Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:07 pm  

Dave Lister wrote:

AdmiralHanson in buying Cheapskate Special train ticket shocker.

Well, that's one kick off time they wouldn't be messing about with, unlike some other two-bit London outfits I could mention ....

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:46 pm  

Staying somewhere in Docklands.

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:01 pm  

St pete wrote:

You there for sight seeing or watching rugby ?

So what happens when the rugby has finished and you've got a night to spend around Wembley?

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:02 pm  

Taking the oldest to her 1st final so daytripper for us!

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:13 pm  

£11 return coach from Sheffield with National Express. Can't argue really.

An hour and half longer than the train but that's just more time to sleep off the beer.

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:15 pm  

kirkstaller wrote:

An hour and half longer than the train

......and the rest. You'll be on the coach more than an hour and a half longer.

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:16 pm  

Staying at the County Hotel, Bloomsbury £43.00 a night. Fleas extra, prices on request!

Five minutes walk from the Salaam|Namaste. The best Indian in the capital by a mile (imho of course). Hoping for a celebratory drink in the Lamb, followed by a first class ruby after the final.

Travelling down by coach on Friday morning. Will probably go to the London Skolars v Oldham game on Friday evening. Returning by train on Sunday.

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:30 pm  

Era of the Biff wrote:

......and the rest. You'll be on the coach more than an hour and a half longer.

Maybe, maybe not.

Setting off at 6.30 and returning at 20.00 so hardly peak times.

The low price I assume reflects the standard of NE passengers, which going by previous coach trips is one step up from the average Cas fan.

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:43 pm  

kirkstaller wrote:

The low price I assume reflects the standard of NE passengers, which going by previous coach trips is one step up from the average Cas fan.

Re: Where is everyone staying : Sun Aug 08, 2010 8:48 pm  

Era of the Biff wrote:

......and the rest. You'll be on the coach more than an hour and a half longer.

I travel to Birmingham on the train one week in four - its £69 return and is exactly two hours station to station which is approximately half an hour quicker than by car at at roughly the same cost.

Last week I checked National Express for a comparison, tickets to Birmingham are £10 (one way) so thats a good start - total journey time (one way) four and a half hours.

I don't know how they manage to string that journey out to four and a half hours, the worst B'ham trip that I did in the car saw me sitting stationary in roadworks on the M1 for an hour and a bit and I still got home in three and a half hours.

Maybe you have to push the bus all the way to Birmingham ?