The Anonymous Widower

Crazy Ticket Prices

Yesterday, I went to the football at Ipswich.  I’ve always found evening matches difficult and expensive, as I’ve never really found a sensible gluten-free restaurant or cafe in the town and usually I have to pay through the nose, to come out of London in the rush hour. Yesterday though, I decided to come early on the four o’clock train and then go to Woodbridge to have a curry in the Royal Bengal by the station, before getting a train back to Ipswich for the match.

I’d expected to have to buy two return tickets, one for Liverpool Street to Ipswich and return and another for the short journey between Ipswich and Woodbridge. But I was sold a return from the Zone 6 Bounday to Woodbridge for just £20.95.  This compares with the two tickets I bought on Saturday to get to Ipswich for a total of £18.25. So the extra journey to Woodbridge cost me £2.70. An Off Peak Senior Day Return would appear to cost £2.80 bought on the Internet.

So it would appear I got a bargain. There was also no problem using the effectively one ticket to do two journeys.

I also saved twenty pounds by not travelling in the rush hour, which was enough to pay for the meal.

It would be nice to have a decent gluten-free restaurant somewhere between Ipswich station and Portman Road.

February 20, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Food, Transport/Travel | Coeliac/Gluten-Free, Ipswich, Ticketing, Trains