Eurostar Check-In gates with DB Online-Ticket?

[FrankZappa]

Hi all,

I've booked my next Eurostar journey via bahn.de and are now wondering if the Eurostar gates are compatible with the Aztec code on the DB Online-Tickets by now (or if I need to go to the counter).

Does anyone have any recent experience?

 

[gordonthemoron]

just go to the counter

 

[Greenback]

In 2013 I had to go to the counter. There was no problem, though. It was almost as quick as using the gates.

 

[SephenWorceste]

I have done a return. In London I was told I did not have a ticket. In Brussels I was told I did not have a reservation. Perhaps it was the other way round. Thirty seconds later it was all resolved. I think they like you to panic. I just held my nerve. They must see hundred of these tickets. They should know what they are doing.


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[atillathehunn]

No they don't work on the gates. I think it even says that on the ticket. Go to the counter and they check you in manually. Takes about a minute.

 

[duesselmartin]

I had no difficulty going to the counter, and all my journey were fine. This year I booked with SNCB Düsseldorf-London and I got two tickets and one inertary. Thaly to Brussels, and a seperate ticket to scan at the gate for Eurostar.

 

[317666]

Back in 2013, me and a friend had a DB ticket trying to check in at Brussels. There was a huge queue and somebody decided to barge in front of us. The bloke on the Business Premier desk saw this, called us over and let us check in that way, overtaking a considerable number of people as a result!

 

[Goldfish62]

I've never had any problems using DB print-at-home tickets on Eurostar.

The anomaly of course is that there are no names printed on the ticket to match up with a passport. The last time I checked in at Brussels there were four of us on the same ticket. British border staff simply stamped the ticket four times!