Group ticketing conundrum for Cambridge-London trip on Saturday
 

My 14-year old daughter is planning a trip to London with friends on
Saturday. They need train plus tube tickets for one adult, one
16-year-old, who counts as an adult, and six children.

The simplest would be 'one's cheap Cambridge-London West Anglia only
offer, £18 for each adult plus £2 per child, total £48. If someone has a
suitable railcard it comes down to £12.50 plus £2 per child, total £37.

However, if they don't want a slow trip to London and prefer to use FCC
it all gets very messy. NRE only offers Day Travelcards, £22.50 for the
adults, £11.25 for the children, total £112.50. If they were doing that,
it would of course be better to buy a Network Card or two for £20 and
pay £17.60 per adult and £4.50 per child, total £82.20 or £102.20 if
they need two railcards.

However, there look to be unintegrated alternatives that are cheaper.
FCC offer Kids for £1 fares. NRE haven't heard of them but, from ringing
FCC Customer relations, they would appear to allow travel to King's
Cross for £1 each but no tune element. Then Child Travelcards could be
bought from LUL for £2 each.

I'm not sure what would be the best adult tickets with this option
because I don't seem to be able to bottom out the Kids for £1 fare
conditions. Either is would be 2 Day Travelcards at £22.50, making £63
in all, or 2 day returns to London terminals at £17.60 plus LUL
Travelcards at £6.30 (all zones - they might get away with less) in
which case the kids' cards would only be £1 each. So a total of £53.80.
All these are without railcards. If they have one it would upset the
calculations.

Any more?

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Colin Rosenstiel

Group ticketing conundrum for Cambridge-London trip on Saturday
 

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
My 14-year old daughter is planning a trip to London with friends on
Saturday. They need train plus tube tickets for one adult, one
16-year-old, who counts as an adult, and six children.

snip

I'm not sure what would be the best adult tickets with this option
because I don't seem to be able to bottom out the Kids for £1 fare
conditions. Either is would be 2 Day Travelcards at £22.50, making £63
in all, or 2 day returns to London terminals at £17.60 plus LUL
Travelcards at £6.30 (all zones - they might get away with less) in
which case the kids' cards would only be £1 each. So a total of £53.80.
All these are without railcards. If they have one it would upset the
calculations.

Any more?


Best bet would probably be to treat two of the kids as Adults, then get
GroupSave tickets. A group of three or four Adults goes for the price of
two (or thereabouts, works out as 34% discount per person for three, 50%
discount for four), and the Kids go for a Quid each. And since June,
you've been able to get Travelcards on that.

Cost for that would be £11.25 per person for the four "adults", £1.00
for the four kids, giving a total of £49.00.

HTH,

Barry

Group ticketing conundrum for Cambridge-London trip on Saturday
 

In article ,
(Barry Salter) wrote:

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
My 14-year old daughter is planning a trip to London with friends
on Saturday. They need train plus tube tickets for one adult, one
16-year-old, who counts as an adult, and six children.

snip

I'm not sure what would be the best adult tickets with this
option because I don't seem to be able to bottom out the Kids for
£1 fare conditions. Either is would be 2 Day Travelcards at
£22.50, making £63 in all, or 2 day returns to London terminals
at £17.60 plus LUL Travelcards at £6.30 (all zones - they might
get away with less) in which case the kids' cards would only be
£1 each. So a total of £53.80. All these are without railcards.
If they have one it would upset the calculations.

Any more?


Best bet would probably be to treat two of the kids as Adults, then
get GroupSave tickets. A group of three or four Adults goes for the
price of two (or thereabouts, works out as 34% discount per person
for three, 50% discount for four), and the Kids go for a Quid each.
And since June, you've been able to get Travelcards on that.

Cost for that would be £11.25 per person for the four "adults",
£1.00 for the four kids, giving a total of £49.00.

HTH,

Indeed, but it turns out from talking to the FCC TTI at Cambridge
station this morning that the right fare is indeed the Family
Travelcard, two adults at £20.35 and six kids at £1. This is the fare I
first thought of that everyone else denies exists but his machine is
happy to sell.

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Colin Rosenstiel