Changes to fares from Monday 14 November
3 years ago
The cost of running our bus services has significantly increased. This has meant we have had to review the cost of our fares, and have reluctantly increased some ticket prices. This is not a decision we have taken lightly. We have kept any prices rises to a minimum and some fares are not changing at all. Most of the changes will happen on Monday 14 November, except for our explorer tickets and network tickets, which will increase on Monday 21 November.
The best value tickets for regular travellers are on our app. And for those that buy singles or dayriders we recommend you use tap on tap off contactless, for paperless ticketing.
Some of our single fares will increase by approximately 10p, 20p or 30p and some of our return fares will increase between 20p and 60p.
| Dayrider & Explorer tickets | Old paper fare | New paper fare | Old app fare | New app fare | theKey |
| Adult dayrider | £4.70 | £5.00 | £4.50 | £4.80 | - |
| Child dayrider | £3.20 | £3.40 | £3.20 | £3.40 | - |
| Group dayrider | £14.50 | £15.00 | £14.50 | £15.00 | - |
| Dayrider bundle - 05 days | - | - | - | - | withdrawn |
| Dayrider bundle - 10 days | - | - | £40.00 | £43.00 | withdrawn |
| Dayrider bundle - 20 days | - | - | - | - | withdrawn |
| Activ8 dayrider | £6.70 | £6.80 | £6.60 | £6.70 | - |
| Activ8 nightrider | £2.50 | £2.70 | - | - | - |
| Adult explorer | £9.50 | £10.00 | £9.50 | £10.00 | - |
| Child explorer | £6.20 | £6.70 | £6.20 | £6.70 | - |
| Group explorer | £25.00 | £27.00 | £25.00 | £27.00 | - |
| Period tickets | Old paper fare | New paper fare | Old app fare | New app fare | Old key fare | New key fare |
| Salisbury saver 7 | £16.00 | £17.00 | £15.50 | £16.50 | £16.50 | withdrawn |
| Salisbury saver 30 | £60.00 | £65.00 | £56.00 | £60.00 | £60.00 | £70.00 |
| Salisbury saver 90 | - | - | £138.00 | £149.00 | £143.00 | £160.00 |
| Salisbury zone annual | - | - | £500.00 | £545.00 | £525.00 | withdrawn |
| 7 day child Salisbury saver | - | - | £14.50 | £15.50 | - | - |
| 7 day Activ8 | £19.00 | £19.00 | £18.50 | £19.00 | £19.00 | - |
| 7 day adult network | £28.00 | £30.00 | £27.00 | £29.00 | £29.00 | withdrawn |
| 30 day adult network | withdrawn | withdrawn | £102.00 | £111.00 | £110.00 | £125.00 |
| 90 day adult network | - | - | £238.00 | £255.00 | £248.00 | £270.00 |
| Network annual | - | - | £780.00 | £845.00 | - | - |
| 7 day child network | £22.00 | £24.00 | £22.00 | £24.00 | £23.00 | withdrawn |
| 30 day child network | £84.00 | £91.00 | £84.00 | £91.00 | £87.00 | £100.00 |
| 90 day child network | - | - | £225.00 | £240.00 | £230.00 | £260.00 |
| Swindon/Marlborough 7 day | £17.50 | £18.50 | - | - | - | - |
| Salisbury saver zone 10-trip multi-trip | - | - | £21.00 | £22.50 | £22.00 | withdrawn |
| Salisbury saver zone 20-trip multi-trip | - | - | £39.50 | £42.00 | £41.00 | withdrawn |
| Salisbury saver zone 30-trip multi-trip | - | - | £60.00 | £63.00 | £63.00 | withdrawn |
You will notice some prices are more expensive on our smartcard theKey, which is now over 10 years old and is considered old technology. Cheaper ticket prices are often found on our app.
theKey system is no longer being developed or supported and of late we have sadly experienced some technical issues causing inconvenience to some of our customers. Therefore, we are phasing out this method of buying bus tickets over the coming months. By the beginning of summer 2023 it will be discontinued. This will be a gradual process. Initially we will stop selling ticket types with very low sales. Some ticket types that are withdrawn are available on our app.
Many customers have already converted to our app which has many other great features, such as:
- Journey planning
- Tracking buses in live times
- Favouriting your regular bus stops and journeys
We have several newer convenient ways to pay, including: