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Is the best way of doing it getting two offpeak day returns, Swindon Didcot and Didcot London?

Think I just did that in Trainline and worked out at about £30 each. That sound about right?

Not booking online, I'll go down train station tomorrow morning.

How many tickets?

2

Yeah, I got two offpeak day returns and it worked out about £30 each.

If anyone needs a spare ticket I have one. £21 including london travel. Give me a PM if interested.

if you do Swindon-Didcot then Didcot-London, 4 people group saver works out 16quid each including underground.

getting 5 tomorrow which works out about 20 quid each, unless anyones going in a group of 3 to make it up to 8? 2 x group savers?

It costs that if they will sell it too you. Someone told me they stopped doing them

they are thieving scumbags in my humble opinion

when were you told that? i saw rumors of it on here last week, but went in friday and that was the price they told me.

didnt get them then though as didnt know how many were coming for definate..hope i can still get them tomorrow :/

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I couldn't get groupsavers to Didcot, so got standard fares. Didcot to Paddington + toob was on a groupsaver.

£22 a head all in for nine.

Someone went to get our tickets and were told they couldn't.

You weren't allowed to buy any tickets?

Groupsavers

???

You can still buy them online if you split at Didcot?

I tried and it works out at 30 something quid, so splitting at reading was cheaper.

Dunno Si. I have just gone through the motions of splitting at Didcot on a Groupsaver 4 and I have come up with an all in price of £20.40 including tube day travel card for four people?

That's cheaper than what I paid.

The website is shit anyway, it will allow group savers at certain times but not others. So it doesn't surprise me.

You always surprise me  :toocool:

£8.90 each full price for the didcot returns.£11.50 groupsaver travelcard from didcot each.my lads travelcard cost £1

mine cost £28 with an open day return

I figured if we win id like to come back to swindon fairly quickly to celebrate and if we lose i'll stay out in london for a bit and get smashed..

Outside Long's...

yes, old town rocked last we won a play off.

though i might need drugs to keep me awake that long

written to customer services about being misquoted online and the call centre and got my £10 admin fee refunded-happy days. However and more importantly she included this paragraph and I tell thee it will kick off massive if this is the case as most of us have already bought tickets:-

'I note that you are now looking to buy group save tickets to travel on 29 May 2010. Please be aware that group save is barred for journey travelling into the london area before 1330 on the 29 May.'

Surely they cant sell people group saver tickets then tell them that they cant use them?

Well I went into Chippenham station on Friday & was quoted a price with Group saver. I assume that they are not selling them from Swindon, but are from other stations. As for validity, if they sell them they are surely obliged by law to honour the contract

Groupsavers are used on the off peak return, which is not a guaranteed time of travel ticket.  Therefore, they can rely on the T&C which will state they are not valid on all trains.  Once you use the Groupsaver code you are effectively agreeing to waive the times you maye have selected originally to check which trains are running.  You also need to remember to have everyone in the party on the same train when the tickets are being checked - they can charge full fare if not.

The big question is whether they would bother to try and enforce it on a train packed to the rafters with football fans drinking.

I've taken the view it's worth the risk.

Probably right.  I can't see them getting past about 10 people before they give up trying to get it enforced.  The ticket man won't get through 1 carriage before Paddington.  Worst case scenario is you pay the full fare, so just cough up the difference anyway.

I assume the trains will all be dry but again I'm not sure how they will police that. Usually travel to games from Hertfordshire so doesn't usually affect me but going from Swindon with family on Saturday.

got 5 returns from the station earlier today, via didcot. worked out just over 19 quid each (groupsaver for 4 swindon-didcot, then again between didcot and london, and also for the underground. then the 5th was full price, but total split between 5 was about 19 quid.

as for certain times/trains etc, i was told i could use any train at any time as long as it stops at didcot, so this is what i shall be doing :)

I remember being sold an off peak ticket from Southampton to Swindon once and was told as long as I took the next train and first connection in Reading I would be within the right time.

Trouble was when the inspector took my ticket on the first train he told me my connection at Reading would be at peak time. Given the fact I had no other money (being a student) I had to wait at Reading for 3 hours.

What the ticket office people tell you and what happens are two different things. The ticketing system is just as confusing to the staff as the customers.

fair point, but to be honest i didnt even mention group savers etc, i just asked for 5 returns including underground. thats the price she said, and i asked if it was ok to go anytime etc and she said yes as long as it stops at didcot. id understand if i had asked for the group saver, but ive simply asked for tickets i can use anytime that day and this is what she has sold me, as far as they know i have never heard of groupsaver before.




anyway, what route are most people planning once they get to paddington? as theres a few stations around wembley?

one which looks alright is paddington - marylebone then marylebone - wembley stadium station?

I'll be heading to wembley park simply because I want to walk up wembley way but it'll mean sharing the metropolitan and jubilee lines with the whole of south London.

I could of course try and 'take' the jubilee line.