Tickets & Prices
It's easy and great value to park & ride...
When you get to the car park simply find a space and buy your ticket from the driver of the bus when you head into town - pay with contactless or with cash.
The Park & Ride ticket prices shown below for all day, after 12 & Saturdays are only valid when boarding the bus at either of the Park & Ride car parks. If you board the 800 bus anywhere else along the route, the Ipswich Zone fares will apply.
| all day | after 12 & Saturdays |
Ipswich Zone | ||||
| mTicket | on bus | mTicket | on bus | mTicket | on bus | |
| Adult | £3 | £3.20 | £2.30 | £2.50 | £4.80 | £5 |
| Young Person (5 - 19) | £2 | £2.20 | £1.50 | £1.70 | £3.60 | £3.80 |
| High5 Group* | £5 | £5.50 | £4 | £4.50 | £8 | £8.50 |
| Concession Pass Holders | £1.70 all day |
valid on all First buses in the Ipswich Zone |
go as a group...
With a High5 group ticket, *up to 5 people (maximum 2 adults) can save when they travel together. That works out at as little as 80p each after 12 and on Saturdays when you buy on mTicket.
go cashless...
Buy your ticket direct to your smartphone with our FREE App - available today from your app store.
regular traveller?...
We've got a great range of longer term tickets available for a week, ten days, a month or more all designed to make park & ride even better value! Click here to find out more...
overloaded?...
All of our tickets are valid for unlimited travel on park & ride buses all day so you can pop back to your car whenever you want.
going further...
If you need to travel beyond our park & ride bus route, you can get an Ipswich Zone ticket which allows unlimited travel on all of our other bus services in the Ipswich Zone, as well as park & ride.
Longer term tickets
| week | month | 10 days | annual | |||||
| mTicket | other ticket types | mTicket | other ticket types | mTicket | other ticket types | mTicket | other ticket types | |
| Adult | £13 | £14 | £45 | £49 | £25 | £26 | £450 | £470 |
| Young Person | £9 | £10 | £32 | £35 | £17.50 | £18 | £320 | £340 |
Week, month, 3 month and annual tickets are all valid for unlimited travel on park & ride buses (and evening 66 buses back to the park & ride sites) whenever you want.
Our '10 day' tickets are packs of ten individual day tickets, bought in advance and activated for a day's travel whenever you want to use them.
Please note that you'll only be able to buy week & month ticket from the driver at the prices above when you board the bus at either one of the park & ride car parks. Otherwise, normal Ipswich Zone prices will apply.
You can buy all of the tickets above in a variety of ways:
- on the bus: week & month tickets
- with an mTicket on the First Bus App: week, month, 10-day, 3 month & annual tickets
- First Ipswich Travel Centre: week, month, 3 month & annual tickets
- Endeavour Card: 10 day tickets
- Endeavour epurse: week & month tickets
- eTicket online: 3 month & annual tickets
Endeavour Cards
Suffolk County Council Endeavour Cards can be used on Park & Ride
mTickets
The largest range of Park & Ride tickets is available on our First Bus App.
Buy tickets
Buy your Ipswich Park and Ride tickets online.
Maps
Getting to both our Park & Ride car parks is easy.
Times
Buses run between the park and ride sites and Ipswich town centre every 15 minutes* all day, Monday to Saturday, from 7am to 7pm.
Covid-19 Update
Ipswich Park & Ride is returning from Monday 12th April 2021 After a further suspension due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Park & Ride in Ipswich will start again on Monday 12th April as retail reopens and leisure visitors to Ipswich continue to increase as a result of the relaxing of the lockdown...
Current issues
Coronavirus - COVID19: For up-to-date customer and service information please visit our Coronavirus information page »