Ticket Prices?

pepper3

Hi guys, hope i've got this in the right forum
Right so student on a budget here, starting to look for accommodation and all that.... just checking ticket prices to see if getting a luas or bus will be cheaper for me....

From what i can find on the dublin bus website am i looking at 88euro for a 30day consecutive bus and luas combined student ticket?

Is this really the cheapest option? Can you not get a 30 day student ticket for the just the bus? Seems very steep compared to the 41 euro monthy luas ticket?
Or am i missing something?

munchkin_utd

theres also a student 30 day bus only rambler ticket for 82Euro.

heres the options in full
http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/Fares--Tickets/Tickets/Student-Tickets/

If you dont need to take a bus at the weekend then the 5 day student rambler is only 16.50, so 66 Euro a month instead.

EDIT:
if you really are hard up for cash then what about cycling on the good/ middling days and just get a pack of travel 90 tickets working out at €1.90 per journey for when its pishing rain?

noelfirl

You can buy a bus only ticket for €82 (30 days, non-consecutive). From looking at the Luas site €41 would only buy you a two zone ticket for one line, whereas presumably the €88 bus/Luas ticket gives you all zones on both lines. The real question I would wonder is why the add-on for the Luas is so little - possibly to do with it being consecutive days only on that ticket.

Anyway, for bus only, €82 for 30 days is the only one offerred (other then the 5 day one, obviously).

pepper3

Thanks for the replies much appreciated
But the 5 day and 30 day rambler non consecutive means i can't use them for 5 or 30 days in a row right? that seems slightly pointless

From looking at the Luas site €41 would only buy you a two zone ticket for one line, whereas presumably the €88 bus/Luas ticket gives you all zones on both lines. The real question I would wonder is why the add-on for the Luas is so little - possibly to do with it being consecutive days only on that ticket.

well i wouldn't be looking to move any further out than 2 or 3 zones from city center anyway

if you really are hard up for cash then what about cycling on the good/ middling days and just get a pack of travel 90 tickets working out at €1.90 per journey for when its pishing rain?

Probably being really picky but i've done the 20 minute walking to college in the freezing/ lashing rain thing before, defo couldn't handle that again especially in dublin (even with a bike) but thanks for the suggestion

So it's looking like the luas is the better option!

LXFlyer

pepper3 wrote: »

Thanks for the replies much appreciated
But the 5 day and 30 day rambler non consecutive means i can't use them for 5 or 30 days in a row right? that seems slightly pointless


well i wouldn't be looking to move any further out than 2 or 3 zones from city center anyway


Probably being really picky but i've done the 20 minute walking to college in the freezing/ lashing rain thing before, defo couldn't handle that again especially in dublin (even with a bike) but thanks for the suggestion

So it's looking like the luas is the better option!

No that is not correct.

The "non-consecutive" part means that for the 5 day ticket you can use the ticket on any 5 individual days be they beside one another, months apart or whenever over a roughly 18 month period. The same obviously applies to the 30 day ticket.

pepper3

ahhhh i see, thanks!

pepper3

Ahhh i see, thanks!