Roland Perry wrote:

I can see how listing stations specifically might reduce the confusion
about where tickets can be collected. Then they go spoil it by having
machines at StP which advertise ticket collection and don't allow it!

All the more reason for FCC to enable the ToD functionality on their
machines. I've noticed those particular machines have a thin circular
plate, which I imagine marks the spot for an Oyster pad in due course.

Incidentally, I was very surprised not to find any domestic ticket
machines in the vicinity of the Eurostar booking office. The domestic
booking office is a long way off the beaten track for EMT customers if
you've just arrived on E*, or from the tube station out front.

Given the number of visitors that use StP nowdays, you'd have to think
quite carefully where to put any additional ticket machines (if we're
talking about the Arcade or other public Eurostar walkways). Would
Eurostar allow domestic operators to install ticket machines in their
areas I wonder?

But the whole Platform 1-4 thing still feels very poorly thought
through. No bar or seating, no toilets, and no booking facility;
anywhere in the immediate vicinity.

There is some basic seating on the MML concourse (unless it's been
removed recently), but I think they could fit a couple of ticket
machines in the area without much work. The lack of facilities in the
immediate vicinty is a shame but personally I'm not too bothered by that
(admittedly I am one of the few who see it that way).

Now that the station is fully open it's even more apparent what a stupid
idea it was not to have some escalators down from the P1-4 concourse to
(eg) the same place as the FCC escalators go down.

Some parts of StP are still closed off - various units in the Arcade and
Rendezvous (including the Brasserie, which is possibly on a par with the
M&S Circle store in terms of floorspace), the Market proper, most of the
Circle, escalators/stairs to the CTRL-DS concourse/CTRL-DS
platforms/KXSP Northern Ticket Hall, and the CTRL-DS concourse/platforms.