Johnston Press Tickets start 6th MAY in todays Yorkshire Evening postExcellent news, thanks for the heads up! This is the only time I travel by train.
Johnston Press Tickets start 6th MAY in todays Yorkshire Evening postExcellent news, thanks for the heads up! This is the only time I travel by train.
Johnston Press Tickets start 6th MAY in todays Yorkshire Evening post
The Yorkshire Post isn't listed as one of the papers with tokens.
Anyone used Loco2?
They are currently offering me £5 off when I spend £25 and 20% cashback on top of that via my employer's staff benefit site.
I used them for some Spanish tickets about 4 years ago with no problems. Since then the French and Italian sites have been good enough to book directly with.
I have had the same issues with Chiltern regarding taking payment without giving me anything for it!Chiltern are back up to 5% cashback with Quidco (for now).
However, their website has become extremely flaky - beyond it's general slowness. I've had numerous error messages at various stages in the booking process, saying there's a problem with the site or with my card, then taking me back to the start of the booking process.
A couple of purchase attempts resulted in card payment being taken, but no booking visible on the site and no email or booking reference receieved, meaning I had to chase it up with their web support team for refund. I only discovered this issue when checking my bank account.
I have had the same issues with Chiltern regarding taking payment without giving me anything for it!
I don't think it's malicious in this case - it's purely incompetent web design. But even if it were malicious, you are correct that there is, for all intents and purposes, no consumer regulator for the rail industry. The ORR doesn't seem to give a damn - all they care about is NR contracts and suchlike legalities.Is there a regulator who takes that kind of thing seriously?
I didn't mean it was malicious - I was wondering if there was a regulator for remote payments generally (as it's more of a payment systems issue than a rail industry one), in case this or similar problems happened more than occasionally and some people never found out.I don't think it's malicious in this case - it's purely incompetent web design.
A couple of purchase attempts resulted in card payment being taken, but no booking visible on the site and no email or booking reference receieved, meaning I had to chase it up with their web support team for refund. I only discovered this issue when checking my bank account.
Chiltern are back up to 5% cashback with Quidco (for now).
However, their website has become extremely flaky - beyond it's general slowness. I've had numerous error messages at various stages in the booking process, saying there's a problem with the site or with my card, then taking me back to the start of the booking process.
A couple of purchase attempts resulted in card payment being taken, but no booking visible on the site and no email or booking reference receieved, meaning I had to chase it up with their web support team for refund. I only discovered this issue when checking my bank account.
Summer Offer ticket price
London Terminals Rochester £15.00
London Terminals Chatham £15.00
London Terminals Whitstable £20.00
London Terminals Margate £20.00
London Terminals Broadstairs £20.00
London Terminals Ramsgate £20.00
London Terminals Faversham £20.00
London Terminals Hastings £20.00
London Terminals Canterbury £20.00
London Terminals Deal £25.00
London Terminals Dover £25.00
London Terminals Folkestone £25.00
- Offer only valid for travel from 7 May 2019 to 16 June 2019.
- Tickets valid to the 12 destinations above from Southeastern London Terminals and stations served by Southeastern in London Zones 1-6 (including Stratford International). London Terminals include St Pancras International, Charing Cross, Waterloo East, Cannon Street, London Bridge. Tickets available online at southeasternrailway.co.uk and at Southeastern ticket offices.
- Tickets for travel are only valid from 9:30am Mondays to Fridays and all-day Saturday and Sunday.
- Only valid for outward and return travel on the same day.
- Offer valid with Kids for £1 tickets. Not valid in conjunction with any Railcard or other promotional offers.
- Travel valid on any train operator company service using any standard permitted route.
- Refunds on wholly unused tickets are available, subject to an administration fee.
- Tickets are for origin to destination journeys only and cannot be broken.
Southeastern have a "Summer Offer" It doesn't "offer" much.
https://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk/destinations-and-offers/offers/summer-offer
Just been to the ticket office at Lancaster station to get a northern weekend rover, I handed over the printed off form with the tokens on it to be told “ Are they doing these again I hate them!”. He fiddled about on his machine for a minute and then said he couldn’t sell me one as there was no price for it. I told him it was £17:50 but he wasn’t interested and told me that there was problems last time with the northern offer.
Has anyone else had problems?
I wanted to catch an early train from bare lane tomorrow so my plans have gone out the window.
I've bought them at Huddersfield no problem.
Sounds like a "Virgin experience".
I always buy mine on the train from Bamber Bridge to Preston.
A discount that, for once, actually works with Railcards! ISTR they did a similar promotion about this time last year.Cross country offering 20% off advance fares: https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/may19
Hopefully you got yourself sorted djpontrack - a bit late now but I was able to buy one in the last set fine from Lancaster ticket office.
There are some great savings available for students at the moment:
UniDays are offering 40% off trips with LNER
UniDays are offering 15% off trips with National Express
Uni Days are offering 3 months free of TasteCard so you can get a discount on food before/after your journey
Student Beans have an offer for 12% off 16 - 25 railcards
Student Beans have an offer for 10% off Viator
Start saving saving everyone!