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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 9:34:47 GMT
I have some friends of friends visiting London today and we're doing the sights, blocking escalators and crowding train doors with over sized rucksacks (probably..). If they buy a Z1 + 2 day travelcard, does this include travel on buses, even if the journey is outside those zones? (e.g. Z2 - 3)?
Thank you!
Edit - They'll be traveling on the pink paper tickets.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Aug 9, 2015 10:01:21 GMT
London Buses only have one zone for fares, so a Travelcard is valid on all TfL bus services displaying the TfL symbol on the front.
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Post by snoggle on Aug 9, 2015 10:03:27 GMT
I have some friends of friends visiting London today and we're doing the sights, blocking escalators and crowding train doors with over sized rucksacks (probably..). If they buy a Z1 + 2 day travelcard, does this include travel on buses, even if the journey is outside those zones? (e.g. Z2 - 3)? Thank you! Edit - They'll be traveling on the pink paper tickets. You can only buy a Z16 or Z19 One Day Travelcard. Be prepared to cough up £12 for a Z16 ticket! Any Travelcard, regardless of the number of zones, allows travel on all TfL bus services including those which run outside of Greater London. |
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Post by MoreToJack on Aug 9, 2015 12:12:10 GMT
I have some friends of friends visiting London today and we're doing the sights, blocking escalators and crowding train doors with over sized rucksacks (probably..). If they buy a Z1 + 2 day travelcard, does this include travel on buses, even if the journey is outside those zones? (e.g. Z2 - 3)? Thank you! Edit - They'll be traveling on the pink paper tickets. You can no longer purchase Z1-2 travel cards. A Z1-4 is available during peak time (£12), otherwise there is only the Z1-6 (£12 off-peak) or Z1-9 (+WFJ) option. Any of these travel cards allow travel on any London bus (Even those outside the London boundary as long as the service carries a roundel and is TfL-tendered) as buses are not zonally based. If your friends have contactless debit or credit cards this is the cheapest and easiest way to travel around. Alternatively, get yourselves Oyster cards and just remember to touch in and out. If you're only in zones 1+2, either of these options will cap out at £6.40. J |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2015 11:16:42 GMT
Thanks everyone - I had no idea you couldn't purchase Z1-2 travel cards anymore. What was the logic behind it? Try to get people to use Oyster?
In the end I they bought their tickets before I met them. Would've been cheaper for them to buy an Oyster card and allow it to cap at the Z1-2 amount than pay the £12 they ended up doing on a Z1-6 travel card, even if they didn't get the deposit back at the end of the day for the Oyster!
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Post by MoreToJack on Aug 11, 2015 12:21:11 GMT
Thanks everyone - I had no idea you couldn't purchase Z1-2 travel cards anymore. What was the logic behind it? Try to get people to use Oyster? In the end I they bought their tickets before I met them. Would've been cheaper for them to buy an Oyster card and allow it to cap at the Z1-2 amount than pay the £12 they ended up doing on a Z1-6 travel card, even if they didn't get the deposit back at the end of the day for the Oyster! In short, yes. Decreasing numbers were using anything other than the Day Travelcard, and Oyster fares were cheaper, so it was withdrawn some time ago now. Oyster is *always* cheaper than the paper equivalent (Insert note about contactless quirks!), particularly when the £5 deposit is viewed as refundable; self service any time after 48 hours, or it can be done on the Oyster website. |
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