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Megabus.com services leave from and arrive at many locations within towns and cities in the uk. When booking all you hav to do is make your reservation to and from your chosen town or city and when travelling you choose which stop to board or leave the bus, the fares are the same regardless ... Read review
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Where
Megabus.com services leave from and arrive at many locations within towns and cities in the uk. When booking all you hav to do is make your reservation to and from your chosen town or city and when travelling you choose which stop to board or leave the bus, the fares are the same regardless of which stops you use on any given route.
Price
Seats start from as little as £1. The earlier you ... ...demand the best prices are given to those who make reservations early or to those who choose less popular journeys. The journeys are relatively good value for money.
A booking fee of 50p is charged for all reservations.
Customers can choose to have their reservation number sent to their mobile phone as a SMS text message. Text messages are charged at 10p per message/reservation. This is what I did and it was a very handy service ... more
Where
Megabus.com services leave from and arrive at many locations within towns and cities in the uk. When booking all you hav to do is make your reservation to and from your chosen town or city and when travelling you choose which stop to board or leave the bus, the fares are the same regardless of which stops you use on any given route.
Price
Seats start from as little as £1. The earlier you book, the cheaper basically though. The pricing is according to demand the best prices are given to those who make reservations early or to those who choose less popular journeys. The journeys are relatively good value for money.
A booking fee of 50p is charged for all reservations. Customers can choose to have their reservation number sent to their mobile phone as a SMS text message. Text messages are charged at 10p per message/reservation. This is what I did and it was a very handy service as I wasn't flapping about at the last minute trying to print things off or find where I'd written the number down.
What does the bus look like?
Megabus.com buses have got their distinctive branding which is used throughout this site. In Scotland our services are also operated by our partner Scottish Citylink Coaches.
Tickets
The service is ticket-less and you can purchase a journey from the website or the telephone booking centre. When you make a reservation on our service you get a reservation number which you take with you and present it to a member of staff who requests to see it when you board.
My Journey
Well basically, I have used the mega bus on an Edinburgh to London route. Being a student thespian (a students bad enough, but the average income of an actor is 7 thousand pounds a year so you can imagine - it's best to start saving my pennies now!) there are times when a girls got to do what a girls got to do. When I found out a week before my audition date that I had a recall the following Thursday - I thought that the megabus was the answer to all my prayers! All in it came to £29.50 to depart at 22.30 from Edinburgh and arrive in London at 7.30am - This was great as my audition wasn't until 9.30 so I had plenty of time to get myself sorted. When I got on at Edinburgh I managed to bag myself two seats which was fabulous I thought. I was able to get relatively comfortable with my shoes off and feet up using my jacket as a pillow. :-) This was my first experience of the mega bus. I had no idea there would be other stops. There were quite a few. And every time the coach stopped people got on and sometimes they were quite noisy. At Manchester a hugely overweight, smelly and hairy man got on. When he saw that I wasn't sleeping he literally skipped up the aisle and bounded towards me, of course I straightened myself up and I put my feet down to give him the extra seat. Oh it was bad. Part of his leg spilled over on to mine, he nuzzled into my arm and he smelled so bad I wanted to be very sick. At one point he actually slept with his head on my shoulder. I took to coughing and shrugging my shoulders so much that I developed an actual cough and sore throat as well as nearly dislocating my shoulders from their sockets at this stage in order to wake the beast up. His head weighed a tonne he was incredibly difficult to wake up and he snored like a pig. I was forced to ask him to keep to his own side as it was just ridiculous. I did notice that other people who had managed to snaffle two seats put their legs up and when people got on the bus at various stops they pretended to sleep.....they were obviously pros at this game!!!!!!!!!
The bus driver also kept opening his window and smoking out it which wafted not only cold air in but also smoke. The toilets were leaking piss and stank to high heavens. I wouldn't have went there even if you paid me....there was no way I could have achieved escaping out past the beast without standing on him anyway though.
When I arrived in London I felt like I'd been run over by a bus as I hadn't slept longer than 2 hours and the sleep that I did have I almost broke my neck off. Lets be honest about it, an upright chair on a bus is hardly land of blissful nod material is it? SO I arrived a bit disorientated and worse for ware, my bum was so numb you could have amputated it whilst I tried to get my feet to walk again. nightmare. I was far from the flexible, alert and awake applicant I had claimed to be in my application form!
My return journey was same evening leaving at 23.15 and arriving Edinburgh at 8.25. I had no option as I started rehearsals as a bee for a theatre company yes i repeat a BEE. My journey home wasn't any better. The bus was completely full. The toilets were out of order....(so don't rely on them guys.) There was no stops at service stations. There were lots of drunks who were really noisy and I heard someone be sick.....I could go on.
In saying all of the above, the mega bus is probably the cheapest way of getting from Scotland to London and from many other cities in the UK. I'd advise it for a shorter journey. e.g. Edinburgh to Glasgow as £1 really is a bargain. I didn't enjoy my journey, I like some personal space and have a very sensitive nose to smells and also didn't know what to expect. However, if I needed to, I would probably do it again if I was financially really, really stuck.
twingkelingstar 17.09.2008 (17.09.2008)
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Advantages: Quick and Easy Disadvantages: tiny toilets
I dislike train travel, finding it claustrophobic and expensive, so the coach is thje obvious alternative. Coach or bus travel is a territory more or less divided between National Express and Megabus, when it comes to booking online. Megabus is better for the following reasons.
Megabus use double decker coaches which means there is always a good chance of getting a seat with plenty of space around you, and plenty of leg room. Not so with National ... ...up to the last seat. Remember that even on Megabus it is now mandatory to wear a seat belt, which means a certain amount of discomfort.
Booking is much easier and quicker with Megabus if you have a Paypal account. You simply log into your Paypal account when it tells you and the whole thing is over and done with in a jiffy, whereas National Express does not offer a Paypal facility, so you have to enter all your bank details every time.
Megabus ...
maklhouf 12.10.2009
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Advantages: Price Disadvantages: Seats are uncomfortable, especially for long haul.
I have used megabus a number of times over the past 5 years but most recently in october of 2008 although the service has been fairly consistent so I would imagine it is similar now. Most often I have travelled from Edinburgh/Glasgow to London and vice versa but have also gone on shorter trips from central Scotland up to Inverness and Aberdeen and once to Newcastle. The buses are basic and leg-room can be a problem but I don't find they differ vastly ... ...reasonably clean and they stop at least once on longer journies at service stations. On two occasions the heating was broken-once it failed to work on a mid-winter overnight journey which was freezing and another trip it became boiling hot so everyone was sweating all night. Also for night trips the seats only recline a few inches at most so it can be a long and uncomfortable journey with little sleep. All the trips I have taken have arrived on time, ...
flyingllamas 27.07.2009
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Advantages: really cheep Disadvantages: dont go all over europe
First let me tell you how I found out about this company.
It was just after Christmas and I had to attend my sisters' wedding which was in Scotland, this was a long way for me, but I left it to late to book a plane ticket and the prices were too high, getting a coach never even crossed my mind and I had to drive.
Anyway the round trip to Scotland and back set me back about £200 pound, this hurt my pocket as we were broke, I ended up giving my aunt ... ...missed there coach and were also broke.
While giving them a ride home my aunt who is one of the nosey ones in the family, likes to know everything, earwigs on conversations and all stuff like that, you know the one I mean, we all have them. Anyway she told me about this bus company that could take you all over UK for free, now I do a lot of driving up north as my wife's family live in Wigan so I thought I would check out this so called megabus.
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paymeloads 20.02.2006
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****megabus****
**Routes**
The megabus offers a wide range of routes long and short.
**The buses**
Megabuses are blue and yellow and in my opinion the seats are all crammed in.
Sometimes when you book with them you get city link buses which are much better/have more space.
**Service**
Most of the time the service on these buses are really bad.When i was getting a bus down to Manchester a women got on the wrong bus(going to Dundee) even though ... ...went via Glasgow so she didn't have to find her way back from Manchester!!!
Another thing is they claim you can travel from £1 but you can't really as they have a booking fee,so the cheapest is really from £1.50.Ive actually found that train tickets are about the same price or sometimes even cheaper once you factor in the cost of getting to the bus.
In Perth you have to get a shuttle bus to Broxden roundabout to catch your megabus but it doesn't ...
katie22008m 07.09.2008
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Advantages: Cheapness; friendliness of staff; good transport; not too packed Disadvantages: Can't too book far ahead; variance of buses (older ones didn't look as nice)
I used the megabus to go to a family wedding in Portsmouth (I live near Newcastle). By train this journey would have been too expensive to contemplate but by megabus it was just under £15 which I couldn't believe!!! I had to get the coach from Newcastle to London and then change to another coach to Portsmouth. Both journeys were long and the weather varied but the buses were both fairly new and the the journey comfortable. I would recommend taking ... ...did make a stop at Leeds (long enough to nip to the loo and buy a pasty) and the stop in London was long enough that I got to have a wander... Just booked tickets to go to Edinburgh for my and the other half and it's costing £4.50 - bargain. I would thoroughly recommend the Megabus and even though I now drive would still use them to go away for weekends etc ...
lblair 11.09.2008
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