Comments on: GNER launches new web site

By: JFC Travel Blog » Blog Archive » National Express East Coast to use new GNER site

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:55:26 +0000

[...] It looks like the future of GNER’s new web site and booking engine is safe. If you visit nationalexpresseastcoast.co.uk at the moment all you get as an ‘under construction’ notice, however if you look up the IP address of the site you will see that it is the same as the GNER site. Also tickets.nationalexpresseastcoast.co.uk currently displays the GNER booking engine. Presumably from midnight all they need to do is change a setting and the new National Express brand will appear in place of GNER. It’ll be a shame to see the GNER brand disappear but at least the new website will be used for more than a couple of weeks. [...]

By: deev1

deev1 — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:46:03 +0000

The NX website just looks amateurish all round. The whole design and
colourscheme looks a bit playgroup compared to the professional (and very
Britich) colours of the GNER site and livery.

By: JFC Travel Blog » Blog Archive » Booking GNER webfares with American Express

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:11:09 +0000

[...] Although I think most of us would agree that overall the new GNER booking engine is a big improvement over the old one that was based on thetrainline.com. However, it does have one drawback – it does not currently accept American Express. You can use the regular trainline.com booking engine but the 10% discount is not applied there (and they charge a credit card booking fee). There is a work around (for the moment) if you want to pay with Amex, you can access the old booking engine using this link. It’s ugly as most of the graphics have been removed, but everything still works as expected including the 10% discount on advance purchase fares and of course there’s no booking fee. If you’re using Visa, Mastercard or Maestro then you’re better off using the new engine. [...]