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On weekdays the metros (line B) are every 20 minutes at 07.30, 07.50, 08.10, 08.30 from Hoek van Holland towards Rotterdam. Indeed, I'm not sure I've ever even made it for the 07.50 metro — the Stena staff direct car passengers to leave first, then foot passengers with pets, then finally the...

Sometimes recently the overnight Rail & Sail price from Stena has in fact been slightly cheaper than just the economy ferry price on its own. (Screenshot from Dutch Stena Line website)

I'm on Rotterdam to London now, in Eurostar Plus, and the food, such as it was (just a near-freezing temperature couscous salad for the vegetarian option, with a miniature Green & Black's chocolate bar), didn't come out until Lille. From Rotterdam to Brussels, nothing: no welcome from staff, no...

The Interrail website states "If you're a resident of Europe but not a citizen, we ask for your country of residence when you place an order. This will show on your Interrail Pass, so you will need to bring your official European residency card or document along during your travel," so as far as...

I'm in this position (UK passport, living in NL). When I needed to do lots of train travel in the UK over a couple of weeks, with one journey outward from NL—UK and one return journey UK—NL, I just bought an Interrail global pass using my Dutch address. No UK rail staff ever asked to see my...

I'm in Eurostar Premier right now (London to Rotterdam) and they have "run out" of any vegetarian meals by the time the service gets not very far into the front carriage, about 10 minutes before Lille. Apparently I and the three or four other people who wanted the vegetarian option were supposed...

I do this a lot, and showing it on your phone is OK, although zooming in so they can see the dates can sometimes be awkward. In all the trips (30?) I have had a single instance of a Greater Anglia staff member at a gateline say "you're supposed to print it".

I think this is because the approaching stop registers as the next destination for tapping out, when the tram is approaching it—sometimes even two minutes away. I have noticed on buses in Utrecht that the display on the card reader changes in sync with when the automated "next stop" audio...

Thanks everyone for your help! Well, I think I'm convinced that it's valid for this use case.

I had a "Euro High Saver Return (CIV)" from London International (CIV) to Reading. The paper tickets both have a Maltese Cross on them. Neither says anything about which London Terminals they are valid to. I took the Eurostar from Rotterdam to St Pancras in the morning, and travelled back to...

Thanks, that's very clear!

Thanks, well unfortunately the PDFs are no good on TfL services, and the final destination (Eastbourne) is not contactless yet. I think the physical tickets will be fine now I know I can book them in such a way that they can use any card to pick them up. Thanks! Likely to be the T2/3 station.

Thanks everyone, very helpful. I'll get them from the forum's site then. The other question now is going to be how to direct them to National Rail ticket machines rather than Heathrow Express or TfL...

I'm sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find the exact thread I thought I remembered, and also reasoned that the details might have changed. I have some guests from the USA arriving at Heathrow and travelling to Sussex (Elizabeth Line to Farringdon and then Thameslink south is...

When I did it (only one-way, Rotterdam to Hull), the coach from Rotterdam Centraal to the port departed from here: around Bus stop HH. Worth noting that despite a nominal arrival time of 7.30 am into Hull, it was after 8 before I was able to be off the ferry, and then the bus from the port to...

At the moment I'm doing this (the night sailing) a few times a month, and what eastwestdivide says is right — at Hoek van Holland you are woken by Bobby McFerrin around 06.30 Dutch time, so be aware that it's only 05.30 UK time, i.e. it's worth going to sleep earlier the night before, to get...

Exactly — I often think that so much of the perception of the hassle (including my own) is because the walking route just does not come across as coherent. If you know to look out for the Phoenix Road route there are a few signs, but the most obvious tourist route along Euston Road is terrible —...

A couple of weeks ago, I was on a delayed Eurostar on the way to St Pancras, which meant I was in danger of missing my onward connection (with a Greater Anglia Advance ticket from Liverpool St, but all booked separately, no CIV). The Eurostar staff member I asked on the train gave me one of...

When my partner and I experienced this for the first time (I think discovering it via a post on this very forum) it was like a warm hug, an experiential glimpse of smoother international travel, and all available with the cheapest Standard ticket—a token of a better age, a prefiguration of a...

It's really interesting (and if at any point you take the train west from Centraal towards Haarlem and Den Haag, you can see Het Schip clearly from the railway—it's right next to it—which apparently was intentional so visitors would see this new social experiment). But: the tours in English are...