[Travel] Pyecombe park and ride

[Sully's Moustache]

Have any of you used this before?

I have booked it for Bournemouth. The website tells me it opens at 11am but does anyone know when the last shuttle bus leaves from there before kick off? I'm picking my son up from Gatwick and if he's delayed we may be running late.

 

[tigertim68]

Have any of you used this before?

I have booked it for Bournemouth. The website tells me it opens at 11am but does anyone know when the last shuttle bus leaves from there before kick off? I'm picking my son up from Gatwick and if he's delayed we may be running late.

Don’t forget to pay the pick up charge , or you will be paying £100

 

[Is it PotG?]

Open for Liverpool it would seem.

Book now!

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Have any of you used this before?

I have booked it for Bournemouth. The website tells me it opens at 11am but does anyone know when the last shuttle bus leaves from there before kick off? I'm picking my son up from Gatwick and if he's delayed we may be running late.

Just booked this. Was there an answer to this because Bobin Jnr\s football KO time (which is currently TBC) might mean we'll be cutting it fine...

 

[WATFORD zero]

Just booked this. Was there an answer to this because Bobin Jnr\s football KO time (which is currently TBC) might mean we'll be cutting it fine...

This was on the EDF parking thread

For anyone wondering, Pyecombe was terrific for the Bournemouth game. Ok, yes the stewards at the ground had no idea where it was picking up from post match, but eventually we found a grown up to ask...(at the top of village way next by the Brighton Uni car park).
arriving at the equestrian centre pre match there no queues, walked straight onto a bus, 15 minute transfer to the stadium.
Post match, walk up the slope behind West stand, straight onto a bus again, little bit of traffic on village way getting out after the match but still only took about 20 minutes back to the site, in the car by 4:30 and home in Horsham before 5:00.

In summary, if you're already driving down the A23, or coming over from Lancing/Worthing direction on the A27, you'd be mad not to use it.

 

[Is it PotG?]

This was on the EDF parking thread

Odd how it appears on a thread called Pyecombe P&R.....who'd have thunk it?

Maybe EDF are moving in?

 

[S.T.U cgull]

This was on the EDF parking thread

Used it for Bournemouth and it was thoroughly dire

 

[WATFORD zero]

Used it for Bournemouth and it was thoroughly dire

What happened ?

 

[S.T.U cgull]

What happened ?

50 mins to get to ground; on a baking hot bus and a driver unwilling to get into fast lane to move up queue.
Got sent to Falmer village on way back to “collection point” by club stewards - real collection point was Brighton Uni - so including the walk there & back - another 50min journey

 

[trueblue]

Used it for Bournemouth and it was thoroughly dire

In what way? Someone else on here said it was brilliant.

Edit: you answered as I asked.

 

[WATFORD zero]

50 mins to get to ground; on a baking hot bus and a driver unwilling to get into fast lane to move up queue.
Got sent to Falmer village on way back to “collection point” by club stewards - real collection point was Brighton Uni - so including the walk there & back - another 50min journey

What time did you arrive, as another poster said 15 mins to ground. I did see there was a cock up with where they picked up on the way back

 

[S.T.U cgull]

What time did you arrive, as another poster said 15 mins. I did see there was a cock up with where they picked up on the way back

Bus left 1255 ish
Made it just for kick off… NB - I got driver to drop me on hard shoulder of A27 and went under the subway as was going to be quicker than traffic up & over the road into car park

 

[ac gull]

I got this for Bournemouth game - first time had used it

Said nothing on tickets where pick up point was on way back - driver said it was where drop off was in coach park

So tried to find the queue - 3 or 4 stewards said its "up top"

Next steward said its that queue pointing to a queue

Spent 20 minutes in said queue before realised from others talking it was Racecourse queue

So walked around coach park, nearly got run over at one point, then about the fifth steward I asked knew what I was talking about and said its along Uni Road at back of WSL

I had been in WSL and if had known where to go could have been there 5 minutes after end of match

As it was I got there about 40 minutes after end of game and got last bus back to Pyecombe

Bit of a shambles - which is a shame as generally its much easier to get out of than Mill Road

On same bus back was 2 others who had been given same run around by clueless stewards

 

[WATFORD zero]

I got this for Bournemouth game - first time had used it

Said nothing on tickets where pick up point was on way back - driver said it was where drop off was in coach park

So tried to find the queue - 3 or 4 stewards said its "up top"

Next steward said its that queue pointing to a queue

Spent 20 minutes in said queue before realised from others talking it was Racecourse queue

So walked around coach park, nearly got run over at one point, then about the fifth steward I asked knew what I was talking about and said its along Uni Road at back of WSL

I had been in WSL and if had known where to go could have been there 5 minutes after end of match

As it was I got there about 40 minutes after end of game and got last bus back to Pyecombe

Bit of a shambles - which is a shame as generally its much easier to get out of than Mill Road

On same bus back was 2 others who had been given same run around by clueless stewards

I can't think of where there's any parking outside WSL, or do you mean up the steps, out of the stadium and down on the right by Brighton Uni where the David Lloydd used to be ? Thanks

 

[Miximate]

Stupid question time. Do I book this via the Albion website? Can’t see anything obvious that talks about the Pyecombe option. Thanks

 

[chimneys]

50 mins to get to ground; on a baking hot bus and a driver unwilling to get into fast lane to move up queue.
Got sent to Falmer village on way back to “collection point” by club stewards - real collection point was Brighton Uni - so including the walk there & back - another 50min journey

On journey there, EDF and Mill Road similar timings as A27 by-pass gridlocked. What did you expect your driver to do about the traffic, as Pyecombe p&r buses also have to negotiate the A23/A27 join which was also chaos?

And could you clarify what you mean by “fast lane to move up queue”? Wondering if you mean to dive in to Falmer off slip road, or did you mean to join A27 off slip late from A23, both of which, if an accident had been caused, could have jeopardised your driver’s job, or worse still, caused an accident? Please clarify.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Stupid question time. Do I book this via the Albion website? Can’t see anything obvious that talks about the Pyecombe option. Thanks

It’s under the parking part of the ticketing site

 

[Greg Bobkin]

This was on the EDF parking thread

Thanks. And yes, I saw that earlier and it was the last paragraph that swung it for me.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

50 mins to get to ground; on a baking hot bus and a driver unwilling to get into fast lane to move up queue.
Got sent to Falmer village on way back to “collection point” by club stewards - real collection point was Brighton Uni - so including the walk there & back - another 50min journey

The traffic was a mess for everyone. EDF bus was over an hour to the ground.

 

[ac gull]

I can't think of where there's any parking outside WSL, or do you mean up the steps, out of the stadium and down on the right by Brighton Uni where the David Lloydd used to be ? Thanks

No when you walk along village way past coach park - never walked that far up myself before - am sure if you just walk up the small road behind WSL where taxis do drop offs you get there in 2 minutes - just took me about 40 minutes and no steward knowing the answer to my question other than "up top" - coach then just drives out along village way past coach park