what is the best way to buy underground tickets?
melissa

It depends on many factors...how long will you be in London...how much will you be using the tube each day...whether you have kids with you...what age they are...

Need more info to give best answer.

What xyz said. tfl.gov.uk has all the information you could want, though it's not the easiest to understand and asking here is useful, if we have more to go on.

That link won't work, you have to copy and paste the address, because Fodor's software doesn't think that anything with .gov could possibly be from another country.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tick...cket-types.asp

What?!? Transport for London got rid of their downloadable 35+ page tickets and fares booklet? What a loss ;-)

Not hardly. Revising it keeps a dozen bureaucrats gainfully employed.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tick...fares-2006.pdf

Make that &quot;...<s>off the streets</s> gainfully employed.&quot;

We will be in London for 2 weeks.
there are 4 of us.They are 11 / 14 years old. We are staying on Kinnerton street in Knightsbridge.
We will be using the trains every day.
Do the trains go to places such as Leeds Castle,Canterbury,Dover,Cotswold,Oxford,Stratford-upon-avon,Windsor Castle,Hampton court and Greenwich?
Can I buy the train tickets online?
Melissa

Do yourself a favor and call Budget Europe Travel Service (BETS) at 1-800-441-9413. I got them from a recommendation on this board and used them to buy my train tickets from London to Paris as well as my 7-day travelcards for the tube in London.

I worked with Byron who was extremely helpful and patient answering all my questions, including those that had nothing to do with trains. You can also buy a British Heritage Pass through them, which may be something you want to consider.

Melissa, Of course there are trains that go to all those destinations from London. But they are not the underground. That's the London-and-suburbs metro area trains. Go over to http://www.nationalrail.co.uk, and you can find out the train times for different destinations there. (The British trains used to be all run by BritRail, but several years ago, the government did away with that state-run rail system. Now different parts of the U.K. are served by different systems.) You can also find out information on
http://www.thetrainline.com I think you can buy tickets on that one. I haven't done that myself. Generally, I look up train times on the internet, then buy tickets when I'm ready to do a day trip from London. There are several train stations in London. You'll need to figure out which train station to leave from, and take the tube there. You might want to buy a copy of Earl Steinbicker's &quot;Day Trips from London&quot; (or check it out of your local library). He includes train info, a map, and places to eat while on day trips from the country's capital city.