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Oyster Travel Card

I'd held off from buying a London Oyster card for several reasons, not the least of which is that I thought they were only for season ticket use, and as my need to use London's buses and Underground trains was minimal, say, three of four times a month, this ruled me out, or so I imagined. True, ... Read review

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London (Well, SOME of It) Is Your Oyster

Advantages: Convenient, cashless travel, discounted rates still quite expensive
Disadvantages: Having Ken know where I go, not yet universal across all ex-BR stations

...off from buying a London Oyster card for several reasons, not the least of which is that I thought they were only for season ticket use, and as my need to use London's buses and Underground trains was minimal, say, three of four times a month, this ruled me out, or so I imagined.

True, you can use your Oyster card as a season ticket; a friend of mine does, but as I now know it can also be used as a Pay-As-You-Go payment card, with ...
...The TfL (Transport for London) Oyster card is a mainly pale blue credit-card sized smart card, although there is no outward sign of a microchip. To enter the TfL* travel network, you touch it onto or slide it over one of the myriad yellow card reading points that have sprung up in recent years, either at the entry door of buses, or at the entry and exit barriers of Underground stations.

*To date, this rules out a large chunk of Network ... more

BNibbles 11.11.2007 (14.11.2007)
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Advantages: Convenient
Disadvantages: You could lose it!

...gentlemen, say hello to the Oyster card then. For those who don’t live in London or perhaps have never even stepped foot in the capital, the following paragraphs may read like absolute gobbledegook, but trust me, I think I know what I’m talking about and I think it makes sense. The Oyster card is basically a form of electronic ticketing used on public transport – buses, some National Rail trains, trams, underground and the Docklands Light Railway ...
...March 2007 over 10 million Oyster cards had been issued…how this quite works out I’m not sure as I swear there’s no more than 8 million residents in London?? Clearly the tourists are doing their bit too! Firstly, London is broken down into ‘Zones’. Naturally, the further out of the centre of the city you are, the higher your zone number. To use a tube map as a diagram, the entire Circle Line is based within Zone 1, which means places such as Victoria, ...

carl.mcqueen 26.07.2009 · Read full review
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The World is your Oyster

Advantages: Great, handy
Disadvantages: Doesn't always swipe first time

...and so have found the Oyster Card an invaluable tool to help me in my journey. What exactly is an Oyster Card? An oyster card is basically a credit card sized card ticket which has an amount of preloaded electronic money on it (it can store up to £90 worth of credit) that allows users to travel by swiping the card over electronic readers to gain access to the transport system. The card is valid on the London Underground, buses and the Docklands ...
...new ticket each day. The Oyster Card can be carried in your wallet just like a credit card and so is small, handy and easy to use. The card itself is a bright blue colour and has the word Oyster written on it. I have always wondered why the name Oyster was chosen and after a little research found out it was because of this: “Oyster was conceived and subsequently promoted because of the metaphorical implications of security and value in the component ...

Spottydog11 27.02.2009 · Read full review
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Cashless and convenient

Advantages: Cashless and convenient
Disadvantages: Non-identifiable to you - if you lose it with £90 credit on - you might feel abit sore

I got my Oyster card last year before going on a day trip to London, to be honest I cannot recall how I found out about the oyster card - I assume it was going on the transport for london website to find out about tube maps or all day travel cards. I do recall I bought the Oyster card off the website for £5 (£3 of which is retained for adminstration charges) and it was delivered to my home the day after - really prompt service. If you register ...
...greater risk with pre-charging the oyster card too excessively is that if you lose it somebody else could gain access to free travel. The oyster cards are not identifiable to the individual in this respect save for if you want to top the card up. As children under 11 travel free on London transport I did not need to apply for an Oyster card for my daughter, we did however have to use the wider (disabled / pushchair gate) as the ordinary gates do ...

dotjay19 01.08.2009 · Read full review
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Fancy an Oyster?

Advantages: Cheapest mode of travel in London
Disadvantages: Big brother, not good for tourists.

What is an Oyster card? Basically it is a London travel card enabling the traveller to get around London without constantly buying tickets for the different modes of transport available. It can be likened to a credit card; however the difference being, you pay up front and charge the card before use, almost identically to a pay-as-you-go phone card. Transport for London hereafter referred to as tfl, call it a smartcard. I think it was very smart ...
...a station, tfl oulet, or Oyster card shop. This records highly personal information and I would have to question the reason for this. Remember if you then use your card for travelling, all your movements are then recorded every time you swipe the card through a reader and it is reported the police are using this more and more extensively to investigate people's movements. More big brother as I see it. You can obtain an un-registered card but will ...

milleniumzeus 21.09.2006 · Read full review
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Oyster.......... your flexible friend!

Advantages: Put as much or as little money on it as you like
Disadvantages: Can sometimes play up and the ticket barriers can get congested

...first people to have an Oyster card with a season ticket on it when they first came out. **WHAT IS AN OYSTER CARD?** Oyster is basically a "smartcard". You can put your Travelcard or Bus Pass season ticket on it, add money to pay as you go or have a combination of both, so if you need to pay for an extra long journey, no problem. They are also resuable, so basically you can have the same card for ever! When your cash/season ticket runs out, just ...
...education can apply for an Oyster card which gives them access to discounts on some attractions and other train travel. **HOW DO YOU USE AN OYSTER CARD?** When using public transport i.e. train, bus or tube you must touch in on the special card reader at the gates or on the bus so that it registers, this is also the same for train and tube, when you exit a station you must, again, touch out to register your card so that it takes off the right amount ...

MitchellandAimeesMum 22.11.2006 · Read full review
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Advantages: Nice
Disadvantages: Weird films

The Ritzy in Brixton isn't to far away from where I live, I can jump on a bus (or get on normally) and it won't take long. An added bonus is that Oyster cards make travel on buses and some other public transport free. If not it is always cheaper with an oyster card. I don't tend to watch that many films, more DVD's etc. Going to a place just to see a film seems a bit pointless, but I watched 'Spirited Away' here for the first and, yes the film was great - even with just subtitles - I have seen it roughly 5 times now, but the Ritzy itself Was like a little café/Village Cinema kind of theme. Everything seems so wooden and Red, unlike the Odeon which is blue, and other places. It was quite cosy and the film quality was equal to anywhere else. The writing that tells you what films are on is done letter at a time and it has a nice square ...

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London Underground. Not as bad as most people say.

Advantages: Fast Frequent Cheap (With an oyster card or travel card)
Disadvantages: Hot, Packed, Quite dirty in some places

I live in Norwich and travel to London quite frequently and use the tubes. I find it cheap. I used to buy travel cards that were about £5 a day for central london and that would get me on the trains, busses and DLR. But then i bought an Oyster card (a pay as you go style card) what i just "tap" on a reader at the start and finish of my journey. I would say it is very cheap if you have a travel/oyster card but if you are paying cash fares than it is pricey. It is not as bad as people say it is. Most of the time the trains are on time and as they run a metro system even if a train is late its only by no more than 5 minutes. However it does get very busy sometimes and VERY HOT. take plenty of water down there with you (beware there are no bins for security reasons) Overall i would give the London underground 9/10 for its ease ...

SEAN8110 27.03.2007 · Read full review
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Fast and frequent and the only way to travel in London

Advantages: It is fast and convenient
Disadvantages: Clostrophobic and certainly not for disabled passengers

machines take credit/debit cards. Many Londoners prefer to use Oyster Cards which can be topped up and mean that unless you are doing a lot of individual journeys they are the cheapest method of travel. My personal choice was the off-peak zone card (1-2) which gave us access to all the areas we were trying to visit during our stay. Another method is the single ticket. Although both tickets can also be used on buses, we didn't attempt to use them as we were wary of the congestion, especially after using the London Sightseeing Bus. In our opinion there is no quicker method, nor a cheaper one to travel around central London than the Underground (or tube), but it is certainly not the most comfortable. ...

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