paddington
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The problem could be avoided if your first journey was on a bus.
You could try a visitor information centre, such as the one at Kings Cross where they will happily sell you the card, register it and load a discount all in one transactionYou need to make a journey to prove it's your card before registering it.
I suppose the ideal would be a journey from Heathrow Terminal 4 to 5!The problem could be avoided if your first journey was on a bus.
depends how long they stay for.As an infrequent visitor to London, say once a month, I'm wondering if it's worth getting an Oyster card, and yes, I've read and re-read the web pages but I'm still no nearer an answer.
I get you have to pay a fiver up front and continually top-up (via an app in my case) so that makes contactless better, but are there any real benefits to the tourist using Oyster (eg cheaper fares?)
I also understand that if you have a senior railcard, an Oyster gets you 30% off rail fares (but not underground/tram) but those could be bought in advance anyway.
Help!!
for a tourist the registering bit is a bit nonsensical, just buy the ticket at TVM at the airport/londong mainline terminus.job done.That could work actually. But I think the workaround would be to purchase a card online. That way its registered before use.
for a tourist the registering bit is a bit nonsensical, just buy the ticket at TVM at the airport/londong mainline terminus.job done.