Eurostar Sale starts today (8th March). Details below.
- London St Pancras, Ebbsfleet International or Ashford International to Paris, Lille or Brussels for £58 return. Usual cheapest advance fare is £72 return off peak.
- Tickets are booked as singles for £29 each way in Standard class.
- There are 32,000 £29 one way tickets from London – Paris, and 32,000 vice versa, 25,000 £29 one way tickets from London to Brussels/Lille/Calais and 25,000 vice versa, and 25,000 £34.50 one way tickets from London to ANY Belgian station and 25,000 vice versa. Also offered is a £37 one way ticket to any French station.
- Book from 8 to 21 March 2016 (inclusive), for a trip between 21 March and 2 June 2016 (inclusive, with blackout dates). When the available tickets run out, the promotion ends.
- Best availability will be on off-peak Monday - Thursday bookings, with more limited availability on weekends. So if you are looking for a weekend away, you'll need to get in quick - tickets will be scarce on Monday mornings, Fridays, Saturday afternoons and Sundays.
- Kids tickets are NOT in the sale and are at normal price - for those with young'uns, Under 4's travel free and 4-11 year olds are from £51 return.
- You MUST book via the Eurostar desktop site. Offer is not available when purchasing through the Eurostar app or the Eurostar mobile site.
- There are also discounted tickets to Lyon (£80 return) Avignon (£90) and Marseille (£90), these are booked as a return and not two singles.
- Your Eurostar tickets get you two for one entry to a number of decent museums in Paris and Brussels - full details here: http://www.eurostar.com/uk-en/eurostar-deals/2for1
- If you have a Platinum American Express card, you get FREE lounge access (where available) for you and a travelling companion.
Happy travels!
Top comments
ollie87 to 1billionpounds
8 Mar 167#8
Kids are hot? Please wait there while I contact Operation Yewtree.
biggysilly
8 Mar 164#2
Hot if you don't have kids. :man:
seaniboy
8 Mar 163#40
I paid £197 on the train London to Torquay SINGLE in 2001 and £69 return from EDI to LHR on the first sector...shocking, even my £75 One2One Precept Max for unlimited One2One calls a month...
I'd renationalise BR and do 16 hour contracts on minimum wage for tax credit employees and watch fares drop drop drop, same for alot of government jobs, council tax processing staff get £11+ an hour at my council :/ Most school leavers can be trained that at 1/3 of that per hour to process. We throw money at government depts and wonder why we are overdrawn, the tories and labour are decades of smoke and mirrors.
We have no national recycling or transport systems under the Environment Agency and people wonder why we fail on these targets and issues... management is fragmented at local and regional and national on both issues.
jimhalpert to seaniboy
8 Mar 163#16
Under the same general criteria (advance tickets) Scotland to London is both cheaper and a longer distance. Stupid Eurostar.
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darren9030
14 Mar 161#58
Heat added - need this for October though.
Mc12123
10 Mar 16#57
Anyone find a good hotel deal?
skizz_b
10 Mar 161#56
No problem, their website isn't the best...happy travels!
Messiah
10 Mar 161#55
Thanks for looking into this dude, it wasn't working because I had "flexible dates" on.... odd.
skizz_b
10 Mar 16#54
Eurostar tickets go on sale four months in advance and for every route I've never had an issue.
With this ticket, I don't know what you're doing, but I just managed to get to the booking screen for that date perfectly fine with direct trains? Are you booking on the website or through an app? Is it up to date? all seems to be working fine on the site, can book four months ahead... :confused:
Messiah
10 Mar 16#53
I can't find tickets around those dates normally, outside of promotion. Actually, I'm quite confident you can only book one month ahead for the route I'm after as I can book as far as 11th April
Messiah
10 Mar 16#51
I want to book tickets From St Pancras to Avignon on May 28th, when do tickets become available for such dates?
skizz_b to Messiah
10 Mar 16#52
Tickets are available for this date, but are not part of the promotion.
The promotional fares will be available to purchase from 8 March 2016 to 21 March 2016 inclusive for travel from 21 March 2016 to 2 June 2016 inclusive. The offer is not available for travel during the following periods: 25.03.2016 to 28.03.2016 inclusive, 08.04.2016 to 10.04.2016 inclusive, 22.04.2016 to 24.04.2016 inclusive, 29.04.2016 to 02.05.2016, 05.05.2016 to 08.05.2016 inclusive, 13.05.2016 to 16.05.2016 inclusive, 27.05.2016 to 30.05.2016.
1billionpounds
8 Mar 161#4
true, but kids are hotter! :smile:
ollie87 to 1billionpounds
8 Mar 167#8
Kids are hot? Please wait there while I contact Operation Yewtree.
onlinejobwork to 1billionpounds
8 Mar 16#10
Very well said
kpatel22606 to 1billionpounds
9 Mar 161#50
Adam Johnson? Is that you???
jimhalpert
8 Mar 16#49
I didn't - a person called "seaniboy" did (it's right there in black and white). If you didn't type that then it looks like you're accounts been compromised.
seaniboy
8 Mar 16#48
I never said plenty of that, you did.
skizz_b
8 Mar 16#47
Amex cardholders - I can't find the Eurostar offer on there myself now, so I have removed it from the description. Thanks for the feedback :smiley:
rhaegox
8 Mar 161#46
Thanks OP I've never been to Paris. Booked a national express from Southampton return to London for 11 squid!
jimhalpert
8 Mar 16#45
Except the taxpayers money that pays for Eurotunnel security (though it's largely Eurotunnel themselves and French taxpayers paying for it) is for the benefit of the UK, not for the benefit of Eurostar, who I'm sure would much rather it wasn't there at all. They'd have many more customers for a start (the migrants and the "normal" Europeans put off by UK demands for passport control.
Which again, is comparable to the cost under the nationalised system in France. I don't have the slightest idea what your old phone tariff has to do with anything.
The vast majority of the cost of running a railway isn't in unskilled staff wages. Though as those people wouldn't be on much more than minimum wage anyway, replacing them all with "tax credit employees" (no idea who they are?) won't make the slightest difference to the fares. In fact, they'd probably go up due to having to train them all... It's also a rather odious suggestion, as you're effectively saying "sod the quality of life of rail employees, I want cheaper tickets and I matter more".
So you want the council to sack it's employees and replace them with a bunch of low paid school leavers? Then presumably sack them all again when they get to 21? And have to top up their pay through the benefits system... And while I'm not sure that the UK actually is failing on recycling and "transport system" targets, it has nothing to do with them not being nationalised industries. Waste targets are purely down to the efficiency of local councils (some are good, some are bad - amalgamating them all into one doesn't necessarily make it good) and I have absolutely no idea what the transport issues are.
hukduserr
8 Mar 16#44
i spend a lot of trains... 79 quids return to london... :disappointed:
stphnstevey
8 Mar 16#43
Thanks
andykapa
8 Mar 16#42
£29 is since last year depending on your travelling dates.
elliedpm
8 Mar 16#41
Hi, does anyone know if it's OK to buy adult tickets for children?
seaniboy
8 Mar 163#40
I paid £197 on the train London to Torquay SINGLE in 2001 and £69 return from EDI to LHR on the first sector...shocking, even my £75 One2One Precept Max for unlimited One2One calls a month...
I'd renationalise BR and do 16 hour contracts on minimum wage for tax credit employees and watch fares drop drop drop, same for alot of government jobs, council tax processing staff get £11+ an hour at my council :/ Most school leavers can be trained that at 1/3 of that per hour to process. We throw money at government depts and wonder why we are overdrawn, the tories and labour are decades of smoke and mirrors.
We have no national recycling or transport systems under the Environment Agency and people wonder why we fail on these targets and issues... management is fragmented at local and regional and national on both issues.
hukduserr
8 Mar 16#39
bought return tickets to brussels. a bit concern about the terrorism there though :disappointed:
adwils
8 Mar 16#32
Take advantage now as Eurostar will not run from London nor UK when we leave the EU!.
jimhalpert to adwils
8 Mar 16#35
There's no logical reason why they wouldn't.
seaniboy to adwils
8 Mar 161#38
Of course it will, having sold it as a loss we shareholders will now be taxed on its security to keep it going, Tory idiots.
seaniboy
8 Mar 161#37
Exactly, the guy who was running network south east under BR was showing how to do it, he introduced the south east travel card that still covers the region.
Even Scotrail has loads of Abellio signs now, I keep wanting to change it to A Bell end but I'm a responsible adult who does not do damage to others property regardless how tempted I am :wink:
JamesRonaldo
8 Mar 161#36
If anyone is in the same situation, customer service has been contacted and there is no way back. Though luck! :disappointed: I will nonetheless still enjoy myself with the gf :innocent:
danlins
8 Mar 16#34
nice find
royaltee
8 Mar 16#33
Couldn't find an Amex offer to activate in my offers but got a Saturday early morning to Sunday afternoon ticket for £58 as advertised, thanks op
matwalaboy
8 Mar 16#31
Don't see the Amex offer on my cards online or on cardmemberoffers - someone have a link possibly?
jimhalpert
8 Mar 16#30
Why would you think that? In fact, if the often repeated mantra that the UK network is awful while it's amazing on the continent was true, I'd assume it would be cheaper if half the journey takes place within the superior system.
Edinburgh to London return on those dates is £50 return... The assumption that it's significantly cheaper on the continent is not one that is particularly true. In fact, the journeys I make within the UK tend to be cheaper than the journeys I make within France...
OB1
8 Mar 16#29
Oops... Good point.
neilglover1
8 Mar 16#28
You'd think it would be cheaper to travel around the UK though no The equivalent journey in France (ie distance between Scotland and London) would be about £50 return. Their railway serves the country, not shareholders
jimhalpert
8 Mar 16#27
Well the £50 tickets I quoted are available on the Virgin trains website, though you keep saying leaving from "Scotland", which isn't a station, so I have no idea what tickets you'd be talking about.
It is a network so I don't know why that's in quotation marks, and I take it you mean fragmented? Neither of which has much bearing on ticket prices anyway.
neilglover1
8 Mar 163#26
Same problem from Cornwall: £120 for those dates. Train fares in UK are a joke, NATIONALISE
JamesRonaldo
8 Mar 16#25
Ah come on. :disappointed:
Booked during the weekend some tickets to Paris for 114£. Those same tickets are now about 58£. Any way to cancel the previous tickets or get some difference back?
seaniboy
8 Mar 16#24
Splitticketing was even more expensive than trainline, Virgin East and West said these days were not available yet.
X country is cheaper to Europe than on the mainland....shambles whilst all these train operating companies rake it in.
diddlypockets
8 Mar 16#22
will that work? booking adult ticket for a child?
seaniboy
8 Mar 162#13
Scotland to London is more expensive, stupid dept of transport.
jimhalpert to seaniboy
8 Mar 163#16
Under the same general criteria (advance tickets) Scotland to London is both cheaper and a longer distance. Stupid Eurostar.
intranix to seaniboy
8 Mar 161#21
Paris is nearer London than Scotland is.
jimhalpert
8 Mar 16#20
About the level of intelligence I'd expect from someone using the trainline...
Though on the assumption your sudden outburst was anger at the Department of Transport and not me, there are tickets from Edinburgh to London on the 31st and back on the 2nd for £50. If the specific trains you want aren't included, that's hardly the fault of the DoT.
seaniboy
8 Mar 16#19
Scotland to London ADVANCE on 31/5 to the 2/6 is £130, Eurostar £58 on trainline.. double to get to London, feck off!
Shame, I fancied a Paris visit :disappointed:
onlinejobwork
8 Mar 16#12
Paris not better than London, I'm interested In Brussels, what to see in Brussels? Any world famous things?
youknowwho to onlinejobwork
8 Mar 162#15
forget history .... chocolate and waffles
Stay near the Grand Square.
biggysilly to onlinejobwork
8 Mar 161#17
Visit the E.U headquarters. We might need visas to enter Europe after Brexit on 23rd June. :man:
jimhalpert to onlinejobwork
8 Mar 16#18
If you think London is better than Paris then I think you're going to struggle to find much of interest in Brussels. About the only thing I liked was the free tour of the EU building. You could spend a day in Brussels then visit anywhere else in Belgium (I like Bruges) for an extra £11 though (or £9.50 if you're under 26 and buy the Brussels-Anywhere in Belgium tickets separately).
89quidyoucantgowrong
8 Mar 161#14
No, the op says an adult ticket is £58 return and the child price is £51 return. If you can't get a child ticket for less than the offer price, just book them an adult ticket, I suppose.
craigdcfc
8 Mar 16#11
Great find, will be booking my trip there tonight! Heat added
simonbendall
8 Mar 16#9
just got back from my trip to Paris on the Eurostar. great experience and had just the best time. stay at a hotel near the Gare d'nord and you can use the metro to get about for 7 euros a day. heat :smile:
fourcough
8 Mar 16#7
Any hot birds wanna come with me????
andrewcrowther
8 Mar 16#6
Paris is such a good city break - don't go with kids though! You could spend a week there and still not see everything... need about 9hrs to walk around the Louvre alone!
adam_holcombe
8 Mar 16#5
Forgive me if i'm wrong - but hasn't it been this price for a few months now?
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Opening post
- London St Pancras, Ebbsfleet International or Ashford International to Paris, Lille or Brussels for £58 return. Usual cheapest advance fare is £72 return off peak.
- Tickets are booked as singles for £29 each way in Standard class.
- There are 32,000 £29 one way tickets from London – Paris, and 32,000 vice versa, 25,000 £29 one way tickets from London to Brussels/Lille/Calais and 25,000 vice versa, and 25,000 £34.50 one way tickets from London to ANY Belgian station and 25,000 vice versa. Also offered is a £37 one way ticket to any French station.
- Book from 8 to 21 March 2016 (inclusive), for a trip between 21 March and 2 June 2016 (inclusive, with blackout dates). When the available tickets run out, the promotion ends.
- Best availability will be on off-peak Monday - Thursday bookings, with more limited availability on weekends. So if you are looking for a weekend away, you'll need to get in quick - tickets will be scarce on Monday mornings, Fridays, Saturday afternoons and Sundays.
- Kids tickets are NOT in the sale and are at normal price - for those with young'uns, Under 4's travel free and 4-11 year olds are from £51 return.
- You MUST book via the Eurostar desktop site. Offer is not available when purchasing through the Eurostar app or the Eurostar mobile site.
- There are also discounted tickets to Lyon (£80 return) Avignon (£90) and Marseille (£90), these are booked as a return and not two singles.
- Your Eurostar tickets get you two for one entry to a number of decent museums in Paris and Brussels - full details here: http://www.eurostar.com/uk-en/eurostar-deals/2for1
- If you have a Platinum American Express card, you get FREE lounge access (where available) for you and a travelling companion.
Happy travels!
Top comments
I'd renationalise BR and do 16 hour contracts on minimum wage for tax credit employees and watch fares drop drop drop, same for alot of government jobs, council tax processing staff get £11+ an hour at my council :/ Most school leavers can be trained that at 1/3 of that per hour to process. We throw money at government depts and wonder why we are overdrawn, the tories and labour are decades of smoke and mirrors.
We have no national recycling or transport systems under the Environment Agency and people wonder why we fail on these targets and issues... management is fragmented at local and regional and national on both issues.
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With this ticket, I don't know what you're doing, but I just managed to get to the booking screen for that date perfectly fine with direct trains? Are you booking on the website or through an app? Is it up to date? all seems to be working fine on the site, can book four months ahead... :confused:
The promotional fares will be available to purchase from 8 March 2016 to 21 March 2016 inclusive for travel from 21 March 2016 to 2 June 2016 inclusive. The offer is not available for travel during the following periods: 25.03.2016 to 28.03.2016 inclusive, 08.04.2016 to 10.04.2016 inclusive, 22.04.2016 to 24.04.2016 inclusive, 29.04.2016 to 02.05.2016, 05.05.2016 to 08.05.2016 inclusive, 13.05.2016 to 16.05.2016 inclusive, 27.05.2016 to 30.05.2016.
Which again, is comparable to the cost under the nationalised system in France. I don't have the slightest idea what your old phone tariff has to do with anything.
The vast majority of the cost of running a railway isn't in unskilled staff wages. Though as those people wouldn't be on much more than minimum wage anyway, replacing them all with "tax credit employees" (no idea who they are?) won't make the slightest difference to the fares. In fact, they'd probably go up due to having to train them all... It's also a rather odious suggestion, as you're effectively saying "sod the quality of life of rail employees, I want cheaper tickets and I matter more".
So you want the council to sack it's employees and replace them with a bunch of low paid school leavers? Then presumably sack them all again when they get to 21? And have to top up their pay through the benefits system... And while I'm not sure that the UK actually is failing on recycling and "transport system" targets, it has nothing to do with them not being nationalised industries. Waste targets are purely down to the efficiency of local councils (some are good, some are bad - amalgamating them all into one doesn't necessarily make it good) and I have absolutely no idea what the transport issues are.
I'd renationalise BR and do 16 hour contracts on minimum wage for tax credit employees and watch fares drop drop drop, same for alot of government jobs, council tax processing staff get £11+ an hour at my council :/ Most school leavers can be trained that at 1/3 of that per hour to process. We throw money at government depts and wonder why we are overdrawn, the tories and labour are decades of smoke and mirrors.
We have no national recycling or transport systems under the Environment Agency and people wonder why we fail on these targets and issues... management is fragmented at local and regional and national on both issues.
Even Scotrail has loads of Abellio signs now, I keep wanting to change it to A Bell end but I'm a responsible adult who does not do damage to others property regardless how tempted I am :wink:
Edinburgh to London return on those dates is £50 return... The assumption that it's significantly cheaper on the continent is not one that is particularly true. In fact, the journeys I make within the UK tend to be cheaper than the journeys I make within France...
The equivalent journey in France (ie distance between Scotland and London) would be about £50 return. Their railway serves the country, not shareholders
It is a network so I don't know why that's in quotation marks, and I take it you mean fragmented? Neither of which has much bearing on ticket prices anyway.
Booked during the weekend some tickets to Paris for 114£. Those same tickets are now about 58£. Any way to cancel the previous tickets or get some difference back?
Anger ? Hardly, frustration in our defragmented private rail *cough* "network" COMPLETELY!
Though on the assumption your sudden outburst was anger at the Department of Transport and not me, there are tickets from Edinburgh to London on the 31st and back on the 2nd for £50. If the specific trains you want aren't included, that's hardly the fault of the DoT.
Shame, I fancied a Paris visit :disappointed:
Stay near the Grand Square.