Bournemouth Getting there & around

Getting there & away

National Express runs from London (£17.60, 2½ hours, hourly), Bristol (£14.60, one daily) and Oxford (£17.80, three hours, two daily).

Bus X3 runs half-hourly from Salisbury (1¼ hours) and on to Poole (20 minutes) every hour, while the X34/35 comes from Southampton (one hour, five daily Monday to Saturday). There’s a multitude of buses between Bournemouth and Poole (15 minutes).

Trains run every half-hour from London Waterloo (£34.50, two hours); half of these continue on to Poole (£2.70, 10 minutes), Dorchester South (£8.30, 45 minutes) and Weymouth (£10.50, one hour).