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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead)
online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. |
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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
On Aug 22, 3:38 pm, AES wrote:
Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead) online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. They are for me too, from a UK site. So I think this has nothing to do with you being in the US. You could try booking through: http://nationalrail.co.uk/ I don't know if they require the buyer to be in the UK though. I also sometimes find that they are a little more expensive that going direct to the provider (Virgin Trains in your case). Hm, seems like a bug - you might want to let Virgin Trains webmaster know? Hanne |
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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
S Viemeister wrote:
wrote: On Aug 22, 3:38 pm, AES wrote: Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead) online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. They are for me too, from a UK site. So I think this has nothing to do with you being in the US. You could try booking through: http://nationalrail.co.uk/ I don't know if they require the buyer to be in the UK though. I also sometimes find that they are a little more expensive that going direct to the provider (Virgin Trains in your case). Hm, seems like a bug - you might want to let Virgin Trains webmaster know? I ran into a similar problem this Spring - I'd always been able to book online, but found that this time I had to phone. I checked everything online, so was able to book fairly quickly, which kept the long-distance cost to a minimum. Yep, I know what you mean. My carrier, Packet8, would charge me 3 cents per minute. Man, that's almost $2 per hour to call the UK from California. I could buy 1/2 a gallon of gas with that much money. |
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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
mrtravel wrote:
S Viemeister wrote: wrote: On Aug 22, 3:38 pm, AES wrote: Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead) online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. They are for me too, from a UK site. So I think this has nothing to do with you being in the US. You could try booking through: http://nationalrail.co.uk/ I don't know if they require the buyer to be in the UK though. I also sometimes find that they are a little more expensive that going direct to the provider (Virgin Trains in your case). Hm, seems like a bug - you might want to let Virgin Trains webmaster know? I ran into a similar problem this Spring - I'd always been able to book online, but found that this time I had to phone. I checked everything online, so was able to book fairly quickly, which kept the long-distance cost to a minimum. Yep, I know what you mean. My carrier, Packet8, would charge me 3 cents per minute. Even for an 0845/0870 number? Most US low-cost phone companies charge extra for them- usually mobile rates. I don't think Virgin offer landline alternatives... That said, 3 cents seems a bit expensive for calling a UK landline from the US. I pay just under 1 cent (1p) the other pay around. -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins |
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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead)
online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. You could try booking through: http://nationalrail.co.uk/ This worked for me (with a U.S. American Express card). |
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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
"AES" wrote in message ... Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead) online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. I'm guessing that you're heading to Ireland. I managed to book a complete London-Cork journey (on Virgin, Stena and Ironhorse Eire or whatever it is) at the Virgin Trains booking counter at Euston, but in person. Crossposted to likely more helpful groups. Cheers, George W Russell Bangalore |
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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
In message , grusl
writes "AES" wrote in message ... Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead) online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. I'm guessing that you're heading to Ireland. I managed to book a complete London-Cork journey (on Virgin, Stena and Ironhorse Eire or whatever it is) at the Virgin Trains booking counter at Euston, but in person. Crossposted to likely more helpful groups. Cheers, George W Russell Bangalore Probably one of the increasing numbers of travel sites making it difficult/impossible for anyone with a different country's credit card to book. (It happens in the other direction as well: for example, Hawaiian air doesn't accept UK credit cards.) You could email a contact address on Virgin and ask what to do (Hawaiian gave an agent to contact) or find someone in the UK to do it for you and pay them back when you get here or on paypal. If the Holyhead means you are going on to Ireland, you could see if there is an Irish website that will do it. Good luck -- --- Sheila Page |
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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
grusl wrote:
"AES" wrote in message ... Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead) online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. I'm guessing that you're heading to Ireland. I managed to book a complete London-Cork journey (on Virgin, Stena and Ironhorse Eire or whatever it is) at the Virgin Trains booking counter at Euston, but in person. Crossposted to likely more helpful groups. www.nationalexpress.com will allow you to buy a ticket from abroad- and even though they don't run that route, they will sell tickets on it. -- (*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate -www.davidhorne.net (email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about. Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins |
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Purchase Virgin Train tickets online from US address?
David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
grusl wrote: "AES" wrote in message ... Anyone know how to purchase Virgin Train tickets (London-Holyhead) online from a U.S. location? When I try to do so on any of Virgin Train's ".uk" URLs, the "Address" portion of the registration and booking page stays stubbornly greyed out, and won't let me complete the registration or the booking. I'm guessing that you're heading to Ireland. I managed to book a complete London-Cork journey (on Virgin, Stena and Ironhorse Eire or whatever it is) at the Virgin Trains booking counter at Euston, but in person. Crossposted to likely more helpful groups. www.nationalexpress.com will allow you to buy a ticket from abroad- and even though they don't run that route, they will sell tickets on it. Thanks, David - that's useful information. |
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