East Midlands Trains Carnet

[suzanneparis]

After reading a previous post about carnets it got me thinking.

I searched for East Midlands Trains carnet and came up with this:
http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/tickets-deals/ticket-types/

But I can't see prices or validity.

Can anyone help? Also are the carnet tickets reduced in price if you have a railcard (senior)?

Many thanks

 

[14sutton]

Carnet tickets show up on brfares

http://www.brfares.com/#!fares?orig=DBY&dest=LBG

 

[suzanneparis]

14sutton. Many thanks I haven't heard of that site. Most interesting.

But wow £803 for 5 journeys. (unless I am misreading).

Bang goes my idea of it being cheaper. At roughly £160 per ticket.

An anytime return Leicester to London with senior railcard costs £98-65. Dramatically cheaper than the carnet price.

In fact isn't there something wrong because it's £149-50 without a railcard. So the carnet is more expensive. I thought the carnet would be cheaper.

So, what's the point of the carnet??

Many thanks

 

[bb21]

Those prices are for Derby.

From Leicester the price is £672.80 for five return journeys, £1345.50 for ten. This product is aimed at the business travel market, not leisure travel.

 

[14sutton]

The normal anytime return is £178 return, so an £18 saving per return trip.

 

[suzanneparis]

The prices for the carnet don't compare favourably with season tickets.

Do many carnets get sold?

 

[bb21]

They are aimed at completely different markets to season tickets.

For sales figures, you will probably have to ask EMT directly, but I doubt they will tell you for commercial sensitivity reasons.

 

[CyrusWuff]

Carnets are aimed at people who don't travel frequently enough to warrant buying a season ticket. Usually they have a longer overall validity than the equivalent walk-up fare and offer a discounted price for buying multiple tickets in once. Another advantage is that, unlike most tickets, they are transferable.

Chiltern, for example, offer 12 Anytime Return tickets for the price of 10, with an overall validity of six months; EMT are offering a 10% discount on 5 or 10 Returns, though don't specify the overall validity; Virgin's "Take 10" gives a 10% discount on 10 Single tickets (they advertise a Return product, but this appears to be issued as two sets of Singles).

 

[telstarbox]

So (for example) a company in Leicester can buy a carnet and dish them out as required to staff travelling to meetings in London.

 

[suzanneparis]

Got it.

Thanks. Most interesting.

My only experience of buying a carnet is on the Paris Metro - if I remember rightly it saved quite a bit of money. I may be wrong it was some time ago.....