Comments | ganimede: An arm and a leg and your first-born

ganimede

An arm and a leg and your first-born

Feb 05, 2016 11:40

It's just a month off my birthday now (hint hint :P) so I was talking to my sister recently about doing something for our upcoming birthdayness as hers is the following month. We're both big Harry Potter fans and both of us really really want to go to the WB Studio Tour so that seemed the obvious choice. I've been having a look at the train times ( Read more... )

too much numpty business

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geneticload February 7 2016, 06:26:21 UTC

That's a lot of math.

ganimede February 9 2016, 19:41:42 UTC

It's a lot of money.

ellierachael February 7 2016, 13:02:18 UTC

I'd love to go but WOW...not a cheap day out! :/

ganimede February 9 2016, 19:43:12 UTC

It's ridiculous, isn't it? I can't believe how much it costs just to do the tour but once you factor in travel as well, it just goes through the roof.

hobbitblue February 8 2016, 00:39:45 UTC

Wow that comes to a hefty sum, and so much travelling. If it were me I'd consider staying over somewhere so at least there'd be more time for the tour but at £35 it had better be amazing (and of course finding somewhere locally to stay just adds ££££ to the costs). Bah!

Its a long time since i needed to book tickets but i was just checking the trainline site and bloody hell that's fiddly to navigate. And not logical - i realised advanced booking would get lower rates so checked at random for Monday 14th March and it just gave me one way, so i clicked on add return and it offered me tomorrow at 1am? Um, yes, coming back from London a month before I've travelled would be impressive but unlikely.. when you look at booking flights it tends to assume you're working ahead from the date you already chose. Travel from Manchester Piccadilly (it kept slipping to that away from Liverpool... odd) seemed cheapest, but that's not much good either as one has to get there first!

ganimede February 9 2016, 19:56:52 UTC

I was surprised at how long it would take to get down there. Thanks to the super speedy Pendolino, it only takes 3 hours or so to get to London now, rather than the 4-5 it used to be. And I did think about staying over somewhere but that wouldn't be cheap in London. And we'd either have to carry all our stuff round with us or go back to the hotel to get it, so it'd be an additional faff ( ... )

hobbitblue February 9 2016, 23:25:11 UTC

I think it was about 2 1/2 down from Liverpool last time I went which is 8 years or so ago, tho weirdly the return journey with the exact same stops is always an hour longer (and a hellish hour when I'm tired and unwell and uncomfy and just want to get home...*sigh*) Yes, carting stuff makes things a pain ( ... )

ganimede February 11 2016, 21:22:18 UTC

Getting home always seems to take longer, probably because by that point you're so tired and you just want to be home!

Charging a booking fee is so annoying, I really don't know how they can justify it. The other good thing about getting your tickets through Virgin is that they have machines at the station where you can pick up your ticket at any point before you travel, rather than waiting for it to come in the post. I think that's so convenient.

Oh, the Deutsche Bahn website is amazing. It tells you the exact time of each stop, what platform it will be at and there's maps of the stations too. We really could do with having that over here. Our ticket system is so confusing and ridiculous with all the different prices and times of validity.

I only looked at Birmingham because the Harry Potter tour site said there was a direct train to Watford Junction from there and from London Euston.

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