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Old October 26th 06, 11:34 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Barry Salter Barry Salter is offline
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Default 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.


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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