Single and return fares
Where I have details of fares for a bus route, I have included these at the bottom of the timetable page. Unfortunately, most bus companies don't publish their fares, so it's difficult for me to find them out.
If there are no fares listed at the bottom of the timetable, that means I don't know what the fares are, so please don't ask me. If you need to know, get in touch with the bus company that runs the route. On the other hand, if you do know the price of a single and return adult ticket for a common journey, please do let me know, and I will include it in my next update.
You can buy single and day return fares from the driver on all buses. Coastliner also offer "period returns", where you can make your return journey any time within a month
All-day, weekly and monthly tickets
Most bus companies offer tickets that allow unlimited travel on their services (sometimes within a restricted area) for a whole day, week or month. For more details of these tickets, please contact the bus companies or check on their websites.
National Bus Pass
If you are over 60 and have a national bus pass, you can use this on all services featured on this website (except the National Express coach services between York and Thirsk, and some of the tour services on the "Special services" page), including Moorsbus, Dalesbus and Park & Ride. These passes are valid from 9.30am until 11.00pm on weekdays, and all day on weekends and bank holidays. If your pass was issued by York or North Yorkshire, you can also use buses within York and North Yorkshire (both of them) between 9am and 9.30am on weekdays.
Child tickets
Different bus companies have different rules about who is eligible for child rates, and how much of a discount they are entitled to.
Young people up to the age of 16 living or studying in York can get a YOzone card, which entitles them to:
- half adult fare tickets within York on Arriva, Reliance, Stephensons, Transdev, HCT (21) and Pullman
- half adult fare tickets on the full route of Coastliner, HCT (X54, 142, 143) and Harrogate & District (X54)
- 60p single tickets on First York (excludes X64)
To enquire about other child fares, please contact the bus company directly.
Rail and Coach tickets
If you are travelling by train, you can sometimes buy add-on tickets that allow you to make the first or final leg of your journey by bus - this may be cheaper than buying a single ticket on the bus.
PlusBus tickets are available in York, Scarborough, Harrogate/Knaresborough, Leeds, Hull and other nearby cities, allowing one day's unlimited travel in that town for less than a one-day ticket. This usually allows travel on any operator's services in the area. Please note that if you are only making one single journey per day, it will usually be cheaper to buy a single ticket on the bus. PlusBus tickets are available from station ticket offices and some telesales services, but cannot be bought online at the moment.
You can buy through tickets from any National Rail station to:
- Richmond and Catterick Garrison - use X26/X27 from Darlington
- Pickering and Whitby - use 840 from York
If you are travelling to Whitby from south of York and want to use the Coastliner bus rather than the train via Middlesbrough (and I recommend you do - the bus is quicker and a lot more scenic than the train), you will need to ask for a ticket to "Whitby by bus" or else you are likely to be sold a ticket only valid via Middlesbrough, which is about £20 more expensive.
DalesBus and Dales Rover tickets are available from some West Yorkshire stations allowing travel on buses within the Yorkshire Dales - see Dales Bus website for further details.
Through tickets from National Express services to any Coastliner destination are available.