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.

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

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.
Annoying, though, especially since I've had no problems in the past.

"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

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

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

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.

S Viemeister wrote:

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.

You're welcome- to be clear, I haven't booked from outside the UK
myself, but they make it clear it should be possible, as they give the
option for people outside the UK to pick up the ticket from the machine
in the station- in this case London Euston.

--
(*) 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

In uk.transport.london David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)
wrote:
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.

Make sure you get a train ticket, not a bus ticket! (They do both).
http://www.nationalexpresseastcoast.com/ is the train booking site.

I don't think they'll post you the tickets, but you can select to collect
them from a machine at the station. Take the credit card you used to book
them with you as you'll probably need to use that in the machine.

Theo

In article ,
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.


Incredible! I put this (actually somewhat OT) post up on
rec.travel.air, and within minutes have 6 or 7 helpful, informative
replies. Some newsgroups are just unbelievably helpful and useful
(even if Virgin Train's website programmers are not).