Does Anyone Know

[Samuraisan]

My Daughter and family are visiting London for a week in August. It is years and years since I have been there, so I have no idea, but does anybody know if one can buy passes for the underground/buses before travelling and is there a discount for tourists ? Daughter, husband and two children 9 and 5.

[bookbinder]

https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/visiting-london/getting-around-london/best-ways-for-visitors-to-pay

[Samuraisan]

Thanks bookbinder, I shall forward that link on to her.

[bookbinder]

I hope that the link is helpful to your family. It is, also, years and years since I was in London, so any info that I have from then will be well out of date.

[Buenchico]

A the link shows, the simplest way to travel around London is for the adults to use contactless debit cards. (You 'tap in' and 'tap out' at Underground stations. You just 'tap in' on buses). There's a daily cap on what you pay with a contactless debit card, which is exactly the same amount as the daily cap on Oyster cards. (The actual amount at which the cap cuts in depends upon the times of day during which you've travelled and which zones you've travelled through).

At Underground stations the group should use the wide barriers, to one side of the main ones, so that the children can pass through without any form of ticket. (Those barriers are always staffed, so it's very easy to do).