Sharry.uk is a booking site for coach, minibus, train and carpool trips across Europe. And if you have come across two names, Sharry.uk and Sharrybus, well, it is the same company, the .uk one is the website for travellers in Britain and Sharrybus is its international site. The company is registered in Poland, and what it does is put the trips of many carriers in one search, so you compare them side by side and book from the same place.
Most people planning a trip from the UK to Europe end up with five or six tabs open, one for the coach company, one for the train, one more for some cheaper operator a friend mentioned, and still they are not sure the fare they picked was the cheapest one.
Contents
- 1 Key Takeaways
- 2 Sharry Adds Nothing on Top of the Carrier’s Fare
- 3 Most Carriers Let You Pay the Driver, Not the Website
- 4 From Flix and National Express Down to Small Regional Coach Companies
- 5 Coach, Minibus, Train and Carpool Come Up in One Search
- 6 Group and Door-to-Door Trips Go to Auction, and Carriers Bid for Them
- 7 Someone Answers on Chat, Telegram or Email
- 8 Booking a Trip on Sharry Takes Four Steps
- 9 Read the Carrier’s Own Rules Before You Pay
Key Takeaways
- More than 1,000 carriers in one search, across coach, minibus, train and carpool.
- Over 1 million routes in 50+ countries, as per Sharry.
- On most carriers you can pay the driver when you board, with no prepayment.
- Sharry adds no extra fees, and charges nothing to cancel or reschedule a trip.
- Group, custom and door-to-door trips can be put up as an auction request for carriers to bid on.
Sharry Adds Nothing on Top of the Carrier’s Fare
Let’s say you found a London to Paris coach at a nice price, and then at the payment page a booking fee, a service fee and some card fee come in, and the nice price is not that nice any more. Sharry says it doesn’t add any extra fees, so the fare you see in the search is the carrier’s fare. Since April 2025 UK law under the DMCC Act has also banned drip pricing, meaning mandatory fees have to be shown from the start of checkout, so a site that adds nothing in the first place is already on the right side of it. And the cancel fee, which people usually forget about, Sharry doesn’t charge that either, for cancelling or rescheduling a trip, so booking early doesn’t lock you in.
Most Carriers Let You Pay the Driver, Not the Website
On most carriers you can book a seat online, or even by phone, and pay at the boarding, to the driver, when you step on, no card details, no prepayment. Such trips carry a “pay on boarding” label in the search results, so you know it before you pick.
So a family booking four seats for a December trip doesn’t have to send all that money in November, it stays in their account until the day they travel.
If you do want to pay before, that is there as well, card, digital wallet, a part prepayment or a transfer to the carrier’s bank, depending on what that carrier allows.
From Flix and National Express Down to Small Regional Coach Companies
Sharry’s own pages give two numbers for this. The homepage says 2,000+ carriers, and their blog says more than 1,000, so let’s go with the safer one, more than a thousand. Either way it is a lot of companies, and not unknown names only. The homepage shows the logos of FlixBus, National Express, megabus, Eurostar, RegioJet, European Sleeper, Alsa, Renfe, Itabus and Arriva Travel, along with smaller regional coach firms like Sindbad. Routes wise, it comes to more than 1 million across 50+ countries, over 30 of them in Europe.
Coach, Minibus, Train and Carpool Come Up in One Search
A trip like London to Brussels has more than one way to do it, a train, a coach, and sometimes a minibus or a carpool on the cheaper end. On Sharry these come up in one search, with the price and the travel time of each next to each other, so if the coach is the cheaper one but takes half your day, well, you know it before you book and not on the motorway.
Group and Door-to-Door Trips Go to Auction, and Carriers Bid for Them
This is the feature Sharry itself calls unique. If your trip is not a normal route, let’s say fifteen of you are going to a wedding in Kraków, or you need a door-to-door transfer from your home to the airport, you post it as a request on Sharry and carriers send their offers for it in real time. So instead of you chasing the price, the carriers compete for your booking, and you choose the offer you like.
Someone Answers on Chat, Telegram or Email
If a timetable changes or something goes wrong on the day, Sharry has a Customer Service team you can reach through online chat, a Telegram bot or email. Is it 24/7? They don’t say so anywhere, so don’t count on a reply at 3am.
And if the carrier cancels your trip, Sharry says the full amount goes back to your account.
Booking a Trip on Sharry Takes Four Steps
- Type in where you are travelling from and to, and the date.
- Go through the trips that come up, coach, minibus, train or carpool, with the price, the travel time and the “pay on boarding” label where the carrier offers it.
- Choose how you pay, at the boarding, by card or digital wallet, or a part prepayment, depending on what that carrier accepts.
- Confirm the booking and keep the booking details handy for the day of travel.
Read the Carrier’s Own Rules Before You Pay
Sharry shows you the carriers, but the trip itself is run by the carrier, so the luggage allowance, the change rules and what happens if you miss the bus, those come from that company. Read them once on the booking page before you confirm.
