Coach Tickets 2025

[FKA SOSOTWS]

24 minutes ago, bennyhana22 said:

As long as you're not taking the Michael, you should be fine. I've done the coach 3-4 times before and Drives never has much to with loading. People are generally pretty courteous (in Brum, at least) on the way THERE! So you loading one rucksack and something else that is not the size of an African elephant and you should be fine. 
 

Ben

 

What's the Michael? The rolling duffel would be an equivalent size of the rucksack which is why I am wondering. Note that the coach we got is departing from Bristol, for what it's worth, and worst case scenario, I could try placing the bigass rucksack on my lap in the bus.

[bennyhana22]

18 minutes ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

 

What's the Michael? The rolling duffel would be an equivalent size of the rucksack which is why I am wondering. Note that the coach we got is departing from Bristol, for what it's worth, and worst case scenario, I could try placing the bigass rucksack on my lap in the bus.

As in taking the Mick/Mickey? Taking the piss?

 

A British idiom that is used less frequently now than when I was little! 
 

Ben

[lendan]

Anyone here have an idea when the coaches leave from Cambridge on the Wednesday, hoping for an early one

Edited Saturday at 08:42 PM by lendan

[stuie]

22 hours ago, FKA SOSOTWS said:

 

What's the Michael? The rolling duffel would be an equivalent size of the rucksack which is why I am wondering. Note that the coach we got is departing from Bristol, for what it's worth, and worst case scenario, I could try placing the bigass rucksack on my lap in the bus.

 

A general guide is if you can carry it all, you'll be fine.

[Fearless_Fish]

On 12/20/2024 at 12:57 PM, chuckles07 said:

 

 

 

I am always fascinated when you see these old threads resurrected and you see questions/situations like above with no responses and wonder, ‘what happened, how did they get sorted?’………..

 

is it just me being weird. Probs…

weellll if you must know....

 

We did get an earlier coach, the "11:30" coach came at 13:15, so we managed to get on that a whopping 15 minutes earlier than our scheduled coach (God knows when that arrived). But as fate would have it, a tyre exploded whilst overtaking a lorry and we had to make a hasty manoeuvre over to the hard shoulder, where we were eventually rescued by the "13:30" coach we should have been on in the first place! Got back to Leeds around 22:30 and back home around 0:00. Had to apologise somewhat to babysitters. Got showered and in bed by 01:00 - bairn woke up at 05:00... 

[chuckles07]

5 hours ago, Fearless_Fish said:

weellll if you must know....

 

We did get an earlier coach, the "11:30" coach came at 13:15, so we managed to get on that a whopping 15 minutes earlier than our scheduled coach (God knows when that arrived). But as fate would have it, a tyre exploded whilst overtaking a lorry and we had to make a hasty manoeuvre over to the hard shoulder, where we were eventually rescued by the "13:30" coach we should have been on in the first place! Got back to Leeds around 22:30 and back home around 0:00. Had to apologise somewhat to babysitters. Got showered and in bed by 01:00 - bairn woke up at 05:00... 

 

thank you 😀.  A happy(ish) ending - you made it back in one piece on the day you intended.  

 

I suppose the question now is - faced with the same situation (or advising someone else) what would you do? 

[Armourman]

Quick question from those in the know - if I've got a return coach to Glasgow but want to go back to Leeds how possible is that to be allowed? Last time our return coach was half empty as lots didnt use it so hoping wont be too much of an issue.....

[Armourman]

6 hours ago, Fearless_Fish said:

weellll if you must know....

 

We did get an earlier coach, the "11:30" coach came at 13:15, so we managed to get on that a whopping 15 minutes earlier than our scheduled coach (God knows when that arrived). But as fate would have it, a tyre exploded whilst overtaking a lorry and we had to make a hasty manoeuvre over to the hard shoulder, where we were eventually rescued by the "13:30" coach we should have been on in the first place! Got back to Leeds around 22:30 and back home around 0:00. Had to apologise somewhat to babysitters. Got showered and in bed by 01:00 - bairn woke up at 05:00... 

I'm hoping to switch from Glasgow return to Leeds as flying out next day from there on holiday....

[Ayrshire Chris]

On 1/7/2025 at 3:25 PM, Armourman said:

Quick question from those in the know - if I've got a return coach to Glasgow but want to go back to Leeds how possible is that to be allowed? Last time our return coach was half empty as lots didnt use it so hoping wont be too much of an issue.....

I’ve heard stories of folk just blagging their way onto a different return coach as it’s a bit of a free for all. I suppose if there’s spaces on a coach and the driver is not too bothered then it could be worth trying. But I’d make sure if you try early enough that you’ve always the back up of your legit bus return to Glasgow. 

[Fearless_Fish]

On 1/7/2025 at 2:49 PM, chuckles07 said:

 

thank you 😀.  A happy(ish) ending - you made it back in one piece on the day you intended.  

 

I suppose the question now is - faced with the same situation (or advising someone else) what would you do? 

 

Not sure! We got down to the coach station as early as we were ready (probably about 09:00-09:30 at a guess), and then had to wait around until 13:15 with no shelter until we were able to get our way onto an earlier coach (they scanned our tickets so was dreading being denied boarding until our "proper" coach arrived). So I guess it was worth it because the weather held, but would you be wanting to hang around for hours just in hope if the weather is poor?

 

On 1/7/2025 at 3:28 PM, Armourman said:

I'm hoping to switch from Glasgow return to Leeds as flying out next day from there on holiday....

 

They did scan our tickets, so presumably at least checking if our destination was correct if not the time. If the coach is half-empty you might blag your way on but who knows? One issue is that you have no idea also which is the last coach - the 13:30 coach could have been the last coach to Leeds for all I know so if it was full you'd be scuppered waiting around for another coach that never comes. As it happens, that one was only half full so you might've been OK. It depends if you can take the risk?

[Crazyfool01]