Solarpunk Travel🚲🚆⛵

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

!interrail@discuss.tchncs.de
!trains@midwest.social ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
!rail@feddit.uk ← UK Rail and Trains
!ukpublictransport@feddit.uk ← UK public transport
!maatapitkinmatkustus@sopuli.xyz ← (Finnish) surface travel

related to travel generally:

!travel@eviltoast.org ← general travel
!main@lemmy.globe.pub ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
!traveltips@feddit.uk ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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Moneytrans gone, so Flixbus clients are screwed -- is there nowhere to buy tickets at a reasonable price now? (eviltoast.org)

submitted 3 months ago by ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io to c/solarpunktravel@slrpnk.net

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Moneytrans was the only offline way to buy Flixbus tickets without getting hit with commissions. Now #Moneytrans is gone, at least in Brussels. Every Moneytrans shop in Brussels is closed. Anyone know what happened? I find no news on this and the moneytrans.eu website is access-restricted.

There is apparently no #Flixbus office anywhere in Belgium.

For a €5 ticket, travel agents charge €5 in commission. Indeed, the commission is 100% the cost of the trip in those cases. Fuck me. All unbanked people seem to be fucked by this.

Or am I missing something? Did anyone take over the commission-free Flixbus contract from Moneytrans?

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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

You can buy tickets from the bus driver, but they do not have discounts.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Assuming your offline requirement is not absolute, it seems that Wero is the future fix for the American payments cartel.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate the tip but I guess that is useless for Flixbus. Flixbus says they only accept credit card, paypal, google pay or apple pay... Nothing I would go near.

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's unacceptable, I agree. Well done for sticking to your principles.