"Clive Page" wrote in message
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In message , Helen Deborah Vecht
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I think there *is* a potential problem for ill-informed visitors,
especially if they don't read English.

I think there's a problem for all visitors, because they won't easily be
able to use all the stored value (or get their deposit back). My wife and
I between us have at least half-a-dozen strippenkarts or metro cards or
similar for Washington DC and various European cities, each with a bit of
residual value. When next we visit it isn't at all clear whether they are
still valid, or whether we can top-up or not.

Can I just suggest that it is silly to buy strip cards in the
first place if you are unceratin that you are going to use them.

In many European towns the strip card discount is no more
than 10%. Risking wasting 50% of a strip ticket to save
10% just doesn't seem very sensible.

Buy single tickets, or if you want to make multiple journeys
a day pass, and if it costs you 10% more, so what?

tim