DLA365 said:
Is there any website where you can find details of commercial bus fares so that you don't have to wait 32 mins for a bus and find it is too expensive?
i doubt it as the bus industry seems to thrive on the fact their fares are secret.
:mad: there should be though!
We had tickets to Clacton, rather than Walton. The guard let us go to Walton instead on the outward journey, and the bus was just a way of avoiding doubling-back. If we had got the bus that passed us (by going to a different bus stop) we would have ended up being 2 hours ahead of schedule. If we had just got the train back straight away we would have been 1 hour ahead of schedule. As it was we ended up on time. Looking back I wish I'd realised this! I now understand why we were ahead of schedule, it's because we saved time by doing the stopper before the fast train and avoiding 2 long waits that were in Joy54's plan at Colchester, and also a lot of time allowed for the bus. We didn't realise we were actually on schedule until after Marks Tey though!
As for not getting the bus, well I knew it would have missed a train by just a few minutes so it wasn't saving us time, ultimately. The driver calculated the fare with a pencil and a bit of newspaper. I politely told him the train was cheaper (which was correct, by a significant margin!). LastGroup need to be told and they need to be boycotted, when appropriate. :evil4:
Had we got the first bus, we would have taken it though despite the cost. I wonder how long it would have taken us to figure out we were 2 hours up rather than 1. I guess we'll never know