Cheap and reliable intercity travel (Megabus)

Member Name: Burning_Darkness

Product:	Megabus
Date:	12/10/09 (151 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: very cheap, reliable, decent service

Disadvantages: can only travel at certain times, limited ticket availability

Megabus.com is a very straightforward online bus service site that allows you to book journeys in between the larger cities and towns of the UK at prices many times cheaper than it would cost you to travel by either national express or national rail. For example, you can pick up a single ticket from Newcastle to London for just £16, plus a fifty pence booking fee.

The downside of the service is that they only run one bus service per day, which may leave from your desired location anywhere between 8am and mid afternoon. Also, if you are hoping to travel to or from a smaller town its likely that you may need to take connections to and from the megabus pickup and dropoff points. Even so, the megabus ervice is still hugely useful for firing you in the direction you plan to travel, and in this way can still dramatically reduce your travel costs.

Booking online is incredibly straightforward, requiring you to navigate a number of simple drop-down menus specifying where and when you want to travel, but its very importatnt to book a few weeks in advance as due to there being only one service per day tickets nearly always sell out. The buses themselves are reasonably comfortable and come with toilets, and I have always found the service to be highly reliable.

A great way to dramatically book your travel costs, Megabus.com is a site well worth checking out, so long as you dont mind the restrictions on travel times. Given the cost of a megabus ticker relative to normal bus/train costs though, I'd argue that its a small price to pay.

Summary: A great way to save money on travel costs