Flexi Rail Ticket - Will you be returning?

Mellowfellow said:
Hello, just replying to this thread as it's fairly recent, I'm not a regular commuter, but have become one for the period up to Christmas and New year, temporary work.
I travel on Southeastern trains as I'm going from Tunbridge Wells to Rochester, wanted to buy a 7 day season ticket as I'm going to be weekly paid. Was told by the person at the ticket office that I had to register for The Key, Southeastern idea of an Oyster card (which I do have an old one for using when visiting family in Dartford , some London buses go there, and getting the underground in London.,) so that I could buy anything other than a daily single or return. I just wanted to pay them for a ticket for a few weeks not have my details registered with them unnecessarily.
Does the Key actually save money or is it just them being awkward for the sake of it?
I'm not someone who uses trains a lot so buying a long time in advance isn't something I tend to do .
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The Key is the most sensible/cost effective way to do things.
 
Mellowfellow said:
OK thanks.
I do know that weekly have always been cheaper overall than paying 5 daily returns but it was the having to register that threw me.
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Just check the train website for the ticket you are talking about, and it'll pop up as available to download via the key.
 
I’ve no idea of season ticket prices, but circa 20-22 years back I bought a return First Class ticket online on Deutsche Bahn from Düsseldorf Airport to Bielefeld (180 km), it cost (to the best of my recall) something like just over £100 one way.
The First Class compartment resembled Downtown Abbey, I was served a sumptuous lunch with a choice of wines, in addition to to the ticket price of course.
I sat back afterward and a young woman came along serving weinbrand, (brandy), various schnapps, and beers or coffee.
I never bothered to rent a car when I visited my son in Germany after that.
 
This thread inspired me to check the cost of our equivalent season ticket in Austria.

For Vienna only, a season ticket is €365.

That covers:

Bus
Tram
Underground
Overground

A ticket to cover the whole of Austria, same modes of transport as above, is €1089.
 
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