On Sat, 10 May 2008 04:39:21 -0700 (PDT), Boltar
wrote:

On 10 May, 11:17, Paul Corfield wrote:
premium priced Tourist Travelcard. I can't think of a city anywhere that
makes it easy for people with loads of fresh, high denomination currency
to use standard public transport services. Many systems are farebox no

Paris - queue at the ticket office at the gare du nord , buy a Mobilis
(or whatever they're calling it this year). Sorted.

Heathrow - queue at the underground ticket office at Heathrow Central,
T4 or T5 and buy a One Day Travelcard or Bus Pass. Isn't that the
same? And, with a bit of luck, you'll find a queue shorter than at
the Gare du Nord.

Next time I travel through Heathrow I will try to imagine what it's
like for a tourist and see how easy, if indeed at all possible, it is
to buy an Oyster card, a one-day ticket underground or bus single
before leaving the airport. I remember there used to be ticket
machines in some baggage reclaim halls - I would hope to still find
them, with Oyster vending machines.

My usual bus route home is the X26 and I've apologised before -
pre-Oyster - about only having notes, still, they seem used to that
sort of thing. It would be the easiest thing in the world to have
both Oyster and single bus fare ticket machines (not the poor spec
roadside ones) in the Heathrow bus stations.

Richard.