Looking for advice on passes for the London Metro. My wife are flying into Heathrow and staying over in London for 3 days at the start of our vacation and then for another 2 days on the return. We plan to take the metro to and from the airport, and probably use the metro at least twice per day. Our return to London is 11 days later.

You can do it yourself on this government website, which includes a detailed interactive trip planner and explains various passes. The easy way to go for you may be an Oyster card, which is like an electronic wallet. You pay a fee for the card and load some pounds onto it. Tap to enter the train and tap to exit. London is zoned and the card will calculate how much your ride cost and deduct it.You don't say which of the half-dozen airports you are using but you can check the website for purchase points. When you leave you can get a refund on the fee and whatever is left in the Oyster.

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>>London metro advice for 3 days<<

>>Looking for advice on passes for the London Metro.<<

>>We plan to take the metro to and from the airport, <<

>>and probably use the metro at least twice per day<<

No you aren't/won/t/can't. The 'Metro' in London is a newspaper. What you are asking about is the Underground, also called the Tube.

Are you doing any sightseeing while in London? If so an Oyster may not be your best option. If you buy Paper Travel Cards (good on the Tube/Underground but only sold in the various train stations. Those work just as well as Oyster cards but also qualify you for 2for1 entries to many attractions. https://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/2for1-london?gclid=Cj0KCQjwpcLZBRCnARIsAMPBgF1yt60AxJoSb Kg7jf4ZNqMH2RLs6zDwSB3uTQat1HyDmvJUUHyeh0saAnMvEAL w_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

So what you'll probably want are Oyster cards (bought at LHR if you are flying in through that airport) loaded with some pay-as-you-go ££ to travel from/to the airport and then each day you are in London buy one-day paper travelcards from the nearest train station. Where are you staying? Then we can tell you which zone you are in and which is he nearest train station.

NOTE: If you are flying in via a different airport the strategy would be different. So 1) which airport? 2) where are you staying? 3) How are you traveling back to London?

Around the world these underground train systems are usually called "subways", however a "subway" in the UK is just a tunnel for walking in and you'll find them all over london often just to get under a busy road but also as part of the "underground" network that make up "tube". So asking a Londoner for the metro, the subway etc will just get a slightly odd look.

The first "Métro" (note accent) was in Paris and was a shortening of the name, Chemin de Fer Métropolitain de Paris,

"We plan to take the metro to and from the airport, and probably use the metro at least twice per day."

Jeez. Every time I see someone use "metro" to describe London transport, I ask myself: "Self, what the eff is a metro in London?"

Jim, Janisj gave you a deserved thrashing for this because London's subterranean local train system is NOT the Metro (nor the subway, as the hobbit above noted), it is the Tube or the Underground and any cursory research would have picked up on this. But the point is not to pound you but to inform of one key point: terminology matters. That's part of the travel.

So to help a bit with terminology, I offer you this and this and this because without them, you may have a lot of language barriers in the mother country.