T5 queues this morning (weekend AM peaks)
Aug 2, 2020, 4:57 am
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Aug 2, 2020, 5:17 am
#124
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I strongly recommend taking the train if going to Europe...
The Eurostar lounge (and I'm talking about the one for the average punter) at St Pancras was a pleasure rather than the cramped hell hole it usually is at the time of year. Prices reasonable to Paris and beyond.
If you're 60 or over just buy an SNCF discount card to get 1/3 off and the same for Deutsche Bahn. Create an account on www.thetrainline.com, load your cards on and then travel...
The trip to Nice from Paris on a 200mph double deck (go for an upper deck seat) TGV is a pleasure...watch amazing French countryside hurtle past. Have a G&T at the Blue restaurant at the Gare de Lyon https://www.seat61.com/train-bleu-restaurant.htm Makes the F lounge look like the upmarket McDonalds it is. Travel 1st class and I think you get lunch served at your seat...although check that first...
Chris
The Eurostar lounge (and I'm talking about the one for the average punter) at St Pancras was a pleasure rather than the cramped hell hole it usually is at the time of year. Prices reasonable to Paris and beyond.
If you're 60 or over just buy an SNCF discount card to get 1/3 off and the same for Deutsche Bahn. Create an account on www.thetrainline.com, load your cards on and then travel...
The trip to Nice from Paris on a 200mph double deck (go for an upper deck seat) TGV is a pleasure...watch amazing French countryside hurtle past. Have a G&T at the Blue restaurant at the Gare de Lyon https://www.seat61.com/train-bleu-restaurant.htm Makes the F lounge look like the upmarket McDonalds it is. Travel 1st class and I think you get lunch served at your seat...although check that first...
Chris
Aug 2, 2020, 5:19 am
#125
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I strongly recommend taking the train if going to Europe...
The Eurostar lounge (and I'm talking about the one for the average punter) at St Pancras was a pleasure rather than the cramped hell hole it usually is at the time of year. Prices reasonable to Paris and beyond.
If you're 60 or over just buy an SNCF discount card to get 1/3 off and the same for Deutsche Bahn. Create an account on www.thetrainline.com, load your cards on and then travel...
The trip to Nice from Paris on a 200mph double deck (go for an upper deck seat) TGV is a pleasure...watch amazing French countryside hurtle past. Have a G&T at the Blue restaurant at the Gare de Lyon https://www.seat61.com/train-bleu-restaurant.htm Makes the F lounge look like the upmarket McDonalds it is. Travel 1st class and I think you get lunch served at your seat...although check that first...
Chris
The Eurostar lounge (and I'm talking about the one for the average punter) at St Pancras was a pleasure rather than the cramped hell hole it usually is at the time of year. Prices reasonable to Paris and beyond.
If you're 60 or over just buy an SNCF discount card to get 1/3 off and the same for Deutsche Bahn. Create an account on www.thetrainline.com, load your cards on and then travel...
The trip to Nice from Paris on a 200mph double deck (go for an upper deck seat) TGV is a pleasure...watch amazing French countryside hurtle past. Have a G&T at the Blue restaurant at the Gare de Lyon https://www.seat61.com/train-bleu-restaurant.htm Makes the F lounge look like the upmarket McDonalds it is. Travel 1st class and I think you get lunch served at your seat...although check that first...
Chris
Aug 2, 2020, 5:24 am
#126
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Absolutely nothing on board, for anyone. The Pret at the London terminal is open, but everything in Brussels is closed. Even Eurostar is only for the determined at the moment, although once you change to Deutsche Bahn in Brussels it's a very different, and enjoyable, experience.
Aug 2, 2020, 5:37 am
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We are due to fly out next Saturday morning 9:10, we are staying at Sheraton the night before, is it worth dropping all our bags off the night before? Also, we are getting a taxi from Sheraton to T5, is there a drop off area close to business check in? Thanks.
Aug 2, 2020, 5:40 am
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Yes just ask the taxi to drop you off around 2/3rds the way along the terminal.
Aug 2, 2020, 6:24 am
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Does anyone have any insights as to what the queues are like on Saturday afternoons? Flying in a couple of weeks at 15:00 so hoping they might have died down a bit by the time I get there.
Aug 2, 2020, 6:27 am
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Aug 2, 2020, 6:45 am
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