London's "Day out Guide"-Need help

The reason you need to buy the 7 day pass from a National Rail station is that the 2 for 1 discounts are sponsored by the national rail companies. The pass covers all public transport options in the chosen travel zones ie bus and tube and where it exists the overground railway.

But they do sell the 7 day TUBE pass (travel card-unlimited)? With that, will you get the 2-for-1 deals? What is the cost?

There is no such thing that as a tube only pass. Even the ones sold by Transport for London (ie the ones from tube stations) cover both tube and bus. There is no difference in price (see below) BUT, as I explained, you must buy a National Rail travelcard from a railway station to get the discounts. For both Zone 1 and Zones 1 & 2 coverage the cost of a 7 day card is the same ie £25.80. Therefore, buy a Zones 1 & 2 travelcard from a railway station in London.

London's public transportation of both deep tunnel and sub surface Underground lines (called the Tube), local buses, trams (streetcars), and London Overground trains are priced by 6 concentric rings of zones numbered, imaginatively 1-6. There are also zones 7,8, and 9 but they are in special places and not rings. -=- What you need to know is that except Heathrow (zone 6) and Kew Gardens (zone 3), most tourist areas are in zone 1 (which follows the contours of the Circle Line and looks like a bottle on its side)and the rest in zone 2. -=- Prices are set by Transport For London (TfL) and come in various flavours. You can buy a single trip fare or several passes. -=- These are based on the above zones. Your ticket or pass must be valid in all zones you travel in or through. Note that trams are valid in zone 3 or 4 only, and buses are exempt from the zones. -=- The Oyster card system is the easiest one to use because you can top it up anytime, it takes the cheapest fare for the journey, you just tap it at the gate or as you board the bus or DLR, you can use it in any zone and it works out your fare, if you use it all day it only charges a capped fare lower than a travelcard, and if only use it a little it only takes what you used. It never expires. But no discounts. -=- Many people on this board, me too, suggest that tourists at the moment get a one-day or one-week paper TravelCard. You can get these from various TfL outlets including Tube stations. >>BUT<< you need to buy the Travelcard at a Railway station so that it is issued by a participating railway company so that you can enjoy the 2 for 1 discounts mentioned above. >>If you do not buy your Travelcard from one of the railway companies it will not have the double BR arrow on it and it will not work with the discounts. ............ more to follow

A few more points -=-=- In order to qualify for the discounts in Days Out Guide what you need is a rail ticket. It can be a Travel Card issued by a rail company or it can be an actual rail ticket valid on the day. So for those days that your Britrail pass is active, for those days you have put a date on the passes, I would expect that the 2/1 deals would accept that. I am sure your pass would have to be validated and the date written in. -=- Remember that the 2/1 deals are only those on the website, and that most of London museums are completely free. -=- Oh, and when I said streetcar earlier, I wasn't talking about the one that used to run from Leonards parking lot to the store (or aren't you old enough to remember?) or in later years to Tandy Center.... ;-)