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Help with Tube Prices

Hpool Fan
Hpool Fan Posts: 17
edited May 2012 in General Charlton
Now Lads.....
With reference to Tube prices, what's the best deal with Tube Tickets?
Kings Cross Fri pm , round Covent Garden ish Friday night, same sat morning, over to Charlton, and back to Kings Cross?
Daily Off peak Travel Cards? Oyster Cards?
Baffled!!!!
Cheers in advance

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,014
    Walk mate, it's not far. Or get a black cab if it's raining.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,258
    edited May 2012
    Sounds to me like you need to buy an off peak travel card on Friday & Saturday. It will need to cover the zones you need between 1&6. 1 probably being King's Cross & Covent Garden. Whereas Charlton is likely to be in Zone 4.
    Don't pay for zones if you don't need them as it costs more.

    http://www.tfl.gov.uk/
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,026
    Get an Oyster, costs a fiver to buy and then you top it up. Someone else will confirm how much you need to spend to turn it into a travel card... Other than that a zone1-4 travel card for the sat.

    Beware though, travelling in London isn't cheap.
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Get a Zone 1-4 Travelcard.
  • Hpool Fan
    Hpool Fan Posts: 17
    Cheers chaps
  • SE10
    SE10 Posts: 2,169
    Charlton is Zone 3.
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Get an Oyster, costs a fiver to buy and then you top it up. Someone else will confirm how much you need to spend to turn it into a travel card... Other than that a zone1-4 travel card for the sat.

    Beware though, travelling in London isn't cheap.
    Why pay a fiver for one when it don't even go on the card nowdays when a travelcard would be cheaper?
  • Woodsywood
    Woodsywood Posts: 991
    Get an Oyster, costs a fiver to buy and then you top it up. Someone else will confirm how much you need to spend to turn it into a travel card... Other than that a zone1-4 travel card for the sat.

    Beware though, travelling in London isn't cheap.
    Why pay a fiver for one when it don't even go on the card nowdays when a travelcard would be cheaper?
    How much for a travel card? Zones 1-4
  • NathanPrior
    NathanPrior Posts: 3,577
    Get an Oyster, costs a fiver to buy and then you top it up. Someone else will confirm how much you need to spend to turn it into a travel card... Other than that a zone1-4 travel card for the sat.

    Beware though, travelling in London isn't cheap.
    Why pay a fiver for one when it don't even go on the card nowdays when a travelcard would be cheaper?
    How much for a travel card? Zones 1-4
    £7.70
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,014
    Seriously mate, it's something ridiculous like £4 for a single Zone 1 journey these days, so a travelcard is your best option. I wouldn't bother with an Oystercard (I don't trust them!) , unless you're planning on coming back to London again , just get a paper zone one travelcard for Friday and a zone 1-4 for Saturday (they're about £7-£8 each and cover all buses, tubes and trains).

    Enjoy your trip.

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  • Woodsywood
    Woodsywood Posts: 991
    Thanks, £21 quid from Kent
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,258
    All the info re Travel card prices can be found in the TFL link I posted at 9.20pm.
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,026
    @off-it use my Oyster daily, never had a problem with it. Wish I could put my daily rail ticket on it, would make life easier.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Thought you were on the ponce....
  • RanTooFar
    RanTooFar Posts: 324
    PAYG Oyster is a rip-off - you pay a peak price for any journey between 4pm-7pm, whereas the extra charge is not incurred if using a paper ticket.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 29,014
    @off-it use my Oyster daily, never had a problem with it. Wish I could put my daily rail ticket on it, would make life easier.
    Fair enough, but I don't really fancy taking the chance!

    Anyway, not really worth getting one for a to day trip to London though, is it?
  • Simon E
    Simon E Posts: 806
    This website gives you a good overview of the oyster v travelcard conundrum.
    http://www.londontoolkit.com/briefing/travelcard_oyster.htm

    However, I would still advise you to get an oyster, so much easier to use, top-up, and leave money on it until you need it next. Even if isnt until next year.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    All proper tourists bunk their fares.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,426
    The £5 deposit on the Oyster card is refundable. Oyster costs are capped, so that they never exceed the cost the comparable one day travelcards.

    I imagine on Saturday you'd get good value from a one day travelcard, whereas on Friday evening if all you take is a single jouney to Covent garden then a single journey back to Kings X, Oyster would be cheaper.
  • Hpool Fan
    Hpool Fan Posts: 17
    Cheers chaps

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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,438
    Now Lads.....
    With reference to Tube prices, what's the best deal with Tube Tickets?
    Kings Cross Fri pm , round Covent Garden ish Friday night, same sat morning, over to Charlton, and back to Kings Cross?
    Daily Off peak Travel Cards? Oyster Cards?
    Baffled!!!!
    Cheers in advance
    1-4 zone travelcard about £6.70
  • Badger
    Badger Posts: 4,842
    How do you get a £5.00 deposit refunded?

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