Glasgow City : All Day Bus Ticket

[Willie Bee]

is there such a ticket for unlimited travel on Glasgow buses for a day, such as in London and Edinburgh?

It looks to me that separate bus companies have their own schemes, but no combined system, which would be sensible

 

[Volvodart]

See here, but you need to buy a smartcard

Glasgow Tripper - Unlimited Bus Travel Across Glasgow

The Glasgow Tripper is here! One card, any bus, any time of day or night. Travelling around Glasgow by bus just got a whole lot easier.

glasgowtripper.co.uk

 

[Willie Bee]

See here, but you need to buy a smartcard

Glasgow Tripper - Unlimited Bus Travel Across Glasgow

The Glasgow Tripper is here! One card, any bus, any time of day or night. Travelling around Glasgow by bus just got a whole lot easier.

glasgowtripper.co.uk

Oh, brilliant !

Many many thanks !

 

[Buzby]

A cheaper option (if you are arriving by rail) it to pay the extra for the PlusBus option on your rail ticket. It works across all the usual buses and is a small uplift on the rail fare - but I don’t think the online ticket vendors offer it.

 

[Willie Bee]

A cheaper option (if you are arriving by rail) it to pay the extra for the PlusBus option on your rail ticket. It works across all the usual buses and is a small uplift on the rail fare - but I don’t think the online ticket vendors offer it.

Thank you for that information, but I booked the rail tickets a few weeks ago ... that scheme is maybe Ok if you are still to book.

BTW .. welcome to the forum .. I am also pretty new here, but have been amazed at the level of knowledge among the members

 

[peri]

ISTR arriving at a station, going in to the booking office, showing them my ticket and asking to buy a PlusBus ticket successfully.

 

[Willie Bee]

ISTR arriving at a station, going in to the booking office, showing them my ticket and asking to buy a PlusBus ticket successfully.

As per my previous comment .. "I have been amazed at the level of knowledge among the members"

Many thanks for this information .. I was actually about to order two Glasgow Tripper cards, which cost £1.75 each .. just for the cards.

I see with PlusBus there's even 33% for railcards .. we have a Two Togeter card.

 

[Simon75]

Thank you for that information, but I booked the rail tickets a few weeks ago ... that scheme is maybe Ok if you are still to book.

BTW .. welcome to the forum .. I am also pretty new here, but have been amazed at the level of knowledge among the members

With Plusbus you can still buy a ticket after the purchase of train tickets

 

[Buzby]

I stumbled across the PlusBus option around 7 years ago when I went up to Inverness and didn’t fancy filling my pockets with loose change simply to use the bus. Back then it only added 50p to the ticket cost! Perl is correct, you can add the +Bus on arrival because it’s not active everywhere - I only stopped buying it when my coffin-dodger ‘Scotia’ card arrived and the only bus it doesn’t work with is ‘National’Express.

Yes, the knowledge on here is quite overwhelming - I’ve been a long-time lurker then thought I’d be better since I’m using trains much more since retiring I could usefully contribut! Actually I’ll be coming down to your neck of the woods to see the new Metro trains in August - I hope they manage to keep it graffiti free until I get there!

 

[route101]

Its a shame Glasgow lacks an all operator bus ticket with the trains. What do you have planned?

 

[Buzby]

Its a shame Glasgow lacks an all operator bus ticket with the trains. What do you have planned?

There was one - given to delegates at COP26, if it moved, this RFID card was an ‘open sesame’ to transport. Bus, Trains & the Subway - we all thought when COP finished it would be rolled out to all that wanted it - and could pay whatever the price agreed. Unfortunately, the Transport Executive has gone quiet and I think they hope we’ve all forgotten it happened and it’s back to the way we were.

 

[Statto]

Its a shame Glasgow lacks an all operator bus ticket with the trains. What do you have planned?

Glasgow had one such ticket in, SPT Daytripper ticket, which was valid further afield than Glasgow, but SPT withdrew the ticket a couple of years ago

 

[rg177]

As per my previous comment .. "I have been amazed at the level of knowledge among the members"

Many thanks for this information .. I was actually about to order two Glasgow Tripper cards, which cost £1.75 each .. just for the cards.

I see with PlusBus there's even 33% for railcards .. we have a Two Togeter card.

Just go to the ticket office at Newcastle and ask for them, showing your railcard and train tickets.

They issue them regularly enough - I get them from there all the time after booking.

 

[Buzby]

Glasgow had one such ticket in, SPT Daytripper ticket, which was valid further afield than Glasgow, but SPT withdrew the ticket a couple of years ago

To be fair - this was a group ticket, not for individuals and the scratch card format fell foul of the absence of technology and incompatibility with gate line equipment (although I see First Bus still use a paper ticket in a laminated pouch!). At £9 for the day it was OK foe 4 travellers (2+2), but the arrival of free travel for the under 21’s was the final nail.

 

[route101]

To be fair - this was a group ticket, not for individuals and the scratch card format fell foul of the absence of technology and incompatibility with gate line equipment (although I see First Bus still use a paper ticket in a laminated pouch!). At £9 for the day it was OK foe 4 travellers (2+2), but the arrival of free travel for the under 21’s was the final nail.

It had a large area of validity with both bus and rail. The one annoyance was it was not valid on McGills buses.

 

[JonathanH]

To be fair - this was a group ticket, not for individuals and the scratch card format fell foul of the absence of technology and incompatibility with gate line equipment (although I see First Bus still use a paper ticket in a laminated pouch!). At £9 for the day it was OK foe 4 travellers (2+2), but the arrival of free travel for the under 21’s was the final nail.

The daytripper was available for individuals to use. The validity was such that you could take a certain number of children for free depending on whether it was a one adult or two adult ticket.

 

[Buzby]

It had a large area of validity with both bus and rail. The one annoyance was it was not valid on McGills buses.

Wasn’t it just ‘Strathclyde’ when that was an entity? ISTR I couldn’t go to Stranraer, having to bail out at Girvan - but that’s a journey I’ll never forget!

 

[JonathanH]

Wasn’t it just ‘Strathclyde’ when that was an entity? ISTR I couldn’t go to Stranraer, having to bail out at Girvan - but that’s a journey I’ll never forget!

It was valid to Barrhill. You'd have found it even more difficult to forget if you had spent a few hours there.

 

[Buzby]

It was a family day at the beach…. If we went to Barrhill for the day, I reckon I’d be divorced by now….

 

[zero]

Wasn’t it just ‘Strathclyde’ when that was an entity? ISTR I couldn’t go to Stranraer, having to bail out at Girvan - but that’s a journey I’ll never forget!

I've been to Stranraer on one and the guards didn't want to bother with selling me an extra ticket.

 

[GusB]

The original question has been answered, so we'll close the thread here. Thanks for your input, folks!