Footballfan Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Home come Norwich away is £23.50 on the coach but the JTP final is £25 , I am sure Norwich is further than London. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints_is_the_south Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 My guess is that Wembley charge them an excessive fee to park the coaches. Quite why anybody would get the bingo bus for a game at Wembley is beyond me anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballfan Posted 16 February, 2010 Author Share Posted 16 February, 2010 only £51 to park a coach for the JTP final Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFC Forever Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Typical really with all business oportunities. Saints have been good so far with prices and now we are saying thank you with excessive charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Chuckle Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 its a sunday as well don't forget just get the train up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRomseySaint Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 I booked my own 53 seater, with stops in London town before and after the game at a boozer. Works out £17 a head. Nice little earner for the club there. Probably 100% markup... good business. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRomseySaint Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 its a sunday as well don't forget just get the train up 60,000 people trying to get up to London on 1 train an hour with delays due to works. No thanks. :-) xx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Johnstones Taint Prophy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Quite why anybody would get the bingo bus for a game at Wembley is beyond me anyway. Really ? Unless you live in or near London then the coach is the only sensible way to go surely . The trains involve the usual weekend line disruption and enduring our 'cattle wagon' tube service , if you want to drive then my old car at least is going to burn way more than £25 worth of gas to get there and back even before you add in Wembley parking costs (£20) on top . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 It's gonna take about an hour and a half to get away from the Wembley car park, so over 2 hours to get out of London. No thanks. I'll park in Richmond and get the tube in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Jonny Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 It's gonna take about an hour and a half to get away from the Wembley car park, so over 2 hours to get out of London. No thanks. I'll park in Richmond and get the tube in. Ditto, when I go to gigs in central london I park at a pub opposite wimbledon tube station and it makes the day much more stress free. The tube is great so no complaints. Dunno what to do about this game though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spd Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 My guess is that Wembley charge them an excessive fee to park the coaches. Quite why anybody would get the bingo bus for a game at Wembley is beyond me anyway. five year old grandson and daughter, thats why bingo bus!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iansums Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 It's gonna take about an hour and a half to get away from the Wembley car park, so over 2 hours to get out of London. No thanks. I'll park in Richmond and get the tube in. +1 Car to Richmond, tube to Wembley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debbiemc Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Cost of travel to Wycombe match (69 miles) is £14. Wembley is 78 miles. Can't see how they can justify £11 more for the sake of another 9 miles. It's going to cost £75 for me and my two boys before we buy tickets. Not doing much to encourage families when a lot of people will be struggling to find the money to go anyway. By the way, we do all have season tickets, so I'm not a one match a season person complaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRomseySaint Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Cost of travel to Wycombe match (69 miles) is £14. Wembley is 78 miles. Can't see how they can justify £11 more for the sake of another 9 miles. It's going to cost £75 for me and my two boys before we buy tickets. Not doing much to encourage families when a lot of people will be struggling to find the money to go anyway. By the way, we do all have season tickets, so I'm not a one match a season person complaining. Direct coach to Wembley I got quoted was £700 for 53 seater. It does say proudly on the Saints Charter that they operate coaches at cost price, which even if they got the same deal as me, would be £13 a head... take into account a discount of about 20% for group booking and the cost price to the club is more closer to about £10 a head. lol... impressive markup skills for a non-profit branch of SFC... :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Just another train of thought. We will have a contract for a fixed amount of coaches during a season which allows us to get a good all year long deal, probably at less than you guys are booking individual coaches for. How many coaches do our usual Travel Club OWN? How many are they (or the club) having to bring in on sub-contract for the day? How many "organisers", stewards or bingo callers have to be brought in for the day to meet "H&S requirements for football coaches? Once we get the answers to that we can make some valid snipes about profiteering. My guess is that they are having to pay more than usual for the sub-contractors who have seen a pay day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 I would be amazed if the coach companies haven't bumped up the price because they know the demand will be there. As Stu said, the Customer Charter or whatever they've called it this year states that coaches will be operated at cost price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Drive to Gerrards Cross. train in from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRomseySaint Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Just another train of thought. We will have a contract for a fixed amount of coaches during a season which allows us to get a good all year long deal, probably at less than you guys are booking individual coaches for. How many coaches do our usual Travel Club OWN? How many are they (or the club) having to bring in on sub-contract for the day? How many "organisers", stewards or bingo callers have to be brought in for the day to meet "H&S requirements for football coaches? Once we get the answers to that we can make some valid snipes about profiteering. My guess is that they are having to pay more than usual for the sub-contractors who have seen a pay day Like I said, little old me was quoted on average £700 by a number of companies. £13 a head. The safety people on there are generally stewards who don't get paid, just do it for a free ticket. There is not a hope in hell they cost double what little old me is paying for one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natty_noodles Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 The tube at Wembley is horrendously busy - after games I have been there we have had to wait an hour to even get on a tube after the game. Just a warning.. You can park easily around the ground between £10-£15 a car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 The tube at Wembley is horrendously busy - after games I have been there we have had to wait an hour to even get on a tube after the game. Just a warning.. You can park easily around the ground between £10-£15 a car. I've been to England qualifying games and managed to get away within 40 minutes, leaving just after full time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 The tube at Wembley is horrendously busy - after games I have been there we have had to wait an hour to even get on a tube after the game. Just a warning.. You can park easily around the ground between £10-£15 a car. The tube station's only bad if the ground's full, and England games see thousands of people leaving in the last 5-10 minutes of the game to avoid the queues. For a cup final, where one set of fans will clearly leave pretty quickly when they've lost while the other will hang around celebrating, it actually works out very well. I went to the League Two playoff final (Bristol Rovers v Shrewsbury) a couple of years ago (attendance of 60k or so), hung around to see the Rovers celebrations after the game and still got on the tube without much of a wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 The tube station's only bad if the ground's full, and England games see thousands of people leaving in the last 5-10 minutes of the game to avoid the queues. For a cup final, where one set of fans will clearly leave pretty quickly when they've lost while the other will hang around celebrating, it actually works out very well. I went to the League Two playoff final (Bristol Rovers v Shrewsbury) a couple of years ago (attendance of 60k or so), hung around to see the Rovers celebrations after the game and still got on the tube without much of a wait. Exactly, it actually works quite well when you have two opposing teams as whoever loses leaves straight away and in the main have cleared off by the time the winning team have finished celebrating and have started to head off. Plus there are a fair few pubs around Wembley. Also, there is Wembley Park, Wembley Stadium and Wembley Central stations, so more than one option. Wembley is nowhere near as bad as its made out for public transport, just the early kick off and poor south west trains service that doesn't help on the 28th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toomer Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 I have booked a 17 seat mini bus will work out at about £11.00 a head that includes bus, fuel and £35.00 for parking 5 mins walk from Wembley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdearlove Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 The tube station's only bad if the ground's full, and England games see thousands of people leaving in the last 5-10 minutes of the game to avoid the queues. For a cup final, where one set of fans will clearly leave pretty quickly when they've lost while the other will hang around celebrating, it actually works out very well. I went to the League Two playoff final (Bristol Rovers v Shrewsbury) a couple of years ago (attendance of 60k or so), hung around to see the Rovers celebrations after the game and still got on the tube without much of a wait. And the majority of the Carlisle fans will probably be on a coach as it would be a mar of a journey for them to train it. Hopefully lots of Saints fans will do the same leaving the tube free for us that live nearer to Wembley. I will get the train down to West Hampstead and Jubilee line up to Wembley - assuming its running! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 And the majority of the Carlisle fans will probably be on a coach as it would be a mar of a journey for them to train it. Hopefully lots of Saints fans will do the same leaving the tube free for us that live nearer to Wembley. I will get the train down to West Hampstead and Jubilee line up to Wembley - assuming its running! Assumption being the mother of all ****-ups, of course Jubilee line's often part-closed at weekends for engineering work, hopefully they haven't got any planned that weekend! Metropolitan line is another option and is actually a lot quicker from Finchley Road onwards, but it's really ****ty trains :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdearlove Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Assumption being the mother of all ****-ups, of course Jubilee line's often part-closed at weekends for engineering work, hopefully they haven't got any planned that weekend! Metropolitan line is another option and is actually a lot quicker from Finchley Road onwards, but it's really ****ty trains :mad: I had a look on the TfL site and it seems it shut Saturday 27th only - open on the 28th. Met line seems to be running that day too so thats an option but it means messing about changing tubes in London. Alternative for me is train from Leighton Buzzard, change at Harrow and Wealdstone - just got to persuade the Mrs to drop me in LB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Johnstones Taint Prophy? Many thanks to whoever edited the title, now I look a right spaz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macthesaint Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 The match tickets were no great shock,but the £25 coach fare is. My friend at work emailed Dave Luker complaining about it and was told (straight away) that the cost was due to Wembley parking charges,stewarding and coach operator charges. When,like me,you have to pay for 4 of everything it gets very expensive. I shall be looking at driving up now....what time to leave? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bourno Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 National Express are also charging £25 Soton to Wembley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Footballfan Posted 16 February, 2010 Author Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Parking is only £51 for a coach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzo Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Assumption being the mother of all ****-ups, of course Jubilee line's often part-closed at weekends for engineering work, hopefully they haven't got any planned that weekend! Metropolitan line is another option and is actually a lot quicker from Finchley Road onwards, but it's really ****ty trains :mad: There is engineering work on the tube lines that day, not sure which ones though. It told me that when I looked up the train prices on the national rail website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRomseySaint Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Anyone who wants to make a very quick buck... have a word round the local coach companies.... plenty still have 53 seaters left, going at about £700 or £900 if you want to get into London early and leave London late. Charge £20 a piece and make yourself at least £150 for your troubles, and still £5 cheaper than the bingo bus. No brainer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Anyone who wants to make a very quick buck... have a word round the local coach companies.... plenty still have 53 seaters left, going at about £700 or £900 if you want to get into London early and leave London late. Charge £20 a piece and make yourself at least £150 for your troubles, and still £5 cheaper than the bingo bus. No brainer. Unless you have a problem with ripping off your mates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRomseySaint Posted 16 February, 2010 Share Posted 16 February, 2010 Unless you have a problem with ripping off your mates. Your not ripping off your mates by charging them £5 less than the travel club charge, are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 17 February, 2010 Share Posted 17 February, 2010 Your not ripping off your mates by charging them £5 less than the travel club charge, are you? No but you're charging them more than you need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 17 February, 2010 Share Posted 17 February, 2010 Can't recall anyone having a problem with Clive Foley's football excursions, maybe it's down to who is organising it? Good luck Stu, I just hope none of your 'mates' decides to make a mess on the journey, it's not cheap replacing those windows and cleaning sick from the upholstery mate. And I am assuming that you'll be encouraging them to bring their own beer? How much deposit have they asked for out of interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete The Dragon Posted 17 February, 2010 Share Posted 17 February, 2010 Your not ripping off your mates by charging them £5 less than the travel club charge, are you? No but you're charging them more than you need to. + 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuRomseySaint Posted 17 February, 2010 Share Posted 17 February, 2010 No but you're charging them more than you need to. Not really. The per head cost was £17, if you have any experience of sorting awaydays you will know that it's always best rounded up to the nearest 5 or 10, otherwise it ends up with "here's £15 and i will buy you a pint" or something. What have I done with the extra money? Got the local boozer to get up and make up 50 bacon rolls ready for departure in the morning. That's right. I'm a c*nt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 18 February, 2010 Share Posted 18 February, 2010 Not really. The per head cost was £17, if you have any experience of sorting awaydays you will know that it's always best rounded up to the nearest 5 or 10, otherwise it ends up with "here's £15 and i will buy you a pint" or something. What have I done with the extra money? Got the local boozer to get up and make up 50 bacon rolls ready for departure in the morning. That's right. I'm a c*nt. Haha, calm down! Was hardly calling you a c*nt was I? I'm sure they'll love their bacon rolls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markr27 Posted 18 February, 2010 Share Posted 18 February, 2010 Speaking of the Travel Club, are they really expecting EVERYONE west of Hook to get to St Marys to get on the coaches? This would then require people to drive down and park around the stadium and local area? No advertised pick-up points at Eastleigh (I'm sure they could run a direct service and fill 2/3 coaches up) or Winchester (Eastleigh's could cover)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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