(26 Feb 2020, 12:11 pm)Ianthegoon wrote My wife spent years buying single tickets because she didn't realise that returns were a thing! I guess if the operators don't advertise them, how would people know?
(I didn't know because I'm also on day tickets of some kind or another ….. why take one bus when you can take twenty??!!!)
From my experience of listening over people's conversations, if you don't specify that you want a single ticket, the drivers will always ask if you want a single or a return. And to be quite honest, I've heard quite a few people say 'oh, can you get a return?' back to the driver, so I do get why she wouldn't know.
I personally think return tickets are going to become a thing of the past soon enough, they already are on quite a number of routes with them being the same price as a day ticket (and I believe drivers are supposed to be telling passengers that they're the same price, although I've seen quite a few not doing that)
Before I got my monthly pass, I was a student so was able to get the student day tickets for about £4, a single ticket on the X21 was more than that!
What I also used to do was buy the three day tickets on The Key as I was only at college 3 and a half days a week and the extra day I would just get dropped off. On the half day, I would just go out and explore for the rest of the day. What I would do is get the next bus that arrived at Gateshead, I remember one time I went to Middlesbrough and I think I managed about 15 minutes there before I got on the same bus straight back up!