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whats the best way to get there?
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i'm going to glasgow for 10 days to see some friends and i really can't get my head around how i can get there
i've got 4 options
Fly: with ryan air costs around £45 without any checked in luggage which means that there is a lot i can't bring, but it will only take 1 hour
Train: which costs around £60 which will take 6 hours and i can take whatever i need
national express: will cost £30 but take me 8 hours
mega bus: will cost £25 and will also take 8 hours
if i fly i then also need to spend £8 on the bus
it i go by train i need to go across london and the same with the buses...
which should i do? and how can i cope with 8 hours on a bus?
i've got 4 options
Fly: with ryan air costs around £45 without any checked in luggage which means that there is a lot i can't bring, but it will only take 1 hour
Train: which costs around £60 which will take 6 hours and i can take whatever i need
national express: will cost £30 but take me 8 hours
mega bus: will cost £25 and will also take 8 hours
if i fly i then also need to spend £8 on the bus
it i go by train i need to go across london and the same with the buses...
which should i do? and how can i cope with 8 hours on a bus?
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WHATEVER you do, dont go by coach. Add on at least an hour or two for what they say the journey time is on the coach. Its an absolute nightmare sitting on a coach for that long. At least on a train you can get up and move around a bit.
I would fly.
Train takes far too long and the buses are even worse. Fuck climate change, just take the plane
I have to second the train though, in seriousness. I can't imagine flying inland and I find trains more enjoyable but I'm probably in the minority there. Is nice to be able to take all your stuff with you, too, and not be accosted with metal detectors etc (not that I've got anything to hide!)...
by train it would have been 57.60, with my rail card, and then i'd have to pay more to get to the harbour once i got to glasgow, so i bit the bullet and got the plane which was only a few quid cheaper, and i've got my bags in as well, so it should be all ok...
can't wait now!
Yeah fuckers charged me for two bags before. They didnt think of telling me before i booked, they kept that a suprise for the airport.
Last year the heating got stuck on the nightbus in the middle of August and I sweated for 9 hours without a wink of sleep and I had work the day after. Absolute nightmare.
I'm going to be up and down from there from now on, so I'll probably end up flying budget tbh and I'd advise you to do the same :yes:
Fuck, thats my idea of hell. I cant even stand 6 hours on the train unless its the overnight sleeper.
Flyin is the only way for me, dont care what the green brigade have to say about it. I used to fly every week between London and Edinburgh, there and back in the day, no way i could have done that on the train.
Like I said TT, Fly, Train to Killwinning (you don't even leave prestwick airport to catch the train) change for Adrs hbr
If you fly, you would have to get their way in advance and then just hang around waiting for your plane, so it'd take more than the 1 hour and be all fiddly.
So not Glasgow at all then as the original thread says then! Have a good visit though
To the OP- you still get half price rail travel to anywhere in Scotland with the Ryanair booking so don't forget to show them it!
What with getting to airport, checking in, probably buying stuff in airport, it will end up taking a long time.
Try www.megatrains.co.uk
I went to Edinburgh for £9 last year (£8 to Manchester, then £1 to Edinburgh).
I'm heading down to London next week, and I booked a train ticket down. £84 return, but I don't get patronised by security guards, I don't have to strip down to my socks, I don't have to take my belt off, my laptop out of my bag, be searched a bunch of times, have every security guard stare at me like I'm about to blow the place up, be there 2 hours before take off, get out and back from the cities via train anyway, and generally be miserable for a day.
Instead, I can sit back and relax, with a table in front of me, do some work on the way down, chill and arrive in the centre of London without any drama, and I don't have to strip
it's all booked now, i think i've said that already. i'm really looking forward to going!