(31 Mar 2021, 4:03 pm)Adrian wrote £15 is brilliant value for the day, given that you can make the joining trips on/off the X11 and use the open topper. The Beachcomber is £5 adult / £12 group normally.
streetdeckfan suggests this rules out that Explorers aren't valid, but I cannot find anything to back that up on the Go North East or Network Ticketing website. Although its granted that they wouldn't be valid on the Beachcomber anyway.
Assuming the Explorer tickets are valid, I think I'd rather go that route than buying the X11 ticket.
I get the added flexibility of returning on the X93 if I fancy sticking around an hour or two, and can make use of the X93 during the day.
Plus, if I wanted to use the Beachcomber, and a ticket is only £5, then it will only make it £15.90, so 90p more expensive.
(31 Mar 2021, 5:31 pm)BoroLad wrote I think that ticketing is pretty reasonable. It's particularly good to see the open top services included, which I'm sure will be well used. While I would have liked to see more through tickets (such as enabling onward travel to Filey/Bridlington), realistically they wouldn't be well used since most people's first instinct after a three hour bus ride isn't to spend another hour going even further south!
One ticket which I was surprised not to see feature is any kind of period return - priced appropriately that could have attracted those making slightly longer stays as well as those making the trip in reverse (if all goes well, by the end of the summer there could even be demand from young Scarborough residents going on nights out in Newcastle). Such tickets are available on the Coastliner service from Leeds to Scarborough/Whitby. But then again - this is the first year this is operating, and I can understand wanting to have simple tickets while the service finds its feet.
The fact that they do actually specify '1 day' on the ticket suggests to me that there are more options to come,