Tips for Choosing the Right Bus Transport Services

Whichever country you may live in, it is always worth finding out if you are in some way eligible for discounted or even free bus transportation. If you live in Britain, senior citizens over the aged of 60 are entitled to free bus transport services within the same county and the long term unemployed were recently offered free bus travel by making use of a Job Centre plus Travel Discount Card scheme.

Getting around the country cheaply, whether it is in the US or an Asian country, means hopping on the bus. Rail fares, particularly long journeys, a very expensive and the gap between the cost of a rail ticket or a bus ticket are growing ever wider. So if you want to travel from your home to a destination over 300 miles away, some vital tips you should know is just where does the bus actually go when on your journey.

Many long haul bus journeys involve changing buses at half way points or in a big city. You need to know what time your transfer arrives and how long you may be kept waiting at a bus stop until your next connection arrives.
An example of inconvenience when travelling on long bus journeys would be a bus ticket from Southampton, on England’s south coast to Edinburgh, capital city in Scotland, would actually take around 18 hours and includes a three and a half hour wait in London for a transfer bus that will take you on to Edinburgh. Some of these transfers mean waiting inside a bus terminal in the heart of London for most of the night, which is not something most travellers would want to look forward to.

Most long haul bus travel services involve getting a comfortable coach instead. It is advisable to book your ticket in advance rather than pay the driver when you alight, as these reserves your seat and saves you the inconvenience and embarrassment of being refused boarding on your coach by the driver. Booking a ticket online is very easy and you should not have to concern yourself with security as most bus booking websites use strong encryption methods when paying by debit or credit card online.

If you are going to use the bus in a strange town or city, always look at the bus company’s website and click under “Services” as this will tell you which bus numbers run from A to B within that city.