London Underground Ticket Question

laird

Railway station ticket machines within the travelcard zones will sell the railcard discounted all zone travelcard so it is possible to avoid some of those queues.
Outside of the travelcard zones it is a case of having to queue at rail station ticket office to purchase.

Once you get an oystercard you can then take it with some of the railcards to the underground ticket office, given the right form it can then have the discount rate recorded so that the daily cap is reduced.

agrinnall

As an occasional visitor to London I would heartly recommend Oyster cards if only because they make travelling much simpler. The important thing to remember is to touch in, and out where appropriate, whenever you go through a barrier or get on a bus. I would suggest having a look here to start with, and when you're there be aware that in some stations (such as DLR) the card readers may not be where you might expect them.

chiefgoobster

depending on how old DD is , she may travel for nothing.


very MSE

dzug1

chiefgoobster wrote: »

depending on how old DD is , she may travel for nothing.


very MSE

It says in the very first post she is 17:D

rdwarr

I'd second the Oyster option if you're visiting London often - it gives you the ultimate in flexibility. But if it's just for one day then a Zone 1/2 Travelcard should do, they are £8.40 peak, £7 off-peak.
One "sightseeing"option is to:

• Arrive Kings Cross
• Walk over to St Pancras and have a look round
• Get a train (FCC) to City Thameslink
• Walk up to St Pauls
• Get the 11 bus to Victoria - this goes past most of the major sights (Trafalgar, Westminster etc.)
• Train to Clapham Jct

s_b

I ended up in london twice last year on breaks planned at the last minute so never went the oyster way
I bought the zone cards on both occasions and whilst i thought they were inherently dear on first purchase i made up for it by using them a lot.
My only gripe was the map on the walls showing the areas the zones covered was a bit hard to understand and i thought i was pretty savvy so i quess a foreign user would find it near impossible to understand
this is probably the reason oysters are pushed so much?
I think the ones i bought were zone 6/7 and i paid about £8.49 for them this took us well out of the small town down to puntney where we have family

dick_turpin

Thanks posters...It looks like its going to cost us over £30 to cross London and return then!! Problem is we have limited time to sightsee because we arrive in London at 4pm and accommodation is in Battersea which we will want to be at by say 10pm ready for her interview the next day. Returning from Battersea mid afternoon I think with train from Kings x at 8pm we also have a few hours to fill that day as well.

dzug1

Don't know where you get 'over £30' from. The maximum is £28 - for four one day travelcards. And with Oyster it could cost you less than this if you only make a few journeys, particularly if you travel by bus.

dick_turpin

Dzug, I think you're right, I had assumed the afternoon journey around 4.00pm would exclude me from using the travelcard for offpeak (£7.00) as it does for the Oyster card, therefore making me get the £8.40 card,but looking further suggests the travelcard offpeak only excludes morning peak.
Thanks for that.

chiefgoobster

dzug1 wrote: »

It says in the very first post she is 17:D

or the 3rd post even

...ta for the heads up on the age....i was replying on a sunday morning and obviously not quite with it.
(writes note to self )