If you don't intend to use it, child rate would be cheapernectar is offering me a 1000 points for any ticket purchase on east coast route can Edinburgh to haymarket £1.50 with a rail card be beaten?
All I see is 20% off west coast.I'm getting a 20% off Virgin East coast advances offer on Virgin Red at the moment, seems to suggest it needs booking via the App.
All I see is 20% off west coast.
confirmed. Virgin trains west coast First Class seat sale starts at midnight...
https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/abou...e-virgin-trains-first-class-seat-sale-1662226
1st Class travel over the festive period, save at least 33 per cent. travel between Sat 10 Dec 2016 and Sun 08 Jan 2017. Fares from £17.
Discounted tickets will be available to book at
www.virgintrains.com/sale from 00:01 on Tuesday 29 November to December 1 at 23:59.
I will have my finger on the "buzzer" waiting to pounce
fares now loaded, although, no sale advertised on homepage?
managed to bag a £17 ticket with turkey dinner included! (18.10 -Nuneaton)
There is generally no availability on peak trains. Fine by me, as it means I haven't paid more than I needed to for my journeys over the Christmas period.
There is a limited amount of peak-time availability on the 18:10 Euston to Holyhead, but it is worth noting that there is at least one first class Advance ticket at the very lowest tier available on Fridays. So it is possible to sample the meal on this service at a bargain basement fare, sale or no sale.
I would guess the trains are going to be pretty packed on 23rd December!
It's very amusing they they're the only ones running a Christmas sale. Everyone else is not doing so clearly for capacity reasons, but VT are because getting people to book First Class instead of Standard walk-up actually helps them offer more capacity to everyone with standard class walk-up tickets (since there's no scope for most people to use First Class walk-up due to the lack of Off-Peak).
I would guess the trains are going to be pretty packed on 23rd December!
I would guess the trains are going to be pretty packed on 23rd December!
It's very amusing they they're the only ones running a Christmas sale. Everyone else is not doing so clearly for capacity reasons, but VT are because getting people to book First Class instead of Standard walk-up actually helps them offer more capacity to everyone with standard class walk-up tickets (since there's no scope for most people to use First Class walk-up due to the lack of Off-Peak).
I've found some very cheap FC Advances on trains into London in the morning, they just haven't got a seat sale alternative...
First class Advance fares have been reduced very substantially between Fri 23 Dec 2016 and Fri 6 Jan 2017 inclusive: e.g. on Thu 5 Jan 2017 the 17:00 Euston to Manchester is £43 for a 1st Advance ticket (a regular Advance ticket at the lowest tier; not a seat sale ticket). The following Thu (12 Jan 2017), a 1st Advance ticket on the 17:00 is back up to the usual bargain price of £177.
I'm aware of this, through extensive research, as my school holiday is those exact dates (how convenient ). I'm quite surprised the latter half of the first week of January still has bargain Advances, I'd have expected business travel to start up again not long after New Year's Day.
They do offer these fares during general promotion over Summer, or in spring along with some Standard ones with a bigger discount. They're not exclusive to Christmas. The Christmas sale is mostly due to the crazily poor First Class loadings they are usually left with.
Even if one has a railcard, they are some of them 35-38% off and at better availability than the normal Advance quotas. £35 for First Class on a fast London <> Glasgow train is well worth it.
Virgin Trains @VirginTrains Dec 1
It's time to say goodbye #NeverEndingTicket has failed for its third and final time.
Also, does anybody know if VTWC have any offers planned for Standard tickets?