The Best Sheffield Travelling Tips

Sheffield is a city full of surprises, located in Yorkshire on the edge of the stunning Peak District, where it can be conveniently reached from Leeds is just 40-minutes and London in 2-hours via train. Sheffield is known for being one of the steelmaking capitals of the world. This South Yorkshire city has more trees per capita of population than any other European city.

If you are looking for fine craftsman-made hunting knives, specialist cutlery or artisan metalwork this is the place to visit. It’s also the gateway to the Peak District National Park, home to two important universities and two professional football clubs. So you could have several good reasons to travel to Sheffield.

Here are some of the awesome travelling tips that might come in handy to make your experience in Sheffield all the more worthwhile.

Sheffield Travelling Tips
After Getting There
Once you have arrived in Sheffield and after settling into your selected accommodation, you must be pondering to take a look around the city. Here are few of the hacks on obtaining a discount on train tickets:

Trainline:
You can save up to 43% off if Trainline’s advanced tickets are booked up to 12 weeks early. This offer extends to fast trains that run to the UK’s biggest cities – Birmingham, Manchester Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds and Edinburgh. So book your tickets using the online best fare finder tool and enjoy a discounted price.

Additionally, mobile tickets via the smartphone app or printing your own tickets are free of any cost. Besides that, you can get Trainline’s £15 cashback bonus when you book tickets online by signing up to cashback site Quidco.

Transpennine Express Student Tickets:
Transpennine Express provides students with a great opportunity to avail 30% off the on-the-day of the purchase. The best part is students can boost this saving to half price when using the TPESTUDENT discount code online at the www.tpexpress.co.uk or via the TPExpress app.

Walking Tours
Walking tours are the perfect thing for someone, who is new to the city. These tours, besides helping in getting your bearings, they often tick off most of a destination’s major sights in one go, with a bit of local knowledge and insight thrown in for good measure.

Catch a Concert
The Motorpoint Arena and the O2 Academy Sheffield host awesome concerts and shows each and every week throughout the year, so it is definitely worth catching one when you are in Sheffield.

Eating Out
Everyone’s favourite restaurant in Sheffield is the U Buffet on West Street. It is not exactly round the corner from the Motorpoint, but having a good meal before a concert makes the trip all the more worthwhile. Plus you can devour inChinese and Japanese food for an exceptionally low cost.

Enjoy a Night Out
The nightlife in Sheffield is super fun. You will find lots of bars, from West Street to all the way down Cavendish, Hutton’s, and Walkabout, where you can enjoy old-school/chart music combo as well.

In a nutshell, Sheffield’s rich history blending culture and diversity at all elements is what turns this city is a must-travel destination.

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