{"id":9869,"date":"2021-05-03T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=9869"},"modified":"2021-05-03T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T17:19:11","slug":"save-on-train-tickets-with-trainpal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2021\/05\/03\/save-on-train-tickets-with-trainpal\/","title":{"rendered":"Save on train tickets with Trainpal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit confusing how you can buy train tickets in the UK: the national rail network is operated by many different companies who have their own online booking sites, and there are a few third-party websites that sell train tickets too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the inventory and prices are, most of the time, identical across all these platforms, so you could really just use any of the rail company&#8217;s websites as they don&#8217;t charge any booking fee or credit card fee. Some of them also offer a small incentive such as Nectar points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/trainpal.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/trainpal.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5590\" width=\"384\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/trainpal.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/trainpal-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>An alternative has emerged in the last couple of years though, namely <strong>Trainpal<\/strong>, which is owned by the giant Chinese travel agency Ctrip. It has access to the same inventory with other ticket selling services, and also has a few advantages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>No additional fee charged<\/li><li>Split ticketing offered <em>for free<\/em> &#8211; if the journey can be cheaper by booking two separate tickets, it will show up in the search results as an option<\/li><li>Frequent promotions for vouchers<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For example they have been selling gift vouchers recently:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/trainpal-pal-store-vouchers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/trainpal-pal-store-vouchers-485x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9773\" width=\"243\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/trainpal-pal-store-vouchers-485x1024.jpg 485w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/trainpal-pal-store-vouchers-142x300.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/trainpal-pal-store-vouchers.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can pay 49p for two \u00a33 vouchers (minimum spend applies). It&#8217;s a pretty good deal, and you even get automatically refunded if you have no use for them and let the vouchers expire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you take the train regularly it may be a good idea to download the app as a new option. Feel free to use my referral code <strong>a25d5733 <\/strong>which should give you a \u00a33 voucher to start with (\u00a340 minimum spend applies).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bit confusing how you can buy train tickets in the UK: the national rail network is operated by many different companies who have their&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-9869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk","tag-train"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9869"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9873,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869\/revisions\/9873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}