Do you know the website to order the London transportation cards? <BR> <BR>Thanks!!

I'm not sure of what one you mean, but we just got a daily (after 9:30am) unlimited pass at the little grocery store next to our hotel. I think they sell them just about everywhere. <BR> <BR>This was an especially good deal fjor the children as their pass was aabout 1 pound.

If you are interested in the London Visitor Cards, you can only get those BEFORE you go to London. <BR>Check out www.Britrail.com ( just a guess) or call your local travel agent. <BR>I got one when I went , and found it very useful - no exact change or waiting in line to buy tube tickets. Worth every penny. The LVC allows you to use either the Bus or the Tube - we actually used the Buses more than the tubes. They are everywhere in London. <BR> <BR>good luck. <BR>Debbie

If you are looking to get Tube cards for day or week, wait til you get to London. You can buy them at any station. I would not pay more to get them in advance because they do not sell out.

Ah James, you have opened the can of worms regarding Tube passes. There are two schools of thought you will find on this forum - one to get them ahead of time and one to buy them in London. My husband and I have always purchased ours ahead of time (i.e. in the US). Once you get to London you just turn in your vouchers for the passes and go on your way - you can have them activated to start whenever you like. Contrary to popular belief you can get three day cards or seven day cards for either zone 1-6 cards or zone 1-2 cards. Most people's travels only take them within zones 1&2. I believe the cards you get once in London you must have a passport sized photo for. They are cheaper, but it was never worth the hassle for us to arrange the photo and wait in line. Some of the passes you buy once in London also limit your travel to after 9:30 am - which we found too restrictive. Just weigh the cost versus the benefits of each and decide for yourself!

<BR>I thought that you could only get the "Visitor" card here in the states ( or at least outside of UK), and that there were other cards you could get there but they either had time restrictions or cost more. <BR> <BR>Personally - no matter where you get it - I found the Card well worth it. less hassles all around.

Ok. I did a quick search on "LONDON VISITOR TRAVELCARD" - quite a few useful sites came up. <BR> <BR>this appears to be the official site: http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/pa...ravel_card.htm <BR> <BR> <BR>blurb from one of them: <BR> How does the London Visitor travelcard work? <BR> The London Visitor Travelcard,which can only be bought outside Britain, <BR>allows unlimited travel on London <BR>transport services, including the Underground, buses and <BR>the Docklands Light Railway for a set period of time - either <BR>3, 4 or 7 days, which are consecutive. The advantage of purchasing a London <BR>Visitor Travelcard is that apart from <BR>saving money, you save valuable time by avoiding having to queue to purchase tickets. <BR> <BR>Good luck.

Just FYI for James or anyone else, here is the URL for the official London Transport site: <BR> <BR>http://www.londontransport.co.uk/ <BR> <BR>All information about buses, tube, Dockland railway, river transport, etc.. is there. If you have additional questions after visiting the site they are very nice about responding to your via e-mail and trying to help.

I guess it all depends on where you stay and what you are into, but we stay in central London (Covent Garden) and find that many days we don't take the tube at all. The days we do, we buy the all day pass at the station. Yes it is only good after 9:30 which is no problem for us and you avoid the mobs of commuters that way anyhow. For us a travel card would not be a good option. We prefer to walk mostly, and also prefer to stay where transportation is not half your day.

I agree that whether or not you need either travel card depends on where you stay and how much you will be using the tube or buses. The main difference between the London Visitor Travel Card and the others is where you buy it. LVTC's can only be purchased before you go. Use the Rail Europe website and click on Britrail products. You can order there and receive it within a few days. The zone 1&2 card is all most people would need. The advantage of this card is that you can travel anytime you want on any bus or tube you want within those zones. We did use it during early morning hours to get to train stations for day trips. The only hours we found the tube really, really crowded was about 8-8:30am. Early was crowded, but not horrendous. Weekend passes that you purchase at the tube stations can also be used at any time. You just need to think about what you will be doing and when to decide what type of pass you need. But it really is nice to have that pass and just get on the tube, passing all those lines of people trying to get tickets out of the machines.