Getting from London Easton to heathrow

googler

scottygees wrote: »

We get to euston at about 8pm

On a weekday, or weekend evening? If it's a Friday or Saturday, don't even think about going via Leicester Square tube at 8pm ... and maybe not Green Park either. Going by bus Euston > Paddington and Heathrow Express from Paddington keeps you out of the centre of town where all the theatre-goers and clubbers will be.

googler

susancs wrote: »

You can pick up an Oyster card at Euston and it is a £5 refundable deposit, plus you load what money is required on it. You can get your deposit refunded and any small amount left on the card returned when you return it to a tube station ticket office ( Heathrow). For larger amounts of credit you would need to write off for a refund.

But if OP plans to return to London at any point in the future, they could keep the Oyster card, and its credit, for the next trip, and the next, and the next.

The credit doesn't expire, and isn't time-limited, as far as I can tell. And they can use it on buses and tubes.

They can also buy the Oyster online to be posted out to them, if there's enough time before the trip.

scottygees

Ok we come down on the Thursday and arrive at 8ish. We will be going into London on the Friday during the day for a look around and then returning back to the airport hotel. We will then need to get back to euston once we have come back from our overseas journey which is a Wednesday and will be about 9.30 in the morning

susancs

Oyster card for each person is probably the cheapest as it caps per day at less than the daily travelcard rate and charges less for single journeys so your initial journey from Euston to Heathrow will be £3 per person on Thursday. If you travel after 9.30am on the Friday you can use all tubes, buses and overground London trains in zones 1-6 and the most it will cost will be £8.50 per person. On your return after your holiday from Heathrow to Euston it will be a £3 fare on the tube if you travel off peak after 9.30am (was not sure if you meant you had to be at Euston at 9.30am or were leaving Heathrow at 9.30am? If before 9.30am it will be a £5 peak journey tube fare.).

susancs

Little_Vics wrote: »

If you go via Green Park DON'T follow the signs for the Piccadilly line - follow the signs for the exit, go up the escalator and then back down again....much much quicker!!

Great advice follow the exit signs and take the escalator up to the ticket hall (don't go through the exit barriers) and signs for the escalator down to the piccadilly line. On return from Heathrow to Euston, sit at the rear of the train as the exit signs you need to follow are just by where the rear of the tube stops (again ignore the victoria line signs and follow the exit signs to the ticket hall and then to the victoria line).

scottygees

Ok.apologies for being a bit thick here but can someone fully explain how the Oyster cards work. When I was last in London I used to buy a daily unlimited tube pass.the Oyster card hadn't been invented. Based upon the journeys mentioned how much credit will I need to put on it? Many thanks

googler

The Oyster is an electronically readable card, that you 'charge' with £ of credit, and as long as you touch in and out of the Tube ( or once on boarding a bus), it deducts the fare for your journey from your credit. Since all you need do is touch the card to the reader, it's the speediest way of getting in and out.

Fares are indicated at tfl.gov.uk, so you can figure how much you'll use from there. As I say, even if you have an excess, you can save it for your next visit.

susancs

scottygees wrote: »

Ok.apologies for being a bit thick here but can someone fully explain how the Oyster cards work. When I was last in London I used to buy a daily unlimited tube pass.the Oyster card hadn't been invented. Based upon the journeys mentioned how much credit will I need to put on it? Many thanks

Based on the journeys you have stated which are a single journey one day from Euston to Heathrow (although you will make a platform, line change, as long as you do not exit the barriers it counts as a single journey) off peak which would cost £3, unlimited travel off peak from Heathrow and on all buses, tubes in London during the day will cap at £8.50, off peak single journey after your holiday from Heathrow to Euston will be £3, so in total it should come to £14.50. You can always top up at the ticket machines or ticket office at tube stations if you need more credit.

You need one card per adult travelling together and children aged 10 and under travel free on London tubes, buses and overground. Theu just follow you through the luggage, pushchair barrier.

Here is the link which explains how Oyster works.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14836.aspx

Here is the link which gives you the fares.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx

If you look on the tube map on the from page it will show you zones and you will see Heathrow is in zone 6 and Euston zone 1 and then you can see a single zone 1-6 journey off peak is £3 with Oyster and £5.50 cash fare. A zone 1 single journey is £2.10 (even if it only the shortest tube journey of Leicester Square to Covent Garden which takes under a minute to do or a longer zone one journey).

scottygees

susancs wrote: »

Based on the journeys you have stated which are a single journey one day from Euston to Heathrow (although you will make a platform, line change, as long as you do not exit the barriers it counts as a single journey) off peak which would cost £3, unlimited travel off peak from Heathrow and on all buses, tubes in London during the day will cap at £8.50, off peak single journey after your holiday from Heathrow to Euston will be £3, so in total it should come to £14.50. You can always top up at the ticket machines or ticket office at tube stations if you need more credit.

You need one card per adult travelling together and children aged 10 and under travel free on London tubes, buses and overground. Theu just follow you through the luggage, pushchair barrier.




Here is the link which explains how Oyster works.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14836.aspx

Here is the link which gives you the fares.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx

If you look on the tube map on the from page it will show you zones and you will see Heathrow is in zone 6 and Euston zone 1 and then you can see a single zone 1-6 journey off peak is £3 with Oyster and £5.50 cash fare. A zone 1 single journey is £2.10 (even if it only the shortest tube journey of Leicester Square to Covent Garden which takes under a minute to do or a longer zone one journey).

Many thanks.got it now