Getting around can be expensive. For £4 you could get an alright amount of petrol, maybe a one-way train ticket into town, or a Flixbus ticket to a brand new city.
You read that right. Select direct tickets booked between today (April 17) and next Tuesday (April 22) for journeys between April 23 and June 30 will be less than a fiver as part of a celebration for the provider’s fourth anniversary in the UK.
There is only one catch: you’ll need to be travelling to or from one of the Flixbus’ brand new destinations. Its network is already pretty impressive, serving more than 80 stops from Inverness to Plymouth, but it’s set to get even more impressive with the launch of 11 brand new locations between now and mid-May.
Just to make sure you can get where you need to go, Flixbus is also expanding coverage for its most popular locations including London, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and Cardiff. By summer, it hopes that more than 200 bright green coaches will be zooming across our motorways.
A spokesperson for the company explained that it’s all part of its mission to make travelling fun and accessible for everyone, adding that ‘FlixBus is making it so easy to enjoy trips across the country to see loved ones and explore new places on the smallest of budgets’.
Flixbus tickets are already very reasonably priced, so even if you aren’t travelling to any of the promotional destinations it’s worth having a look at its offerings next time you’re planning a trip on a budget. We were able to find direct one-way tickets between Manchester and London for as little as £7.49 this July – that’s quite a bit less than what you would expect to pay for a train.
So where can your fiver actually take you? As of today, four new destinations have been added to the roster, meaning the following routes will be cut-price:
- London – Cheltenham
- London – Gloucester
- London – Swindon
- London – Norwich & Thetford
From May 1, one journey will be added to the deal:
- London – Sheffield (city centre)
Then, from May 17, these routes will launch with £4 tickets:
- London – Bath
- London – Chippenham
- London – Newquay
- London – Weston-Super-Mare
- London – Bournemouth
- London – Southampton
- London – Poole
A few old favourites will also offer selected journeys for the budget price. Those include:
- London – Manchester
- London – Birmingham
- London – Liverpool
- Cardiff – Birmingham
- Leeds – Manchester
- Manchester – Hull
- Liverpool – Leeds
- Leeds – Newcastle
- Manchester – Newcastle
- Bristol – Birmingham
- Birmingham – Nottingham (from May 17)
If you fancy a getaway to any of these spots, you can buy your tickets on Flixbus’ website here, or via the app.
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