London 7 Day Travelcards

[hayleybeach]

Hi, does anyone know how to purchase the new paperless 7 Day Travelcards for London transport?

I last went before covid and used to buy the 7 day paper Travelcards at Euston when I got there. Going next month for a week long trip with my daughter.

But now I believe the 7 day Travelcards have gone paperless now and you have to buy it online at home and have it delivered to you in the post. Is that right? Can anyone living in London tell me how you buy them now?

This is just about the Travelcards, not Oyster cards.
Thanks.

You don’t really need one- you can just use a contactless debit/ credit card instead.

Thanks falafellala, I know, but it's the weekly unlimited flat fee Travelcard I'm after.

I think you can just buy it from a ticket office or machine in a tube or rail station. It’s probably easier to get it loaded onto an ouster card though.

Depending on what days you are in London contactless might work best as for a Monday - Sunday week it will cap your fare at the cost of a week travelcard.

Otherwise a travelcard can be loaded onto oyster. I'm not sure the week ticket is available as another form.

Using a contactless debit card will work out cheapest, your fees will be automatically capped once you reach the daily or weekly limit. You also won't have to pay any fees for buying an oyster card (zsed to be 3 £, not sure what it is now). And you avoid carrying around another card.

Thank you everyone. We'll be there from Sat to Sat and using public transport loads.

Can you explain about the capping on a contactless debit card pls? That's news to me. It costs £37 for a weekly travelcard, so how does weekly capping work? Thanks again

tfl.gov.uk/fares/find-fares/tube-and-rail-fares/pay-as-you-go-caps

Kitchendilemmas - Thank you very much!

Contactless weekly cap runs from Monday-Sunday. And you need one for each person travelling.

Oyster: if you don't already have one they cost £5 each, although refundable.

tfl.gov.uk/fares/how-to-pay-and-where-to-buy-tickets-and-oyster/buying-tickets-and-oyster

You can buy Day Travelcards (paper ticket):

From ticket machines at Tube, DLR, London Overground, TfL Rail and National Rail stations
From ticket offices at London Overground, TfL Rail and National Rail stations
At Visitor Centres
At the Tramlink Shop in Croydon

The weekly contactless cap is £37 but that runs from Monday to Sunday, whereas a 7 day travelcard can start on any day. The daily cap is £7.40.

You can buy a travelcard in advance here:
visitorshop.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/london-travelcard/

If you buy it when you get to London (at any TFL tube/DLR/overground station), it will be loaded on an Oyster card so you will have to pay a £5 fee per card on top of the ticket. It is no longer a refundable deposit.

Do you have DC? Under 11s are free. If they are 11-15, these are your options for getting the child discount:

tfl.gov.uk/fares/free-and-discounted-travel/11-15-zip-oyster-photocard

Actually, let me clarify that.

There is no refund of the £5 fee on Visitor Oyster cards. If you buy a normal Oyster card, you get a £5 PAYG credit added when you make a journey using the card after 1 year but you have to claim and use it within 6 months. So, it's pretty much non-refundable if you don't regularly visit or live here.