Bus users across the Isle of Wight will see changes to Southern Vectis fares from Sunday (31st August), with increases across a number of ticket types including Rover Tickets, Freedom Passes and multi-day bundles.
While all single fares will remain fixed at £3 under the Government’s national bus fare cap, several other ticket options are set to rise in price. The increases will affect paper tickets, mobile app purchases and group options.
Transfer fares for adults, young people and children will also change. Adult medium hop fares will increase from £4.00 to £4.20, and long hop fares will rise from £5.30 to £5.50. Young person and child fares will also see modest increases across medium and long hop options, although short hop fares remain unchanged.
Rover and Freedom tickets – both single-day and extended passes – are among those impacted. For example, the adult 24-hour Rover ticket will rise to £11.30 on paper and £11.00 via the app. Group 24-hour Rover tickets will now cost £31.50 on paper and £30.50 in-app.
Multi-day bundles are also rising, with an adult 5-day ticket increasing from £34.50 to £36.00, and the 30-day version climbing from £143.00 to £149.00.
The Nightrider ticket will increase from £7.00 to £7.30.
Meanwhile, the Rover + Breezer combined tickets will remain unchanged until Monday (3rd November), at which point they will also increase. For instance, the adult 24-hour Rover + Breezer paper ticket will move from £15.50 to £16.20, and the group version will rise from £38.50 to £40.00.
Southern Vectis continues to encourage the use of its mobile app, which offers the lowest fares alongside features like live bus tracking, journey planning, and digital payment options including contactless and Tap On Tap Off.
Staff at Southern Vectis travel shops are available to assist customers who want to transition to mobile ticketing.
For full fare details, visit https://www.islandbuses.info/fare-changes-sunday-31st-august.
Bus fares on the island have always been too
expensive.
If they want to encourage persons to travel by
bus, daily rover tickets should cost no more than
£5.00
the multi day 30 is £143 at the moment and moving to £149 – that is £4.96 for unlimited use on each day.
Thank you for the useful information
that is excellent value, but some of us only
want a few days travelling.
Personally I am ok. I have my free pass,
but I am thinking about others who don’t.
Ridiculous if you want to get people out of private cars. The Island could easily have a first rate bus service at low cost which would massively reduce car use by residents and visitors. No doubt the ferry companies would be up in arms and I suppose Southern Vectis would rather make the same money from a few high paying passengesr than lots of lower paying ones because they don’t give a toss about traffic or climate change.
I think there are more vehicles on the island than
people, for a small island that is ridiculous.
I would rollout islandwide parking permit charges
that would de-clutter the streets.
Some vehicles are parked up for months or more
not being used. I wonder how many of them have no
tax or mot!
It’s disgusting…moody drivers, buses stink like mold half the time, rubbish, noisy piss heads..yeah let’s increase the bus fares but make zero changes to improve the quality of the journeys.
Bring back the bus conductor to deal with
the numpties on the buses.