Booking the tickets for buses is possible online too, through various websites that are the main ones of the bus companies, but a few 3rd party websites too work in the same way, and they actually make things easier for everyone. For bus booking, am talking about the Indian bus services like the APSRTC buses for Andhra Pradesh, KSRTC for Karnataka and the other private bus services.
Here are the various ways to reserve bus tickets online –
MakeMyTrip
Make My Trip is one of the best places online to book any kind of transport tickets i.e. the trains, flights and buses. Everything is very well sectioned, and there is a separate section for the booking of bus tickets. It lists almost all the major places around the country which are connected to the major ones and there is bus transport available between those places. The site also gives special offers, like as of now there is an offer of Rs. 100 cashback on all bus tickets, and they would come with some new offer once this is done.
RedBus
RedBus is a site dedicated for the bus booking. The buses include both the government and private buses and there are quite many payment options. For the major cities, there is a cash on delivery option available. Other payment options are credit card, net banking, Debit card etc. The bus booking is possible for 10000+ routes across India. Reviews can also be posted by users to post their feedback and others can read them before deciding about the bus service to select. The website even has a travel guide, and if you see that the tickets are finished, you can subscribe to updates whether any tickets for the same bus are available after cancellation by others.
AbhiBus
Just like Redbus, AbhiBus also only for bus ticket booking, and it has the options of booking one-way or two-way trip tickets, and you can cancel the tickets online. But the payment options are not flexible, and are just limited to credit cards and net banking with ICICI and UTI banking. You can Retrieve Booking details from the website.
Yatra Buses
The bus ticket reservation at Yatra Buses travel includes the easiest way of booking them, and even it includes a lot of offers and the best deals of ticket reservation. Search for buses to your destination of choice and choose from the lowest available fares. Apart from the normal ticket booking, the website also shows the travel offers with tours that include the travel by buses on private bus services.
Ixigo Buses
According to the media, Ixigo Buses is the top travel search engine site online. This site searches on the various travel sites and compares for the best deals for any route. A maximum of 5 passengers ticket can be booked at once. The interface is pretty easy and the AJAX loading of places etc. looks better than the various travel search engines. You can subscribe to their newsletters to get updated about the best travel deals of buses.
TicketVala
Ticketvala is a unique and different type of bus travel engine and booking service, with a few features that are not available on any other services. One of them is the search filtering initially with the seating type, the departure time interval, and the bus type for the searching of buses among all the major places across India.
The other couple sites where you can book bus tickets online are – TravelYaari and BusTicketVala.
How to book tickets of APSRTC Buses?
APSRTC is the Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation, which is the govt. service having buses in various categories, like Hi-Tech, Volvo etc. There is no direct online ways to book the tickets from the official website, except if you are a travel agent and hold a corporate booking account. There are a couple third party sites that would help you with the booking of APSRTC buses –
How to Book India Bus Tickets Online – 10 Ways