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Question about Young Visitor Oyster card

Posted by (Duluth 🛶 ) on

As lots of you know, I will have my 15 yr old grandson and my 11 year old granddaughter with me in London this coming spring for 10 nights. I already have a regular Oyster card (not visitor) with a Railcard discount attached to it, but I'm trying to figure out what I would get for them.

It looks like my best option is to buy them each an Oyster card and then get the Young Visitor discount attached to it. Does that sound right? The last time I was there, I was able to get my discount attached to the Oyster card while I was at Heathrow, so I'm assuming I can do it there, too.

Posted by
5862 posts

Yes. A member of staff can add the young visitor discount. I think it is valid for 2 weeks.

Posted by
8127 posts

Sorry, my question was a little misleading. I know that someone can probably attach the YV discount, but I guess I just wanted to make sure that the YV option is the best one available for the two kids. I know there is a Zip 11-16 Oyster card, but I wasn't sure if that was available to them as visitors.

Posted by
292 posts

We did just that last Spring fir our grandchild. It was easy.

Just ask a staff member at the Underground station at Heathrow.

Posted by
8056 posts

The Zip is certainly an option but it means spending £15 each plus the faff of photo taking and waiting for the cards to be mailed, when YVD is free.

On the other hand they get a souvenir as a personalised Oyster.

And it's valid until they are 16.

Horses for courses I suppose.

YVD is the easy cheap option but you need to deal with it on arrival when tired, ZIP takes time, effort and costs now but then is ready on arrival.

I know some overseas folk have had issues setting up a TfL account which may well be the stumbling block in this.
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