How do you pay for tickets?

ooo · 5 Dec 2017

How do you pay for most of your tickets?
For this poll I haven't included rail travel vouchers as I'm guessing most people don't get enough / or get bank refunds to use them lots (if I'm wrong I'll add it to the poll)

I hope I've covered most of the options in the poll but if not please tell me so I can add them.

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Harbouring · 5 Dec 2017

Never cash. I paid for a rover with 40 quid of RTV’s earlier this year but I always use contactless at the station and card obviously online for advances.

London Trains · 5 Dec 2017

Cash and Oyster.
Kinda unfair as I am a child and my parents don't let me have a debit card yet. :lol:

You should add smartcard to the poll - Oyster, TOC Cards etc.

Harbouring · 5 Dec 2017

London Trains said:
Cash and Oyster.
Kinda unfair as I am a child and my parents don't let me have a debit card yet.

You should add smartcard to the poll - Oyster, TOC Cards etc.

But you still need to pay for oyster or Smartcards credit anyway

PeterC · 5 Dec 2017

Normally Oyster, or contactless on the odd occasion when I leave the Oyster wallet at home. I normally top up the Oyster by card at a machine.

For most journeys away from London the need to drive to a rail head, pay to park, and to get a taxi at the destination means that it is easier and usually cheaper to drive the whole way.

Tim R-T-C · 5 Dec 2017

I pay for everything with card these days.

I would only pay cash for a ticket if it was a short journey and I had a few coins lying around at home.

jbqfc · 5 Dec 2017

mostly on the credit card but i use cash for the odd short journeys that cost under £5

Merseysider · 5 Dec 2017

Card, pretty much always online for collection. Rarely, I’ll buy a PlusBus ticket with coins if I need to get rid of some loose change.

fowler9 · 5 Dec 2017

Most of my local travel is done using a monthly Trio ticket which I renew using my debit card. I normally use cash for other shorter journies but Lime Street is bereft of cash points at the moment so I have paid by card for two trips to Crewe and one to Chester in the last seven days. I normally like to keep cash on me. Longer distance almost exclusively card online.

Gemz91 · 5 Dec 2017

Always cash (have a priv so don't tend to buy advance tickets), but then I use cash for everything. Very rarely use card for anything.

waynemorrell · 5 Dec 2017

ooo said:
I hope I've covered most of the options in the poll but if not please tell me so I can add them.

Rail Warrants used by some businesses?

Domh245 · 5 Dec 2017

Much like merseysider, I only buy tickets online at the moment, so I'm rather limited to using a card!

BluePenguin · 5 Dec 2017

I spent £2.30 on a 3 minute journey earlier in cash. I always buy more expensive tickets for longer journeys online with my card though to get cashback.

maniacmartin · 5 Dec 2017

Card, for the airmiles. Also because I hate ending up with a pocket full of heavy change. In fact, I’ve gone coin free!

Kite159 · 5 Dec 2017

Mostly card, but the odd time using cash if I have cash in my wallet and the ticket is cheap or when I top up my Oyster card.

dk1 · 5 Dec 2017

Contactless for everything from coffee to tickets. Just effortless & easy.

pdq · 5 Dec 2017

Season ticket is paid by employer's loan; adhoc travel virtually all by card.

fowler9 · 5 Dec 2017

dk1 said:
Contactless for everything from coffee to tickets. Just effortless & easy.

I prefer to be able to see instantly what has left my account instantly since I am getting older, ha ha, as such not a massive fun of contactless. I still use it for very small transactions though.

route:oxford · 5 Dec 2017

dk1 said:
Contactless for everything from coffee to tickets. Just effortless & easy.

I started the year with 1x£20 and 1x£10 in my wallet. I still have the same two notes in my wallet.

Holidaying in the US is a bit more difficult to go cash free - simply because of the tipping culture. So I always go over with a stash of $1 and $5 bills. I think I also needed some quarters to hotel laundry machines.

AntoniC · 5 Dec 2017

If travelling on Merseyside one card payment for an Annual All Zones Trio (this year £1294 bought with an interest free loan from my employer Her Majesties Government.)
If travelling out of Merseyside by card online.

fowler9 · 5 Dec 2017

AntoniC said:
If travelling on Merseyside one card payment for an Annual All Zones Trio (this year £1294 bought with an interest free loan from my employer Her Majesties Government.)
If travelling out of Merseyside by card online.

Cool, two previous employers in Liverpool used to do similar schemes, sadly my current one doesn't but I am trying to encourage it.

waynemorrell · 5 Dec 2017

Mostly by card, sometimes cash when it’s only few quid to get rid of any loose change.

Of course it depends on the situation to some degree, mostly I buy via an app or website, which has to be card, but sometimes the booking office or TVM and guard if there is no booking office or TVM.

Sometimes the TVM might only be cash or card only if course.

And on rare occasions I have had a rail warrant or rail voucher.

dk1 · 5 Dec 2017

route:oxford said:
I started the year with 1x£20 and 1x£10 in my wallet. I still have the same two notes in my wallet.

Know the feeling mate 8-)

dk1 · 5 Dec 2017

fowler9 said:
I prefer to be able to see instantly what has left my account instantly since I am getting older, ha ha, as such not a massive fun of contactless. I still use it for very small transactions though.

Go on, be a devil :lol:

fowler9 · 5 Dec 2017

dk1 said:
Go on, be a devil

Ha ha. I frequently do, normally to have a cheeky pint. Then when I look at my balance I can pretend I didn't, my bank balance of course, my physical balance gives it away.

Hadders · 5 Dec 2017

Everything on my credit card.

ChilternTurbo · 5 Dec 2017

I'm lucky that my employer provides me with an interest free season ticket loan, so my annual gold card is paid for through that. My other work rail travel is done through a corporate travel booker who don't seem very adept at getting a decent deal but I digress…
For travel on the tube and tfl buses, I just use my contactless Visa Debit and no longer bother having a separate Oyster card.

Lrd · 5 Dec 2017

I use Android Pay for everything. I don't carry cash and carry a small card holder which has my driving licence, bite card and emergency credit card.

Bromley boy · 5 Dec 2017

I am fortunate to have a staff pass covering most of my journeys, but I always use contactless debit card for tube journeys.

Funnily enough I now use my local station's ticket office more than ever, to buy priv rate tickets which are not available from TVMs. The experience generally isn't a good one, sadly.

I'll refrain from naming the station in question!

Busaholic · 5 Dec 2017

fowler9 said:
I prefer to be able to see instantly what has left my account instantly since I am getting older, ha ha, as such not a massive fun of contactless. I still use it for very small transactions though.

I'm one of those cussed people who refuse to go contactless and insist on a chip-and-pin only card, so I'll probably be stuffed at some point, but I'll only go contactless when there is no other option.

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