On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Mary Barnes <mary.h.barnes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:49 PM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have an Oyster card that I got when I was in London in 2007 -- I don't recall whether it was
>explicitly a "Visitor" Oyster card. Is it likely to still work?
Probably. You can set up an online account on the TfL website,
register your card to it. It'll tell you what your balance is, and you
can top up from a credit card. As I recall, online topups with US
plastic works.[MB] In my experience, US credit cards (without chips) don't work at any of the machines in the train or tube stations. They will of course work at the counters with real people. [/MB]
[MB] Oops. I read (and responded) too fast, you are referring to being on the Internet and using a credit card to top-up once you have the Oyster card. I buy my Heathrow Connect tickets before I go online with my US credit card. That should work fine - I was talking about trying to top up at the machines in the tube stations which theoretically you can do, but it doesn't work with US credit cards. Some of the machines take bills and give change. Some do not. [/MB]
If it demands a UK address, use your hotel's.
https://account.tfl.gov.uk/oyster
R's,
John