Elizabeth Line, West Ealing

Yes, you can use a debit card on the tube.

Anywhere close to an Elizabeth Line station will give you easy access to Bond Street. West Ealing is as good an option as any so if you’ve found accommodation you’re happy with then it will work fine.

West Ealing is in the London zonal system, so any contactless card will do.

Travel towards the back of the train to arrive at the nearest exit at Bond Street to the Consulate.

Thanks for the replies, all very helpful.

be sure if you have more than one card that you always use just one and keep the others away from the contact pad. If you tap in with one and out with another you'll pay for two maximum journeys and you don't want that. Also using the same one all day means you will have the daily cap correctly calculated and not pay after the cap is reached.

Thanks Nigel, good advice.

I need a bit more help please. it looks like our plan for Ealing is unlikely, so we're looking at Slough. I'm a bit confused as to whether the touch in and out for contactless works that far out of London? If not, I assume we just book advance returns from Slough to Bond Street and print the tickets?

Slough is outside the Transport for London travel zones but you can still use a contactless card on the Elizabeth line. It’s just more expensive than any of the London fare zones.

You can’t use an Oyster card as that is only for the TfL zones.

Thanks Helen. Just to confirm my stupidity, that means I tap the card on the pad at Slough and again when at Bond Street and the reverse going back.There's no need to use the card to buy a ticket at any point?

There is no such thing as an Advance Ticket so close in to London. It is just off peak and peak singles and returns, walk up fares.

Also there is a Red London Bus #81 which runs from the Queensmere Centre to Hounslow West Tube Station. Although Slough is outside London that is a standard London Bus Fare of £1.75

I wonder how far east you could get and still reach Slough on a £1.75 hopper fare...

Yes you just tap in and out. You can look the fares up online. It will be cheaper after 9.30am (off peak).

Thanks again Helen. That's all I wanted to know. I'm too bothered about cost, just the mechanics of getting in and out of London.

I wonder how far east you could get and still reach Slough on a £1.75 hopper fare...

Starting from Slough I think the answer is that in the middle of the night you could get all the way to Aldwych (changing onto the Heathrow Night Bus anywhere on the Bath Road) for the £1.75, but you can't get from Aldwych to Slough due to the travel time from Aldwych to Hounslow Central.

But at anytime daytime you can get from Slough to Victoria for £2 on the Reading Buses 702 The London Line, every hour- brand new double deckers.

I'm not suggesting the OP does it, but that bus stops at Hyde Park Corner- within walking distance of the Embassy. It does only take 58 minutes though- not drastically longer than 35 minutes on the train.

Thank you Stuart. It sounds like a fun exercise, with some judicious timing of your bus to Hounslow, even if it does derail the OP's thread a little. Sorry!

I'm not suggesting the OP does it, but that bus stops at Hyde Park Corner- within walking distance of the Embassy. It does only take 58 minutes though- not drastically longer than 35 minutes on the train.

Which embassy is that?

The Argentine Embassy or Consulate- Google maps uses both terms.

does anybody need the Argentinian Embassy in this thread? The question was Bond Street.

Nigel - the Argentine Embassy/Consulate is why the OP is coming to London!