London Offers

waster_2

Chris25 wrote:

Although on the blurb it says Oyster Cards only get 241, if you click on the T&C for the Eye it says either Oyster Cards OR paper tickets to be presented for the offer.

It says tube single tickets are not valid for this offer nor tickets that don't have the date of travel.

Those are the General Terms and Conditions and the specific London Eye T&C's says Oyster Card Holders Only

SallyD

"oyster cards or paper tickets""are in the general conditions.Looking at the conditions specifically for London Eye 2 4 1 clearly says "Oyster Cards". I am told you can pick a form up in a newsagents and it is free. So worth getting one to take up the offer.

Chris25

Ah, I see now seems well worth getting one then for this attraction.

BobBlueUK

For those who don't have an Oyster card yet, here's a tip for you. London Underground are currently moving weekly travelcard users across to Oyster cards (they are no longer issuing old weekly paper tickets). Since they are forcing travellers down this route they have temporarily suspended the £3 deposit you usually have to pay when taking an Oyster card out.

Now, they are only meant to do this if you pay for a weekly travelcard at the same time as issuing your Oyster card HOWEVER they may well give you a free one anyway. A couple of days ago my mother enquired at the ticket office in our local Tube station, something along the lines of "Is the £3 deposit waived on new Oyster cards at the moment?". She was told yes, they issued her card and then asked her if she would like to put a ticket on it or just top it up - she opted for the latter and put £5 credit on it. Net result, one oyster card & no £3 deposit. The till did actually flash up as £8 but the guy at the window only asked for £5 in payment. Don't know if it will work for others but certainly worth a try? It may help to ask at one of the more touristy tube stations like we did - perhaps they're less strict about explaining to people (e.g. foreign tourists with poor English) why they can't have their free Oyster card? It may also help to be female and act clueless about how the whole Oyster card thing works as that approach certainly worked for my mum!

Once you have your Oyster card, don't forget that you can still get £10 free credit on it by activating auto top-up at the Oyster website (you can cancel this after the £10 has been credited). See full details here.

lamnicholas

Yup, Transport for London has temporarily waived the £3 deposit for Oyster cards if you buy a weekly or longer travelcard with it. This is to encourage paper weekly travelcard holders to switch to Oyster, as paper tickets are being phased out shortly.

However if you just want an Oyster card for Pre-pay (pay as you go) or Bus Pass only use, then according to the leaflet the £3 deposit is still required. However it is refundable on surrender of the card, so yes get one to take advantage of the 2 for 1 offers then return the card when you finish your trip! Oh, you would also need to add some credit and use it to travel as the T&C states. Whether they scan your Oyster at the attraction to verify usage on that day, I don't know but it is certainly possible.

People should also note that there are no London Bus zones any more, so any travelcard is valid on any London Bus, irrespective of zones held. Although this has been the case since January 2003 I still find that loads of people are not aware of this and are paying more than they need!

PS I'd be interested to hear if anyone is having problems taking up the Madame Tussauds 2 for 1 offer on production of a Tube/Bus/Oyster ticket. Staff there had no knowledge of the offer a few days ago and were sending people away to the Underground, even on presentation of the 'Everyone's London' leaflet with the offer clearly stated! Meanwhile the Underground were sending everyone back to Madame Tussauds!

Shez

alanrowell wrote:

Would have been better as a separate question bu the answers are

1) Family one day travelcard (but note FREE travel for children on Saturday & Sunday, so a normal travelcard might be better on those days)- http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tickets/2005/downloads/tfl-fares-2005.pdf#page=16
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just to add to that quote above....... yes it is free for children at weekends, but we have always found that we buy the family travel card because it works out cheaper still for the adult price of £3.40 each and the man in the shop just gives us a "no price on it" card for the child (they have to issue a ticket for the child, even with no value on it so you still get the cheaper adult price!!!) so it works out £6.80 instead of about £10 is it now? (is it £5 each for a usual travelcard?)

They dont usually tell you that!!

Hope that helps!!!

amc1

can you buy the tube family cards off the web or can you only get them at the stations ?

lamnicholas

Family Travelcards can only be purchased at London Underground stations, TfL ticket outlets (newsagents), London Travel Information Centres and National Rail stations.