London Banter - View Single Post - Group ticketing conundrum for Cambridge-London trip on Saturday

Colin Rosenstiel · October 27th 06, 12:47 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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.

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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,

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