Apple Pay: MasterCard offers free Oyster travel in London

Visa Europe today unveiled the new Visa / Apple Pay "Ready" campaign to run across broadcast and social media during the coming two months.

The offer is running for the next three Mondays - the final day is Monday 14th December - and allows you to travel between 4:30am until 1am the following Tuesday morning, so even people on early- or late-shifts should be able to take some advantage.

So, as long as you have either an Apple Watch or an Apple smartphone and have a Mastercard account connected to your phone, you get to travel for free all over London where you would have otherwise used an Oyster Card. This promotion also pretty much lasts for four weeks which actually started yesterday (Monday in the UK). The refund limit is up to £27.90 or about $42. You'll need to have performed an NFC ("contactless") transaction with your MasterCard in Apple Pay in order to qualify for the refund, and you'll also need to have travelled on either the London Underground, London Overground, a bus, tram, DLR, or using a National Rail service (in London, of course).

MasterCard is offering customers who have tied their debit or credit cards to Apple Pay the chance to use London's public transport system for free if they tap in with an iPhone or Apple Watch.

As a reminder, Apple's mobile payments service became available in the United Kingdom back in July of this year and it already raised plenty of interest.

Open the Wallet app on your compatible smartphone - an iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus.