Am I really getting a zones 1-6 Travelcard for just a fiver?

[jednick]

I usually book a journey to London online, and when I get there I buy the one-day off-peak zones 1-6 Travelcard (itself costing just over £13).

Using the CrossCountry app, I've found an advance purchase ticket from my local station to London Euston at a price I want to pay.

I tried changing the destination from Euston to "London Underground Zones 1-6". This costs me £5.10 extra. The itinerary is exactly the same from my home station to Euston.

I assume that "London Underground Zones 1-6" will actually give me my ticket to Euston plus a zones 1-6 Travelcard, but can somebody please confirm this.

My real question, though, is how can this Travelcard cost me just £5.10 extra? Is there generally a massive discount if bought as an add-on to a rail ticket?

 

[swt_passenger]

I usually book a journey to London online, and when I get there I buy the one-day off-peak zones 1-6 Travelcard (itself costing just over £13).

Using the CrossCountry app, I've found an advance purchase ticket from my local station to London Euston at a price I want to pay.

I tried changing the destination from Euston to "London Underground Zones 1 - 6". This costs me £5.10 extra.

I assume that "London Underground Zones 1-6" will actually give me my ticket to Euston plus a zones 1-6 Travelcard, but can somebody please confirm this.

My real question, though, is how can this Travelcard cost me just £5.10 extra? Is there generally a massive discount if bought as an add-on to a rail ticket?

I don’t think you have a travelcard, but a point to point ticket from your station to any LU station in zones 1-6.
An outboundary “travelcard” is a return fare printed on a single coupon, I don’t think you can get one as an “advance”.

 

[northken]

I usually book a journey to London online, and when I get there I buy the one-day off-peak zones 1-6 Travelcard (itself costing just over £13).

Using the CrossCountry app, I've found an advance purchase ticket from my local station to London Euston at a price I want to pay.

I tried changing the destination from Euston to "London Underground Zones 1-6". This costs me £5.10 extra.

I assume that "London Underground Zones 1-6" will actually give me my ticket to Euston plus a zones 1-6 Travelcard, but can somebody please confirm this.

My real question, though, is how can this Travelcard cost me just £5.10 extra? Is there generally a massive discount if bought as an add-on to a rail ticket?

It's not a Travelcard; it permits you to make a single journey using London Underground/DLR services to a tube or DLR station in Zones 1 to 6.

 

[jednick]

Thank you for both of your answers. It sounded too good to be true, so thanks for your help.

 

[James H]

Depending on what you are doing, you may well find using Contactless for your travel in London is more advantageous than shelling out £13 for a paper Travelcard

 

[hkstudent]

The zone 1-6 oyster / contactless day cap would be 12.80 GBP, and would be cost less, if you include less zones like zone 1-4 / zone 1-2
Day cap fare can be found here: https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/find-fares/tube-and-rail-fares/caps-and-travelcard-prices?intcmp=54720

 

[Hadders]

From where exactly do you travel to London?

If an outboundary travelcard is available then it might work out cheaper compared to two Advance singles plus inboundary travelcard.

 

[jednick]

From where exactly do you travel to London?

If an outboundary travelcard is available then it might work out cheaper compared to two Advance singles plus inboundary travelcard.

I'm travelling from Worcester Shrub Hill. The ticket I'm buying is via Birmingham / Northampton.

 

[Hadders]

An Off Peak Day Outboundary Travelcard from Worcester to London Zones 1-6 is £39.10 routed WMT/LNR Trains only.

This allows you to travel from Worcester to London Euston on WMT and LNR trains (there is no need to travel via Northampton, often it's quicker to change at Rugby onto a service that's originated at Crewe and avoids Northampton). You can use trains, underground and buses in London Zones 1-6 and then travel back to Worcester.

 

[Surreytraveller]

As others have stated, the price you quote is the price of a single fare from a station in Zone 1 to a station in Zone 6 at peak time paying by Oyster or Conactless. Off peak it would be £3.10 on Oyster/Contactless.
Cash it would cost £6.00