I decided that my wife and I would have a day out in London on Tuesday 29th September traveling on the Southampton to London service. I put the date into the Greyhound booking site and entered the number of passengers as 2. The 07:10 from Southampton was offered at GBP6.40 for two seats i.e. GBP3.20 per person.
I don’t know why I tried it before booking but I then put in only 1 passenger and it came up with GBP1.00 for 1 person! This got me curious so I tried several passenger numbers.
Three passengers totaled GBP11.80 i.e. GBP3.93 per person.
Four passengers totaled GBP17.20 i.e. GBP4.30 each.
Five passengers totaled GBP26.20 i.e. GBP5.24 each.
I therefore made two separate bookings (same e-mail address, credit card etc.) for this journey at GBP1.00 each which presented no problems.
You’ve probably started a trend now Malcolm – trying to analyse Greyhound pricing strategy. Many times on the Megabus yahoo group people have tried to work out Megabus pricing, but no definitive version of when prices change has ever been proven.