Megabus Offers a Week of Free Bus Trips for East Coast Cities - May 30 through June 5 - NY, Philly, AC, Boston, Buffalo, Toronto, Washington DC

I blogged once before about Megabus, which offered a whopping 100,000 free bus rides to introduce their service in the U.S. (they're a Scottish company that started offering bus service on the West Coast and Midwest -- their U.S. division is based in Chicago). Now they're going to offer East Coast service, and to celebrate, they're offering free bus rides their Eastern routes from May 30th to June 5th.

I had read an item from the Philadelphia Business Journal that discussed Philadelphia-New York being free that week, and I visited the site and checked on a roundtrip June 1-3 to verify that the fare came back as free (there is a 50-cent booking fee applied but why quibble?) It was indeed free!

But since they haven't had an East Coast presence before and now will service a bunch of cities I checked their site further to see if the promotion includes other cities. They'll now have service to Boston, Atlantic City, Buffalo, Toronto, and Washington DC as well as New York and Philly.

And sure enough, New York-Boston roundtrips during that week were showing as free, as were New York-Washington DC. New York-Toronto or Buffalo-Toronto were free, and the same went for New York-Atlantic City and New York-Buffalo. Wow!

Fares have to be booked on-line at Megabus.com and there is a 50-cent booking free. The fee is per transaction, so booking several round-trips together is still just 50 cents.

I have a feeling these will get booked fast, so if you have some need to travel between some of these cities that week, I'd head over to Megabus post haste. If you know people who live in some of these cities, forward them this blog post and spread the travel fun. Here's the link.

Free bus travel -- you can't argue with the price!