Just got an email from Virgin Trains East Coast. Cheap tickets on sale for travel this weekend. Last minute. Low priced. Selling fast. Our Hot Cakes give you scorching savings on last minute tickets – perfect for all you impulsive trip takers. They're cooked and ready to book for travel this Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June, but will all be gone by midday on Friday 2 June – so grab a bargain, grab your bag, and seize the weekend. Example fares Leeds to London £5 or York to Edinburgh £10.
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tafkas
31 May 1713#5
I never get frisked by security guards when I leave the supermarket. Especially annoying as I could have just walked out without paying for the food.
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xenole
31 May 17#1
Doesn't seem quite as good as last weekend as a few trains not available and the first class fares are higher in places.
Shame I'm working Sunday as I won't get a good chance to experience another day at Heathrow :wink:
seaniboy to xenole
31 May 171#12
Probably cheaper booking British Airways flight than Virgin Tatties, they even throw in a free day in the terminal at weekends :wink:
maltikism to xenole
1 Jun 17#35
never good enough for you, is it mate?
GeoDogger
31 May 17#2
Doncaster to London, £50 return (2a,3c). Home to Doncaster £31.
Cheaper to drive :disappointed:
psychobitchfromhell to GeoDogger
31 May 17#3
Or buy a £5 ticket from Leeds and get on at Doncaster
UncleWilly to GeoDogger
31 May 171#6
An adult day return fare of £10 from Doncaster to London are you're still complaining?
I doubt you could even park your car in London for that, never mind the cost of petrol, traffic jams and the stress of driving!
xenole
31 May 17#4
I didn't get my tickets checked at all at the weekend either way (well, ticket inspector walked past me on the way to London).
Especially annoys me when I had to pay £43 to get from Kings Cross to Doncaster due to the BA flight failures and then you find you could have ridden without a ticket.
Seems to be plenty of £5 Don-KX tickets for me on Saturday although as said earlier, not on every train like last weekend.
tafkas
31 May 1713#5
I never get frisked by security guards when I leave the supermarket. Especially annoying as I could have just walked out without paying for the food.
ollie87
31 May 172#7
Depends where I guess. You can easily park your car at a Tube station for hell of a lot less than that (it can be around £1.50-5 a day on weekends), Oyster charges into London are cheap too. For example Stanmore has 450 spaces, is £2.00 to park all day Saturday, £1.50 to park all day Sunday. Tube from there to Leicester Square is only £3.10.
This is how I do it from Nottingham, because the price of trains to London are not only extortionate, they are also sadly unreliable and slow. Last time I did London and back I used less than £25 worth of fuel, and that's in a petrol car.
The train makes sense if you're travelling alone, but if you're in a couple or more it's often a lot cheaper to drive.
What I've actually started to do now is booking hotels slightly out, and in slightly awkward places like Greenwich. You can drive straight in, hotels are cheap, parking is sod all. You just have to get into London on the DLR or Clipper, both nicer than the Tube.
London is 170 miles away (340 return). Car (old diesel) does 650-700 miles per £60, therefore £30 return. I can park inside the M25 corridor, and grab a Oyster Day Zone card for each person and pay to park somewhere (shopping centre with tube access (Maybe Uxbridge?)) for less than the costs of this deal.
I guess now your going to tell me that i have to pay for tyres/wear and tear etc. Its on 218,000 miles, we simply add fuel these days...
xenole
31 May 17#10
I parked my car at Doncaster station for £6 last Saturday.
Usually about £40 of petrol from Cleethorpes to Heathrow and back, or around 80%+ of a tank.
3.5hrs drive depending on whether they've decided to close the key parts, for me, of the A46, M62, A1, M1 and M25 like they've done overnight a few times recently.
Sometimes I'll just get the train up to Newcastle and fly down from there. May take longer and be more hassle, but sometimes it can be half the price of the train.
DON-NCL is quite often up to a quarter of the price of DON-KX.
Did go first class from DON-KX last weekend for £20. £36 this weekend.
Ignore that, it wasn't showing all the promo fares until I ticked the box.
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Last minute. Low priced. Selling fast.
Our Hot Cakes give you scorching savings on last minute tickets – perfect for all you impulsive trip takers. They're cooked and ready to book for travel this Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June, but will all be gone by midday on Friday 2 June – so grab a bargain, grab your bag, and seize the weekend. Example fares Leeds to London £5 or York to Edinburgh £10.
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Shame I'm working Sunday as I won't get a good chance to experience another day at Heathrow :wink:
Cheaper to drive :disappointed:
I doubt you could even park your car in London for that, never mind the cost of petrol, traffic jams and the stress of driving!
Especially annoys me when I had to pay £43 to get from Kings Cross to Doncaster due to the BA flight failures and then you find you could have ridden without a ticket.
Seems to be plenty of £5 Don-KX tickets for me on Saturday although as said earlier, not on every train like last weekend.
This is how I do it from Nottingham, because the price of trains to London are not only extortionate, they are also sadly unreliable and slow. Last time I did London and back I used less than £25 worth of fuel, and that's in a petrol car.
The train makes sense if you're travelling alone, but if you're in a couple or more it's often a lot cheaper to drive.
What I've actually started to do now is booking hotels slightly out, and in slightly awkward places like Greenwich. You can drive straight in, hotels are cheap, parking is sod all. You just have to get into London on the DLR or Clipper, both nicer than the Tube.
https://www.virgintrainseastcoast.com/travel-information/cheap-ticket-alerts/
London is 170 miles away (340 return). Car (old diesel) does 650-700 miles per £60, therefore £30 return. I can park inside the M25 corridor, and grab a Oyster Day Zone card for each person and pay to park somewhere (shopping centre with tube access (Maybe Uxbridge?)) for less than the costs of this deal.
I guess now your going to tell me that i have to pay for tyres/wear and tear etc. Its on 218,000 miles, we simply add fuel these days...
Usually about £40 of petrol from Cleethorpes to Heathrow and back, or around 80%+ of a tank.
3.5hrs drive depending on whether they've decided to close the key parts, for me, of the A46, M62, A1, M1 and M25 like they've done overnight a few times recently.
Sometimes I'll just get the train up to Newcastle and fly down from there. May take longer and be more hassle, but sometimes it can be half the price of the train.
DON-NCL is quite often up to a quarter of the price of DON-KX.
Did go first class from DON-KX last weekend for £20. £36 this weekend.
Ignore that, it wasn't showing all the promo fares until I ticked the box.