We have finally managed to sort out the best way to organise our train tickets from York to London. I wasn't too worried about it to start with, but once we started looking at the different websites it all got a bit confusing....and at one stage I thought the tickets would cost us upward of 150 pounds each! Yikes!
The good news is that prepaying for tickets does make them a lot cheaper than if you buy on the day. The other bit of good news is that we don't have to have tickets posted, carrier pigeoned or sent by super-sonic fighter jet to get them here on time! We get a natty little code number that we put into a machine at York Station along with the credit card used to pay for our tickets and, hey presto, our tickets will magically appear! That's the theory anyway.....
The site we used was Raileasy , and it really was quite....easy! Oh, and by the way, the tickets were really only about 35 pounds each!
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Yes, we've discovered rail can be double the actual price if you book on the same day. You probably don't need any other transport if you're renting a car but have you considered National Express coaches? We return to England almost every year and find them much cheaper and just as efficient as rail although they take longer, of course. They cover almost every bit of the UK and if you are not in a huge hurry, you also see a lot more of the country via the motorways and A roads. And for over 60s there is a discount which you don't get on rail unless you're a UK resident. What I do envy is the free bus passes for the entire country once you hit 60.
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