says 88 quid for me

Clicking on get deal just refreshes page

anyone got a link?

thanks

This link just says coming soon:
https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/sale

I tried Leeds London and it was £122. Might wait till tomorrow

i can confirm too, sale seats available from £6 each way!! Thanks Op!

Brilliant !!!!
Just booked a ticket to London for end of July £20 return , no stops direct 2 hours 14 mins

Good stuff, London to Glasgow or Edinburgh for £14 standard/£35 first.

FYI: The Virgin Trains West Coast website still has the expired SPRING SALE page, ie not updated yet.

As OP says the SUMMER SALE has begun despite it being advertised as from tomorrow Tuesday : like the OP I have booked SALE tickets already, ie just visit Virgin Trains website and alongside normal and Advance tickets you SHOULD find a limited number of "Sale" fares.

The OPTIMUM way to get Sale tickets is to go via a cashback site - eg via TopcashBack which has 2% until tomorrow and then just try the route(s) you want. Do be prepared to vary the dates/times to find those Sale tickets though, and the longer you leave looking, the harder it'll be to find them.
https://www.topcashback.co.uk/virgin_trains/
And have your NECTAR or Virgin Atlantic Flying Club # to hand as you can get a little bit of credit on one of those too!

The original posting about the sale, which includes a link to VTWC's Media announcement...
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/virgin-trains-west-coast-seat-sale-3-days-only-5th-7th-july-travel-23rd-july-4th-2469699?p=28313042

Do remember this is their WEST COAST sale and nothing to do with Virgin Trains East Coast routes/tickets.
ie Sale is for routes up that West Coast from London to Glasgow/Holyhead/Manchester/Liverpool/Blackpool and London-Birmingham-Edinburgh/Glasgow.

Nice!

Can't see any TRAINS for sale.

Yeah, confirmed live. Click through and look at the fare finder, then look at the monthly view. It'll show the sale tariffs on each applicable day

just booked 2 adult returns preston to London £40 in total and 2 adult returns preston to Edinburgh £24 in total
absolute bargain.

thanks, Birmingham to Euston return for 2 people £24 !

Thanks!

Can't access it here? Says coming soon.

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Not from my place :disappointed:

£38 each way 2 adults and 2 children - lakes to London - will it be cheaper tomorrow ???

EDIT - booked now as saved £89 so happy

You just saved me £45, cheers OP :smile:

AWESOME. Just bagged return london to liverpool 1st class for 60 quid. Sweet. thanks.

Great deal! Booked a trip for five of us to head up to Edinburgh from Birmingham for £100 return! £500 saving apparently! Also booked London for the day, £16 return for the two of us. Thanks for letting us know the sale went live a day early - Virgin Trains haven't emailed me saying it has started so I could've potentially missed the train fare I wanted!

Don't go to the sale page. Just search for fares like you would normally, and sale prices will show up as part of that search.

Preston return? how? im still getting full price

Make sure you're looking between 23rd July - 4th September, and then vary the time of day your're looking as frankly there won't be (m)any Sale tickets on their peak/busiest timed trains.

Thankyou, the later trains were cheaper

Is this just another 'You can go anywhere as long as it's London' promotion or is there any chance it may include somewhere I actually want to go to?

Not necessarily, I live in Birmingham and I can visit Glasgow, Edinburgh, Carlisle, Preston, Lake District, and Crewe on this VT sale to mention a few... Not sure what the routes are like if you don't live in Birmingham or London

Thank you so much I've just booked 2 adults and 2 children for £24 return to London :smile:

Past Virgin promotions have tended to bypass anything that doesn't go to London. I want to go from Wigan to Carlisle or Scotland but this section of the network if often overlooked when there is any sale, particularly the promotion of it.

Trying Glasgow to London and finding no sale tickets

What dates are you searching? The traveling dates are the 23rd of July until the 4th of September. Be flexible as the times you want may not be available

You can buy a train?

Thanks for this. I've been putting off buying the tickets for a journey I new I needed to make for a good week or so. I had no idea that a sale was on the horizon, so an unexpected pay-off! First class being included in the offer too is a nice surprise, also.

Only found one £10 ticket EDI - London and that was 06:30 in Morning. The last promotion (£15 each way flat fare) way better.

Is there only a certain amount of tickets at this price for each service?

There is a set amount of tickets on sale however this isn't a limited to how much you can purchase

It doesn't go flactuate, they're all at a set price until they're gone

great - London Liverpool return £20 - thank you very much

There is a set amount of tickets on sale however this isn't a limited to how much you can purchase

There is a set amount of tickets on sale however this isn't a limited to how much you can purchase

Not sure where you mean by EDI. Not recognised as a 3 character railway station abbreviation.
If you mean Edinburgh Waverley EDB then £14/£35 are the "Seat Sale" fares to London Euston EUS, and they are definitely still some available, albeit not on all services/dates.
(If EDB then you may be getting confused with Virgin Trains EAST COAST - not this Sale at all - as Virgin Trains West Coast don't have a 6:30am service on their timetable.)

lovely find!

CBLFAL

Grrr - moving West :laughing:

Wanted to go watch a Newcastle game no cheap tickets

https://www.buytickets.virgintrains.co.uk/buytickets/categorymatrix.aspx?Command=TimeTable

2 adults 1 child milton keynes to glasgow £70 HOT HOIT

not getting deal

That's because Newcastle isn't on the Virgin WEST COAST route!

£4 each way to Birmingham appearing on lots of trains

Great find just saved £120 on a return journey.

Thanks for this. I found a return from Wolverhampton to London Euston for £8.

Ta. Trip down to London sorted for £16 for my birthday :smile:

Awesome - £20 return Manchester-London cheers OP

Cold, sale isn't on yet and wasn't offered any 'sale prices'........

Remember you can only travel between the 23rd of July until the 4th of September if you don't already know. The sale is definitely on - I booked a five return tickets from Birmingham to Edinburgh for £100 in total (over £500 saving!) and Birmingham to London for £16 for two people in total. Look again

Nothing from Oxford or London to Edinburgh on weekends at least :disappointed:

Glasgow to Liverpool or Glasgow to Manchester £29 return! Just booked Manchester :man::smile: thanks!!!

Preston to Edinburgh for 2 people, £24 return, sweet deal, cheers OP.

VT don't operate services from Oxford and for London to Edinburgh make sure that you check for West Coast services not East Coast as these deals are only on VTWC.

Four tickets one way from Edinburgh to London, £56 all in! Fantastic deal, thanks OP for the alert.

£16 for 28th and 29th of august or am I reading it wrong, liverpool to euston

​Thanks for this! I'm only finding sporadic one way tickets from Edinburgh to London and nothing for the outbound from London

Thanks OP! Just got a £20 return London to Preston (Friday out, Sunday back) in September to get up home for my Dad's birthday. Great deal!

I was hating this deal as I could not find any tickets for my July last week travel to London. Then I scrolled through the times and managed to get a ticket for £4. Thank you!

I couldn't find any trains for sale at all, they must be out of stock

Brilliant! Thank you! Here I come London Town!

:stuck_out_tongue: £16.00 for 2 return trips to London from Wolverhampton in August.. Amazing deal !!

Got 2 return first class tickets from Carlisle to Glasgow for £68, may not sound cheap but its cheaper than petrol and car parking for a couple of days! Always fancied trying first class and all, heat from me!

great thanks - got £48 return for a family of 4 Sun > holiday Monday + a Central TL room for £40 so nice and cheap to go see Notting Hill Carnival

Does anybody know is you can add Railcards on top of the sale price? I'm trying, but no additional reductions seem to be added

Topcashback have a 4% rate until 7/7 and if you use a Santander 1-2-3 credit card, there's another 3% cashback on top of this.

Booked Glasgow return for £28! Bargain

Very disappointed this year. I looks forward to the spring and summer sales, as I can get a fast Virgin train (which leaves later), rather than the slow London Midland ones on my usual commute (as well as the odd first class seat as a treat!), but I've only been able to get one seat for this period this time round, whereas I don't usually have any trouble getting seats! Disappointed :disappointed: In anyone's experience, do they add any more seats as the day goes on? Or have I missed out this time round?

Just booked Two adult return tickets Warrington to Edinburgh £28 ! Happy days thanks Basil Flush : )

Excellent! I'll be booking London today then

Unfortunately not found anything from Bristol to London. Sad times

Happy days. £20 return Liverpool to London. Just a day trip. But almost as cheap as petrol and parking in Manchester.

Hope they hold another for November and December...

I just bought 2 tickets to Glasgow. Cost me £56.
Thanks guys :smile:

£8 return for me, London day trip in the summer hols booked!

Thanks OP - Warrington London returns August £10 per leg of journey

HOT Birmingham --> Euston return 12pp

Milton Keynes to London return - £8pp! :smiley:

Thanks OP - just picked up return tickets from London to Manchester for £20!

Thanks for this, just bought a couple of journeys for £4 each and another for £6

which dates?

Was that from leeds please?

Leeds is East Coast, this is West Coast as stated :confused:

absolutely useless sale for the north east

Morning

I'd be looking for the same route. I cannot find anything cheaper than £120 - not much of a sale.

Is there a trick for finding cheaper tickets? I was looking for mid September onwards

£4 to London, £30 yesterday

Leeds to London is East Coast not West coast as highlighted

I'm having exactly zero luck finding anything for London-Edinburgh. Any tips? Which stations should I be looking to go from?

I have seen a few from Euston to Waverley, what dates you looking at?

Thanks - I did not read the text just went straight to the site and tried searching. My bad.

VT don't operate from Bristol

is it first great western- bristol?

As suggested look on the Virgin Trains website - ideally for you by having got there by say TopcashBack - from London Euston (EUS) to Edinburgh Waverley (EDB) and in the OPTIONS you could set 'direct services only'. Looking right now on say Thu 1/9 (one of the dates within the Sale period) it shows a few trains each way at the Sale £14/£35. Do remember to scroll through the times Earlier/Later.

Bristol's served by a couple of TOCs, depends where you wanted to go to - eg to London it's First Great Western who rebranded themselves as Second to Last Western... oh no. as GWR "Great Western Railway".
https://www.gwr.com/about-us/our-business/our-vision

If you look at the National Rail Live departures for Bristol Temple Meads [BRI, the city centre station] you'll also see CrossCountry services to the North and South-West
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/ldbboard/dep/BRI
.

That's like saying the Argos sale is useless for Tesco.

Virgin Trains West Coast don't go to the North East.

Their route map is here: https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/stations-destinations

Search for trains from Euston to Edinburgh, and then tell it to only show you trains via one of the stations on the West Coast line - for example Preston or Carlisle. Then it won't show you the East Coast services that aren't part of this offer.

that link helps. but it does not split between services deemed EC vs WC. you would just have to use common sense logic, but that gets hard for some of the routes in the middle bit (like C vs D, or D vs E)

any advice?

That link only shows West Coast routes.


The East Coast services go from Kings Cross to Peterborough, Doncaster, Leeds, York, Darlington, Newcastle and Edinburgh. East Coast has its own website - https://www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/ . It was a mistake for Virgin (actually Stagecoach - they own 90%) to have a second franchise using the same branding, it was always going to cause confusion.

No sale on east coast I guess, looking for Newcastle to London and it is just standard rip off rate

26-28th Aug

cheers,

Great! just booked wolverhampton to london for the 5 of us for £28 return using my family railcard too.. Love a bargain :smiley:

Tried london to Bournemouth and its £133. It would be great if there is any map to choose a destination.

Money to this bearded ****? I'd rather walk.

Here's the link again:
https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/stations-destinations
It's the WEST COAST MAIN LINE - ie up from London diagonally NW towards Midlands, North Wales, Manchester, Merseyside, Lake District, Glasgow/Edinburgh.

Hi, how did you get Warrington to Edinburgh. I can't find this route available.

Seach "Warrington Bank Quay" to "Edinburgh Waverley" - direct service every two hours with Sale tickets at £7/£27.
(Recommend having got to Virgin Trains website via eg TopcashBack for 4% back today!)

Thank you.

I was trying to book Euston - Birmingham for £16 for 2 but every weekend I was looking in July there is no Northern Line!

Virgin trains is London to up'north destinations hehe

Now that's joined up thinking, at least as regards planning your own trip!
(I made the mistake a couple of years back of buying a cut price Paddington to Cornwall Sunday morning ticket and found that trains down to London from Milton Keynes weren't running as normal that Sunday morning and earliest train really cut it fine - ended up racing by taxi to Paddington with fingers crossed.)

All my cards have been declined ffafafafsfafaffffffffffffff I give up! ☺️

How did you do that? What day

ohh crap forgot to take notice of that lol ty

You may be looking at wrong TIMES of day within the 23/7-4/9 Sale period. eg Looks like earliest North is 10am on weekdays at least (eg on Thu 4/8 first day I looked) but then every 20 mins...

Just book 2 returns from Glasgow to Carlise £32 return - can't complain at that.

Coventry to London booked for £4 e/w. Then Coventry to Edinburgh for £10 e/w, crazy prices!!

Great deal, I got return from Manchester to Euston for family of 4 for £60. Heat8)

If you are travelling on a weekend and wish to travel in First Class, in many cases it works out cheaper if you buy the Standard Class fare and then pay the 1st Class upgrade from the Train Manager (£10 for London -West Midlands/ £15 for all other routes). Don't automatically assume the First Class fare in the sale is cheaper, they usually work out more expensive.

Thanks OP. I got Glasgow London return for three of us for £120 total. Just need to start saving so I can afford a beer when I get there.

Do realise too that First Class at weekends = the better/lower density seating is most of what you get, as the catering "perks" are extemely basic eg an individual cake/biscuit + bit of fruit!
https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/experience/first-class/weekend-travel
(Another reason too to avoid Bank Holiday travel in First Class as perks severely curtailed.)

does anybody know if you can add a Railcard discount on top of this?

just booked London-Edinburgh 1st class £35 cheers..

No, it can't be used in conjunction with any other offer or railway card discount

What date mate and which stations. I cannot find any :/

I've just picked a date at random and found some on 18/8 from Euston to Edinburgh Waverley for £14. Times were 10:43 and 16:43

Open link in new tab

No, it can't be used in conjunction with any other offer or railway card discount

£50 return for 2 adults 1 child, Liverpool - London, taking the grandson for his 1st trip to London and staying in a premier inn at tower bridge for £79.
He will be a happy boy when he gets his birthday present.
thanks.

No good for me!! Thought I could bag some tickets for my daily commute to work, but as expected you won't find any peak time tickets. So for me I will have to stick to my overinflated season ticket!

London return came back at £221 for me. So it's either that or a late all-inclusive deal to Spain for a week......

I'm sure they make the prices up in the morning, but someone forgot to divide it by 5 and take away the number they first thought of.

Okay
I didn't know that !!!
Realised when I looked up 'west coast' Route

Coventry to London return, Fri-Sun 2 adults, 1 child, total of £20! Cheers op!

Excellent deal. 2 adults and and 2 kids, Lancaster to London return in August for a 3 day break total £60!! Thanks op :-)

Out of interest does anyone know if there are any sale tickets from temple meads to anywhere? Save me getting to London first but not a big hassle if I do have to get to London really!

its astonishing to see TWO great hot deals about the company called 'VIRGIN'! it does not happen very often ha ha

Thanks for posting, I just managed to get a good day return deal to London #HeatAdded

https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/stations-destinations
Looking at the map, looks like you could travel north to Birmingham and then you can book onward travel to Scotland or the North West. I am not familiar with that part of the country so it may be easier or cheaper to go to London first?

Tip: If you're travelling with CrossCountry trains - eg up via Gloucester/Cheltenham to Birmingham and beyond, or off to the South-West - I've always found it cheaper with their fares to SPLIT tickets, even Advance tickets, ie if going from A to C via a train that stops at B, to buy a ticket from A to B and another [on the same train] from B to C. Mind you it takes some experimentation to find the optimum split(s).
http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/split-cheap-train-tickets/

Preston to London £20 return a week later Preston to Edinburgh £12 return in August
Thank You for posting :-)

Thanks so much. Managed to get return travel Glasgow to London Fri-Sun for 2 adults and a child for £70 return total. Got a deal in a Hilton for approx £200 for the weekend too. Pricey, but not bad for London.

Which dates did you book doesn't seem to work for me when I try London > Glasgow

Does anybody know (approximately) the days/months of the year when Virgin do their train ticket sales.

Look out for ticket sales between February/March and July. Sign up for Virgin Trains newsletter and you'll be notified as soon as a sale is on

And everyone remember if your Virgin West Coast Train is Delayed by 30 minutes plus : do make sure you get the DELAY REPAY.
If you've booked on their site it's MEANT to be automatic, but I've had two failures out of three on that so far as the system seems to be bedding in slowly!
https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/delayrepay

NB: "Due to some recent technical hiccups with our booking system, we’re now extending our Summer Seat Sale up until 11am 8 July 2016, so you’ve got a few extra hours to snap up those tickets. For any further updates, keep an eye out on our twitter page " was meant to have shut 1.5hrs ago!

Thanks.

Perhaps I'm blind, but all the 'sale seats' that I'm trying on the fare finder is linking me to non-sale seats. Looks like they've pulled it early instead of 11am like they said.

@virgintrains

At 11:03am: Sale has ended, but only for now - due to their "technical issues", so will be a last chance it seems!
"We promise to be back with another chance to pick up those Seat Sale tickets very, very soon. We don’t want you to miss out, after all."

I have recently traveled by RENFE Spanish TVE train between Alicante and Madrid for 40 Euro one way and 20 Euro the other a distance of 420 K, these are standard fares and the price depends on time of day but were not at ridiculous times, mid morning and mid day also when booking you get a seat allocated just like on an airplane so no standing.

As long as Ryanair keep taking me from Liverpool to Barcelona for less than £20 Branson can shove his train tickets to London firmly up his jacksie!