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Fares & Tickets
We are a low-cost bus company and always keep our fares in check to make sure we’re giving you the best possible value.
We do not currently maintain a comprehensive list of fares on our web site, but details of the various tickets available to you are outlined below. If you need information about the cost (or times) of a specific journey, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and a member of our team will be glad to help:
email us at busstation@westerngreyhound.com
or call our helpline on 01637 871 871
lines open 0700-1900 Mondays to Saturdays and 0930-1730 on Sundays
You can buy all our tickets, except season tickets, from the driver when you get on the bus. If you can pay the correct fare, that is always helpful, but do not worry if you cant or do not know the fare as the driver will usually have change to help you.
We have a selection of tickets:
Other tickets:
There are a number of other tickets, mainly for Tourists or if you are travelling further afield or if you are visiting an attraction on which we can offer substantial savings when you travel by Western Greyhound:
Our great Value Day Explorer ticket gives you unlimited travel on our entire bus network and you can also use it on STagecoach Devon and Hookways buses. Go where you like, when you like, change buses as often as you like, just buy it anytime from the driver. To view the map of where we run, click here.
£7 Adult, £4.50 Child or £14 Family
(up to 5 people but no more than 2 adults)
RideCornwall is a one-day Rover retailed by bus drivers, as well as at railway booking office or by train managers or conductors. The ticket gives the holder one day’s unlimited travel on all rail and most bus services within Cornwall and between Cornwall and Plymouth, after 09:00 Monday – Friday and at any time on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays.
Ride Cornwall tickets are valid on the following operator’s services:
Rail
- First Great Wester
- Cross Country Trains
Bus (only within Cornwall or to/from the City of Plymouth on routes from/to Cornwall)
- First Devon & Cornwall
- Western Greyhound
- Truronian
Prices
‘RideCornwall’ is available for one day:
- Adult - £10.00
- Child - £7.50
- Family (up to 2 adults and 3 children) - £20.00
Restrictions
- ‘RideCornwall’ is not valid for use on any rail or bus service before 09:00 Monday – Friday
- ‘RideCornwall’ may be used at any time on Saturdays, Sundays or Bank Holidays
- ‘RideCornwall’ is valid for use on all rail services in Cornwall and also between Cornwall and Plymouth and on the Gunnislake ‘Tamar Valley’ branch line.
- ‘RideCornwall’ is valid for use on the bus operators listed for all journeys within Cornwall and also for journeys between Cornwall and Plymouth.
- ‘RideCornwall’ is not valid for local bus journeys within the City of Plymouth or on the services of bus operators not listed, including Plymouth CityBus.
For more information about the RideCornwall ticket, click here.
Western Greyhound and First have combined together to bring you the Looe Valley Ranger ticket. You can buy it on any Western Greyhound bus or from the conductor of a Looe Valley branch line train and use it for the entire day on the train between Looe and Liskeard and on any Western Greyhound 573 bus between Liskeard, Looe and Polperro. So, if you want to get on a bus in Polperro, for example, and ride the Looe Valley railway line, this ticket is for you.
Adult £3.50
Child £1.75
Western Greyhound has teamed up with Eden to deliver you low cost transport from Newquay and St Austell to the Eden Project with a regular hourly bus service and a combined transport and entry ticket.
Catch the 527 and ask the driver for a “Combined Eden ticket” which will give you return travel, save you the hassle of parking and queuing at Eden, you will already have your ticket and can go straight in.
What’s more – you’ll make some great savings on the standard entrance price – see below:
Prices from Newquay are as follows:
| Adult | £18.50 | you save £5 on standard admission! |
| Child | £8.50 | you save £2 on standard admission! |
| Concessionary (pass-holder) |
£8.50 | you save £3 on standard admission! |
| Concessionary (non pass-holder) |
£15.00 | you still save £3 on standard admission! |
Prices from St Austell are as follows:
| Adult | £14.70 | you save £5 on standard admission! |
| Child | £5.80 | you save £2 on standard admission! |
| Concessionary (pass-holder) |
£8.50 | you save £3 on standard admission! |
| Concessionary (non pass-holder) |
£11.20 | you still save £3 on standard admission! |
For more information about the Eden project, click here.
We accept through train tickets on the following journeys as part of our commitment to furthering public transport integration:
| 501 | Penzance to Lands End | |
| 509 | Penzance Station to St Just | |
| 510 | Exeter St Davids to Launceston and Okehampton | |
| 526 | St Austell Station to Mevagissey and Heligan Gardens | |
| 527 | St Austell Station to Eden Project | |
| 555 | Bodmin Parkway Station to Bodmin, Wadebridge and Padstow | |
| 573 | Liskeard to Polperro | |
| 576 | Plymouth to Callington | |
| 581 | Liskeard to Downderry | |
| 587 | Truro Station to Perranporth. | |
| 599 | Exeter St Davids to Okehampton and Bude |
When you buy your railway ticket, just ask for a bus add-on to any of these places. For more information about train tickets, click here.

