Coventry to Leeds Saturday

[TomJ93]

10th - 11th, so this week. No railcard, need 2 tickets getting there for the afternoon and leaving after 11am on Sunday if anyone can help?

 

[ForTheLoveOf]

10th - 11th, so this week. No railcard, need 2 tickets getting there for the afternoon and leaving after 11am on Sunday if anyone can help?

If you can accept fixed-train tickets (Advance), TrainSplit recommends getting the following tickets, splitting at Birmingham New Street, Derby, Chesterfield and Leeds on the outbound, the same on the return except not splitting at Birmingham. That would be £82.60 return for both of you (find the tickets through TrainSplit but then book through www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk in order to avoid the 10% TrainSplit commission on the split ticket savings and in order be able to change the time or type of your tickets for free - elsewhere this costs £10/ticket!)

Given the ticket prices, you would actually save by getting a Two Together Railcard. This gives you a 34% discount when travelling together, after 09:30 Monday-Friday, or anytime on weekends. It costs £30 for a year, and can currently be bought for 10% less using discount code SEARCH10. This means that you are already saving with this one journey (as it costs £27 and you are saving £28). Your tickets are then just £54.60 and you can save on future travel with the same person this year.

There may well be cheaper ways to book this, but at the moment it seems like the best option, having checked my other (private) resources!

 

[roversfan2001]

(find the tickets through TrainSplit but then book through www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk in order to avoid the 10% TrainSplit commission on the split ticket savings and in order be able to change the time or type of your tickets for free - elsewhere this costs £10/ticket!)

While this may save money, if everyone did this then there would be no TrainSplit.

 

[ForTheLoveOf]

While this may save money, if everyone did this then there would be no TrainSplit.

True. If it were purely to avoid the commission then I would not do it. However, for advance tickets it is highly worth it to go through CrossCountry, as they can be changed free of charge, and advances are still available shortly before boarding (up to 10 minutes before) so if plans change then the advances aren't as inflexible.

 

[TomJ93]

Thanks. Will wait til tomorrow to see if anyone else can pull something out of the hat for me- otherwise I’ll book them!