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Travel in and around London

As you would expect of a major world capital city, London is served by an excellent communications system with four airports, eight main rail termini, the famous ‘Tube’ and the distinctive red buses and black taxis.

Public Transport within London

All travel in London itself is based on a zoning system in which concentric circles are the boundary for zones 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and journeys within or across these zones are priced accordingly.  For bus, travel zones 4, 5 and 6 are combined. The cheapest way to pay for single journeys on the tube, buses, trams and the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) in London is the Oyster card. Oyster single fares are cheaper than cash, you can top up the card whenever you need to and the biggest bonus is that you don't need to queue to buy tickets, you just swipe the card when you enter the underground or board a bus.