Has anyone ridden megabus?

[Dennis S]

My friend in Little Rock rides it all the time between there and Dallas and Houston to visit his daughters and usually gets tickets for $1. That's $1. I can't find them that cheap but he has the knack. They don't go to that many cities but the good thing is there are no or few stops.

[freeradical]

Cheapest price for me is $5 between Sacramento and San Francisco.

Is he getting his tickets by using a Windows computer?

[Rolando]

I'd like to take a day and ride to Austin from SA and back in one, just for the heck of it. Only if I can get that upper front seat.

[Sarcany]

Cheapest round trip that I see is $32 and that's about 3 miles.

[blooz]

Not much selection. To get a ride to Philadelphia (and it's overnight) I'd have to get to Boston, 2-3 hours away. And then I'd have to drive in Boston (if you've never done it, I hope you remain blessed in your ignorance). Safer and easier to just drive to Philadelphia and I wouldn't have to pay to leave my car somewhere.
Also i don't want to go to Philadelphia, really. It's just one of the few options.

[Dennis S]

freeradical wrote:
Cheapest price for me is $5 between Sacramento and San Francisco.

Is he getting his tickets by using a Windows computer?

He has a Windows computer and iPhone. I don't know which one he uses.

[space-time]

freeradical wrote:
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Is he getting his tickets by using a Windows computer?

Why would that make a difference?

[Mr Downtown]

Yes, I've made a few trips on Megabus. And BoltBus, which Greyhound started to compete with them.

The $1 seats (IIRC there's a booking fee as well) are the first few sold when booking opens, probably 90 days or more before departure. They're merely a marketing gimmick. But even day-of fares are typically quite low.

As with the low-cost airlines, though, at those prices there's no redundancy built into the system. No station, no one to ask when the bus will arrive. In the smartphone era that's more tolerable, but (in the flipphone era) I once spent three hours sitting on the curb under a Milwaukee freeway overpass hoping the bus would eventually show up. It did. "We were late leaving Minneapolis" was all the driver said.

[JoeH]

space-time wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
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Is he getting his tickets by using a Windows computer?

Why would that make a difference?
There have been a number of reports over the years of how some of the online ticketing, registration and sales sites determine prices based on the cookies, they read, your browser and whether you have a PC or Mac. Some of these have found that the prices offered were higher if you checked from a Mac.

[3d]

Mr Downtown wrote:
The $1 seats (IIRC there's a booking fee as well) are the first few sold when booking opens, probably 90 days or more before departure. They're merely a marketing gimmick.

If this is the case, it's weird that the friend would only say it's $1 without giving the whole story.