Trivia: How far can you go on a bus for under a tenner?

[Jordan Adam]

Stagecoach East Scotland offer a £9 dayrider for their East Scotland zone which could enable you to travel from Newton Mearns in southwest Glasgow to Aberdeen, which is about 128 miles as the crow flies - though you would have to change 2 or 3 times.

You can add some slightly extra mileage within Aberdeen too as the East Scotland Dayrider is valid on the 59 to ARI and the 727 to the Airport.

If you caught the X24 from Glasgow to St Andrews, 99 to Dundee, X7 to Aberdeen and 727 to Aberdeen Airport it would work out at around 170 miles.

 

[duncombec]

Do Arriva run to Clacton?

The map suggests Clacton is included, but no, they don't. It seems to be aimed at including service 77 to St Osyth, which is not far from Clacton. There is no stated validity on any other operator that might explain some of these anomalies.

https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/zones/ASC043.pdf

(Link to a PDF map showing the alleged validity of the Arriva Herts and Essex 'all zones' ticket)

 

[sk688]

It’s £6.60 on the app for the West of England adult ticket? (The Plus ticket which includes the Buses of Somerset services is £11)

The old First Day South West at £7.50 was pretty good value to get from the Bristol area down to Exeter. It was valid to Lands End but can’t recall of that was actually possible in a day!

ah, just realised i'm using 18-21 fares , which is why it comes out to £4.60 for me

Still not too bad a deal otherwise

 

[NorthOxonian]

The map suggests Clacton is included, but no, they don't. It seems to be aimed at including service 77 to St Osyth, which is not far from Clacton. There is no stated validity on any other operator that might explain some of these anomalies.

https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/zones/ASC043.pdf

(Link to a PDF map showing the alleged validity of the Arriva Herts and Essex 'all zones' ticket)

However, you can't get to St Osyth because of time constraints. The one bus from Stansted to Colchester gets in just after 8 - by which time even Arriva's town network appears to have packed in.

 

[TheGrandWazoo]

The map suggests Clacton is included, but no, they don't. It seems to be aimed at including service 77 to St Osyth, which is not far from Clacton. There is no stated validity on any other operator that might explain some of these anomalies.

https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/zones/ASC043.pdf

(Link to a PDF map showing the alleged validity of the Arriva Herts and Essex 'all zones' ticket)

I'd forgotten that Arriva still had the placement journey on the 133.

 

[Silver Cobra]

Seems there's some pretty good value Dayrider tickets out there in some Stagecoach areas, based on what has been posted in this thread so far. Around my 'neck of the woods', Stagecoach East offers the Bedfordshire Dayrider Plus for £8.20, for which the longest journey possible would be either from Hitchin to Northampton (9A/9B to Bedford then 41 to Northampton) or Luton to Northampton (81 to Bedford then 41 to Northampton). If the 99 service from Milton Keynes to Luton is allowed on this ticket, you could do a very long-winded journey from Milton Keynes to Northampton via Luton and Bedford, but you'd have to be pretty crazy to do that when there's the direct X6 service between the two places

Overall, not as good value as other Dayriders posted here, but not the worst. To go further, you'd need to purchase an East Dayrider Gold for £15, which opens up use of the X5 and services with Stagecoach Midlands/Oxfordshire.

 

[Deerfold]

Coastliner buses are £1 this Sunday after 3pm. Now there's a bargain.

https://twitter.com/yorkbus/status/1413190824335134725?s=19

Transdev DayTripper is £10, so not under a tenner, but a tenner.

That would get you from Preston to Leeds, and you could then go to Harrogate and theoretically to York via Knaresborough

You need a more expensive ticket to go to York and the East Coast on either Cityzap or Coastliner

If you buy them 5 or 10 at a time on your phone you can get the DayTripper Plus for under a tenner.

TrentBartons ZigZag ticket for just over £6 allows you to travel anywhere on the TB network, except for Arriva X38 and Skylink Derby. ZigZag Plus allows you to travel on TB and Kinch

When I was a student I used to love using this ticket from the Nottingham suburbs to Manchester, stopping off at various points on the way.

 

[Cesarcollie]

The map suggests Clacton is included, but no, they don't. It seems to be aimed at including service 77 to St Osyth, which is not far from Clacton. There is no stated validity on any other operator that might explain some of these anomalies.

https://www.arrivabus.co.uk/zones/ASC043.pdf

(Link to a PDF map showing the alleged validity of the Arriva Herts and Essex 'all zones' ticket)

Ah. A little poetic licence on Arriva’s part then....!

 

[siemens]

Here is the furthest ones that i can think of:

• Arriva The Shires Day Saver - £7.80 - you could use this to go from Chelmsford or Colchester to Northampton or Oxford or Reading

• Discovery Ticket - £9.00 - you could use this to go from Dover to Salisbury

• Essex Saver - £10.00 (or £4.30 on Sundays) - you could use this to go from Romford or Upminster or Walthamstow to Bury St Edmunds or Cambridge or Ipswich

• Go Ahead South Coast Explorer Ticket - £9.20 - you could use this to go from Weymouth to Swindon

• Intalink Explorer - £9.00 - you could use this to go from Chelmsford or Colchester to Northampton or Oxford or Reading

• Metrovoyager - £7.80 - you could use this to go from Eastbourne to Epsom or Shere or Sutton

• Stagecoach South East Dayrider Gold - £7.30 - you could use this to go from Eastbourne or Uckfield to Dover or Margate or Ramsgate

• Stagecoach South Dayrider Gold - £9.10 - you could use this to go from Brighton to Swindon

• TFL Bus & Tram Pass - £5.20 - you could use this to go from Dorking or Redhill or Slough to Brentwood or Waltham Cross or Watford

• Wiltshire Rover - £8.50 - you could use this to go from Southampton to Bath or Oxford or Swindon

Those are the furthest ones that i can think of.

 

[NorthOxonian]

Here is the furthest ones that i can think of:

• Arriva The Shires Day Saver - £7.80 - you could use this to go from Chelmsford or Colchester to Northampton or Oxford or Reading

• Discovery Ticket - £9.00 - you could use this to go from Dover to Salisbury

• Essex Saver - £10.00 (or £4.30 on Sundays) - you could use this to go from Romford or Upminster or Walthamstow to Bury St Edmunds or Cambridge or Ipswich

• Go Ahead South Coast Explorer Ticket - £9.20 - you could use this to go from Weymouth to Swindon

• Intalink Explorer - £9.00 - you could use this to go from Chelmsford or Colchester to Northampton or Oxford or Reading

• Metrovoyager - £7.80 - you could use this to go from Eastbourne to Epsom or Shere or Sutton

• Stagecoach South East Dayrider Gold - £7.30 - you could use this to go from Eastbourne or Uckfield to Dover or Margate or Ramsgate

• Stagecoach South Dayrider Gold - £9.10 - you could use this to go from Brighton to Swindon

• TFL Bus & Tram Pass - £5.20 - you could use this to go from Dorking or Redhill or Slough to Brentwood or Waltham Cross or Watford

• Wiltshire Rover - £8.50 - you could use this to go from Southampton to Bath or Oxford or Swindon

Those are the furthest ones that i can think of.

That's just gave me an idea - if you combined the TfL Bus Pass with the Essex Sunday Saver you could get from Dorking to Harwich (the Colchester to Ipswich service doesn't run on Sundays but Harwich is almost as far). You certainly can't get there and back though!

 

[Dai Corner]

Salisbury to Burnham-on-sea for less than £5 is a pretty decent distance, using a West of England day ticket.

Salisbury to Chepstow is also doable for under £10, if you change for the x7 at Bristol.

Unfortunately First WoE no longer cross the Severn. After they and then Stagecoach gave up Bristol-Newport commercially the Welsh Government stepped in and Newport Transport now run the T7 under contract. The adult fare is £6.50 single or £7.50 for a day ticket

You could go to Thornbury instead.

 

[route101]

You can add some slightly extra mileage within Aberdeen too as the East Scotland Dayrider is valid on the 59 to ARI and the 727 to the Airport.

If you caught the X24 from Glasgow to St Andrews, 99 to Dundee, X7 to Aberdeen and 727 to Aberdeen Airport it would work out at around 170 miles.

I may try getting to Aberdeen using that ticket. I have done the X7 before. Its getting back its the issue, you think to yourself ' would be great if the ticket was valid on Citylink'.

 

[TheWalrus]

Try Oxfordshire Day Rider Gold, £8.20 now valid on all Stagecoach services across the Oxfordshire and West networks.

 

[CHA 81C]

It’s £6.60 on the app for the West of England adult ticket? (The Plus ticket which includes the Buses of Somerset services is £11)

The old First Day South West at £7.50 was pretty good value to get from the Bristol area down to Exeter. It was valid to Lands End but can’t recall of that was actually possible in a day!

Bristol to St Just (Lands End Youth Hostel) was very easy in the 1980s. Southern National X96 to Exeter, then Western National X38 to Plymouth, followed by the X1 to Penzance. That one was quite unusual because National Express journeys from up-country turned into an X1 when they got to Plymouth. They accepted the £2.40 Explorer ticket for a £1 surcharge.

 

[Llandudno]

With north Wales’s new 1BWS ticket you can travel between Chester and Aberystwyth for £5.70