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).
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.
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posted: Mar. 29, 2008 @ 11:13p
cesiumvirus
Thrifty Member
posted: Mar. 29, 2008 @ 11:40p
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
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?
pamfan
New Member
posted: Mar. 30, 2008 @ 12:27a
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.
Their site is a little flakey right now. 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, and the registration process requires you to submit a validation code which they send you...only problem is they still haven't sent me one. My impressions aren't too great right now; I hope they run their buses a lot better than the website. P.S. Maximum total of 10 free seats per order.
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.
badboibillie
Shopaholic Member
posted: Mar. 30, 2008 @ 10:59a
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.
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.
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Mitch007
Member
posted: Mar. 30, 2008 @ 2:39p
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.
clar
Senior Member
posted: Mar. 31, 2008 @ 9:55a
thanx op. reserved one.
laikom
New Member
posted: Apr. 9, 2008 @ 2:35p
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.
Just came back from a trip to NYC boarding Megabus. I can not recommend enough of the company. The buses were brand new and extra clean everywhere. The driver was very courteous. The trip was very comfortable and pleasant. Since it was the first day of their service, they have some member of the management team greeting us and distributing one dollar to each of us for booking our next trip.
Thanks OP for the great deal.
venkman
Happy Member
posted: Jun. 2, 2008 @ 10:00p
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.
clar
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 3, 2008 @ 8:25a
Our family went to NYC from DC over the weekend too. The bus left DC on time at 5:45pm but didn't get to Baltimore White Marsh stop until almost 8pm due to heavy traffic on late Friday afternoon. Bus arrived at NYC a little behind time but no big deal. We didn't get to ride the Megabus painted bus. Instead it was a plain CoachUSA one. It's a little bit old and not too clean. Driver was nice and kept safe distance from the cars in front of the bus. Wifi was nice but it's a pain to always have to accept the agreement every time I lost signal and reconnect couple of seconds later. Can't they cache mac address for couple of hours?
From NYC to DC, we rode on a bus with Trailway/Martz logo. The inside is MUCH better than the CoachUSA bus. Again, no cartoon character painted on the bus. Kinda disappointed. No WiFi on the return trip.
The ride to NYC has about 20 people and the ride to DC has only 11 including bus driver. I hope there will be more people to ride the bus.
A friend of mine who moved away from Cincinnati to Chicago frequently uses Megabus for the cheap trip home.
One funny story though. A couple of months back, on his trip home. Just as the bus was starting to take off the driver turned around and yelled at my friend to come up to him (my friend was near the front). My friend was kind of scared, he thought he had done something wrong. So he came up to the driver who quietly told him that this was his first day on the job, and he didn't know how to get to Cincinnati and he wanted me friend to give him directions
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iamverycrazy
Senior Member
posted: Jun. 4, 2008 @ 10:00a
Thanks OP. Reserved 2 RT tickets from Boston South Station to NYC Penn Station costs 50 cents (from a reservation fee).
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