Pear Tree Park & Ride

I love the location the space and the ease of getting in. The fact it's not called park pay, pay and ride is the miss sale. I thought the concept was to park and pay to travel not ha e to pay for both separate. Seems that someone is making extra cash for a necessity. Cost £7.50 for the day to park and ride £2.50 for the parking.
Bus is regular and fast. Beats trying to find parking spot in town.. normally use this one as easy access to the main arterial roads

Too expensive for how far from the city centre it is. If you're in 2 people, that's fine because the standard £6.80 will cover for two adults. If there's more than 2 adults, just ditch the P&R and find somewhere closer to the centre, as each additional bus ticket is £3.
Bus seems fairly regular, but still it's a 15min ride to Oxford.

Absolute shambles typical of everything run by councils. Could & should be a super service to stop motor vehicles & pollution in the city centre.

However, on arrival at Pear Tree in bitterly cold winter weather there is nowhere warm to shelter while waiting for buses. They are meant to run every 10 minutes...what we saw was basically 2 or 3 in the space of 5-7 minutes and then none for 25 minutes, no spacing or logic whatsoever between services. And the reason we missed 3 buses at Pear Tree was due to the fact that there are just 3 machines for park & ride payments, 1 which didn't work at all even past the putting in reg plate details and another 1 which got to card payment & declined 3 different cards of mine for no reason on both contact less and trying to insert it with a pin.

And on Oxford City centre around a 40 minute wait to get back to Pear Tree on a service that is meant to be every 10 minutes. Utterly farcical especially in the middle of Xmas shopping period in December. And yes, you guessed it, there were 3 buses due to arrive in about a 5 minute period! If it was down to me everyone involved in this P&R service would be sacked for incompetence.

Will not ever return to beautiful Oxford until you get your services in order...utter disgrace.

Great facility, let down by half of the payment machines not working and the remainder so unintuitive that no one could work out how to use them.
We used the online service via the parking app and would suggest this is the recommended way of payment processing. Please therefore make the signage for app payment more prominent.

In the past I have found this a good service but on Saturday we waited for 30 minutes to be picked up and there were 3 bus fulls of people queuing from the car park and on return it was close to an hours wait. There were again too many people for the bus so many had to wait even longer. Not the experience we hoped for 😟

Only £5 for return bus ticket for 2 adults + 3 kids with parking included.
Recommended here!

This park and ride is closer to Oxford than the water eaton (now Oxford Parkway), the bus from here to the city takes a quieter route.
The 300 bus only takes 10 minutes to reach city and the bus comes every 12-15min!

A little bit shame that I can’t park here and walk to the Travelodge next door.

Makes visiting Oxford easy and much cheaper and less stressful than trying to park in the City. £5 parking and return bus for 2 adults and up to 3 children under 16 travel on the bus for free. Bargain.
Takes the hassle out of visiting somewhere and keeps the city a bit clearer of traffic. We’ll definitely use this again.

The machines for parking are ridiculous. How foreign visitors would cope is beyond me. Designed only for people that frequently use it and has mastered the machines. Oxford is making itself a No Go town. I used to work in Oxford an love ❤️ it. Something odd is happening here. I felt controlled and restricted, monitored, not free. I can't explain it. Anyway the city is still beautiful and vibrant but you're being logged.