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Down to Old London Town this Friday, staying until Monday morning.
MrsM is running the London Marathon. Looking for the best travel pass for the underground,buses and DLR. We are a family of four, 2 adults, 17y/o and a 10y/o. Wife gets free transport to and from the Marathon on Sunday.Cheers for any help 🙂
Try [url= http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?p=922191 ]this[/url]
They have charges for getting the oyster cards and if you're not going to use it again its probably not worth the hassle. If you have railcards you can get discounted travelcards which are probably your best bet as I'm guessing you'll want to make a few journeys.
But anyhow, take a look at this website which gives you a bit of a price comparison
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx
that post on money saving expert is quite out of date, and travel prices in the capital are quite a bit higher than that.
a 3 day travel card doesn't exist any more as far as i know, which means you'll have to pay for 7 day or use Oyster.
your child under 10 will almost certainly be cheaper to have a travel card than an oyster however.
I think children under 11 travel free.
Yes,see [url= http://www.visitlondon.com/travel/getting_around/kids-travel-free-on-london-transport ]here[/url]
For non-londoners I don't think its free is it? For an under 10 oyster I think you have to apply and then wait for it to come in the post.
Edit: just seen your link, seems like non-londoners are free too
They have charges for getting the oyster cards and if you're not going to use it again its probably not worth the hassle.
Really? Mine was free, and I don't even live in London!
Just checked, and it's a refundable deposit, they don't charge for it. I think the deposit is recent, I don't recall paying it when I ordered mine several years ago.
yeah that's what I meant, I doubt I'll ever hand mine back in so I guess its a charge for me!
Get an Oyster card. £5 for a pay as you go card, then each trip is £2. A day ticket is about £7.70 I think!
Then give your Oyster card back when you leave and get your £5 back.
I had to get an Oyster card recently. I found the whole thing unnecessarily confusing. This is what I managed to untangle.
They do a regular and a 'visitor' card now, and it's really hard to tell what the difference is. As far as I can work out the visitor card is pre-pay only and comes preloaded with a tenner, so you have to add credit to it which you can then get refunded at a station the end of the day (you have to write to them for larger balances though, I think it's anything more than a fiver).
The regular card by contrast is pre-pay or PAYG, you can set up automatic top-ups and such, and can add travelcards to it (I think the visitor one has a restriction on the bigger travelcards). So you could get that and stick a family travelcard on there, assuming such a thing still exists and they work with Oyster cards (I don't have a family so had no reason to check).
Why anyone would choose the visitor card? Far as I can gather, a) it's what TfL export for sale abroad, and b) it's got a souvenir picture on it.
(ObDisclaimer: this is 'as I understand it', I'm a Northerner so it's all foreign to me.)
Oh, and good luck to the missus.
From TFL,
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/19799.aspx
You can put Adult, 18+ Student, 16+, child and Jobcentre Plus Travel Discount 7 Day monthly and longer period Travelcards and Bus & Tram passes on Oyster.
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Day Travelcards are not available on Oyster. However, if you use Oyster to pay as you go and make a number of journeys in one day, you won't pay more than the equivalent Day Travelcard.
Also,
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14308.aspx
If you are:
Aged 16 to 18You can get a 16+ Zip Oyster photocard and pay:
Child rate for 7 Day, monthly or longer period Travelcards and Bus & Tram Passes
Half the adult rate when you pay as you go on bus, Tube, tram, DLR, London Overground and some pay as you go tariffs on National Rail
So you need an Oyster and a Zip. I think.