The Anonymous Widower

Thoughts on Ticket Booking Web Sites

I’ve just been booking tickets for my trip north at the weekend.  It looks like the itinerary will be :-

Saturday 25th September

Ely (8:58) to Peterborough (9:38)/

Peterborough (9:46) to Doncaster (10:38)

Doncaster (11:07)to Scunthorpe (11:45)

Scunthorpe (17:10) to Doncaster (17:40)

Doncaster (18:34) to Newcastle (20:01) – Ticket pick-up at Doncaster

Newcastle (20:50) to Edinburgh (23:30) – It’s actually a bus!

Monday 27th September

Edinburgh (16:33) to Inverness (20:08) – Meet at Waverley Travel Centre at 16:00

Tuesday 28th September

Inverness (09:00) to Kyle of Lochalsh (11:28) Ticket pick-up at Edinburgh Waverley

Mallaig (16:05) to Fort William (17:07)

Fort William (19:50) to London Euston (07:47) Ticket pick-up at Edinburgh Waverley

I haven’t had too much trouble booking these tickets on-line. But one thing that gets to me is the nit-picking detail on many of these sites.

As an example, they always ask you to tick the Terms and Conditions box.  Does anybody not tick this box?  It should be up the other way and you should only tick it if you don’t accept them!

ScotRail‘s web site seemed to get you to put in everything twice.  But then it’s a long way up to Scotland and the Internet probably forgets what I’ve typed in last time.

I also had the usual nause about registering with ScotRail for the sleeper.  Why can’t the same registration apply for all of the TOCs?  I use the same details in them all anyway!

September 23, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | Computing, Transport/Travel | Edinburgh, Internet, Scunthorpe, Trains