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A dayLink Smartcard provides unlimited Metro and Glider day travel for adults and children. You can load your dayLink card with 1, 5 or 10 days and use your travel whenever you want. 

You do not need to use your travel days one after another. You can add more travel to your card whenever you need it. You can top up with another 1 day’s travel on the bus or with 1, 5 or 10 days travel at our Translink top-up and sales outlets.

You can buy all day travel which means you can travel any day, anytime on the Metro and Glider network.

You can use dayLink on all Metro and Glider services. You can also use it on Ulsterbus services that pick up passengers within the Metro and Glider area. Plus you can top-up with the driver with 1 day’s travel on board Metro or at Ticket Vending Machines at Glider halts.

Any unused travel stays on your card until you are ready to use it. For example you can use a dayLink card topped-up with 5 days travel on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday of one week and Wednesday of the following week.


Daylink Metro

Using dayLink on Metro

  1. Hold your dayLink card to the target on the ticket machine reader with the front of the card facing upwards.
  2. If there is at least one day’s travel loaded on your card it will read successfully. The machine will bleep once and the green light will illuminate.
  3. The machine will issue you with a paper ticket showing the details of your journey. Keep your ticket with you, as staff may ask to see it.
  4. If there is no travel loaded on your card the red light will appear. You will then need to pay the bus driver to load one day’s travel onto your card.
  5. The machine will issue a ticket receipt. Please keep this ticket as it is your ticket for your first journey on that day.

Daylink Glider

Using dayLink on Glider

  1. Hold your dayLink card to the target on the validator device.
  2. When the card reads successfully, the validator device will bleep once. A green tick will display on the screen at the top.
  3. If a red screen appears, your card has not been accepted for travel and you should contact a member of staff. Please use another way to pay for your journey. Staff carry out ticket checks across the Glider network.
  4. The validator does not print a ticket or receipt. It simply uses one day of travel from your card.
  5. If a Metro bus arrives at a Glider halt and you wish to board but have already validated your card for Glider, just tap your dayLink on the ticket machine beside the driver when you board Metro. No additional journey will be deducted if you are travelling in the same direction and within 90 minutes of validation at the Glider halt.

dayLink Fares

Top-up on Metro and ticket vending machines at Glider halts.

Top-up at agents and ticket vending machines at Glider halts.


Adult

Child

1 Day£4.00

£2.00

Top-up at agents and ticket vending machines at Glider halts. 

(Metro Kiosk, PayPoint and selected Translink sales outlets).


AdultChild
1 Day£4.00£2.00
5 Days£18.50£9.25
10 Days£37.00£18.50

Buying and topping up dayLink

You can buy your dayLink card and first top-up of travel at:

  • Europa Buscentre, Lanyon Place Station, Great Victoria Street Station
  • Visit Belfast, Donegall Square North

You can top up dayLink cards with 1 day’s travel with the driver on board a Metro bus and you can also top-up on board any Ulsterbus service scheduled to pick-up passengers in the Metro operating area. If you add one day's travel on the bus, that day's travel starts straight away.

Top-ups of 5 or 10 days travel are not available on buses. You can top-up 1, 5 or 10 day’s travel at:

  • PayPoint Agents across Northern Ireland
  • Ticket Vending Machines at Glider Halts
  • Belfast Grand Central Station and Lanyon Place Station
  • Visit Belfast, Donegall Square North

You can add 1, 5 or 10 days of travel to your card and use them when you need them.

Further info and terms and conditions

Metro / Glider dayLink terms and conditions