a bit dissapointed that the only bus from birmingham goes to london. At the moment there are ...

furby-2003 22.12.2005 (23.12.2005) · Read full review
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Megabus is the company who are ever increasing with their services thanks to the offer of exceptionally cheap travel to a variety of uk destinations. So what is all the fuss about? I have used Megabus on a couple of occassions now with one trip to Aberdeen from Glasgow and one from Glasgow to Birmingham (Aberdeen trip with a return journey also). I found the prices being paid for both trips to be exceptional and when compared to other bus companies ...
...but decided I would never know unless I gave them a shot. The buses both left from Glasgow Buchanan Bus Station and were excellent buses with the quality on offer of a similar standard to other companies charging a lot more money for the same journey. I had booked online and so all I had to do was produce my printed travel voucher and this allowed me onto the bus with a staff member taking my suitcase and placing it in the hold for me. Once on the ...

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