Trip.com "UK Traincard"

[yorkie]

Have Trip.com been forced by Rail Delivery Group to abolish their "UK Traincard"?

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uk.trip.com

This part of their website used to list the Traincard:

However, it is no longer listed, though the following text remains:

**Trip.com's UK Traincard provides an additional 4% discount on eligible UK National Rail trains booked via the Trip.com app or website. The Traincard discount will be automatically applied and combined with other discounts, such as promo codes and Railcard discounts. The maximum discount amount for each booking is 4%. This discount cannot be applied to Season tickets (weekly, monthly, or annual).

Did anyone here purchase a "UK Traincard"?

Also, is anyone here a regular user of Trip.com / Trainpal and if so, what is your experience?

 

[mmh]

Oh dear, that webpage includes this:

"16-17 Saver
For ages 16–25 and mature students"

 

[Joe Paxton]

The "UK Traincard" 'button' still appears in the Trains section of the Trip.com app - though tapping on it takes you to a new page advertising a "Trip.Traincard".

So perhaps they've renamed it?

This is the "Trip.Traincard" page on the app:



I suppose if taken advantage of wisely it could save people money... but for the one particular scenario that comes to my mind, that of buying tickets for multiple people, the FAQs provide no clarity on what the discount might cover.

The whole Trip.com and Trainpal casino style bells & whistles & flashing lights approach does the opposite of appealing to me, rather it engenders a scepticism of their approach, and I'm sure I'm far from being alone in that. Nonetheless they do seem to have built a market for themselves here in train ticket retail.

 

[JamesWatson]

If I have understood their new "trip.traincard" correctly, anyone spending £150 on train tickets within a 3 month period would make a positive ROI on the £22 cost.

I couldn't see anything detailing maximum redemptions or fair use policies etc. I must be missing something, as this seems far too good to be true.

 

[mmh]

The "UK Traincard" 'button' still appears in the Trains section of the Trip.com app - though tapping on it takes you to a new page advertising a "Trip.Traincard".

So perhaps they've renamed it?

This is the "Trip.Traincard" page on the app:

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I suppose if taken advantage of wisely it could save people money... but for the one particular scenario that comes to my mind, that of buying tickets for multiple people, the FAQs provide no clarity on what the discount might cover.

The whole Trip.com and Trainpal casino style bells & whistles & flashing lights approach does the opposite of appealing to me, rather it engenders a scepticism of their approach, and I'm sure I'm far from being alone in that. Nonetheless they do seem to have built a market for themselves here in train ticket retail.

It reads to me that it's just a subscription to a discount - "Applies to all train bookings on Trip.com". What else could it be? It's not a railcard.

I'm a subscriber to a different discount service (Jurnyon, which only discounts Transport for Wales advance tickets) and I occasionally use it to buy tickets for other people. It saves me a fair bit of money. I'll have to try and work out if it'd be worth my while changing to using this instead.

 

[Joe Paxton]

If I have understood their new "trip.traincard" correctly, anyone spending £150 on train tickets within a 3 month period would make a positive ROI on the £22 cost.

I couldn't see anything detail maximum redemptions or fair use policies etc. I must be missing something, as this seems far too good to be true.

This. I'm thinking there must be some smallprint somewhere that neuters, or at least limits, this "Trip.Traincard" offer. But I can't find anything beyond the page in the app I posted a screenshot of above.


I did a little searching to see if I could find any T&Cs on the Trip.com website but without success, however I did find that for Spain they offer a "Trip Traincard" (no stylistic intermediate full stop) that seemingly offers 10% off all bookings at a cost of €28 for a year:
www.trip.com/trains/x/traincard?hasBannerEnter=1&countryCode=ES