Megabus is offering free bus trips from May 30 to June 5 on their new East Coast routes. Itineraries included in the promotion are New York-Philadelphia, New York-Washington DC, New York-Atlantic City, New York-Boston, New York-Toronto, New York-Buffalo, New York-Toronto, and Buffalo-Toronto.

Booking fee is just 50 cents per reservation (not per ticket, just one fee for the whole process).

Just go to Megabus to make reservations.

The site itself doesn't have a promo announcing it, but it was mentioned in Buffalo Business First
and the Philadelphia Business Journal wrote the following about it:

"Bus Operator Offering New Phila.-to-New York Service
A Chicago-based bus operator plans to offer service from Philadelphia to New York, starting May 30.
Megabus offers discounted travel, including promotional fares as low as $1.
Megabus serves 32 North American cities. In Philadelphia, the service stops will be on the south side of John F. Kennedy Boulevard, near 30th Street Station, and on the northeast corner of 5th and Market streets.
In its first week, from May 30 to June 5, the fare is free, if booked online at Megabus.com. A 50 cent booking fee is applied.
Megabus is a subsidiary of Paramus, N.J.-based Coach USA, which also owns Gray Line New York Sightseeing."

Buses have air-conditioning, restrooms and run express routes directly between the cities.

I went to the site to check the other cities like Boston, Washington, Toronto for that time frame (May 30-June5) and they all had tickets available for free right now.

Great deal! Used their service to go from Detroit to Chicago round-trip, and it was both cheap and extremely comfortable and convenient! Went reasonably fast too

ANightShopper said:cesiumvirus said:Great deal! Used their service to go from Detroit to Chicago round-trip, and it was both cheap and extremely comfortable and convenient! Went reasonably fast too How did you find an awailable space?

If you're asking how to find tickets, go to the link at Megabus and put in the number of passengers and the city you want to start from (they have a drop-down menu). It will then show you the destinations possible (on the East Coast, New York City has the most options). Give them the dates you want to travel (the promotion is for bus trips starting May 30 and ending June 5th) and then hit the "start search" button. It will come back and tell you if they have seats available at the free price.

The service from these cities only starts May 30th so you can't book anything to travel any earlier.

Hope this helps.

i got it to work. its 1$ a ticket from bos to nyc

I don't care how much I pay
I wanna drive my bus to my baby each day

Too much Megabus

osuuma said:Los Angeles to the Bay Area is $35 to $38. I guess it is new service in California. Saw a bus yesterday for the first time.

I want it, I want it, I want it....
You caaaaaaaan't have it.

It's been around for quite some time in west coast. This ain't your greyhound where it stops like 10 times on the way up - this is a 5 1/2 hour trip usually with one 20 minute stop break for food/bathroom. It's almost always on time reaching the destination.

Guys,
Is it possible? Payee is different from the person who travel. Please let me know if anyone know about this.

Thank you.

Wads said:kpraveen said:Guys,
Is it possible? Payee is different from the person who travel. Please let me know if anyone know about this.

Thank you.

 

are you a mayor?

re election campaign.........

solved the homeless crisis for 300 bucks

ex-Governor, you mean? I hope it's not another George Fox reservation.

Mosskeeter said:I bought some tickets but their confirmation page wouldn't respond when I tried to print a receipt using their embedded "Print" command button, the emailed receipt doesn't show any ticket details.

Unless something has changed, all you need to board a bus is the confirmation number which they do email you. The driver compares it to his list of passengers. I have written it down in pencil which was fine. One time I even took a picture of my number off the monitor on my cell phone (I was running really late) and that was fine too. Megabus is much cleaner than greyhound and WAY faster. Express really is what it implies.

My family of 4 went this past weekend from BOS -> NYC round trip.
Although the departures were ~20 minutes late, we were very pleased with
the trip. Clean buses, and a courteous driver.