Adding daily travelcards to Oyster card

[HA25322]

So I will try to explain. Last year I brought a week zone 1-6 travelcard on an Oystercard. Cost about £60 if I remember correctly?
Since then I have obviously not used the card as I only used it for that week.
The question I have now is if I wanted to add just an ad-hoc daily travelcard
is it
a) possible?
b) do you just go up to the machines and it will do it for you?

I have tried online but no joy.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Cheers

 

[MikeWh]

So I will try to explain. Last year I brought a week zone 1-6 travelcard on an Oystercard. Cost about £60 if I remember correctly?
Since then I have obviously not used the card as I only used it for that week.
The question I have now is if I wanted to add just an ad-hoc daily travelcard
is it
a) possible?
b) do you just go up to the machines and it will do it for you?

I have tried online but no joy.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Cheers

You can't add a daily travelcard to an Oyster. You add PAYG credit and it deducts money for each journey until you reach the appropriate cap. The cap is never more (usually less) than the equivalent day travelcard.

 

[HA25322]

Thanks for the quick reply. I thought that would be the answer. Just when you are on the bash going from say Waterloo - Wimbledon and you get off at Vauxhall, CLJ, etc you don't want to keep going to touch in and out. Just having the 7 day travelcard on the oyster made it so much easier but when you only need a couple of days here and there......
Thanks again.

 

[Kite159]

If on a bash like you are suggesting it will probably be better to get a paper travelcard to avoid hitting any maximum journey times

 

[Great_Western]

I visit London fairly frequently, and gave up on oyster quite a while ago. Paper travelcards are far more convinent, esspecially if you have a railcard. Even though certain gatelines dont like them, most annoyingly Enfield Town and then Liverpool Street

 

[HA25322]

I visit London fairly frequently, and gave up on oyster quite a while ago. Paper travelcards are far more convinent, esspecially if you have a railcard. Even though certain gatelines dont like them, most annoyingly Enfield Town and then Liverpool Street

That's what I thought. Being a basher it appears that the oyster is not really the way forward. Thanks for the answers everyone.