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now recently a friend of mine was in
London and didn't know which Tube ticket
to buy or whatever it is that you used
to travel on the buses and tubes in
London if you're from the UK you can
just use your contactless credit card
about which more later but if you're
from abroad you've just arrived and you
don't know where you live what your name
is where you're going you probably don't
want to pay all those foreign bank fees
on your transactions so it's probably
easier to get an oyster card now don't
be that person who hangs on for ages and
gets in everybody's way first thing you
don't want to do is come over here and
hit get new car you can decide here how
many cards you want but there's only one
of me so I want one new oyster card hit
confirm you don't have to decide how
much money you want to put onto your
oyster card its pays ago so it depends
on how many journeys to do per day and
then your cap it as a day travel card a
lot of people panic when they first
arrived in London Heathrow for example I
say look do I buy a weekly pass or do I
buy a pay-as-you-go
so I think the best thing to do is when
you arrive just stick 15 pounds credit
on to an oyster card and then that buys
you some time to decide what kind of
enemies you're going to be amazing after
so so I was 15 pounds the oyster part is
a 5 pound deposit we should pay and then
it pays to go credit which we would have
is 15 pounds all together with 20 pounds
now don't worry you'll get your deposit
back when you return your card plus any
unused credit as long as it's under 10
pounds and voila my nice fresh oyster
car ready feel it now the left side of
the escalators for people who are much
busier than you so as far as London is a
concern you're standing on the wrong
side you basically have no human rights
and you will be plowed out of the way by
people like me excuse me get out the
paddy I flew on the wrong side of the
escalator so did you honestly not notice
that everyone
didn't see the signs sorry
or no account must to speak to anybody
make sure that you keep your headphones
in the next station is angel and all how
to speak to me we're in London well are
you're not a Londoner I keep meeting
northerners what's going on they
actually speak to you on the tube are
you really are amateur you haven't even
got your headphones in
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amateur excuse me I'm going to stare at
my phone there so if you're in a real
hurry you can just swipe your credit
card or your debit card as long as it's
not this contactless symbol on it now
that will work in exactly the same way
as the pay-as-you-go credit on an oyster
card but you don't have to top this up
at the machine or anything you just take
it and you just scan it straight onto
the machine and don't be one of those
people who gets in the way and stands in
front of the ticket gate sorry now
remember you can't use cash on the bus
so you've got to use your car think
about the Oyster card is that you can
use it again and again and again I mean
if you use it say 50 times in one day it
won't go above a certain amount so you
can just continue using it all day long
they call it a cap King
I think it's mount sort of six or seven
quid or something particularly like the
number fifteen bus because you can get
one of these old Routemasters and
they're really good they follow a route
all the way from Trafalgar Square past
the Royal Courts of Justice the monument
Sweeney Todd's barber shop finishes up
by the Tower of London there's so much
more space on these as well it just
feels so much more comfortable and you
can even open the window here look at
labs hate those horrible new ones this
seat over here in the corner is why
my friend used to call it the molesters
seat weirdos and pervs used to sit in
this one I rather like it you can sit at
the back of the bus and just sort of
observe everybody who gets on from over
here
thank you thanks man see ya
thank you you can even use it on the
boat but it does cost a little bit more
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but you really have to remember to swipe
out it's very important otherwise you
get charged extra sometimes the gates
are already open and a lot of people
think I know I want to get charged if I
just walk straight through but that's
not the case you'll get charged 8 pound
some stations don't even have ticket
gates so make absolutely sure that you
did quite in and out properly otherwise
you can get absolutely skin on the fare
you can even use it on the Emirates
Airline excellent it cost three pounds
forty four adults and one pound seventy
four child if you have an oyster car in
many ways there's no need to pay for one
of those expensive guided tour buses
with so many jewels guides online you
can just access them on your phone and
with an oyster card you can get around
London for a reasonable price so if you
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