excursion ticket

American  

noun

1. a round-trip ticket at a reduced fare, often for use within a limited period of time.

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Etymology

Origin of excursion ticket

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

A round-trip excursion ticket between New York and Luxembourg costs $259 in the peak season and requires no minimum stay.

From Time Magazine Archive

We come down on an excursion ticket to Boston—only three dollars an' sixty cents—an' we thought we'd surprise you.”

From Jane Field A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

I have very little to tell concerning the remaining days which the conditions of George Gilbert's excursion ticket left him free to enjoy in London.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

"Bless my excursion ticket, but you must come!"

From Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

"But I buy an excursion ticket, so that my fare each way will be but seventy-five cents."

From The Store Boy by Alger, Horatio