Gap Year Pre-Paid Card

A pre-paid MasterCard^® with global travel discounts

Join the growing number of travellers around the world who have discovered this great new travel tool. Brought to you by gapyear.com, it is a card designed by backpackers for backpackers.

Take it instead of a debit card, because it's an internationally accepted MasterCard and your money is fraud protected.

Take it instead of a credit card, because you don't need a credit check and you can't overspend.

Take it instead of a hostel card, because there's a huge international network of travel discounts included as standard.

Card details

Why buy this?

Not only is it one of the safest ways to carry your money around the world, but you’ll save a shed load more than it costs to run, so it pays for itself. Get your folks to buy it for you as a useful leaving present and you’re quids in!

• Save 10% on point-to-point tickets and hop on-hop off passes from Greyhound Australia
• Get 15% extra free on Greyhound Australia's kilometre passes (eg 2300 km for the price of 2000)
• Save 10% on all Oz Experience passes in Australia
• Save 10% on your trips to Ayers Rock, Kakadu, Fraser Island…
• Save 15% on Magic Bus passes in New Zealand
• Save 10% a night on your hostel accommodation
• Save up to £120 on Imaginative Traveller
• Save up to £100 on Contiki

The list goes on – visit Europe’s best festivals and save 10% every time - Oktoberfest, La Tomatina, Venice Carnival and the Running of the Bulls etc.

Other benefits

• Get your wages paid onto it
• Top it up online and use it as a travel float (birthday money in…beers out!)
• Can be used at over 24 million locations and over 1 million ATMs worldwide
• If your card is lost or stolen the money on the card is insured and will be replaced

Eligibility

Similar to pre-pay mobiles there are very few people who can’t get one of these. There are no credit checks. You simply need an address and photographic identification (i.e. to prove you exist).

Any hidden costs or other fees?

• Card issue fee includes Gap Year cashplus prepaid MasterCard + membership service + discount network for a special offer rate of only £9.95
• It costs £4.95 per month to run this card when active (with money on it). That’s about 16p per day (you can save this on hostels alone!)
• * The first month's charge is included in the start up price, so it will cost you an initial £24.90 to get your card approved and activated

The usual charges apply for using credit / debit cards overseas

• The usual ATM charges apply overseas, except ours is capped at £1.50
• The usual foreign exchange charge of 2.75% of the amount you withdraw

The rest is all FREE:
For all purchase transactions, topping up by cash, topping up by debit card in all UK post office branches, topping up via online banking, checking your balance and recent transactions. You also get FREE downloadable travel planners – we’re great!