See Coaches returning - do they check tickets?

[Jellylegs]

Have booked a return on See Coaches to London, but now need to go to Bristol after the festival.

Does anyone remember do they actually check for tickets and scan them when leaving Glastonbury?

[H.M.V]

They don't scan the tickets but they do check them. Had no problem getting an earlier coach but to the intended destination.

[stuartbert two hats]

Let's just say they look a lot less closely than they do on they way in.

[Wallace]

Didn't check mine at all heading back to Manchester last year, there was about 6 coaches and it was a free for all to get the leg room seats!

[Hugh Jass]

Have booked a return on See Coaches to London, but now need to go to Bristol after the festival.

Does anyone remember do they actually check for tickets and scan them when leaving Glastonbury?

Not thoroughly. However you could be shafting some poor sod who was actually booked on that coach.

[FrankieX]

Couldn't you go on the shuttle service to Bristol Temple Meads? I think it's £20 and runs from 6am on the Monday.

EDIT:There's also a shuttle to Castle Cary train station, you can buy a one-way ticket from Castle Cary to Bristol Temple Meads or Bristol Parkway for £15.90 (or £15.10 after 9.30am)

Edited May 23, 2015 by FrankieX

[justperfect]

I'm booked on a 10.30 return and WILL be on the 10.30 return even if someone not booked on that time coach gets turfed off

[Firesprice]

I'm booked on a 10.30 return and WILL be on the 10.30 return even if someone not booked on that time coach gets turfed off

...bit early to be demanding return coach travel home, surely?!

[Zoo Music Girl]

I don't remember them checking very thoroughly if at all even. Not sure we got our specific coach as we just rocked up and waited in the queue.

[stuartbert two hats]

The thing is, the coaches are all paid for and invariably have plenty of spare seats on them on the way back. There isn't much reason for them to check carefully. It's not as if you can buy a single ticket.

To be honest, you could probably just turn up and tell them you wanted to go somewhere else and they wouldn't mind.

[verrymerry]

For everyone who booked return SEE tickets could they not have let us pick our return time at some point after booking a coach package?

[Zoo Music Girl]

The thing is, the coaches are all paid for and invariably have plenty of spare seats on them on the way back. There isn't much reason for them to check carefully. It's not as if you can buy a single ticket.

To be honest, you could probably just turn up and tell them you wanted to go somewhere else and they wouldn't mind.

You can book a single but I agree with your general point.

[gooner1990]

For everyone who booked return SEE tickets could they not have let us pick our return time at some point after booking a coach package?

Our coach back to Oxford goes at 7.30am!

[jonodillieono]

was thinking this...if its a full coach you will be taking someones paid for seat....bit of a dickmove and will cause a delay while they sort it out to everyone else on the coach

On the 1pm back to Liverpool last year they just kept sending coaches until everyone was on one, we were near the back of the queue and ended up on the 3rd coach

[H.M.V]

On the 1pm back to Liverpool last year they just kept sending coaches until everyone was on one, we were near the back of the queue and ended up on the 3rd coach

Think we might have been on the same coach, were you on the one that didn't get to Liverpool till about 8pm after the driver who was supposed to change didn't turn up at the correct stop and had to stop again?

That was a painful journey.

[stuartbert two hats]

You can book a single but I agree with your general point.

Can you? I didn't realise that. Can't stand it when people make statements of fact on a forum when they could easily Google to check their facts out!

[jonodillieono]

Think we might have been on the same coach, were you on the one that didn't get to Liverpool till about 8pm after the driver who was supposed to change didn't turn up at the correct stop and had to stop again?

That was a painful journey.

Yep we were on the same one, I was out all night sunday so the moment I got on the coach I just passed out, I remember being in some majorly over expensive service station in Gloucestershire which was annoying as I was starving. Fish and chips for like 8-9 quid if I remember correctly.

I was somewhere in the middle of the coach to the left with nobody sitting behind me so I had the seat that far back it was almost horizontal so I could lie down So it wasn't the worst journey ever for me

If I recall correctly the driver went to the wrong service station or something but had used up all his driving minutes so wasn't allowed to go any further so we had to wait for the other driver to find us or something like that?

Do you have a coach ticket from Liverpool this year as well?

[H.M.V]

Yep we were on the same one, I was out all night sunday so the moment I got on the coach I just passed out, I remember being in some majorly over expensive service station in Gloucestershire which was annoying as I was starving. Fish and chips for like 8-9 quid if I remember correctly.

I was somewhere in the middle of the coach to the left with nobody sitting behind me so I had the seat that far back it was almost horizontal so I could lie down So it wasn't the worst journey ever for me

If I recall correctly the driver went to the wrong service station or something but had used up all his driving minutes so wasn't allowed to go any further so we had to wait for the other driver to find us or something like that?

Do you have a coach ticket from Liverpool this year as well?

Yes, that was it. Driver got it confused. I was on my own in the middle as well. Mad yer never far from an efester even on the coaches. Lol

At a pub the next day (the Belvedere for one of their awesome gins) there was a guy sat outside with his wristband on so had a bit of a chat with him about Glasto, didn't ask if he was an efester though.

Not going from the Pool of Liver this year as not with the chap I was going out with at the time anymore.

So going from Bristol with one of the Camp Ralphers I met last year at the solo group.

[jonodillieono]

Yes, that was it. Driver got it confused. I was on my own in the middle as well. Mad yer never far from an efester even on the coaches. Lol

At a pub the next day (the Belvedere for one of their awesome gins) there was a guy sat outside with his wristband on so had a bit of a chat with him about Glasto, didn't ask if he was an efester though.

Not going from the Pool of Liver this year as not with the chap I was going out with at the time anymore.

So going from Bristol with one of the Camp Ralphers I met last year at the solo group.

Well I was with two friends like but there was nobody sat behind me, that I know of you're the closest I've actually came to meeting an efester haha. I think I was wearing a hoody with a shitty maths pun on the back so if that rings any bells then you seen me.

Yer it's quite mad how many people from Liverpool actually go, I was doing work experience in a school a few days later and one of the students noticed my wristband and we had a big conversation about it. Severely doubt he was an efester though as he was 14, then again he'd fit right in the R+L section .

Ah seems like you've got a much less daunting journey on the way home. I need to find out the return times for the later coaches back to Liverpool

[verrymerry]

Our coach back to Oxford goes at 7.30am!

6.30am to Manchester! It's silly because I found someone who would like to go earlier who has a 3pm bus, and I'd love to leave that late.

I need 2 tickets but If I can agree with someone else a swap then I don't mind turning up as there should be a space and I won't be taking it from anyone else

Can you? I didn't realise that. Can't stand it when people make statements of fact on a forum when they could easily Google to check their facts out!

Only from a handful of places, London, Bristol, Taunton, Reading & Bath

[stuartbert two hats]

6.30am to Manchester! It's silly because I found someone who would like to go earlier who has a 3pm bus, and I'd love to leave that late.

I need 2 tickets but If I can agree with someone else a swap then I don't mind turning up as there should be a space and I won't be taking it from anyone else

Only from a handful of places, London, Bristol, Taunton, Reading & Bath

I went from Manchester last time, so I feel a little better now

[gooner1990]

6.30am to Manchester! It's silly because I found someone who would like to go earlier who has a 3pm bus, and I'd love to leave that late.

I need 2 tickets but If I can agree with someone else a swap then I don't mind turning up as there should be a space and I won't be taking it from anyone else

I looked at last years timetable, and the return to Oxford went at 2.30pm - much better! We're only 2- 2 1/2 hrs away so no idea why such an early departure.

At least I'lll be home at a reasonable hour I guess!

[Mezhyp1]

I'm on a manchester coach but I'm hoping that the there's a coach back to glasgow that isn't full and with some pleasentries and bribery I can sneak on

[verrymerry]

I looked at last years timetable, and the return to Oxford went at 2.30pm - much better! We're only 2- 2 1/2 hrs away so no idea why such an early departure.

At least I'lll be home at a reasonable hour I guess!

It's a bit random isn't it, it's not even like we're dropped off at a proper bus station either, we were just left in town & expected to adjust to normal life haha

[monkey1989]

I live in london but have to go to liverpool for the coach as its all i could get, if there were spare seats returning to london would they let me on?