they tell you you can get the refund on the card when you return but the shops closed when you return. loads got caught last year

thanks everyone for all that, stanmore it is

If memory serves, having got the tube from Stanmore to Wembley for Four Nations last year, it's actually cheaper to buy a full day travelcard than to just pay the return fare - even though its only about three stops

Oyster cards are useful if you make more than the odd trip to the smoke. I've got one (I'm regularly down there with work) and the fare from Hillingdon (where we usually park) is £1.40 each way with an Oyster. Cheapest way to do things without one is a £8.50 travel card.

Hope you kept it for this year. They don't expire.

If you're doing the stanmore station route, save yourself the car park fare and go to the next station down the line

Canons Park literally 3 mins in the car from Stanmore

Look on google maps at the the streets next to the station, they only have MON-FRI restrictions (i live in the area)
Park for nothing all day and 1 min walk to the station

Longcrofte Road
Cornbury Road
Howberry Road
Cheyneys Avenue
Cloysters Wood
Watersfield way

All HA8 postcode, seriously it's what i would do, keep your costs down.

Donnefield avenue too, but usually no space

I'm parking at Stanmore for the first time as well.
Is it a straight tube in to Wembley or do you have to stop off somewhere?

Straight run

I used it on a stag weekend to london in may

Straight forward Stanmore to Wembley Park

Stanmore - Canons Park - Queensbury - Kingsbury - Wembley Park

Is there any cafes or anything like that for food nearby?
I remember you said Horatio Yed that it might be better going to Canons Park which is only down the road?!

It can be if the roads are empty.

about ten minutes walk into town theres numerous little cafes and a pizza place

I have used an oyster card for a few years for my infrequent trips(90% for cc or nfl) to london,there has never been any expiry date on pre loaded money.So as useful this year as last year.

Same here, got them a few years ago and just stick a few quid on each time we go down to London, it automatically gets you the cheapest price however you travel.