I have a couple of questions about Eurostar ticketing after my trip between London - Montpellier yesterday.
I purchased my tickets from the Eurostar website and collected them from the Ticket on Departure (ToD) machines at St Pancras station, I was in possession of two separate tickets; one for London - Paris (Nord) and the other for Paris (Lyon) - Montpellier.
(1) For passengers who require transfer between Gare du Nord and the other Paris terminal stations, are there any arrangements for through tickets via the RER or Metro? I had to pay EUR 1.70 for a separate single ticket to travel on the RER. Unlike in the UK, national rail tickets that require transfer between terminal stations in London are valid on the London Underground and are marked with a Maltease cross.
(2) For the second ticket between Paris (Lyon) - Montpellier, is it mandatory to compost (validate) the ticket on a composteur (validator) machine at the SNCF station? There is no mention of the requirement on the Eurostar website but I know from experience that SNCF require the passenger to validate their tickets prior to boarding and I did this with my ticket just to cover myself. If this is mandatory for Eurostar tickets, it probably wouldn't be a setting a good example if an unsuspecting passenger purchases a through ticket from Eurostar and gets onboard the connecting SNCF service and subsequently get fined for not validating their ticket.
I purchased my tickets from the Eurostar website and collected them from the Ticket on Departure (ToD) machines at St Pancras station, I was in possession of two separate tickets; one for London - Paris (Nord) and the other for Paris (Lyon) - Montpellier.
(1) For passengers who require transfer between Gare du Nord and the other Paris terminal stations, are there any arrangements for through tickets via the RER or Metro? I had to pay EUR 1.70 for a separate single ticket to travel on the RER. Unlike in the UK, national rail tickets that require transfer between terminal stations in London are valid on the London Underground and are marked with a Maltease cross.
(2) For the second ticket between Paris (Lyon) - Montpellier, is it mandatory to compost (validate) the ticket on a composteur (validator) machine at the SNCF station? There is no mention of the requirement on the Eurostar website but I know from experience that SNCF require the passenger to validate their tickets prior to boarding and I did this with my ticket just to cover myself. If this is mandatory for Eurostar tickets, it probably wouldn't be a setting a good example if an unsuspecting passenger purchases a through ticket from Eurostar and gets onboard the connecting SNCF service and subsequently get fined for not validating their ticket.