Posted Friday 14th August 2009 by Jen
Many of Fubra’s websites are based around travel because we know how hard it can be to make sure that you get the best deal on your travel and transport costs. We wanted to make sure that all our travel based websites offer you an easy way to find the best, most relevant, direct and cheapest way to travel.
Flying is an increasingly popular method of transport and often the fastest and even cheapest way to get abroad. This inevitably involves visiting airports around the UK which can be pretty confusing places sometimes and even for frequent fliers there tend to be a lot of rules and regulations that must be adhered to, along with changes in flight times which it’s good to keep up to speed on before setting off for the airport!
We set up our Airport Guides years ago, but gave them a fresh new look last year, which has proven to be very popular so far. We have not stopped working on them since though, and have recently worked hard to get the transportation section up to date and give it a fresh new look to make sure everyone can find what they are looking for.
There are 23 UK Airport Guides which we run so getting the new layout and content live on all of them will take a while longer, but here’s a sneak preview of things to come with the rest of them from the now live Gatwick airport transport page.
Transport to and from Gatwick Airport
The transport pages now cover many different methods to help you get to and from the airports. Gatwick Airport for example, has links from trains, coaches, and buses as well as being easily accessible by car. The transport you choose is going to be based on many factors, so we have made sure we have thoroughly looked into each area of travel into and out of the airports and found the benefits and drawbacks applying across them all, to help you make the best decision to suit your needs. Take a look at the latest offers from our travel providers to make sure you are getting the best deal possible.
In addition to this page we will be creating dedicated pages for each transport provider telling you all about what you can expect from them, and the special deals available from that provider. These pages will also include things like routes offered and possibly booking engines to make booking easier.These are coming soon, so keep an eye out!
Special offers applying at the moment include no booking fee for all online bookings of a National Express coach. The opportunity to save up to 43% on train tickets and savings of up to 78% on your airport parking through us! We have also added a Google map to help you familiarise yourself with the location of the airports and plan your car journey.
Let us know what you think of the new design, and I will keep you updated on new additions to the Airport Guides as we go!
Tags: Airport, Airport Coach, Airport Parking, Airport Trains, Car Hire, Transport
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Posted Wednesday 23rd August 2006 by paul
Today we launched our new petrol prices blog by writing some posts about fuel tax, public transport, parking fines and future transport technologies. We then mailed all of our half a million plus petrolprices.com subscribers, and all I can say is wow, what a phenomenal response!
At the time of writing one of the posts had already received over 250 comments contributing a massive 40,000 words. I think we really struck a chord with people, and they liked the opportunity to get their feelings about these issues of their chests.
Tags: Blog, Diesel, Fuel, Petrol, Tax, Transport
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Posted Friday 15th April 2005 by Brendan McLoughlin
Having had the bad, or perhaps good, fortune to be spending some more time in London lately. I have decided that driving to London is just not practical any more. Even very late at night there are long queues and parking attendants on steroids round every corner.
So I decided train had to be the best way in. Last time I used the train from Aldershot it was pretty awful. But credit to South West Trains this time the train was new instead of 20 years old, it was also nice and clean. This was all a pleasant surprise, until I arrived at the Tube!
First I had to get the northern line from Waterloo to Goodge Street and coming from nice country air it was pretty disgusting as I descended into the smell of a musty heated perfume concoction mixed with body odour and dust. As I rose in the lift at the other end gasping for fresher air I could already feel the dust settling in my nostril hair and looking at my hands they were all grubby.
I thought to myself is it any wonder people drive everywhere with that as the alternative and then thinking back to a bus journey last summer I remembered that was just as bad. It seems obvious that something needed to be done about transport but that is something everyone says not many people actually make a suggestion.
So here’s my plan, it’s pretty radical but perfectly achievable, with a willing government and the support of commerce and the people of London and the UK. Both the people and the businesses in London need to wake up to the mess short term thinking has got them in and start acting in the long term interests of everyone concerned instead of living in the fear and short term mentality.
Todo list:
- Close the zone 1 tube lines.
- Ban all motor vehicles from zone one.
- Make a major public investment into pedicabs.
- Put 50,000+ free to use bikes at each major station.
- Invest in electric goods carriers so anyone can put heavy parcels or goods on a train into a zone 1 access station like Waterloo and from there, included in the price of the ticket, the goods can be taken to the final destination of their choice inside zone 1.
- Rebuild the zone 1 tube to have 2 tubes at least for each line and a maintenance line.
The only problem with this idea is how to pay for it and I am not sure about that yet but perhaps the flat tax Paul has been going on about can help?
What I find even more surprising is that this short list of todo’s is more bold and sensible than most of the main political parties plans on transport all the main parties seem to be good at ignoring the issues and not so good at dealing with them.
If there is one thing I have learnt in business it is that radical thinking backed by money goes a lot further to making a change than sitting on the fence thinking with 10 times the cash behind it. So next time there is a tax hike proposed. Why not think about this question: Is my tax going towards something radical? Or is it going towards a continuation of steady change?
It should be interesting to the present government that as a higher rate payer I would be happy paying a radical Green party government higher income and corporation taxes but I would hate paying the same or even more tax to a Labour government with more “Bank Manager” levels of adventure and risk in their goals.
Tags: Bike, Bus, Car, London, Train, Transport, Tube, Underground
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Close the Tube?
Posted Friday 15th April 2005 by Brendan McLoughlin
Having had the bad, or perhaps good, fortune to be spending some more time in London lately. I have decided that driving to London is just not practical any more. Even very late at night there are long queues and parking attendants on steroids round every corner.
So I decided train had to be the best way in. Last time I used the train from Aldershot it was pretty awful. But credit to South West Trains this time the train was new instead of 20 years old, it was also nice and clean. This was all a pleasant surprise, until I arrived at the Tube!
First I had to get the northern line from Waterloo to Goodge Street and coming from nice country air it was pretty disgusting as I descended into the smell of a musty heated perfume concoction mixed with body odour and dust. As I rose in the lift at the other end gasping for fresher air I could already feel the dust settling in my nostril hair and looking at my hands they were all grubby.
I thought to myself is it any wonder people drive everywhere with that as the alternative and then thinking back to a bus journey last summer I remembered that was just as bad. It seems obvious that something needed to be done about transport but that is something everyone says not many people actually make a suggestion.
So here’s my plan, it’s pretty radical but perfectly achievable, with a willing government and the support of commerce and the people of London and the UK. Both the people and the businesses in London need to wake up to the mess short term thinking has got them in and start acting in the long term interests of everyone concerned instead of living in the fear and short term mentality.
Todo list:
The only problem with this idea is how to pay for it and I am not sure about that yet but perhaps the flat tax Paul has been going on about can help?
What I find even more surprising is that this short list of todo’s is more bold and sensible than most of the main political parties plans on transport all the main parties seem to be good at ignoring the issues and not so good at dealing with them.
If there is one thing I have learnt in business it is that radical thinking backed by money goes a lot further to making a change than sitting on the fence thinking with 10 times the cash behind it. So next time there is a tax hike proposed. Why not think about this question: Is my tax going towards something radical? Or is it going towards a continuation of steady change?
It should be interesting to the present government that as a higher rate payer I would be happy paying a radical Green party government higher income and corporation taxes but I would hate paying the same or even more tax to a Labour government with more “Bank Manager” levels of adventure and risk in their goals.
Tags: Bike, Bus, Car, London, Train, Transport, Tube, Underground
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