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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? -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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