2 for 1 Eurostar tickets when you shop at bluewater

jap200

My local paper (The Kent Messenger) has details of this offer:

Make any purchase at Bluewater shopping centre (in Kent) between 1-31 October and take your receipt to the Eurostar's Bluewater store and receive a special voucher code to claim your 2 for 1 travel from either Ashford International or Ebbsfleet International.

Travel is valid from Ashford to Paris or Ebbsfleet to Paris, Brussels and Lille between Nov 19 and Feb 28 2008 inclusive.

See here for details of the offer:

http://www.eurostar.com/UK/uk/leisure/latest_deals/2for1promo/Bluewater_2_for_1_Promotion.jsp

There are lots of Terms and Conditions which are rather confusing I think:
http://www.eurostar.com/UK/uk/leisure/latest_deals/2for1promo/Bluewater_2_for_1_Promotion/terms_and_conditions.jsp

I haven't yet managed to work out if/how I could use this offer for 2 adults and 2 children somehow (i.e. paying for either the two adults or one adult and one child). Please let me know if you can work it out!

SHEILA54

jap200 wrote: »

My local paper (The Kent Messenger) has details of this offer:

Make any purchase at Bluewater shopping centre (in Kent) between 1-31 October and take your receipt to the Eurostar's Bluewater store and receive a special voucher code to claim your 2 for 1 travel from either Ashford International or Ebbsfleet International.

Travel is valid from Ashford to Paris or Ebbsfleet to Paris, Brussels and Lille between Nov 19 and Feb 28 2008 inclusive.

See here for details of the offer:

http://www.eurostar.com/UK/uk/leisure/latest_deals/2for1promo/Bluewater_2_for_1_Promotion.jsp

There are lots of Terms and Conditions which are rather confusing I think:
http://www.eurostar.com/UK/uk/leisure/latest_deals/2for1promo/Bluewater_2_for_1_Promotion/terms_and_conditions.jsp

I haven't yet managed to work out if/how I could use this offer for 2 adults and 2 children somehow (i.e. paying for either the two adults or one adult and one child). Please let me know if you can work it out!

This promotion is limited to one booking per applicant. Multiple applications will not be allowed, but one single application may include travel for a minimum of 2 people and up to 9 people travelling together in standard class on the same route, at the same time, on the same date on the outbound and inbound journeys.

6. Each Applicant will be entitled to purchase two tickets for £58.00 up to 9 tickets per application. Where more than 2 tickets are required up to a maximum of 9 per application, the additional ticket may be purchased under this promotion at a cost of £29.00 per additional ticket.

It seems to me that you can buy up to 9 tickets for £29 each.

jap200

Thanks - I did see that particular T&C but I don't see how it relates to the BOGOF offer. It says you can buy two tickets for £58 - but shouldn't one of them be free? Additional tickets at £29 seems a good price though - assuming they are return tickets and not one-way.

SHEILA54

jap200 wrote: »

Thanks - I did see that particular T&C but I don't see how it relates to the BOGOF offer. It says you can buy two tickets for £58 - but shouldn't one of them be free? Additional tickets at £29 seems a good price though - assuming they are return tickets and not one-way.

Normally the tickets cost upward of £58 so the offer is BOGOF.

peterbaker

I tell you what ... this Bluewater Eurostar deal is interesting, but right now I am sat in a European country other than UK, France and Belgium and the English version of the Eurostar website is in an absolutely appalling state of maintenance viewed from here. Maybe it doesn't want business from people who use English but use the internet in countries other than UK, F & B?? Surely not?

So I have been reading this thread and showed my friend. My friend said - "wanna go to Paris by Eurostar when we are in London in 10 days time?" I said well it wont be a Bluewater deal but yes if I can find something reasonable.

Note: For anyone from Eurostar who might be reading this that is called a green light in marketing and sales terms, a clear buying signal...

First I find that when I check on City breaks availability I get offered a blank July 2007 page (blank unsurprisingly because it's actually October last time I looked!) ... so I click Next and next again more blanks and then I cant click next a third time to get from September into the current world timeframe ... that's just dumb!

Then I click on something else and it is a broken link on Eurostar's website. I can't tell you what I clicked on because basically I am so disinterested by now that I could care less...

So, within the space of less than five minutes I turn from a hooked prospective buyer who noticed the thread about the Bluewater promotion, realised it didn't fit my dates, but wanted to try to book something anyway, into a disinterested walk-on-by who thinks Eurostar can't run a simple booking website so why should I imagine they can do anything complicated like running a decent railway with city breaks built in ...

So at that stage I give up, bored, and come here to tell everyone :rolleyes:

ltlmiles5

I saw the ad in the KM yesterday and thought, "Wow! I could do this!"

Does anyone know how much it costs to go to Disneyland from Paris and how long it takes?

Could we buy tickets in advance?

Unfortunately, we don't speak French and with 3 young children in tow, don't really want to traipse all over the platforms trying to buy tickets to the Disneyland station if we can help it.

I did a search and return tickets per adult are coming at £90 and children at £45 in Feb 08. So the Bluewater offer looks really good!

BernadetteN

ltlmiles5 wrote: »

I saw the ad in the KM yesterday and thought, "Wow! I could do this!"

Does anyone know how much it costs to go to Disneyland from Paris and how long it takes?

Could we buy tickets in advance?

Unfortunately, we don't speak French and with 3 young children in tow, don't really want to traipse all over the platforms trying to buy tickets to the Disneyland station if we can help it.

I did a search and return tickets per adult are coming at £90 and children at £45 in Feb 08. So the Bluewater offer looks really good!

I have no idea about exact cost from Paris to Disney but I would guess it's around £5 per adult single. The express metro called RER takes you from the centre of Paris to Disney. You have to first of all go downstairs and take the RER line B from Gare Du Nord (where the Eurostar stops) to Chatelet-les-Halles then change onto RER line A and travel onto the Disney stop called Marne La Vallee Chessy. It should take around an hour to do this. You cannot buy tickets in advance, unless you are buying a season ticket online. You can however buy a weekly ticket for the adults which is handy if you are staying off-site and at one of the hotels along RER line A.

Your alternative to the RER route to get to Disneyland is to get the once a day Disneyland Eurostar or change from Eurostar to TGV at Lille which goes also direct to Disney. I would bet neither of these options is available with the KM/Bluewater offer.

Victors_Bruvver

Personally speaking unless you are either on Ebbsfleet's doorstep or have a taxi or family to take you there, I would not bother.

From what is being said about it's location is that it costs £11 per day to park up there and the possiblity that it may be insecure because of the number of caravans in close proximity to the car park.

Southeastern domestic trains do not go direct to this station until late 2009 so the only alternative is to go to Ashford International on the train. This has the added advantage of you just hopping off the domestic train and transferring within the same building to the Eurostar checkin. Also on the near horizon, from November 14th, Southeastern railway will allow free travel on any part of their network to and from Ashford International for anyone holding a reservation with Eurostar including, I think Ebbsfleet.

Do get your 2 for 1 tickets but please use them for travel from Ashford International. Ebbsfleet International station sucks and many customers are either going to boycut it or are making alternative arrangemnts to travel by air instead because Eurostar have stitched them up.

BernadetteN

Yes Victor's Bruvver, I can only agree with you. We live in Dover and we can no longer get a train direct to Brussels from Ashford - so much for the improvement in service. There is no way we will be able of willing to use Ebbsflop as it's too far from Dover and we can't get there by train! The amount of Paris stopping services at Ashford is also being reduced. Just why was Ashford built then? But more importantly, why was Ebbsflop built when it is already so close to London? Is there anyone out there who welcomes the service from Ebbsflop?

My colleagues are currently making the daily commute to Brussels via Ashford, but from 14th November, they are having to catch a Eurostar to Lille, spend a night in a hotel there, then continue on to Brussels by TGV the next day, all at tax payers' expense as they go to Brussels as part of our wonderful new Borders Agency (some might detect a bit of sarcasm there).

Victors_Bruvver

BernadetteN wrote: »

Just why was Ashford built then? But more importantly, why was Ebbsflop built when it is already so close to London?

Cannot honestly answer your question but if you sit back and think a minute of two holes in the ground not doing a lot, not generating any income and then some bright sparks says 'let's build a shopping mall' and then another equally bright spark says 'let's build an international station next to it' what does that tell you?

If you would like more on what is happening with Ashford International, pm me