How very annoying

[miasmum]

I am kicking myself. I am going to London Monday, so looked on the National Railway website to book my ticket and it took me directly to the London Midland booking page. The cheapest tickets highlighted were two singles totalling £26 so booked them. Then afterwards I thought might as well book the ones for the following week too. So didn't bother with National Railways, went straight to the London Midland, which this time took me to the home page as I wasn't being redirected and it turns out if I print out a voucher I could have got return tickets for £15. So that's £11 down the pan, I hate that sort of wastage. Still at least I bought my second ones through the offer been worse if I had missed it completely.

So if anyone is booking tickets to travel during the next couple of weeks, make sure you check the home pages of rail providers, don't just use a generic booking service

[Ally]

Oh thanks for that Shell..I'll be looking out for that as I'll be train booking for June shortly.

[meriad]

Shell, I would query that with the train provider.... and see if you can get some of the money back. Why should you be penalised for using a service that you'd think would give you fair prices?

[Kaz]

That's really annoying!!!! I searched the net for a cheap ticket from here to Ely last summer to my sister's graduation ceremony, but couldn't find a decent discount - until Mick looked, breaking the journey up into seperate tickets for each stage (there was a change involved at Brum) and he saved me a fair bit of money

It's a minefield, sourcing the best prices for tickets

[Kaz]

Same with holidays though - going slightly off topic We met a lovely couple on holiday in Corfu last year and they were so eager to tell us about the huge saving they got on the holiday, and what a bargain it was for 5* - until we told them what we paid for it and it was £100 less pp than they had paid

[JoM]

That's so annoying, and unfair

[tonicha]

So annoying MM

Why can't these people make things easier for us mere mortals - oh yes, profit

[miasmum]

Its hopeless trying to speak to them Ria. I have tried before they want a £10 fee for amending your tickets anyway. National Rail were the company that took me to the that page and their call centres are in India, so trying to explain where you are going when they have never heard of anywhere is a nightmare

[debih]

That is so bad.

One of our friends regularly travels all over the country by train for work and he saves loads of money by searching the net.

Instead of getting a return ticket to the destination he will for example get return to Birmingham, then return to say Luton and then return to the final destination. It is all the same journey on the same train so he never actually leaves his seat but he can save around a hundred pounds just by not getting a ticket direct to the destination. It is such a rip off.