Megabus Service LA to SF, OAK, SJ, Reno, Riverside, LV $1 each way

Riverside!!!

THis one, it's a hub for PeterPan and Greyhound.

http://www.gotobus.com/busstation/215028.html

Quote from travfar : So did the hotel fall down? I haven't seen anything like that in China. I spent plenty of time there during the building boom right before the olympics in Beijing. They were adding about a floor a week. Which is the same pace they are building the Freedom Tower at. Which is downright slow when you compare it to the almost 2 floors a week pace they set for the Empire State Building.

You gotta love the ignorance in this thread. Americans are so quick to conveniently ignore their crumbling infrastructure. Upon even hearing about cheap Mattel toys "Made in China," they're quick to make generalizations about construction and engineering in China.

When someone like you who's actually spent time in China and has bothered to read up on the comparisons rebuts these commenters, they're suddenly silent. I wonder why.

Never mind that a visiting Chinese student in Berkeley was quoted by a newspaper as saying that the city was "Beautiful, yet dirty."

Quote from Liquidus : The Vietnamese buses charge $45 or so each way so I'm curious how this company charges only $1-3.

One-time thing really. It's probably one of the cheapest way to market their service. Have people like me bragging about the awesome savings we incurred through January rides.

Quote from TofuVic : 3 hours? I don't think we have implemented that technology in California yet! Tofu Vic

Airplanes? Counting the mandatory TSA grope session 3 hours sounds about right.

The reviews don't look so promising. So I'll pass unless there service is better from SF to LA.

http://megabus.pissedconsumer.com/

Quote from zeth006 : You gotta love the ignorance in this thread. Americans are so quick to conveniently ignore our crumbling infrastructure. Upon even hearing about cheap Mattel toys "Made in China," they're quick to draw generalizations about construction and engineering in China. When someone like you who's actually spent time in China and ha bothered to read up on the comparisons rebuts these commenters, they're suddenly silent. Never mind that a visiting Chinese student in Berkeley was quoted by a newspaper as saying that the city was "Beautiful, yet dirty." One-time thing really. It's probably one of the cheapest way to market their service. Have people like me bragging about the awesome savings we incurred through January rides.

Upon further investigation I discovered that if you buy tickets weeks in advance to get them for close to a dollar the sooner you are to the actual date the more expensive it gets. So it seems its not a promotion but how megabus works

Quote from Ghatid : When Megabus was running a couple years back, I took it a few times. It never took that long to get there. One time, the driver was super scary and drove 80+ while swerving around to pass slower cars. Our break at Burger King was really short (I was afraid he drove off a few passengers short), and we made it from SJ to LA in less than 4 hours. Hope they hire that guy back:-D. *edit* Oh yeah, and when I took it, it cost about $30 or so a ride. Very reasonable, but never $1. This deal is sweet.

They had $1 deals back then, too. Of course, it was given to only the first few people who booked for each bus.

I think I paid $18 for one trip, around $26 for another, and around $30 for a few other ones.

All the drivers I met then were super nice.

Tofu Vic

Quote from travfar : I've discussed this at length before in other rail threads. People often point out the crashes on Chinese rail. I can counter with all the crashes on Amtrak. Crashes happen.

The point is more how they handled it, not that crashes are inevitable.

Quote from martin8me : Upon further investigation I discovered that if you buy tickets weeks in advance to get them for close to a dollar the sooner you are to the actual date the more expensive it gets. So it seems its not a promotion but how megabus works

Weeks in advance, eh. In that case, I'll hold off on buying the January ticket for another week or two. Not even clear on whether the trip's happening.

Quote from TofuVic : 3 hours? I don't think we have implemented that technology in California yet! Tofu Vic

Because we're broke!

Is this fake?

Quote from zeth006 : Amtrak crashes are like nuclear reactor fallout incidents and shark attacks. They're rare occurrences, not as likely to occur as often as people believe. It's in the few instances they occur the media blows them out of proportion and causes them to become salient in our minds. You're more likely to die in a car accident. But the average California isn't too chickenshit to get behind the wheel. If anything, we should be focusing on how to make HSR more efficient. I agree with other posters whatever HSR that gets approved in California won't be nearly as fast and efficient as HSR we see in Japan. But that's an entirely separate issue.

Agreed. Traffic accidents kill more people than any other form of transport. If that amount of people died in rail or air transport those systems would be shutdown in a second. But it's the same in China which doesn't keep people from pointing to a few crashes and deeming the system unfit. Crashes happen. If anything, Germany probably has a less fit rail system than China. It's scandalous over there now.

Quote from arribasn : The point is more how they handled it, not that crashes are inevitable.

We are in no position to pretend to be on the high road for "handling things". The whole pretense for the Iraq war is enough proof of that. It's clear that they reason why we went in there is bogus. It's been clear for years. Yet we still haven't stepped up have we? The people responsbile are still talking themselves blue to defend it.

Quote from Nisarg2112 : Is this fake?

Glitch maybe? It wont even show sf to lv for me. Even sj to lv. Not possible. I would have to do two bookings. And hope timing lines up from sj to la and la to lv

I booked 15 tix from LA to vegas on a friday in december, returning sunday

Great deal, I booked these earlier this morning around 9 am when I got the travelzoo email...

$30.50 round trip for 15 people!

PROTIP - It works for ANY day in december for $1, not just until the 19th!