Chiltern Mainline Standard Business Package

Chiltern continue to promote the Business Zone: on the Silver Sets used over the past two days, Feedback forms were available along with a flyer entitled 'Your office, but on the move' which promotes the 'Chiltern Mainline Standard Business Package' for £115 return...

According to the flyer, the package includes tube travel along with free Wi-Fi, at-seat catering service, complimentary hot drinks, and newspapers.It seems to suggest that the services available are the 0619 / 0655 / 1555 from Birmingham and the 0837 / 1650 / 1807 from Marylebone and gives the web address as www.chilternrailways.co.uk/mainline

Going to this address will give no further details nor will it indicate how to book the package. If you're really persistent, you can find the package as a fare on the booking system BUT tucked away in the more expensive fares sections and available ONLY on the 0619 / 0650 and 1650 / 1807 services (as of course the 0837 & 1555 require a £10 not £20 supplement). To be fair, the seat reservations are then made for you (though from my experience I don't see there being a problem getting a seat...).

Finally, the ghost of the Wrexham & Shropshire lives on as the fares system describes the package as WSMR Family 1st - and there's me thinking that Mainline was the brand!