Why would anyone use Eurostar over flying to Paris?
May 25, 2016, 5:55 pm
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I think you have worked it out correctly, but most people who use Eurostar are not going to or from an airport in either London or Paris. For example I usually travel from central London (walking distance from STP) to central Paris (and vv). I think the answer is in the annual traffic figures, all those thousands of people have made the individual calculations and voted with their feet.
May 26, 2016, 4:23 am
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My inclination would be to take the first flight in the morning. Both BA and AF have a flight arriving before 08:00, and there's even a flight from Orly arriving at 08:35. If you buy it as a connecting flight for your onward, then you will avoid UK APD, although you will of course have to pay the French tax.
May 26, 2016, 5:02 am
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My inclination would be to take the first flight in the morning. Both BA and AF have a flight arriving before 08:00, and there's even a flight from Orly arriving at 08:35. If you buy it as a connecting flight for your onward, then you will avoid UK APD, although you will of course have to pay the French tax.
May 26, 2016, 12:03 pm
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If you don't care when in the day you travel other than AM or PM, and you're booking a week out, you can take the Eurostar for only £25 one-way!
It's a new thing though, explaination is here from the man in Seat 61, you book at https://snap.eurostar.com/
It's a new thing though, explaination is here from the man in Seat 61, you book at https://snap.eurostar.com/
May 26, 2016, 6:05 pm
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He showed me his ticket "€249", he just shrugged his shoulders, I have to be in London by noon.
May 27, 2016, 7:52 am
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If you don't care when in the day you travel other than AM or PM, and you're booking a week out, you can take the Eurostar for only £25 one-way!
It's a new thing though, explaination is here from the man in Seat 61, you book at https://snap.eurostar.com/
It's a new thing though, explaination is here from the man in Seat 61, you book at https://snap.eurostar.com/
Be warned, last minute bookings on Eurostar can be expensive. On a trip from Paris to London a duchman asked me if the seat next to me was free, it was. He had booked last minute and was allocated a tip up seat in the vestibule. He asked me how much I had paid "€49"
He showed me his ticket "€249", he just shrugged his shoulders, I have to be in London by noon.
He showed me his ticket "€249", he just shrugged his shoulders, I have to be in London by noon.