London Forum: Admission for 16 yo

Are you asking where your daughter can get away with fraud by lying about her age?

In the US it is fairly common to use child rates if your child is close to the age limit. No need to be rude if that is not the practice in London. That's why I was asking.

I was thinking about the Globe theater, the hop on hop off bus, etc.

Nothing rude about GreenwichNick's response - it was to the point and correct imho. Senior's concession prices kick in when one is 60; by the OP's reasoning, it's OK to pay for senior's tickets if one is only 59.

What part of "under 16" is hard to understand? It doesn't say "under 16 or just a bit over and if so, by how much?"

Most of the major museums and art galleries are free in any case, so being over or under sixteen won't be a problem at those places.

If the child rate is for under 16, then a 16 year old must pay adult rates. I think that is easy to understand.

In the US it is fairly common to use child rates if your child is close to the age limit.

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Are you saying people in the US are more liable to lie about their children's ages than elsewhere? Interesting. I am sure plenty lie here also. How much the attraction checks on age, is down to that specific attraction and also the person on the door on the day.

As your emphasis will be on saving money, you should check on www.daysoutguide.co.uk where you can get 2 tickets for the price of 1 at no cost, simply by buying your travel tickets in the right place, no need to lie.

Please, I'm not saying anything about anyone.

And when I was doing the math on the various discounts I counted her as an adult - except I would like to purchase the Family Ticket (2 adults plus a number of children) at some of these places that its offered. We are an odd number of people so the Family Ticket would be better than the 2 for 1's. And to me - we feel like a family.

I think I have enough comments would not like to start a thread about the relative honesty of various geographics.

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As far as I am aware, OPs do not enjoy a monopoly on deciding when there have been enough responses to a question, so with respect I'll just back up and modify what Nick says.

The point was made rather bluntly, and may have been perceived as rude, but I doubt that that was the intention. The fact is that if a concession is available for persons under the age of x then any person aged x or over cannot make use of the concession. I understand that what the OP is saying is not that Americans are less honest than other nationalities but that it is the local custom to exercise a little elasticity in applying the rules. At a university at which I used to teach, students were allowed to submit essays that were not more than 10 percent longer than the prescribed maximum length. This meant that a 3,000-word essay could effectively be a 3,300-word essay. I suppose what the OP is saying is that in the USA if a concession is valid up to the day before the sixteenth birthday then it is understood that its validity is in fact extended to the age of, say, 16 and a half. If this is the local custom and it is widely understood then I do not think that it is necessarily dishonest. In the UK, however, this custom is not observed. Concessions here that are based on age become valid or cease to be valid on a specific date, not a day sooner or later.