This past weekend at FinCon14 was a loooong-overdue reunion with the money media community. Great times, great talks, great eats … and great music!
One of the very first people who greeted me at FinCon14 this past weekend was Crystal from Budgeting In The Fun Stuff. She was sporting some spunky blue highlights and was every bit as friendly and gregarious as I remember her from three years ago.
After a small bit of chat she told me about her travel from Texas with Megabus.
Looks great for relatively nearby travel
At the time I was talking with her, I failed to remember that Louisiana actually borders Texas, so her six-hour bus ride was from a neighboring state.
She describes her experience with Megabus here. She had great things to say. One way, it cost her all of … $9.75. Had she not upgraded her seat and paid for text message updates, it would have cost her only $1! This is ridiculously cheap bus travel. My jaw dropped when she told me that, because I paid, well, about 160 times that for half of my round-trip airplane ticket.
I looked at the routes that were available from my neck of the woods. From Washington DC, I can get as far north as Toronto, or as far south as Atlanta, GA.
As far as restrictions go, Megabus allows one piece of luggage with dimensions up to 62 inches to be stowed in the compartments on the side of the bus. Want more? Buy another ticket.
Crystal had to work a bit to get her ridiculously-cheap ticket. They sold the last tickets for a song in an effort to fill up the bus, but she logged in often to try to catch one of them. But even the regular prices aren't horrendous, and the ride sounded more comfortable than a coach or maybe even a first-class plane ride.
Maybe if FinCon15 ends up being on the East Coast, I'll give MegaBus a shot!
