Brian Williams wrote:
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(L.S) wrote:
Hi if anyone could help me regarding a ticketing inquiry with the
EuroStar I might have it would be much appreciated.
Recently I purchased some Eurostar tickets off someone who didn't need
them anymore as his plans where changed and I'm starting to get
worried about using them especially on New Years Eve. I phoned up
Eurostar and they told me you can't yet my flat mates have done this
before and have been fine even when the ticket guard checked their
tickets on the train. There is also a web site where people sell there
tickets I have noticed..
So anyone out there who has done this could you help reassure me its
fine or should I start looking at staying in London..
If you can have any info could you please email me it would be great.
Thanks..
technically you can't transfer them BUT in my experience with Eurostar
passport checks and ticket checks are separate and carried out by
different people so you are unlikely to be caught. I saw no attempt to
match names.
I should add that, in recent weeks, they have asked for supporting ID at
Ashford and Paris when tickets have been checked through manually.
regards
Brian
My girlfriend and I travelled from Amsterdam to London and back on the
21st and 29th of December 2003. We bought our tickets through NS
Internationaal in Amsterdam. The tickets issued by NS don't have a
magnetic strip so we had to go through the manual check in at both
Brussel Zuid and London Waterloo. Neither in Brussels nor in London
passports were checked at the check-in.
We got a very good deal: EUR 125 return 1st class from any station in NL
to London. Both outward and inward the journeys went extremely smooth
and with the exception of the traditional waiting for a free platform at
Amsterdam Centraal on the return journey everything went according to
schedule.
The food and wines in 1st class are quite good and the seats in the
Eurostar are very comfortable, much better than a plane. It was a my
first journey on the CTRL and it was interesting to travel in England at
300 km/h.
The trainsets are beginning to look a bit dated. The designs are not
very good and my girlfriend was not happy at all with the reading light.
And the lights in the ceiling should be in the middle and not the on the
edges. A overhaul of the trains would be a good thing.
A tip for people from the Eurozone travelling to the UK. Take out some
money from your savings account. London is incredibly expensive.
Regards,
iMark