Any Eurostar deals on?

sarah_2-2

Hi, I'm hoping to go to either Paris or Belgium next Wed (23rd), coming back on Good Friday (25th). I was just wondering if anyone knows of any good eurostar deals that are currently on, as I checked the prices direct on eurostar.com and they quoted me £250 for the adult ticket!! I can't use kitkash as it doesnt allow travel on the 25th. Any other offers? thanx

nikkig_3

have you tried to book a deal with them for hotel and train together you might get a better price doing that? its best to do online.

alanrowell

first find the cookie that Eurostar installs in the "Temporary Internet Files" folder - it'll have a filename containing "www.eurostar.com".

Delete it.

go back into the eurostar website & select "US / English" as your country of origin.

Do the booking.

This way I've found

23rd March : Waterloo 07:09 Paris 10:59 - $120 for a standard ticket
25th March : Paris 21:13 Waterloo 22:57 - $142 for a 1st class ticket

Total price $262 which at $1.90 exchange rate equals £138 per person

alanrowell

I was wondering why there was such a big discrepancy between your booking & mine, so I checked the UK prices and it turns out that for those dates there are no cheapo tickets available for UK folk whilst there were for US folk. note also that the types of ticket available normally are different.

nikkig_3

I have just done the american thing as suggested and when I plan on going to brussels at end of april the tickets for the three of us on the usa site are $852 return first class and for the same trains on the uk site £417! Its a case of you win some you lose some!

alanrowell

it pays to shop around - on that bank holiday weekend purchasing London - Brussels in Euro costs the equivalent of £435 for the 1st class trip

SallyD

Buy BBC What to Wear Magazine Spring Edition £1.80 there is an offer of a free flight or eurostar to Paris. You have to send in the Contents Page and your name and address and you will receive a voucher that expired 30.12.05. If you want to take a friend the cost is £78. I received my voucher by return of post.

Buy five 48g Kitkash Kitkat bars, each wrapper is worth 500 points. Register with https://www.kitkash.co.uk and you can redeem 500 points to get "a buy one get one free Eurostar ticket. I went to Paris last week and Lille is booked for May.

I picked this information up in either the Discount Voucher or Grab it while you can threads.

Good luck.

SallyD

sarah wrote:

Hi, I'm hoping to go to either Paris or Belgium next Wed (23rd), coming back on Good Friday (25th). I was just wondering if anyone knows of any good eurostar deals that are currently on, as I checked the prices direct on eurostar.com and they quoted me £250 for the adult ticket!! I can't use kitkash as it doesnt allow travel on the 25th. Any other offers? thanx

Sorry, paid more attention to the Title than the content. What a fiddle wanting £250 for a ticket! just because it is Easter.

Andy.T_6

Telegraph are doing a good one - 50 quid return on Eurostar/TGV to places all over France, including Quimper where I want to travel to. The catch is you get stiffed (they bill your card for the full-whack fare) if you want to treat it as one-way - which I and many other people who have things to do in France might want to. Which I believe is actually illegal under EU law!? It amuses me that they deliberately will not accept cash/cheque (usually preferred ,means of payment from a company perspective) to stop you from saying balls to it and doing what you want!

saveapenny

pinched from another thread http://www.bsm.co.uk/special_offers/passport2005/eurotunnel_v.html

Agent_C

Andy.T wrote:

Telegraph are doing a good one - 50 quid return on Eurostar/TGV to places all over France, including Quimper where I want to travel to. The catch is you get stiffed (they bill your card for the full-whack fare) if you want to treat it as one-way - which I and many other people who have things to do in France might want to. Which I believe is actually illegal under EU law!? It amuses me that they deliberately will not accept cash/cheque (usually preferred ,means of payment from a company perspective) to stop you from saying balls to it and doing what you want!

How do they check whether you return or not - what if you just travelled one way and then used a different method to get home?