We are going to be in London this June. We are staying at the Premier Inn London County Hall which is near the Waterloo train station. We are going to Bath after London. But we also want to see Stonehenge, so I thought it might be more efficient to take the train to Salisbury from the Waterloo station and stop on the way to see Stonehenge and then continue on to Bath. However, according to the Loco2 site, I am finding that the tickets from Paddington to Bath (using Two Together) to Bath on Saturday June 22 are $27.50 for both of us but from Waterloo to Salisbury are $65.00. It appears that the tickets from Waterloo are ones that can be used any time that day rather than being advance purchase. But I don't see any other ticket options.
Is there some other way to do this? I had thought that even though the train was slower from Waterloo, we wouldn't have to travel from Paddington so it would make sense. But I did not expect that the shorter, slower journey would be more than twice as expensive.
edited: I just put in Salisbury as stop between London and Bath and the tickets came up as $26.50. Can we buy these and then just get off at Salisbury? It doesn't make sense to me that we can get all the way to Bath for $26.50 but to buy a ticket just to Salisbury is $65.00.