How to get cheaper Eurostar tickets

lovemoneysaving

Hi, is there any tips on getting cheaper Eurostar tickets? The price for Paris to London is £113 on my chosen date. There're 4 of us. Is there any codes or vouchers (Tesco) I could use to save some money. Thanks!

richardw

Look at https://www.airmiles.co.uk with Tesco vouchers, but your chosen dates may not be available.

mrs_lds

book well in advance

Ponkle22

The cheapest/base price is always £69.00 per seat. You only get that price far in advance (as soon as the tickets are released) or during the occaisional special offers.

Pelican_eats_pigeon

Ponkle22 wrote: »

The cheapest/base price is always £69.00 per seat. You only get that price far in advance (as soon as the tickets are released) or during the occaisional special offers.

Presumably you mean £69 return...

If you were going to Germany via Brussels you would be able to take advantage of deals that offer a through ticket which actually come out at a cheaper total price than just the Eurostar. Sadly I can't find any deals like this that apply for France

lovemoneysaving

richardw wrote: »

Look at www.airmiles.co.uk with Tesco vouchers, but your chosen dates may not be available.

sorry I don't understand how I can use Tesco vouchers, pls explain thanks

cardiffforthefacup

you change your clubcard vouchers for airmiles and then book eurostar through airmiles website. You need to phone to book though and when I tried to book for april last year they asked me how many airmiles I had then said the cost of two returns for a three day trip to paris on eurostar would cost all of them (6500 at the time, enough to get to usa, hk,) which was ridiculous. Given the cost of going on eurostar for a return to paris, it would probably be more economical to change to airmiles then fly on ba 750 per person or low cost airline alternatively. Costs can be kept down if using airmiles by using tube to heathrow and getting a daytravelcard/oyster. tesco exchange rate is 2.50 for 50 airmiles? I believe

richardw

From the horse's mouths

http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/product.aspx?R=236

http://www.airmiles.co.uk/collect/tesco/tesco-clubcard

http://www.airmiles.co.uk/spend/eurostar

Don't convert tesco vouchers to airmiles without checking availability with airmiles first.

richardw

cardiffforthefacup wrote: »

the cost of two returns for a three day trip to paris on eurostar would cost all of them (6500 at the time

So that's 2 people on the train and the hotel for 2/3 nights?

biscit

lovemoneysaving wrote: »

sorry I don't understand...

I applaud your good manners!

cardiffforthefacup

richardw wrote: »

So that's 2 people on the train and the hotel for 2/3 nights?

no that was just the cost of the train