How to buy

From your driver - Cash

Single, day, and 7 day tickets
    
Please note: Our drivers don’t carry change,
so you must have the right money.

  Cashless simplyBus Smartcard

Available from our online shop (click here) or Travel Centre in the Broad Street Mall

Don’t want to pay cash?

If you regularly buy from your driver but you don’t want to carry cash, you could get a cashless Smartcard from our Travel Centre in the Broad Street Mall.
Also available on your Smartcard: 7, 30 or 90 day tickets or use like cash. Download your information leafet and application form.

    READI-id

This card helps 11-19 year olds to continue to travel at child prices. Money or tickets can be loaded onto the card. Click Here for more information and to download an application form.

  PayPoint outlets

If you find it hard to find time to visit our Travel Centre, you can top up your Smartcard or buy paper tickets at over 100 PayPoint retailers in and around Reading
and Newbury, where you see this yellow PayPoint sign.

Find your nearest PayPoint retailer at www.paypoint.com/locator.htm 

Travelling by train and bus?

Save time and money with a combined PLUSBUS ticket. Find out more at www.plusbus.info

Don't forget: you can save one-third on your Plusbus day ticket with a 16-25 Railcard, a Disabled Persons Railcard, a Family and Friends Railcard, a Forces Railcard, a Network Railcard and a Senior Railcard.