Trains

Ive done a good job so far avoiding ripoffs, except for one thing- I fell victim to the Irish Railway's insane pricing scheme.

The website lists €18 return trips to Belfast, which seems more than reasonable. Of course, I am staying for a night so I didn't want a return ticket, but I figure the one way price is somewhere around 10-15 euro.

But it was actually 34.50. Almost twice the amount of a return ticket. How did this happen? It was some sort of strange combination of "sorry, online fare only" and a thick Irish accent.

So when I try to point this out at the Belfast central station, I encounter another thick Irish accent, and somehow end up buying a ticket for the way back for the low price of £11.

Argh.