Saturday 4 October 2008
Best rail ticket website
The smart money is on www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com despite its name it covers all National Rail, not just its own bit. A nice interface, good at picking cheap fares and even has a system for letting you know when booking opens. Copes well with railcards and lets you reserve cycle space though I had problems with this when buying a special low price ticket. It automatically reserved me a seat (no problem) but then greyed out the cycle reservation option, which it wouldn't let me take before I'd picked the ticket. I had to phone up the rain company and reserve the space (they did it well without fuss) but NEEC need to fix the bug.
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what do you think about www.thetrainline.com , I was not a big fan but a couple weeks back they re-launched the site with some cool tools like a ticket alert service where you sign up and get an email when cheap fares are released and this cheap fare finder that lets you know when the cheapest time of the day / week is to travel
TheTrainline is a rip-off. It can add up to £5.50 onto the cost of the ticket if you add credit card fee, postage, and forget to uncheck "insurance", whereas National Express East Coast don't charge fees. Alternately, use the sites of one of train operating companies, e.g. www.fgwtickets.co.uk - no fees there either.
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