Redspottedhanky.com has revealed that UK travellers expecting to travel by train to see loved ones during Christmas should book their journey now in order to save a combined £57 million on rail fares.

A new survey has shown almost half (47%) of Christmas* train travellers wait until the last minute to book their train tickets online. This means Britons are spending their precious pounds on their journey instead of gifts for family and friends.

Conducted by redspottedhanky.com, the survey revealed more than one in five train journeys (22%) will not be booked until two weeks before Christmas, costing travellers an average of 23 per cent more.

This could be avoided if commuters heed redspottedhanky.com’s advice and book their Christmas train fares in advance.

“To put it in context, an additional £57 million in the Christmas gift budget of rail commuters could mean almost half a million children could be unwrapping the new iPod Nano on Christmas morning. Almost 3.2 million people could have the Mad Men season one and two boxset or you could make 390, 000 rail trips from London to Birmingham and back,” said Ursula Morgenstern of redspottedhanky.com.

“We know that not everyone has their Christmas plans finalised this early but there are big savings that can be made by booking Christmas train fares in advance.”

Via EPR Network
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