Which app is it?

Virgin red

Brilliant. However. It would be cheaper for me to buy tickets from Manchester to Euston at £40 return one adult 2 children. From Stoke to Euston return it's over £200. Am I ok to join the train at stoke do you think? I know I would have to get through the barriers but I'm presuming you could just say you are meeting family or not?? Thanks

Wow! Thanks, these are amazing prices!

Updated op with more info.

Is there anything from London to Crewe? And anything in first class or is it economy only? Thanks

This works done it many times

Beware! You may get away with it but if they have already checked the tickets at Manchester they can and may demand you pay full price from Stoke to Euston. I used to travel every week from Preston to Euston, Lancaster to Euston eas and probably is significantly cheaper and more flexible. If the tickets had been checked from Lancaster (and they usually were) any trying to get on at Preston with a cheap Lancaster ticket was charged the full Preston to Euston price which could be up to £200. I ended up driving to Lancaster each week as it was so much cheaper and worth the extra car journey.

aw snap, booked tickets the other day via trainline..! Great deal, voted hot

great advice thank you.

Tip: If you want to book these Virgin Red fares on your regular PC rather than on your phone...

just use your Virgin Red app to take you to the Internet site on your phone
and then copy that "buytickets.virgintrains..." URL and transfer it to your PC (eg via an email).

You can then visit the site and see the "Red Hot" fares showing.

Cheers, will keep that in mind for next time!

This is brilliant... Cheers op, been looking at best fare finder for past couple of days to get back to manc this weekend!

This deal is red hot. A lot of cheap fares already sold out so be quick!

#I ♥ MCR#

How do you find fares at these prices as its coming up at lots more?

Worked for me with TopCashback £2.50 booster as well.... just clicked through the Virgin red app to booking page.... then opened TCB app and followed virgin trains link, which open the page in the tcb web browser (no good for this Red Hot deal).... but when i went back to normal chrome browser (that Virgin Red app opened) and completed the transaction i have the 1% cashback and the £2.50 pending in my account.... £17.50 return if it pays out!
Thanks again OP... Family and friends weekend on you :wink:

Just not getting anywhere near £10 fare, trying for Euston - Man 02/06-09/06
Showing £180/return for 2A2C

Thanks for that prompt!

Had been wondering what TCB site I "needed" to spend £5 on this weekend to bag that £2.50 bonus - and a non-RedHot Virgin Trains Advance ticket £7.90 that I had on ToDo list fitted the bill perfectly - with 1% TCB (already tracked on TCB 15 mins later, ie 33% saving for me!] and a few NECTAR points too due
[or could have claimed Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, which would give a 3yr validity of a/c balance refresh!]

Just to help people with what the Virgin Red App lists out as being included in the offer:

Journeys on Virgin Trains West Coast mainline to/from London Euston ie EUS
and the following stations - with Adult fares from...
Birmingham New Street BHM £4
Chester CTR £10
Glasgow Central GLC £15
Liverpool Lime Street LIV £10
Manchester Piccadilly MAN £10
Preston (Lancs) PRE £10

They appear to be only Standard Class with no First Class option [as there usually is in Virgin's own periodic "Sales"]

Travel between Saturday 27/5 and Sunday 11/6. The tickets are specially priced Advance tickets in that you have to catch the specific train and actually travel between the ticketed stations!

Available to book until Tuesday 30/5

Any available tickets appear in the results as "Red Hot" with yellow highlighting of the option.
If there aren't many tickets left it'll also show a red "X seats left" underneath in that yellow box.

When searching check you've got a valid destination & valid dates & then search the hours from early in morning to late in evening as these Red Hot fares appear to often be on early/late trains.

Not mentioned but Child fares appear to be 50% (and any Railcard's aren't applicable to this fare).

See my earlier posting about using your desktop PC/screen to book using the smartphone Virgin Red App's link.

As you're booking with Virgin Trains West Coast official booking engine you:

a) You haven't actually bought the tickets until you fully checkout and during the booking process as your select your seats, those seat reservations are kept for I think it's 2 hours [it tells you the time in the basket interface!] so you can definitely bag seats at the RedHot price in your basket and then phone around or check hotels available etc while tickets remain in your basket ready to complete the purchase

b) Can also claim NECTAR or Virgin Atlantic Flying Club points by entering your details
and see Tommytbone1's idea above re claiming TopcashBack 1% (and potentially TCB's Bank Holiday weekend bonus)

c) Potentially add "Plusbus" to use the buses on the day your travel to/from your city/town [however as most Plusbus offer discount for having a Railcard - which RedHot doesnt - you may need to experiment with getting the Booking Engine to recognise the Railcard]

d) If you have the Virgin Trains App on your phone you'll probably be able to claim the tickets as eTickets instead of a printed one. I like the App just for general purpose "Live Train Times" showing the National Rail live feeds of train movements over the next 2 hours.

mc to eus £10 where ??

ok thanks

Tip if you're folllowing this thread: tonight 30/5 is the last day this offer is available.
Still showing various eg EUS-GLC-EUS next week @ £15 when I just looked.