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Changing Virgin Trains seat reservations

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faddy

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Planning to travel from Liverpool Lime Street to Euston this Friday December 28th probably on the 16:42 along with two other family members. I'm tempted to try making three separate bookings with three different accounts via the Skyscanner app in order to get £5 (MSEDEC) or £4 (SKYRAIL) off each booking.

Even if they're booked in quick succession I realise that there's a risk that the seats booked may not be close together, so I'm wondering whether it would easy (and free) to change the reservations so that they are. Despite the tickets being purchased online would I be able to change the reservations at Lime Street on the day before travel? At the ticket office or at the Virgin reception? And, that close to travel, would there be likely to be availability of, say, two seats together and a third close by?
 
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Just sit in the unreserved coach.
 

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Planning to travel from Liverpool Lime Street to Euston this Friday December 28th probably on the 16:42 along with two other family members. I'm tempted to try making three separate bookings with three different accounts via the Skyscanner app in order to get £5 (MSEDEC) or £4 (SKYRAIL) off each booking.

Even if they're booked in quick succession I realise that there's a risk that the seats booked may not be close together, so I'm wondering whether it would easy (and free) to change the reservations so that they are. Despite the tickets being purchased online would I be able to change the reservations at Lime Street on the day before travel? At the ticket office or at the Virgin reception? And, that close to travel, would there be likely to be availability of, say, two seats together and a third close by?

You could always Tweet Virgin Trains as they'd be able to reserve seats close together dependant on svailability
 

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Coach C will be unreserved but it’s tiny compared to the other carriages due to the shop, so you’d want to be first on.

I’d tweet them.
 

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You could always Tweet Virgin Trains as they'd be able to reserve seats close together dependant on svailability
How would that work? What would I have to show the train manager (or passengers sitting in my new seats) that I had the reservations?

I'm (pleasantly) surprised that no-one here has said "Is the risk and hassle worth it for a £10 saving?", but I've asked myself that and the answer is "probably not".
 

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How would that work? What would I have to show the train manager (or passengers sitting in my new seats) that I had the reservations?

I'm (pleasantly) surprised that no-one here has said "Is the risk and hassle worth it for a £10 saving?", but I've asked myself that and the answer is "probably not".

You just tweet them explaining you've bought tickets and would like to be seated together. They then may or may not ask you for your tickets, after which you'll be issued with a reservation not too dissimilar to this:

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You just tweet them explaining you've bought tickets and would like to be seated together. They then may or may not ask you for your tickets, after which you'll be issued with a reservation not too dissimilar to this:

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Thanks. I presume that would be done via DMs not public Twitter? Would they care that I'd already have reservations that I wouldn't be using?

Edit: change pubic to public!!!
 

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Thanks. I presume that would be done via DMs not public Twitter? Would they care that I'd already have reservations that I wouldn't be using?

Edit: change pubic to public!!!

Pubic or public - up to you. I prefer to DM though personally.
 
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