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Norwich pages day tickets table

Day tickets for unlimited travel...

Buy on app or on bus

	Adult	Young Person (5-19)	High5 Group*
Norwich Zone	£5.30	£4	£10
Norwich Inner Zone	£4	£3	£7

Click here for our zone maps to see how far your ticket can take you.

Norwich pages fares text

We sell a great range of money saving tickets for multiple days or journeys, giving you the flexibility to buy the right ticket to suit when, where and how often you travel. You'll always find the best range of options exclusively on our FREE First Bus App and some can also be bought on board the bus with contactless or even cash...the exact fare is best!

5-day ticket - allows 5 consecutive days unlimited travel - buy on app or on bus
Weekly ticket - allows 7 consecutive days unlimited travel - buy on app or on bus
Flexi-5 - unlimited travel for any 5 days in 14 - buy on app
10-trip ticket - valid for any 10 single journeys in 28 days - buy on app
Monthly ticket - unlimited travel for a whole month - buy on app

You'll find all of the prices of these tickets on our tickets & passes page or you can use our online ticket & fare finder.

Norwich Zone Period Tickets

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£5.30	£20	£22	£22	£22	£75	£69.75
Young Person	£4	£15	£16.50	£16.50	£16.50	£56
High5 Group*	£10						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Download a map of the Norwich Zone [PDF]

Norwich Inner Zone Tickets

	Day
	buy on app or on bus
Adult	£4
Young Person	£3
High5 Group	£7

Excel Page

The best value options are shown below, but for full details you can visit the fares section of our website.

EXCEL Zone...

Valid on all excel buses, anywhere between Peterborough and Norwich Bus Station.

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£12	£24	£26	£26	£26	£88	£81.84
Young Person	£9	£18	£20	£20	£20	£66
High5 Group	£20						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Norwich Zone...

Valid on all excel buses anywhere between New Scarning, Dereham and Norwich as well as all of our other buses within the Norwich Zone.

Click here to explore our Network Norwich bus routes.

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£5.30	£20	£22	£22	£22	£75	£69.75
Young Person	£4	£15	£16.50	£16.50	£16.50	£56
High5 Group	£10						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Network Ticket

Valid on all of our buses, anywhere, any time.

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£14	£30	£32	£32	£32	£110	£102.30
Young Person	£10	£23	£24	£24	£24	£83
High5 Group	£25						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

And if you're under 20 and in full time education, we offer a range of discounted Student Saver tickets. They're ideal to get to and from school, college or sixth form and give you FREE unlimited travel in the evenings, at weekends and during some holidays too!

Coastlink Page

The best value options are shown below, but for full details you can visit the fares section of our website.

Coastal Zone

Anywhere between Lowestoft, Belton, Gorleston or Great Yarmouth and inland as far as Acle or Beccles.

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£7	£22	£24	£24	£24	£82	£75.26
Young Person	£5.50	£16.50	£18	£18	£18	£62
High5 Group	£12						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Download a map of the Coastal Zone [PDF]

Explorer Zone

For travel all along the coast & up to and all over Norwich

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£8	£25	£27	£27	£27	£92	£85.56
Young Person	£6	£19	£20	£20	£20	£69
High5 Group	£14						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Download a map of the Explorer Zone [PDF]

Norwich Zone

From Acle or Worlingham & Beccles to Norwich and all over the city

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£5.30	£20	£22	£22	£22	£75	£69.75
Young Person	£4	£15	£16.50	£16.50	£16.50	£56
High5 Group	£10						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Download a map of the Norwich Zone [PDF]

Clipper Fares

Some great value Coastal Clipper fares...

The best value options are shown below, but for full details you can visit the fares section of our website.

Get all along the east coast with a Coastal zone ticket

Valid on all our buses along the east coast and around Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Coastal zone tickets can also be used on our X1|X11, X2|X21|X22 and 99A buses inland as far as Acle, Beccles or Bungay.

Check out our zone maps to see how far your ticket will take you.

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£7	£22	£24	£24	£24	£82	£75.26
Young Person	£5.50	£16.50	£18	£18	£18	£62
High5 Group	£12						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Download a map of the Coastal Zone [PDF]

...or up to Norwich with an Explorer zone ticket

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£8	£25	£27	£27	£27	£92	£85.56
Young Person	£6	£19	£20	£20	£20	£69
High5 Group	£14						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Download a map of the Explorer Zone [PDF]

High5 group tickets are valid for up to 5 people travelling together, with a maximum of 2 adults (aged 20+).

Coastal Reds

The best value options are shown below, but for full details you can visit the fares section of our website.

Great Yarmouth or Lowestoft Town Zones

Great Yarmouth town zone tickets are valid anywhere from Caister-on-Sea in the north, to James Paget Hospital in the south.

Lowestoft town zone tickets are valid anywhere from Gunton Tesco in the north, to Kessingland in the south.

Check out our zone maps to see how far your ticket will take you.

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£7	£22	£24	£24	£24	£82	£75.26
Young Person	£5.50	£16.50	£18	£18	£18	£62
High5 Group	£12						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Coastal Zone

Valid on any of our buses, anywhere on the east coast and inland as far as Acle, Beccles & Bungay. Check out our zone maps to see how far your ticket will take you.

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£7	£22	£24	£24	£24	£82	£75.26
Young Person	£5.50	£16.50	£18	£18	£18	£62
High5 Group	£12						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Ipswich Reds Fares

The best value options are shown below, but for full details you can visit the fares section of our website.

Ipswich Zone

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£5.30	£18	£20	£20	£20	£68	£63.24
Young Person	£4	£13.50	£15	£15	£15	£51
High5 Group	£10						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Suffolk Coastal Zone

Suffolk Coastal Zone tickets are also valid in the whole of the Ipswich Zone

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£7	£23	£25	£25	£25	£85	£79.05
Young Person	£5.50	£17.50	£19	£19	£19	£64
High5 Group	£13						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Stowmarket Zone

Stowmarket Zone tickets are also valid in the whole of the Ipswich Zone

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£6	£21	£23	£23	£23	£78	£72.54
Young Person	£4.50	£16	£17.50	£17.50	£17.50	£58
High5 Group	£11						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Alde Valley or Felixstowe Town Zones

	Day	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£4.30	£17	£19	£19	£19	£65	£60.45
Young Person	£3.20	£13	£14	£14	£14	£50
High5 Group	£8.50						Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Click here for a map of our Ipswich & South Suffolk Zones

Park & Ride

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.

You can pay with contactless on board the bus, or as an mTicket on the First Bus App before you go.

	all day	after 12 & Saturdays	Ipswich Zone
Adult	£3.50	£2.50	£5.30
Young Person (5 - 19)	£2.50	£2	£4
High5 Group*	£7	£5	£10
Concession Pass Holders	£2		valid on all Ipswich Reds buses in the Ipswich Zone

Longer term tickets

	5-day	week	10 days	month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£15	£17	£28	£58	£53.94
Young Person	£11	£13	£21	£44	Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

5-day, week, month and Unlimited 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 5-day and week tickets 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: 5-day and week
with an mTicket on the First Bus App: 5-day, week, 10-day, month
First Ipswich Travel Centre: 5-day, week & month
Endeavour Card: 10 day tickets
Endeavour epurse: week & month tickets
online: First Unlimited

Explorer

With an Explorer Day Ticket, you’ll get there, back and all around, all day with unlimited travel on all our buses in Norwich and all along the east coast with just one ticket.

	buy on app or on bus
Adult	£8
Young Person (5-19)	£6
High5 - up to 5 people (max 2 adults)	£14

You can even get it straight to your mobile phone when you buy an mTicket using our FREE First Bus App so you can buy before you leave the house. Or you can pay the driver of the first bus you travel on with your contactless debit or credit card or even good old-fashioned cash.

And if you want to your money to go even further when you’re heading out with family or friends, ask your driver for a High5 Explorer. This gives unlimited travel, all day for up to 5 people (with a maximum of two adults aged 20+) at a price that works out at as little as £2.80 per person.

And if you're travelling for more than a day, you can buy an Explorer Zone ticket for 5-days, a week or longer...

	5-day	Week	Flexi-5	10-trip	Month	First Unlimited
	on app or on bus	on app or on bus	on app	on app	on app	on app
Adult	£25	£27	£27	£27	£92	£85.56
Young Person	£19	£20	£20	£20	£69	Monthly subscription ticket - sign up online

Click here to find some of the great places your Explorer Ticket could take you

High 5

You can marvel at our amazing High5 ticket prices below...just click the name of the zones to find our zone maps to see how far your ticket can take you:

	buy on the app or on bus
Norwich Zone	£10
Coastal Zone	£12
Explorer Zone	£14
Great Yarmouth Town Zone	£8.50
Lowestoft Town Zone	£8.50
Ipswich Zone (Town zone only - click here for prices of South Suffolk zones tickets)	£10
Excel Zone Valid on the whole length of our excel bus service	£20
Network Zone Valid for all First Eastern Counties buses in Norfolk & Suffolk, including excel	£25

Getting your High5 ticket is easy...

Ipswich Outer Area Prices

All of the High5 tickets below include free travel in the Ipswich Town Zone. Click here to see our zone maps.

	buy on the app or on bus
Suffolk Coastal Zone	£13
Stowmarket Zone	£11
Alde Valley or Felixstowe Town Zones	£8.50

Castle Meadow, Norwich (All Norwich Services)

Due to urgent replacement required of a BT chamber on Castle Meadow, the road will be closed from 19:00 on Friday 14th February until the end of service on Friday 21st February. This closure has been previously scheduled to take place in the October half-term, but was postponed due to other emergency works in the city centre.

During this time, all services will be unable to call at Castle Meadow - and will instead use their normal stands at alternative city centre stops.

For Pink, Turquoise, Green, Yellow, Purple & Charcoal Line services, plus services 31 & 33 - please use stops on St Stephens Street.
For Orange & Red Line services, plus service 30 - please use stops on Theatre Street/Rampant Horse Street.
For Blue Line services -Services from the rail station towards UEA please use Stand Q in the bus station. Services towards the rail station will use the stop in Red Lion Street as usual.

Please expect delays on all services across the city during the closure, due to the length of the diversion routes involved in avoiding this closure.

Most westbound services will operate via Cattle Market Street, All Saints Green & Surrey Street.
Most eastbound services will operate via Farmers Avenue.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to your journey.

Great Yarmouth - Market Gates Improvement scheme

UPDATE 24/01 - From Monday 27th January, our services from Martham, Caister & Norwich only will allow passengers to alight at Market Gates. This stop will be to drop passengers off only, all boarding passengers must continue to use the temporary stops as detailed below.

From Monday 6th January 2025, the majority of stops at Market Gates will be suspended while work to convert the bus station to 2-way operation takes place. This work is expected to be completed by May but works may take longer than planned.

There will be lane closures through Market Gates applying to all traffic, which will happen in phases.

This notice describes the initial position from 6th January – there will be further updates as work progresses.

Services 1, 1A, 8, X1, X11 towards JPH/Belton/Lowestoft	These services will operate as normal route to Market Gates, then continue to Regent Street, where the taxi rank is currently located, which will be the main stop for buses towards Gorleston. This will effectively be one long stop (combining the current stops B and C)
Services 1, 1A, 8 towards Caister/Martham	These services will operate as normal route to Stonecutters Way, then continue to Howard Street North, to the front stop opposite the Police Station.
Services X1, X11 towards Norwich	These services will operate as normal route to Stonecutters Way, then continue to Howard Street North, to the rear of the stops outside the Police Station, which will be the main stop for buses towards Norwich.
Services 2, 3, 3B towards Bradwell & Burgh Castle	During this first phase, these services will depart from Stand A (this will be redesignated as Stand F on the shelter for this phase of the works) in Market Gates, outside Poundstretcher. Route is then via Regent Road and King Street, rejoining normal route at St Georges Theatre.
Service 7 towards Norwich/J.P.H.	This service will use the rear of the stops outside the Police Station on Howard Street North on journeys to Norwich, along with Services X1/X11. (The 2320 journey from Norwich will call at Regent Street on its way to Gorleston)

The following schoolday only services are also affected as follows -

Service 901

This will use the rear of the stops outside the Police Station on Howard Street North towards Norwich, along with Services 7/X1/X11, and Regent Street on its journey to Gorleston.

Service 931

This will use the Regent Street stop towards Gorleston; on it’s return trip it will operate as per services X1/X11 to Howard Street North.

A summary of these changes is included in the map below together with suggested walking routes to alternative stops.

We apologise to all customers affected by this disruption to your bus services.

We will confirm details of stopping arrangements after these works are concluded, within the next couple of months.

2022 Fares Prep

Norwich pages day tickets table

Day tickets for unlimited travel...

Norwich pages fares text

Norwich Zone Period Tickets

Day

5-day

Week

Flexi-5

10-trip

Month

First Unlimited

Norwich Inner Zone Tickets

Day

Excel Page

EXCEL Zone...

Valid on all excel buses, anywhere between Peterborough and Norwich Bus Station.

Day

5-day

Week

Flexi-5

10-trip

Month

First Unlimited

Norwich Zone...

Click here to explore our Network Norwich bus routes.

Day

5-day

Week

Flexi-5

10-trip

Month

First Unlimited

Network Ticket

Valid on all of our buses, anywhere, any time.

Day

5-day

Week

Flexi-5

10-trip

Month

First Unlimited

Coastlink Page

Coastal Zone

Day

5-day

Week

Flexi-5

10-trip

Month

First Unlimited

Explorer Zone

Day

5-day

Week

Flexi-5

10-trip

Month

First Unlimited

Norwich Zone

Day

5-day

Week

Flexi-5

10-trip

Month

First Unlimited

Clipper Fares

Some great value Coastal Clipper fares...

Get all along the east coast with a Coastal zone ticket

Day

5-day

Week

Flexi-5

10-trip

Month

First Unlimited

...or up to Norwich with an Explorer zone ticket

Day

5-day

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited

First
Unlimited