(13 Jan 2014, 6:07 pm)tyresmoke wrote The Edinburgh-Perth by Scotrail was £5.50 advance (with a 16-25 railcard).
£5 single to Dundee as was joined by 2 mates in Perth.
Stagecoach East Fife dayrider plus £10 for the afternoon (valid across a huge area, can get to Edinburgh for example). The Dundee-Perth Citylink was £4 I think, booked through Megabus which includes your Park & Ride fare into the city (on regular service 301).
Sunday we paid about £8 via Megabus for the M8 to Dundee, though there was only 4 of us on a 15m Panther!
The Citylink Gold was £9 to Aberdeen, well worth it though with a huge (and very comfy) leather seat, 53 seats on a 15m Elite. Customer Service assistant came round with a lovely cake and a choice of soft drink during the 80 minute journey, as well as refresh kit with a knife and fork, wet wipe etc.
The return journey to Edinburgh I think was £7 from Aberdeen to Edinburgh with a connection between M9/M90 at Broxden Park & Ride where all the Megabus/Citylink services meet up (4 in the space of 10 mins!), 2 northbound and 2 southbound. The connections work perfectly but in times of disruption I can imagine it could be problematic.
I paid £14 for my return trip to Scotch Corner but the other 2 got it cheaper as they booked further in advance, I had to try and get the time off work for the Saturday. Thankfully I got my lieu day confirmed last week and got everything booked up.
The sleeper was operated by 50307, the service M20 was operated by 54208 which was sent with people for Newcastle etc on it, Parks of Hamilton Volvo B9R LSK497 was operating the duplicate M20 which had all of the passengers for London and they stuck the three of us for Scotch Corner on it, as thats where our driver came off and handed over to the 2 replacement drivers. Non stop Edinburgh to Scotch Corner was completed in under 3 hours, getting us to Scotch Corner around 45 mins earlier than planned!!
Other way round Scott, the Parks on Saturday night was £9, the M8 on Sunday morning was £4 minus booking fee.
Where as my weekend looks a different picture prior to Dundee on Saturday morning:
0330 Scotch Corner-Edinburgh Stagecoach M20 54206
0825 Edinburgh-Perth Broxden P&R Stagecoach M90 54047
1000 Perth Broxden P&R-Perth City Centre Stagecoach 301 27525
1139 Perth Rail Station-Dundee ScotRail 170417
Northbound Megabus was £13, and the return for me was £8. £1.10 single on the Perth Park & Ride which is very good value when you realise 27525 was one of the first full sizes buses to Gold specifications (as was the Dart on the evening, highest spec Dart in the fleet!). In fact, apart from the Solos in Glenrothes, all Stagecoach liveried vehicles travelled on during the week had leather seating.