IE student 5-day return Dublin-Galway

foggy_lad

irish rail have brought out a promotional fare for students travelling dublin-galway and the following intermediate stations;Athenry, Wooklawn, Athymon and Ballinasloe.

but is is not of use to most students because it is a 5day return so if bought on sunday evening to travel to dublin for a week in college it can not be used on friday to get home! it must be used thursday at the latest:eek:

they might take more students off the busses with their promotions if they made them suitable for the customer base they are targeting:D

http://irishrail.ie/news_centre/news.asp?action=view&news_id=919

General News

New Student Fare Dublin - Galway €20 Return by Marketing Department

Iarnród Éireann is pleased to announce new promotional 5 day return fare of €20 for student travel card holders travelling between Dublin and Galway and the following intermediate stations;Athenry, Wooklawn, Athymon and Ballinasloe. This promotional fare will be available for purchase up until Sunday 31st October 2010. Tickets are available from the booking office, ticket vending machines, or online.

Terms & Conditions:
> Passengers must have a valid Student Travelcard
> Outward portion of the journey must be taken on the date printed on the ticket
> Return ticket is only valid for one return trip within the 5 day period
> Tickets purchased online or by phone are only valid for travel on the dates printed on the ticket.

Cookie_Monster

ah those waster students never do a full week anyway:p

goingnowhere

Student leaves college Thursday/Friday, buys ticket goes home, returns Sunday/Monday

5 day return works fine

foggy_lad

goingnowhere wrote: »

Student leaves college Thursday/Friday, buys ticket goes home, returns Sunday/Monday

5 day return works fine

most students do stay for the full week so this ticket is useless to them as if they buy on sunday night they cant use it on the following friday and the trains on monday would not suit most who will have to be in early on monday.

Cookie_Monster

foggy_lad wrote: »

most students do stay for the full week so this ticket is useless to them as if they buy on sunday night they cant use it on the following friday and the trains on monday would not suit most who will have to be in early on monday.

yes so rather than buy it for Sun to college and Friday back home

use it Friday for home and Sun for back to college...

it then becomes valid and useful ticket

foggy_lad

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

yes so rather than buy it for Sun to college and Friday back home

use it Friday for home and Sun for back to college...

it then becomes valid and useful ticket

students do not have money on a friday for things like train tickets:) thursday late night clubs see to that. and the mammy can pay on sunday for the return as it is such a great deal but pretty much useless.

Cool Mo D

foggy_lad wrote: »

students do not have money on a friday for things like train tickets:) thursday late night clubs see to that. and the mammy can pay on sunday for the return as it is such a great deal but pretty much useless.

Your complaint makes no sense!

Cookie_Monster

foggy_lad wrote: »

students do not have money on a friday for things like train tickets:) thursday late night clubs see to that. and the mammy can pay on sunday for the return as it is such a great deal but pretty much useless.

do you have a tarring brush big enough to make that kind of statement?

Vic_08

Cool Mo D wrote: »

Your complaint makes no sense!

He gave birth to yet another moany post complaining about very little and when the obvious fail in his logic was highlighted came out with some general rubbish about students' lifestyles.

In my experience as someone who has sold and checked thousands of tickets from home-for-the-weekend students a large % will buy their returns on Fridays and I'd bet if it was going to save them a chunk of money most would happily do so.

parsi

But Foggy - you live in Carlow so why would you go rooting out that information ?
(btw any news from Vodafone yet?)

foggy_lad

Just wondering why they would limit it like they did, it doesn't really make any sense to do that when they would have been better offering a 7day return,

and nothing from that thread parsi:(

parsi

Ah I see.

(and VF really dont give a fiddlers..)

DOC09UNAM

foggy_lad wrote: »

Just wondering why they would limit it like they did, it doesn't really make any sense to do that when they would have been better offering a 7day return,

and nothing from that thread parsi:(

But it's not limited, you can still go up sunday-monday and come home thurs-fri-saturday.