(19 Jul 2014, 5:56 pm)Andreos Constantopolous wrote Same here.
It appears the cost for a visitor card is £3 now.
Family members have used mine more than me - with most of my trips in London on the tube being a connection between National Rail stations.
It does save a lot of money and can make trips affordable.
Haven't got a Key Card.
The Network One weekly ticket (sometimes a Day Rover/Explorer) meet my needs financially and give me the flexibility I need (that GNE don't provide).
One the very rare occasions I need to use GNE and nowt but them, a one or two zone ticket does the job - begrudgingly paying the ridiculous single fares when heading on a one way trip to a railway station.
I don't have a visitors card. Because I was making regular trips it was easier for me to apply for a regular card like, I suppose, any other resident of London would. I made savings whenever I visited London and, as I said, I could easily hand my card back to TfL to redeem my initial £5 deposit which effectively makes my card free.
I did contemplate getting a visitors card but I found the process complicated in the senise that you had to find outlets which had cards in stock. Also, I don't think you get your money back on a visitors card and I didn't feel like paying £3 every time I visited the capital in order to save a few quid here and there.