NEW Leap Visitor Pass Options

devnull

https://www.transportforireland.ie/leap-card/leap-visitor-card/

The following three options are now available

1 day (24 hours) – €10.00
3 days (72 hours) – €19.50
7 days (168 hours) – €40.00

They can also now be purchased in the city centre
Dublin Bus, 59 Upper O’Connell St.
Discover Ireland Centre, 14 Upper O’Connell St.
Visit Dublin Centre, 25 Suffolk St.

Once you have a Leap Visitor Card, you can top-up with additional time periods (1, 3 or 7 days) for the prices shown above at any Leap Card payzone outlet in Dublin (up to a maximum of 5 times).

the groutch

isn't the 72 hour one cheaper than the current LEAP cap?
and won't this also be a workaround of the current Monday-Sunday capping system?
will they require proof that you're a tourist to avoid abuse of this?

Carawaystick

It's a pity Paddy and his ginormous ego didn't know about this. He coulda added 40 quid to the low websummit price.

Fred Swanson

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XPS_Zero

They don't require proof because there is nothing to ''abuse'' and the card does not really save you much (or, for most people ANYTHING)

According to the inspectors own guides (which the PT bus inspectors have apparently not read as they seem unaware of it unlike IR and Luas guys) anyone can have one. They are aimed at tourists but anyone can use them. How do they know you have not emigrated and are back for a visit?

More to the point though, two of the three options above are identical to the weekly or daily leap card caps. €40 is the weekly all services (DART/LUAS/BUS) cap and €10 is the daily all services cap. So actually for tourists and residents there is NO SAVING WHATSOEVER in these, it just gets you the cap right off instead of working up to it. There is therefore no difference between putting €10 or €40 on an ordinary LEAP card than using these and no advantage.

The only actual discount is the €19.50 for three days where you're getting 1/3 off IF..IF IF IF you use it enough to make up the real savings (which most people would not). Unless you are traveling a lot within the city during a day then they don't need to have absurd rules to prevent residents using it because they would simply be wasting their money. Only a tourist or a resident on a very busy shopping day without their car would get the value out of this anyway.

devnull

You're wrong.

The Tourist ticket included Airlink, the others don't.

They only started being available from the city centre in the last week.

XPS_Zero

I never mentioned the airlink so no, I wasn't wrong.

The point of the OP seems to be that this ticket can be of use to residents, and my point is that two of the three ticket options have no advantage over an ordinary leap card and it's absolutely useless to residents to use the 3 day ticket option unless they are going to be making dozens of trips across all three services for those three days (I can't imagine many situations where people would - what would you be doing traveling around all day for 3 days str8? only a tourist would)

Recently I would have traveled WAY more than anyone else I knew on all 3 services and I RARELY hit the weekly cap, even then it's impossible to hit it before the Thursday so you'd have to have had one mentally busy week - Monday, Tues, Wed, Thurs all with a couple of trips on all three services.

Airlink is even less useful for a resident, it only goes alone one specific route a large amount of which is a tunnel, you can't get off mid route so unless you work in the airport and live in town or something it's no use to a resident either.

LXFlyer

XPS_Zero wrote: »

I never mentioned the airlink so no, I wasn't wrong.

The point of the OP seems to be that this ticket can be of use to residents, and my point is that two of the three ticket options have no advantage over an ordinary leap card and it's absolutely useless to residents to use the 3 day ticket option unless they are going to be making dozens of trips across all three services for those three days (I can't imagine many situations where people would - what would you be doing traveling around all day for 3 days str8? only a tourist would)

Recently I would have traveled WAY more than anyone else I knew on all 3 services and I RARELY hit the weekly cap, even then it's impossible to hit it before the Thursday so you'd have to have had one mentally busy week - Monday, Tues, Wed, Thurs all with a couple of trips on all three services.

Airlink is even less useful for a resident, it only goes alone one specific route a large amount of which is a tunnel, you can't get off mid route so unless you work in the airport and live in town or something it's no use to a resident either.

With respect you were emphatic that there were no savings at all from the LEAP Visitor card over the standard card - your exact words were "there is no saving whatsoever" (I'm not repeating your block capitals, underlining and bold - we can all read - there's no need for it - it comes across as you're shouting at us all).

You didn't need to mention Airlink - the fact that the ticket includes it alone means that it does offer more than a standard LEAP card. That's a statement of fact, so your initial statement was wrong.

Whether people make enough trips to reach the cap is a different point. As you correctly state, you would need to be making a lot of journeys to get value from it, but a return trip to/from the airport on the 747 would be €6 saved on two days.

I don't think the OP was making any point about residents - he was merely highlighting the fact that the ticket range has now been extended by quoting the TfI page on the subject and highlighting the changes made.

But another poster does make the point that it does offer an alternative to the fixed Monday-Sunday capping period - this may be useful to some people.

Re the Airlink, you can use it to travel between any stops on the route, that changed a few years back, but the fare is fixed at €6 regardless of where you are going to. You don't have to be going to/from the airport to use it. So that is another incorrect statement.

Mrs OBumble

[QUOTE=the groutch;97562451
will they require proof that you're a tourist to avoid abuse of this?[/QUOTE]

Define "tourist".