Re: London Advice : Sun Aug 04, 2013 8:33 pm  

Staying at Elstree on Wembley weekend.

Obv need to get to Wembley but also into central london for a touch of sight seeing on the sat am

Do we just get a daily travel card each (zones 1-6) and can that be used on all trains/tubes/buses.

2 adults, 2 x 12 year olds and 1 x 8 year old


cheers

Re: London Advice : Sun Aug 04, 2013 9:44 pm  

Hutchie wrote: Staying at Elstree on Wembley weekend. Obv need to get to Wembley but also into central london for a touch of sight seeing on the sat am Do we just get a daily travel card each (zones 1-6) and can that be used on all trains/tubes/buses. 2 adults, 2 x 12 year olds and 1 x 8 year old cheers Yep, you just need to buy a travelcard, you can buy a one day card you don't need Oyster one the one day. Prices here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx

Hutchie wrote: Staying at Elstree on Wembley weekend. Obv need to get to Wembley but also into central london for a touch of sight seeing on the sat am Do we just get a daily travel card each (zones 1-6) and can that be used on all trains/tubes/buses. 2 adults, 2 x 12 year olds and 1 x 8 year old cheers Yep, you just need to buy a travelcard, you can buy a one day card you don't need Oyster one the one day. Prices here http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx

Re: London Advice : Sun Aug 04, 2013 9:48 pm  

Get a visitors travel card, look on the tfl website.

You've not left yourself enough time to get a travel card for the kids so you'll have to get a paper travel card for the kids, it does allow unlimited travel for the duration you get it for.

Children aged under 11 can travel free on buses and trams at any time. They can also travel free on Tube, DLR and London Overground services at any time as long as they are accompanied by an adult using a valid Visitor Oyster card or ticket. Children aged under 5 travel free on the Emirates Air Line when accompanied by a fare paying adult. Children aged 5 to 15 pay child rate fares on the Emirates Air Line.

A maximum of four children under 11 can travel free with an adult who has a valid Visitor Oyster card or ticket on Tube, DLR and London Overground services.

If you’re using a Visitor Oyster card, you must touch in and touch out as normal but ask a member of staff to let your group through the side gate.

5-10 year olds pay fares on most National Rail services. They can get a 5-10 Oyster photocard to pay as they go at child rate which is cheaper than paying cash

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Pay child fares on bus, Tube, tram, DLR, London Overeground, National Rail and the Emirates Air Line. Children aged 11 to 15 years can get an 11-15 Oyster photocard to travel free on buses and trams and at the child pay as you go rate on Tube, DLR, London Overground and National Rail services. If you have not allowed a minimum of 4 weeks to apply, buy a child rate paper Travelcard instead

Re: London Advice : Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:07 pm  

Cheers, looked at the travelcard/oyster but it costs £10 ??

Young uns under 10 so travles free but how does that work out on Tubes getting through the turnstiles, prob just best to pay the extra 3.40 for her

Re: London Advice : Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:22 pm  

If you have a pass, to get the kids through just show the pass to the station assistant, he'll open the gate for you and through you go, it's as easy as that.

Re: London Advice : Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:23 pm  

f you're staying in one of the hotels just off the A1 then you're actually in Borehamwood, yet the hotels call the area Elstree because of the studios and snobbishness. Anyhow, catch a 107 or 292 from your hotel to Elstree & Borehamwood station (107 showing Edgeware, 292 showing Borehamwood) then southbound to Kings Cross St Pancras, you can get off there but me personally, i would get off at West Hampstead then get the Jubilee line. This way you can get Jubilee northbound to [Wembley Park] or southbound to either [Baker St] for say Madam Tusards, or [Bond St] to go shopping on Oxford St or [Green Park] to see Buckingham Palace, or [Charing Cross] for Trafalgar Sq.

Re: London Advice : Mon Aug 05, 2013 6:28 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

I'm guessing that app users would prefer to tippy-tap their screens way through the journey rather than look out of the window.
Or am I stereotyping?

I do it with one finger.

Re: London Advice : Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:41 pm  

Hutchie wrote:

Staying at Elstree on Wembley weekend.

Obv need to get to Wembley but also into central london for a touch of sight seeing on the sat am

Do we just get a daily travel card each (zones 1-6) and can that be used on all trains/tubes/buses.

2 adults, 2 x 12 year olds and 1 x 8 year old


cheers

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Re: London Advice : Mon Aug 05, 2013 8:58 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

f you're staying in one of the hotels just off the A1 then you're actually in Borehamwood, yet the hotels call the area Elstree because of the studios and snobbishness.

Ibis, just round corner from the Sainsburys RDC

Re: London Advice : Mon Aug 05, 2013 10:11 pm  

Yes you're in Borehamwood, it's nextdoor to the gym i go, so if you want an early morning swim you can walk over, Literally 30 seconds walk.
The station, if you want to walk is about 15 minutes away, turn right outside the front entrance, up to Borehamwood centre, through to the opposite end.
You have the usual fast food places, KFC, McD's, Nando's couple of independents. There's practically no nightlife there which i suppose is good if you have kids. There's a crazy golf place for the kids just next to the A1 for a bit of entertainment.