Oyster card - monthly or pay as you go?

Hi,
I'll be living in zone 1 but working in zone 3, travelling to work 5 days a week. The annoying thing is that the nearest tube stop to my place of work is JUST INSIDE zone 3.

Just wondering which is cheaper: to buy a monthly oyster card (zones 1-3) or a pay as you go oyster card? And is there any way I could get around having to pay to go to zone 3?

cheers,

sabatier

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The cheapest is a monthly. Or even if your work provides the loan for it, a yearly one. I wouldn't have thought that travelling to one 3 from 1 makes much of a diference proce-wise. Once you're in zone 1 that's the most expensive zone anyway.

If the station is in zone 3 then you can't get around it. Though I know Clapham Junction is on the edge, and a zone 2 works there.

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Well, the station is just inside zone 3. I could probably get out at an earlier stop. But then, say I wanted to go home from the station in zone 3, would my ticket not work or what?

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Monthly no, you couldnt it wouldnt be valid.

PAYG, yes it will work. If its a large difference in price walk! If not, what can you do?!

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I would just grab the monthly 1-3 like these guys have said and budget it in somehow! Either that or get off earlier and walk - but Im guessing thats not an option?

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