Eurostar booking

Voyager2002

I've just made my first ever booking on this site. A couple of things:

You can choose to search for fares on your exact date of travel, or a flexible search over up to three days before and after. The flexible search seems like a handy way to find the lowest available fare, but some of the lowest fares only show up when you are doing an exact date search. In particular, if you do a flexible search then children pay the adult fare;

You are offered a different selection of fares depending on what you put as your home country. If you want a reasonably-priced one way ticket then say that you are from the USA (and pay in dollars). Cheap tickets generally seem to have wider availability if you are from Belgium or France than if you are from the UK. However, when I eventually made my booking (a return trip at the end of this month) I found that paying in sterling, from the UK site, was about two pounds cheaper than paying in euros and pretending to be from Belgium;

And don't forget cashback! TopCashBack says that Eurostar pay 4 per cent cashback.

balsingh

I think its a case of trial and error. In some cases, there was hardly any difference between the sterling and Euro prices but in other cases, there was a massive difference. I also found that depending on which country you say your from, even the Euro prices can be different (eg. Belguim and Australia produced different Euro prices).

Victors_Bruvver

If you are travelling to Waterloo or Ashford by train, don't forget to ask 'Eurostar Connection' whenyou purchase your tickets
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=416607

mobfant

**UPDATED - managed to get access to non-flexible fares on the UK site which are now cheaper than the original US$ fare I found. Think it pays to play with the site a bit

I'm really confused. I've found a one way fare as being £154.50 if using the UK site, 231.70 Euros on the Belgium site (about the same) but only $94 if using the US site. The difference appears to be that the US ticket is non-flexible whereas the UK and Belgium tickets are fully flexible, but seeing as I know when I want to leave and I can't be flexible on the date and time, I only need the non-flexible tariff. I'm sure this can't be right, but at the same time I don't know why it isn't. The conditions for non-flexible are below. Any thoughts?

Non Flexible

Midweek Day return

Compulsory same day return. Valid for travel Mondays to Fridays. Non-exchangeable, non-refundable.

Minimum one night

Minimum one night away. Non-exchangeable, non-refundable.

Saturday night away

Compulsory Saturday night away. Non-exchangeable, non-refundable.

Weekend Day return

Compulsory same day return. Valid for travel on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays. Non-exchangeable, non-refundable.

vixarooni

id search lots.

im going to paris next week and we did also look at brugge and belgium, some of them offered a free upgrade which includes a meal there and back.

Voyager2002

mobfant wrote: »

**UPDATED - managed to get access to non-flexible fares on the UK site which are now cheaper than the original US$ fare I found. Think it pays to play with the site a bit

I'm really confused. I've found a one way fare as being £154.50 if using the UK site, 231.70 Euros on the Belgium site (about the same) but only $94 if using the US site. The difference appears to be that the US ticket is non-flexible whereas the UK and Belgium tickets are fully flexible, but seeing as I know when I want to leave and I can't be flexible on the date and time, I only need the non-flexible tariff. I'm sure this can't be right, but at the same time I don't know why it isn't. The conditions for non-flexible are below. Any thoughts?

For whatever reason, Eurostar are willing to sell cheap one-way tickets to American, but not to Europeans. So yes, what you have found is right (except that you can find one-way fares of US$75 if you look harder).