Hello,
My husband and I are planning to visit London for a week(9 days). We would mostly be travelling in London seeing some attractions and museum. We arrive in Gatwick and leave from Southend. We are staying in London (Clapham South 7 days/ besides Thames for 2 days) for our entire stay. We also plan to take a day trip or so to Oxford and another day to Stonehenge or so. I had 2 questions:
Looking at public transport options, would using contactless travel be the cheapest option (I checked a few calculations and seems cheapest but slightly confused)? We have Dutch contactless cards. I know we might encounter conversion rates and currency exchange fees, but apart from that will this be the cheapest option? This is considering we want to keep the plan a little open ended in terms of which day we choose to get out of London vs which days we travel in Zone 1 - 2 depending on the weather.
I checked some websites to see train tickets from London to Oxford etc and I see different prices. Are the train prices not fixed? I know there is off peak and peak fares, but other than that are the prices not the same for all trains taken off peak?
Thanking all in advance!
Sheetal.