13 days london trip
 

hey, i m planing to have a 13 days trip to London by end of the year.i m still very confusing between the oyster card and London pass , which one is more worth ?? London seem like very good, because it included most of the places tickets.
2. i do not know how to plan my trip , do not know how to plan my trip with all the transportation at London there.

Oyster cards and the London Pass are entirely different things.

The oyster card is a plastic card you use on the underground (metro/subway) and buses -- basically all your public transport. You do want to get an Oyster card. (Are you traveling by yourself? If you are traveling w/ someone, there is another way to get discounts - but we won't confuse you w/ that unless you are traveling w/ someone)

The London Pass is a VERY expensive pass to get you into some tourist attractions. Since most museums and galleries are free (The British Museum, National Gallery, Victoria & Albert -- and MANY others) you will probably not visit expensive for-pay sites every day. To get any value at all from the London Pass you'd need to hit 3 major/expensive attractions every day of the pass. That really isn't possible.

The London Pass also sells a transport option that is an even WORSE deal since the Oysters cost less.

As for your second question - pick up a guide book and study what you want to see/do and we can help you work out the transport and 'stuff'. You can also click on <B>Destinations</B> at the top of the page -- Fodors has a lot of useful info about London.

thank you so much!!!! ya..i am checking all the places entry fee , really most of the museum is free entry. i am travelling alone. which mean i can purchase 7 days oyster travelcards and use for all the transport right?

i plan to visit as many places as i can....:)

Yes. It will almost certainly be better value for you, and certainly less hassle, to get the 7-day travelcards on Oyster (for most purposes, you're not likely to want more than zones 1-2; you can pay add-on fares per trip into other zones if you need to).

sorry, i'm not really understand about the zones and pay add-on matter.......:(

London is so big that its public transport is priced in different zones. Most visitors don't need to travel outside the central area (zones 1-2), so you only need buy a travelcard covering those zones. But if you do need to travel to one or two places in other zones (such as Heathrow), you just pay an add-on fee for each such journey, which is recorded on your Oystercard. That's much cheaper than including extra zones in your travelcard (which is one reason why the London Pass isn't very good value).

You can see a map of those zones here:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-zones-map.pdf

1 to 9 is different with the lines ?? because all the map which i had is showing only lines.

ok..let me study the map 1st...:)

Danielle_yn: When you buy your Oyster card --just explain to the ticket agent where you are staying and if you are taking any trips outside of zone 2 (I'll explain this next) - s/he will sell you the best option. It will probably be a zone 1-2 weekly travelcar plus some extra £ 'pay-as-you-go'. But don't worry if it ends up something different -- the agents are good at working out what you need.

Now about the zones. London is so big that the transport is divided in to sort of circular zones based on the distance from the center. Zone 1 is the very middle of London --but you can't buy a Oyster travelcard for just Zone 1. Zone 1-2 covers about 95% of the major tourist attractions.

Other places you might go in other zones could be -- Heathrow Airport and Hampton Court Palace are in Zone 6. Kew Gardens is in zone 3. See on the map that some places like Greenwich are on the border between 2 zones. Greenwich is in both zone 2 and zone 3. In that case you only need to worry about the closest zone. So if you have a zone 1-2 oyster and are going to Greenwich it wouldn't cost any extra.

The map patrick linked will help you figure it out.

(Lines are the different colored lines on the tube map -- sort of like different bus routes)

janisj,haha.finally i understond...between am still haven't decide where to stay..looking for a budget hotel or accommadation.!