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i am going to be flying into bristol on the friday and home on the monday
anyone else that wants to share a taxi or train journey

I'd love to...

how are flights for bristol Iron? and where are you flying from? I had a look at flights to cardiff and the best deal is BabyBMI (30£ return or something like that) but the times they fly suck (early sunday afternoon/late monday evening..neither of them any good really.

i am flying from inverness on easyjet for £80 return

i cant get into cardiff from aberdeen or inverness

and it would be too long a trip flying from glasgow or edinburgh

easyjet fly glasgow to bristol 3 times a day

yeah just noticed that. pardon this poor foreigners lack of geographical knowledge but how far from bristol to cardiff?

about 25 miles i think

according to the rac's website its 45 miles

all downhill iron so just leave your break off  rotflmfao

but then who changes the tires when i get to cardiff?

OMG!!!  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  glad I finally read the BB5 thread again!  I'd checked airfare to Cardiff and they wanted nearly €400 for hubby and I.  NO WAY I was going to convince him to spend that, so I'd given up on the idea and stayed away from this section.  Didn't realise we could go to Bristol and be 'close enough' at that.  Flights only €40 for both of us!!!  Hmmmmmmmm...time to put on the thinking cap and come up with me latest reasons why hubby would really like to make this trip...that way he'll think it's his idea by the time I'm done.  lol

tell him if he does fly into bristol on the friday and home again monday he can get a train with ironside and never stop laughing for the rest of his life

anyone thats traveled with me will know thats there is a better than even money shot something will go wrong

As it turns out, that's the schedule I was looking at, but can't see him laughing if we miss our flight home.  You promise that won't fall into the 'something will go wrong' category and you've got yerself a deal.   

i promise the misshap will happen to me

my first trip away after leaving the army i went to the vic

i arrive everything was going well, but by the time i pay the £50 taxi to the hotel BA have gone on strike

now i am shitting myself, but its ok the night before i am due to fly home they say talks are going well and
when i get up the news is that flights will start back at 10am

good my flights not untill the afternoon but i will get there early just to be safe
i get there at 10:15 (£50 taxi) only to be told that they have gone on strike again
and that i need to get a train 500 yards from my hotel (£50 taxi)
i get a train £120 to aberdeen airport where my car is parked the airport is closed and
i havent enough money on me to pay my parking ticket (i got charged an extra day)plus
i had to pay full short stay rate as there was no staff to give me the cheaper long stay rate
the disabled used to get
so i had to get a taxi back into town get money out the bank and then a taxi back to airport
to get my car and drive the 90 minutes home

never again i said

but it didnt stop me traveling to blackpool by train with my friend dawn
we get up early for the long day which gave me about 2 and a half hours grace between arriving in blackpool and playing

we get to dyce (the airport and last stop before aberdeen where i was changing train) and the train stops for ages now we only had 20 minutes to change train in aberdeen so i am worried, the train going the other way had a problem and could only head back to aberdeen so they decided to swap passengers but dyce doesnt have anyway for me to swap platforms so i get 2 old men carrying me accross the line. anyway we get to aberdeen and luckierly for us our trains been held up by some idiot not wanting to pay for his ticket before he got on the train and pushing past a guard the local bobbies were called and held the train up so we now made our train.
unfortuntely we werent going to make the time up for our connecting train in glasgow where we had to change stations by taxi, although promised that the other station staff had been told we had missed our orginal train and that we were on our way to catch the next one they werent prepared and were refusing to let us on the train even though it wasnt due off for 3 minutes because he would be fined if the train was late and he couldnt be arsed getting the ramp at the other end of the station after a few threats of legal action which i told him would of cost more than the fine from the regulators i got on the train but abandoned in the middle of the corrider as they couldnt find the wheelchair spaces on the train.
too much for one journey? well obviously not for our friends on the railways dispite me asking the guard on numerous occasions to make sure that our friends in preston knew i needed off there was no one there with a ramp to help me off when we arrived and dawn and 2 other passengers refused to clear the door while the guards were trying to send the train on its way
eventaully we get checked into the hotel and down to the casino with a few minutes to spare

then there is the punctures at bB2 and another in luton, not forgetting the lost mobile and bank card in luton and the bug in ireland

i just dont know why i travel

BLIMEY!  OK, we promise to help you if they don't have ramps, so it's a done deal.   :cheers:

Any one know how far away this is from the train station?

Got a return from Exeter for £39 bargain!

Quite far!

lol thanks

Taxi it is then.

Not that far from Cardiff Bay train station - I would have thought. Although I don't know when the trains stop going there.

June.

Booked our flights the other day, so there's no turning back now! 

Arrive Bristol @ 17:40 Friday evening.  Was the only flight we could get, so we'll probably be playing 'catch up' by the time we reach you lot.

Depart Bristol @ 11:50am Monday morning...looking a bit worse for wear, I'd imagine.  lol

What time are the rest of you flying to and from of Bristol?

True, although I imagine most people will be arriving at Cardiff Central.

From there it would a train Queen Street, then another to Cardiff Bay... takes about 15mins but only cost £1.50.

what's the best way of getting from the airport into town? Is the train easy enough? or am I gonna have to shell out a small fortune to take a taxi?

arrive bristol  13:30 friday leave bristol 09:25 monday

still have to look at the trains

It's a fair distance away I believe.  No buses?

Not on me, no.

Oh, OK. 

I'll ask KP...I'm sure he knows some sheepfarmers that are transporting some "ladies" into Cardiff city centre..might be able to catch a ride

There's room on top love:

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yep that's it...the "babe-bus" as it is well known down the noodle-mines.

Just cleared with my manager i can take 7 of you to bristol airport Monday morning if you like there wont be any problem at all just let me know.

Sean

YOU'RE A STAR!!! 

Put Timothy and I down for spots.  Cheers!

Sorry i meant 6 other wise id have no where to sit

no probs

not far you could walk it in about 15 mins but the train station (cardiff central) is handily in the same place as the central station for the buses so just hop on a bus and you'll be there in like 5 minutes, probably no more than 75p or just get a taxi, around 3/4 quid probably, may be cheaper.

buses is way easier. "Cardiff" airport is quite misleading as its not in vboody cardiff at all, its in barry which is about 8 miles (or so) from cardiff city centre. I may be making this up but i have heard talk of a free service running from airport to city centre but even if you pay it aint gonna cost the earth, i knw they do regualr runs with the buses so you wont be waiting long.

KP what rail service runs between bristol and cardiff?

Great Western

Bristol Airport is about 20mins in a taxi to Bristol Train Station (providing you dont hit any traffic)

yep great western will get u to cardiff in bout bout 25/30 mins i think from bristol.

Time it right Iron and some mug will pick you up from Bristol im sure.

Just out of curiosity...how much would a taxi be from Bristol airport to Cardiff?  We're not landing until nearly 6pm...all those buses and trains are cutting into valuable drinking time!

well imm sure they would do a fixed price if u rang up a taxi firm in bristol but put it like this, i wouldnt wanna pick up that tab

but thats because im a tight arse when it comes to travel expenses and it may cut into ur drinking time laxie but it wont cut into ur drinking expenses lol!!

i am looking into getting a first great western service from the airport to cardiff they run a bus from the airport to temple meads

expensive.   Dont forget you have to pay for the pleasure of entering Wales as well

Will wait and see what you come up with then.  I'm gonna owe you sooooo many drinks by the time we get everything sorted

If you had 4 or 5 of you in a taxi, it wouldn't be too bad.  Otherwise the train or one of those bus things might be best.

well what i have come up with so far is that its £3 EW from bristol temple mead to cardiff if you buy a single

if you get a bus/train from airport its £21 return

so it sounds to me as if the bus is £7.50 each way

I know I probably started this convo but shouldn't it be moved across to the travel thread? 

OP has gone a little astray

what you talking about jim

 ;D

Damn you mods are clever

laxie, her man and I are getting a taxi from bristol airport to cardiff £68 (including toll) on friday

i get in around 2 so will be in the bar at the airport till laxies flight gets in just before 6pm

there is room for 1 more in the taxi if anyone wants to join us