Peterthegreat
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You have to input your journeys on to the app.
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Booking Interrail seat reservations on Eurostar
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If you have a mobile pass, then you only use that. If you have a paper pass, then you can choose between the app and the travel diary to record your journeys. The latest pass cover has a checkbox to tick when you use the app.
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Not read through all this but just phone up Eurostar 03432 186186. Can take a while to get through, though. Just go through as a club Eurostar member if struggling, end up speaking to same person!
Booking via phone with Eurostar has become quite expensive at GBP 10 or EUR 14.
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Just say can't get through on website and they do it for nothing in my experience.
Feuillesmortes
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Does anyone know if the Eurostar ticket offices sell from the same quota, and whether they release more on the day of travel??
AFAIK all sales points sell from the same quota.
Feuillesmortes
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Thank you. Seat 61 says
Here's how it works: Eurostar has dynamic pricing, managed using 'price buckets' like an airline. There are around a dozen buckets, let's say bucket 1 is the most expensive and always available as long as there are any seats at all left on that train, and price bucket 12 is the cheapest. The Interrail/Eurail passholder fare is in the 3rd bucket down from top, bucket 3. Which means availability is pretty good, even at short notice.
Peterthegreat
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That is correct. So if you can find a public (standard class) rate at £126 or less you should be able to get an Interrail reservation.
So if you still want to travel on Monday the following trains from London to Paris are currently available:-
09.31
13.31
15.31
19.01
20.01
However there are no cheaper (than £126) fares available so these trains may sell out fairly soon.
19:01 has already sold out. Book ASAP if you need to travel.
I too had this issue. Travelling to northern Scotland from Germany at (considering the length of the journey) relatively short notice. Originally thought a E* returning to Brussels on Sunday 28th May would be no issue, but only after buying the out portion (of which there all trains were still available, Friday 20th) did I realise that nothing was available for passholders except the final Sunday departure. Went with Saturday instead in the end. Then I realised that the week beginning Monday 29th includes a four-day bank holiday weekend and is probably half term somewhere too, so no wonder the tickets are gone.
I think maybe also the 50th anniversary discount also did a lot to shift tickets for travel this spring and summer, hence the popularity. Combine that with the end of pandemic restrictions and it's the perfect storm really. There was also briefly 20% cashback on interrail passes on Quidco, which was a nice bonus and probably sold even more!
I think maybe also the 50th anniversary discount also did a lot to shift tickets for travel this spring and summer, hence the popularity. Combine that with the end of pandemic restrictions and it's the perfect storm really. There was also briefly 20% cashback on interrail passes on Quidco, which was a nice bonus and probably sold even more!
Peterthegreat
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And the 15.31.
Only the 09.31, 13.31 and 20.01 are available (at 07.30 BST). I would expect them to be sold out today or tomorrow.
Feuillesmortes
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What happens if you miss your Eurostar because of delays in connecting services? Are Interrail travellers treated the same as normal advance ticket holders connecting from eg Edinburgh to Kings Cross?
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Should be-but thats EU-ruling and I have no idea how since Brexit you guys over the sea have redone this-or not. If its a very busy travelday-like at start of easter Hols I also guess it will not be easy to put such people on the next fully booked service
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It does not look like it. Are not the airport delays due to staff illness/absences? So it would be a bit random where it hits when.
Feuillesmortes
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Very interesting, thank you.
So someone who was going to buy Eurostar tickets in both directions for £126 each = £252, might well prefer to buy a 4 day Interrail at £205 + £28.50 + £28.50 = £262 for somewhat more validity!
And given that Interrail also includes a return journey within your home country to/from a port/"border" (e.g. St Pancras), which could easily cost £100s at peak times, it's a no brainer in a sense.
I never realised how good value the Interrail passes really are if you avoid mandatory reservations. For European residents travelling to the UK the cost is ridiculously low considering the flexibility. And now that they include the trip to/from the resident country border it genuinely is a no-brainer for most trips to the UK for me at least.
I travelled on the Eurostar yesterday with my interrail pass. I arrived an hour before departure. The queues were longer than normal but they were directing people like me who were on the 1022 down a different passage just for us with smaller security passport, etc. checks (and no automated ticket check - just a man checking manually) - we were warned that there were no coffee facilities that route but we could buy outside and carry through - which is what I did. Free water and kitkats apparently too....
The queue for the normal route in was back past the shops on the main concourse maybe 50 metres.
Feuillesmortes
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because hand luggage only? or Interrail?
everyone taking the 1022hrs to Paris (it's all hand luggage on E* of course)
In other words, fast-tracking people much as airports do.
I guess as it was an hour before the scheduled departure they fast-tracked all of the passengers.
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So the moral of the story is it's pointless to arrive too early as it means more queuing. That strategy might not work at Manchester airport though!
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Railways are better organised than airports. That's the moral of the tale.
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