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Anybody driving from London to Liverpool, Cairnryan or Fishguard soon?(for the ferry)
If anyone is travelling to the ports soon and has a seat in the car, I'd be beyond appreciative! Desperately trying to make it to the ports to catch a ferry home to go to a family member's funeral.
If anyone is travelling to the ports soon and has a seat in the car, I'd be beyond appreciative!
honestly might be worth checking the national express coaches, they run from victoria to liverpool and fishguard pretty regularly. not as cheap as a lift but they go direct to the ports and you can get same day tickets if you're flexible on timing. sorry about your family member, hope you make it
if u can get to euston, avanti have been releasing cheap advance singles day-of on the app, sometimes as low as 15 quid to lime street. liverpool lime street is a 10 min walk to the ferry terminal, easy enough with a bag. the 05:40 train gets u there before 09:00 if that helps. sorry for your loss
not sure about a lift but if you're stuck, the c2c train from fenchurch street to southend central is like an hour and then the x30 bus from southend travel centre runs to fishguard harbour direct, takes about 4 hours but it's a single ticket for like 12 quid. the bus stops right outside the ferry terminal too so no faff. sorry about your loss, hope you make it back
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What are some innovative ways to anonymously compare rental prices in a city?
SpareRoom's "rooms wanted" ads are underrated for this. people post what they're currently paying alongside what they want next, so you can scrape a rough sense of going rates by postcode without anyone knowing you looked. it skews young and flatshare heavy tho, so not much use if you're after 2-beds in zone 2.
Another one is just the depozit or tenancy deposit scheme data. not public-facing, but your council's housing officer can tell you median rents from deposit registrations if you email them under FOI. takes weeks, but its proper anon and nobody clocks u.
Rightmove and Zoopla only show asking rents, which are often 10 to 15 percent above what a place actually goes for, so they're a poor benchmark. The trick I've used is the ONS Price Index of Private Rents, which breaks things down to borough level and is genuinely anonymous since it's aggregate data, no listing or account needed. For something more granular, the London Renters Union runs a rent reporting tool where you submit what you're paying with your postcode and it maps it against others nearby, though the coverage is patchy outside the inner boroughs.
the openrent "rent check" thing is decent for zones 3-4 where the unions tool barely reaches. also worth checking the london.gov.uk planning portal for new build applications, they list "affordable" and market rent figures per unit in the viability assessments, which is basically the developer telling the council what they expect to charge. bit of a faff to dig through but its public, anonymous & nobody knows ur looking