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Buying Oyster Card & Rail Passes Stateside?

Does anyone know if there is a monetary or other value in purchasing a London Tube Oyster Card and BritRail Passses in the states before travelling to London?

Or am I better off purchasing once I'm there?

Posted by
8700 posts

IMO, there is no advantage to buying an Oyster card stateside. It will cost more and it's simple to buy it when you get to London.

You cannot buy BritRail passes in the UK. You must buy them stateside.

Posted by
3112 posts

I agree with Tim. It's easy to purchase the Oyster Card in London. Unless there's some special deal for buying it together with the railpass, I'd wait.

Posted by
864 posts

I'm presuming you're flying into Heathrow. There's a manned booth to buy your Oyster Card at the bottom of the escalator leading to the tube and/or Heathrow Express. Put 10 or 15 pounds on each card and that'll cover you for at least a week. Easy to top off at any tube station in London if you run short. BritRail Passes must be purchased in the U.S.

Posted by
959 posts

Tim, how do you have words in bold when you put a post in?

Posted by
8700 posts

Amy,

You use HTML formatting tags for bold. Type "<". Type "b". Type ">". Type the text you want to be bold. Type "<". Type "/b". Type ">". (Omit the quotation marks when you do the actual typing.)

For italics you do the same thing using an "i" rather than a "b".

Posted by
19274 posts

But I used another trick, called HTML (&) codes. If I had written it exactly like that <b>Text</b> it would have look like this Text.