Dublin Bus - Bad Deal on Weekly/Monthly Tickets

Having been in Dublin a couple of times since living in this country, I have to admit that I understand why people complain so much about the bus services. Price is not good, you have to have the exact change, no good deals on weekly/monthly passs, etc etc.
This is what I was used to before coming to leave here...

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People are considered "young" if younger than 21 (big arguments here, as most people will be in college until they are 23 or later)
For turist, you also get this:

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(this is fairly new, haven't heard about it before, but it sounds like a good deal)

And if not sure, it's always good to get a "metrobus" instead of the single ticket, you save a lot of money, and it can be used by more than one person...
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Isnt' it great that you can get to the airport using just one ticket?
 
Adult Travel 90, 10 Journey was € 18.00, now 18.50
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I'm starting to think they actually prefer people to pay in cash.
After this genius move, there is now no pre-pay equivalent to the 1.15, 1.60 and 1.80 fares
 
It's bizarre to say the least. What is it with this Country -we just continue to make what's so blatantly the wrong decision's.
 
Crunchie said:
Why don't you just buy some 2-easy tickets? They allow 2 journeys - in your case €3.10 per ticket for 2 x €1.55 journeys. No saving I know but it solves the change problem because you can pick them up in most newsagents.
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My favourite thing about the 2-easy tickets was that the machines on the buses were broken so often you could usually get four journeys on each instead of two...
 
Berni said:
I'm starting to think they actually prefer people to pay in cash.
After this genius move, there is now no pre-pay equivalent to the 1.15, 1.60 and 1.80 fares
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It's unreal. In most countries there is a significant discount to encourage users to use pre-pay. In Ireland you're basically penalised. No wonder public transport here is seen as a last resort. Cut services this year while increasing prices -- nice work Dublin Bus!
 
They are a good deal, it's not their fault your fare isn't high enough to justify it. There are other tickets that wouldn't have you paying more than your fare- just aren't as handy. My fare is €2.20, my ticket is €75 for 30 days non-consecutive (€78 now!). I save €60 a month- getting 12-15 busses a week.
 
Of course it's their fault everybody who has to pay €1.15.€1.60 or €1.80 because no prepaid card with the same cost or lower exists.
 
CatherineB said:
There are other tickets that wouldn't have you paying more than your fare- just aren't as handy.
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Really? So if I use the bus one day a week, at €1.15 each way, what prepay ticket do you suggest that won't cost me more?
They did away with the only option when they eliminated the 2easy tickets, having previously eliminated the 10 journey ticket.

The prepay tickets available suit heavy users such as yourself fine, but for infrequent users they are useless. This latest move just adds another, and significant, fare to the ones that can't be prepaid.
 
When it says on a 30 Day Rambler use by Oct 2010 does this mean the last day in October?
 
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theresa1 said:
When it says on a 30 Day Rambler use by Oct 2010 does this mean the last day in October?
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It should, but based on personal experience and being told by staff in Dublin Bus HQ "not to mind those dates they don't mean much" you'll probably find it works well beyond that date. Mine was 2 months out of date and still worked.
 
Thank's for that Crunchie - I now walk to work but have 11 days left to use. I was going to just hop on a bus every day and use up the days but I might just take my chance's and use it when i really need it and see when it eventually stop's working -hopefully I will only have a day or two left on it by then.
 
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