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Bus Éireann online booking

  • 13-05-2015 2:38am
    #1
    alaimacerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭


    BE's online booking system tells me:
    Da buses wrote:
    Customers must board the bus at the stage they have selected when booking. If you do not board the bus at the stage selected then our driver cannot issue your ticket for technical reasons. (Please note, in some locations there is more than one stage, e.g. Navan, Ardboyne Hotel or Kilcarne Bridge.)

    OK, but what exactly is a "stage"? Specifically, does "Cork" specifically mean just the bus station? I'd imagine it'd say "Cork (Parnell Place)" if that's what it intended, but just to be sure... This is in reference to services like the 40, which pick up at additional stops within the city -- but which aren't listed separately on the list. ("Cork Airport" however is.)


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  • #2
    foggy_lad
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    Usually a stage will be a few bus stops that the bus stops at which are located together, like in Carlow there are three stops(the I.T., the coach park and the green lane/spiceworld) and AFAIK all three are treated as one stop for calculation of the fare.

    Your online ticket will be accepted at any of these stops but not at say Thomastown or Leighlinbridge stops


  • #3
    b34mer23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭b34mer23


    alaimacerc wrote: »
    BE's online booking system tells me:



    OK, but what exactly is a "stage"? Specifically, does "Cork" specifically mean just the bus station? I'd imagine it'd say "Cork (Parnell Place)" if that's what it intended, but just to be sure... This is in reference to services like the 40, which pick up at additional stops within the city -- but which aren't listed separately on the list. ("Cork Airport" however is.)

    I use the online booking regularly to different places, I've always had it as being a general, vague thing for nearly everywhere. I've boarded with my generic "Dublin" ticket @ Busaràs, down the Quays, across from Huestion etc.

    I imagine it works like that everywhere, apart from the airports as you mentioned, which'd be far enough out and busy enough to warrant their own separate location.


  • #4
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    b34mer23 wrote: »
    I use the online booking regularly to different places, I've always had it as being a general, vague thing for nearly everywhere. I've boarded with my generic "Dublin" ticket @ Busaràs, down the Quays, across from Huestion etc.

    I imagine it works like that everywhere, apart from the airports as you mentioned, which'd be far enough out and busy enough to warrant their own separate location.
    Busaras tickets will cover out as far as Heuston station but will not register if presented at the Red Cow Luas stop.

    Also one other quirke of the online booking is if you bought a ticket from Red Cow to waterford Luas for tonight for the 11.45pm bus then it will be after midnight by the time the bus gets to the Red Cow stop so the online ticket willl not be valid!


  • #5
    b34mer23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72 ✭✭b34mer23


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Busaras tickets will cover out as far as Heuston station but will not register if presented at the Red Cow Luas stop.

    Also one other quirke of the online booking is if you bought a ticket from Red Cow to waterford Luas for tonight for the 11.45pm bus then it will be after midnight by the time the bus gets to the Red Cow stop so the online ticket willl not be valid!

    Jesus yeah, I presume the MAC number wouldn't be accepted, that'd be a right kick in the trousers.

    But that's an interesting one alright, I wonder for somewhere like Lucan what'd be the scenario. And even for the Red Cow, unless I'm looking in the wrong place I can't see it in the dropdown when you're picking your departure point?


  • #6
    alaimacerc
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    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Busaras tickets will cover out as far as Heuston station but will not register if presented at the Red Cow Luas stop.
    Thanks people, that's roughly what I thought. It's a bit of a puzzler if they don't actually spell out anywhere which stops are the same "stage", and which not, though! Think I might pop into their local office or give them a call. Be a shame to get put off the bus for the sake of a 5% online discount gone awry!

    Specifically I'm looking at the Bishopstown Road stop on the number 40 route, just in case anyone knows about that particular example.


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