Stagecoach In South Wales

Used Stagecoach for years, don’t have anything that bad to say about them besides prices.
They seem much more expensive now than they used to be, but again they are mostly on time and they got me to college for 2 years pretty solidly.

Although their office is not based in Cardiff they run an essential bus service to and from Cardiff to the valley areas which surround the city. Without their services travel to and from the valleys would rely on some smaller operators which could mean the services were over-​stretched. Being one of the larger public transport operators in the area you would expect a second from none service but in my experience this is not the case.
The prices seem to be rising steadily as the years pass by, steeper and steeper. I find it makes more sense to buy a day ticket now than a return as there is not usually a lot of difference in the price, depending of course on how much distance is travelled. I’ve met more grumpy drivers on Stagecoach buses than on any other service operator which suggests to me that they are not entirely happy with their job. The buses are almost always late and only on time when you are running behind.
Also, they seem to run some very interesting service alterations at certain times of the evening. I have known them to stop services prematurely at central town areas rather than allow them to run all the way to the end of a line. The times that they usually do this just happen to be between 5 and 7 pm which is when most of us are going to be using their service to get home. This means you are left waiting for the next bus to travel the last third of your journey and baffles me completely.
Apart from that, most of the buses are fairly clean and tidy, fairly modern and although on occasions they have breakdowns (the buses, not the drivers) the buses are normally in good shape.