Nicholas wrote:

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:37:55 GMT, "Bob Wood"
wrote:

In ,
Colin Rosenstiel typed:


There appears to be a minimum now, but only £4.80.


The £4.80 minumum fare applies only to TravelCards, as far as I am
aware.


I should just add that I've finally received written confirmation from
London Underground that Gold Card holders are entitled to buy
discounted Day Travelcards (from LU ticket offices) for use
themselves. Which is something that has always been the case but
unfortunatly the LU ticket office staff don't all seem to be aware of,
for example insisting to me that I could only buy them for people
travelling with me!

Nicholas


Well done for doing that - is it an email/letter from TfL/LU? Perhaps
you might like to copy and paste it here so if people ask about this in
the future they can find/be referred back to the official answer.

I bet this doesn't filter down to LU ticket offices though! If they're
being obstinate on this my workaround would be to buy the required
discounted all-zones Day Travelcard at the ticket office and if they
insist it's not necessary/not possible then you can just make out it's
for a travelling companion who's just dawdling around the corner/in the
shop/wherever.

Bear in mind that when you go outside your Travelcards zonal
validity...

*if* you have your Gold Card Travelcard loaded on your Oyster card and

*if* you're only travelling on the Tube/DLR/NR routes where Oyster
Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) is accepted

....then depending upon what zones your Gold Card Travelcard covers in
many cases it'll be cheaper to just use your Oyster card to cover the
excess fare. Example below...

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If you have a zones 1&3 Gold Card Travelcard and you're going to be
travelling around a lot on the Metropolitan line beyond zone 3 then
even if you made several journeys the amount you'd pay would be capped
at less than £4.80 (which is the current price of a discounted
all-zones Travelcard).

If you stayed within zone 6 the cap would be £3.80 (which is the
capping level that applies for journey in zones 2-6), and if you went
out of zone 6 into zone(s) A/B/C/D then the cap would be £4.10.

All capping levels quoted are off-peak price caps and can be reviewed
on the TfL site [1].
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Of course if you want to travel out of your Gold Card Travelcards zonal
validity on most National Rail services Oyster PAYG is no good - which
is where the discounted all-zones Day Travelcard comes in handy. And if
you're travelling with others then the whole equation is of course
different as you can of course buy discounted tickets (including
all-zones Day Travelcards) for up to three other accompanying adults on
the condition that their tickets mirror yours exactly.

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[1] http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/fares-tick...ubedlr-4.shtml