Low Cost Travel Cafe

It's not immediately clear whether these are long-term special offers from Trenitalia or whether Prezzo Smart is a relatively recent, permanent low fare brand from the Italian railways operator.

Ei ...

Sadly, it looks like TrenOK stopped operating some time during August 2007. It doesn't appear as if Trenitalia is operating any other low cost domestic train services at this time.

Italian intercity bus operator is currently offering some appealing low fares on its website.

It's not clear whether this is just a temporary promotion or whether this is a trial period which will ...

From December 11th, the Mumbai-based ferry company Samlink will commence operating low cost cruises out of Mumbai.

At the moment, it appears that the only available option is to take an offshore cr ...

A new Budapest-based intercity coach service has launched with the intention to compete against low cost airlines.

Budapest to Vienna in Austria
Budapest to Prague in the Czech Republic
Budapest ...

However, I have two questions at this point:

1) Why does the bus only seem to be travelling in one direction? What's wrong with ferrying low-carbon travellers from Sydney back to London? Even if th ...

The OzBusOzBusOzBusBoarding now... the bus to Sydney

That's awesome!

A few years ago, when easyBusNX Funfaremegabuslow cost bus concept would win the popular vote.

But now that ab 9 euromegabusnakedbusbusoff is expanding internationally, it looks ...

Led by Deutsche Bahn, a number of European rail companies are planning to form an alliance similar to the airline code-sharing alliances such as OneWorld, Skyteam and Star Alliance.

The new group, ...

Here's a great feature in The Times by Mark Hodson which discusses trains across Europe - including a couple of low fare services such as the The Complete Rail Guide to Europe

I don't think they lock people into the megatrain carriage. I think all the security takes place on the platform and at the ticket gates etc.

You may well find that Dorchester now has gates even th ...

But is it possible, in principle, to change the destination?

Alsky, I don't know about this.. they're obviously trying to discourage people from jumping off mid-route with "penalty fares" and what-not... I don't know if they are competent enough to en ...

Where were you thinking of travelling to and from?

I don't know how many of them do or not now.

I know Brighton does, I can't remember if Sheffield does or not - but Bristol does, and it never used to.