NXEC Birthday Fares £5

[Hornby APT]

NXEC have a gret offer on at the moment, from their website:

"We’re celebrating our first year of operating on the East Coast by offering special £5 one way flat fares, for travel to top cities on our route.

Over 100,000 £5 tickets are available, but you’ll need to be quick to avoid disappointment – they’re sure to go fast!"

http://www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com/birthday

 

[Pumbaa]

Reasonable I suppose. But only available on NXEC services; not allowed to upgrade either. Cheeky really, I doubt they will win more sales from this.

 

[Frenske]

You call that reasonable!!! I got a ticket from London Waterloo to Edinburgh and back again for £10 on that on for a Friday afternoon and Sunday!
Last time it cost me £106 and I had not reserved seats. Well happy birthday to the NXEC!

 

[yorkie]

You call that reasonable!!! I got a ticket from London Waterloo to Edinburgh and back again for £10 on that on for a Friday afternoon and Sunday!
Last time it cost me £106 and I had not reserved seats. Well happy birthday to the NXEC!

Unfortunately it won't include the Underground from Waterloo, but it's still great value from King's Cross to Edinburgh. Amazingly I booked the 17:00 KGX-YRK on a weekday in February at £5!

£106? that's a walk-on fare, so not a fair comparison.
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Reasonable I suppose. But only available on NXEC services; not allowed to upgrade either. Cheeky really, I doubt they will win more sales from this.

I disagree - it's an amazing price. In reality the conductor can offer weekend first upgrades at their discretion, but for £5 you can't complain that it's not officially allowed.

 

[jopsuk]

It got posted to "Money Saving Expert". The vouchers went rather quickly after that.