Student DART ticket - seriously confused

OneOfThem Stumbled

This is a bit different from the other thread on this forum.

I have a student travel card - which apparently doubles up as a leap card.

I want a ticket to travel just four stages 10 times a week for the next moth or so.

At the moment this is costing me over €30 a week. :eek:

Certain documentation with the Leap card seems to say that with a Leap card the cost can be reduced to €15. However, when using it today the reduction for a return journey was only 10 cent.

At this rate it would take me 150 journeys just to pay for the cost of the student travel card itself! :pac:

So is the student 7 day ticket better value? If I'm correct it costs €25.

I'd lose a considerable amount of money if I cot a monthly student ticket as it would automatically expire at the end of September

Or maybe the student travel card leap card is not working properly for discounts and I should buy a normal leap card?

Err.. little help?

AlekSmart

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

This is a bit different from the other thread on this forum.

I have a student travel card - which apparently doubles up as a leap card.

I want a ticket to travel just four stages 10 times a week for the next moth or so.

At the moment this is costing me over €30 a week. :eek:

Certain documentation with the Leap card seems to say that with a Leap card the cost can be reduced to €15. However, when using it today the reduction for a return journey was only 10 cent.

At this rate it would take me 150 journeys just to pay for the cost of the student travel card itself! :pac:

So is the student 7 day ticket better value? If I'm correct it costs €25.

I'd lose a considerable amount of money if I cot a monthly student ticket as it would automatically expire at the end of September

Or maybe the student travel card leap card is not working properly for discounts and I should buy a normal leap card?

Err.. little help?

Are you referring to DART or Bus journeys ?

OneOfThem Stumbled

AlekSmart wrote: »

Are you referring to DART or Bus journeys ?

Dart only, sorry 'stages' is terminology more associated with Dublin Bus

Dravokivich

Leap function on the student travel card charges the same rates as an adult leap card on all services. On phone right now, but if you check the fares section on Irish rails w website it'll tell you how much those journeys should cost with it. Then compare for yourself against the weekly ticket and go with which you choose is the better deal.

OneOfThem Stumbled

Student Travel Card's website says:

Student Travelcard holders can SAVE 26% on a weekly short hop Dart ticket. Adult fare €30.50, Student Travelcard holder fare €22.50.

Which I'm guessing is just plain wrong as I'm going to be charged €30. (50c saving instead of €7.50)

The Irishrail website is really very badly designed (it specifies 19 types of ticket, but gives the fare details for just 1). But I'm still guessing that weekly dart is better value than Leap :pac:

Jammyc

As far as I'm aware, Irish Rail dont have student fares on the DART line unless a weekly/monthly ticket is being bought, not pay as you go. I think the leap card in the student travelcard is the same as all other leap cards and doesn't offer student specific leap fares.

Use your student travel card to buy a weekly short hop ticket which'll cost you the 22.50. It'll be a separate ticket and your student travel card is just the ID you need to buy it.

LXFlyer

Firstly there are no student DART fares, only adult and child.

What the Student Travel Card allows you do is:
1) Buy a Student Weekly/Monthly unlimited travel ticket for Dublin Bus, Irish Rail and/or LUAS
2) It doubles up as a LEAP epurse offering the same discounts as the normal Adult LEAP card on cash fares on the same operators.

Dravokivich

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

Student Travel Card's website says:


Which I'm guessing is just plain wrong as I'm going to be charged €30. (50c saving instead of €7.50)

The Irishrail website is really very badly designed (it specifies 19 types of ticket, but gives the fare details for just 1). But I'm still guessing that weekly dart is better value than Leap :pac:

I meant from here: http://www.irishrail.ie/index.jsp?p=118&n=198

Also what you are quoting "weekly short hop Dart ticket" refers to an additional ticket you need to purchase.

Victor

So, what are you doing in college?

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

I want a ticket to travel just four stages 10 times a week for the next moth or so.

At the moment this is costing me over €30 a week. :eek:

Leap Cards are for occassional usage, not 10 times a week - you will be better off getting a multi-day/weekly/monthly ticket.

When you get on the bus, what do you do?

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote: »

Certain documentation with the Leap card seems to say that with a Leap card the cost can be reduced to €15.

What was this document? What exactly did it say?

However, when using it today the reduction for a return journey was only 10 cent.

Did you ask for a child fare?

Is walking or cycling the distance practical?

Cookie_Monster

Victor wrote: »

Leap Cards are for occasional usage, not 10 times a week

really. All that time and money and effort and they're still only occasional use tickets? when exactly are they supposed to take over from all the other types?

Dravokivich

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

really. All that time and money and effort and they're still only occasional use tickets? when exactly are they supposed to take over from all the other types?

Simple, whenever products get added to'em. No-one knows when that'll be though.

LXFlyer

The other ticket types are not going to vanish. I'm not sure where that idea comes from.

All that is going to happen is that the facility will exist to load them onto LEAP card.

goingnowhere

Dravokivich wrote: »

Simple, whenever products get added to'em. No-one knows when that'll be though.

Logically they have to wait until last years batch of non leap card enabled student travel cards expire in December