glasto train tickets....

[Peroni]

www.raileasy.co.uk/info/glastonbury-festival-trains

On sale now...

[Ovechkin]

but you can only book 12 weeks in advance on raileasy?

[coma girl]

Some sites let you book more than 12 weeks in advance but will only offer the max price ticket for the journey but if you wait till the 12 week window then you'll be able to purchase the much cheaper advance tickets.

[Guitargeek]

Couldn't actually get to a booking page. Had info, but no hyperlinks.

[Ovechkin]

Some sites let you book more than 12 weeks in advance but will only offer the max price ticket for the journey but if you wait till the 12 week window then you'll be able to purchase the much cheaper advance tickets.

[coma girl]

okey thanks! but I guess it's also better to wait a little longer for the official information, since the the timetable will look a bit different with the additional trains

[pie_and_a_pint]

Remember whoever you book through it's often cheaper to split tickets (for example, if I'm going from Oxford to Manchester, I might buy Oxford - Wolverhampton and Wolverhampton to Manchester, saving cash but staying on the same train). http://splitticket.moneysavingexpert.com/ is good, as is http://www.splityourticket.co.uk/.

[Ovechkin]

I think trainline will let you set up alerts which will email you when the date you need to travel becomes available. For Glasto I'd start looking for tickets in late March.

[coma girl]

Depending on your age or circumstances you may be entitled to a rail card, you have to pay for them but they generally pay for themselves over one long journey or a few shorter ones, mine have saved me a fortune over the last few years.

[TalkShow Bob]

thanks! signed up at this adress: http://www.thetrainline.com/ticketalert/ in case anybody else was wondering

I will keep that in mind, thanks!

[Ovechkin]

hmm I think I'll just wait till glasto publish their info, all I could find at the moment was that "Information regarding train travel to the Festival will be available in the New Year." It's a bit confusing with all these tickets search engines and train operators

We will travel from from London to Castle Cary, so I'm not sure it will be worth purchasing a railcard for 28 pounds.

[coma girl]

There are a lot of sites but the tickets all seem to be booked via the same master system. I usually use national rail's site as a starting point to get times then book the tickets direct from a train operator site. Worth seeing if any operator has offers on, you don't always have to be travelling with them to claim the offers.

[Sketchead]

Does anyone know if the Glastonbury Express trains will be running this year? They put them on for the first time in 2011, but the one I got (jumped on in Stoke) was pretty empty, so I'm not sure if they'll be running it. I hope they do!