Save on West Coast train travel with Avanti Superfare – tickets from £9

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• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  28 Nov28 November 03:07

  Important to note that these tickets are non refundable if you change your mind and don’t want to travel.

  But they are eligible to on-train upgrades to Standard Premium and to First via Seatfrog and on-train (but the former will be cheaper if available).

• John says:

  28 Nov28 November 04:19

  You can use LNER to make seat reservations on Avanti without buying a ticket if you think you might not like the seats you get given. You can type 0 for the ticket number. Avanti only lets you reserve a seat with their seat picker when you’ve booked a ticket with them.

  On the long-distance trains I take which are only half-full, I see lots of reserved seats which end up being unoccupied. This is because Avanti and LNER have decided to make their trains pseudo-compulsory reservation and when you book a flexible ticket online (or at journey planner ticket machines) you are forced to reserve a seat even if you don’t want to.

  Also 80% of the time, I sit in a seat that shows as reserved yet the reserver never turns up.

  • Mike Fish says:

    28 Nov28 November 06:13

    More likely than 80% not turning up is they see someone in their seat and decide not to make an issue about it if there’s somewhere else to sit.

    • MKB says:

      28 Nov28 November 11:17

      My experience matches John’s. It’s pretty obvious when someone is checking out your seat and then moving on without comment. I’d say it’s rare.

      I do it myself but never silently. I point out that I have a reservation for those seats, I’ll sit elsewhere but that I might need to reclaim them if someone turns up for my new seats.

      It’s frustrating when every solo traveller has taken a row to themselves and it’s impossible to find two spare adjacent seats for us.

  • MKB says:

    28 Nov28 November 11:19

    You can also use tpexpress.co.uk for seat reservations without the need for a ticket number.

  • John G says:

    28 Nov28 November 15:38

    Interesting info about reserving Avanti seats on LNER but their seat reservation feature only seems to work for LNER routes. Tried a variety of Avanti routes and it just says “Sorry, no results could be found for your search”. Shame as this would be really useful.

    Saw comment below about TP Express website but can’t find that feature at all on their site.

    • MKB says:

      28 Nov28 November 16:25

      It’s in the MyBookings section, but you don’t need any bookings for it to work.

• Captaindave says:

  28 Nov28 November 07:55

  Nothing to/from Totnes ? Hmm move along nothing to see here 😉

• OP says:

  28 Nov28 November 08:37

  Do these qualify for Club Avanti?

  • Ken says:

    28 Nov28 November 09:11

    No

• Rich says:

  28 Nov28 November 14:07

  These seem like very good prices, if you can cope with the uncertainty. If you search the timetables, and compare them with the stated times, you can work out your worst-case scenario.

  Eurostar have something similar, and in some circumstances the discount is worth the uncertainty.

• Andy Stock says:

  28 Nov28 November 17:05

  I use Avanti Superfare most time I use Avanti since I’m usually travelling on a day off from work.

  I usually book an afternoon departure from London and an evening departure from Manchester. Usually get decent timed trains.

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