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Highmac
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 Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:09 pm |
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Visiting London on Saturday on business. We'll be travelling by tube from Euston to Canary Wharf. A day-travel card is £12.10; using a contactless debit card costs £2.40 each way (assuming Saturday is off-peak all day). Anyone had problems using a contactless card on the tube? Or has the system been in use long enough to have the wrinkles ironed out?
From what I've read on the TfL site, it just tots up the day's journeys and deducts the total from your account.
TIA.
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Lincoln Imp
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 6:49 pm |
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Never had any trouble using contactless on the tube or buses. Register your card on TfL website beforehand and away you go. It tots up your journeys and deducts the cash, but if you overshoot the daily price cap on journeys, it only deducts that maximum. I think the cap is around £10 a day at the mo.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 8:26 pm |
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I have just come back from London today and used my Apple Watch which works a treat. Obviously I added my debit card to my wallet app but does the same as Lincoln Imp says. You could always buy a day ticket at either the counter or machine?
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Mike Smith
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 7:52 am |
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Last time I was in London I was about to buy a day pass when a helpful staff member gave me some sound advice. If you used your contact less card for more than three journeys it automatically converts to a day pass, no need to register and (I think) worked out almost half the cost of an actual day pass from the machine. Have a nice trip 
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Highmac
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:26 am |
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Thanks for the info folks. Contactless it is Oh and I've read the warnings about not putting a wallet with more than one contacless card against the reader 
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Ramaprem
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 4:19 pm |
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What is a "contactless card"?
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Defcom
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 4:28 pm |
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Ramaprem
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 4:36 pm |
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Thanks, Tony.
I guess I'm out of contact.
Enjoy the pub.
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 5:21 pm |
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Yes it works in the Pub
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Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 5:25 pm |
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Seems to me - if you stagger about - you could run up quite a tab.
But you do that regardless.
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Highmac
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 3:48 pm |
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Update: We used our debit cards. At Euston Tube it was a case of negotiating through a massive crowd trying to buy tickets to get to the gates. Flashed the card, the gate opened and we were in. Same on the way back. We checked and the £4.80 each was taken from our bank accounts today. It's fair to say we all reach an age where tech is moving so fast that confidence can't keep up with it and we need reassurance. Thank you for that reassurance.  Realised last night that I'm exactly double Valentino Rossi's age 
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