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Interrail are offering 50% off their unlimited ticket for a short period.
Can they be used for unlimited Eurostar journeys for the duration of the validity? Seems like a good deal
Only one outward and inward journey from / to the home country allowed.
In any case, you need to get Eurail pass if you are a resident of UK. Not sure if that has the same discount.https://www.myinterrail.co.uk/destinations/great-britain/reservations-supplements/
Supplements appear to be required for Eurostar.
Only one outward and inward journey from / to the home country allowed.
In any case, you need to get Eurail pass if you are a resident of UK. Not sure if that has the same discount.UK residents need to buy an Interrail pass, not a Eurail pass, even after Brexit.
30/38EUR (Paris/Brussels) and 35/43EUR (Rotterdam/Amsterdam) supplement required per journey for 2nd and 1st class passes, so you’ll also need to take that into account.
In 2017, I emailed Eurostar about using their trains more than twice with one single pass – at that time they said it was ok, and I did indeed manage to take 4 Eurostar journeys. However that was 5 years ago, and some online sources suggests that Eurostar is now classified as a “journey within your home country” if you live in the UK, which would mean only a maximum of 2 journeys allowed.
I might email them again about this to see if this policy has indeed changed… I usually travel Friday evenings/Sunday evenings which are very expensive so this would really save a lot of money with the half-price passes.
I might email them again about this to see if this policy has indeed changed… I usually travel Friday evenings/Sunday evenings which are very expensive so this would really save a lot of money with the half-price passes.
My understanding is that this has indeed changed and you can have one outbound and one inbound journeys.. but be interested to hear if they say otherwise!
Very interesting as a foreign resident but regular traveller to the UK
Only one outward and inward journey from / to the home country allowed.
In any case, you need to get Eurail pass if you are a resident of UK. Not sure if that has the same discount.UK residents need to buy an Interrail pass, not a Eurail pass, even after Brexit.
Strange. The sale is only on EU website. The conditions include this text:
“An Interrail Pass can be used by European citizens. Non-European citizens can use a Eurail Pass instead, available from Eurail.com for the same price as an Interrail Pass.”
Ignore me. I found the definition now.
“5.2 The Customer is eligible to purchase an Interrail Rail Pass, if the Customer is a citizen or official legal resident of:
One of the European Union Member states
or
one of the other European countries: Albania, Andorra, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Iceland, Isle of Man, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom or Vatican City.“- This reply was modified 55 years, 4 months ago by .
I might email them again about this to see if this policy has indeed changed… I usually travel Friday evenings/Sunday evenings which are very expensive so this would really save a lot of money with the half-price passes.
My understanding is that this has indeed changed and you can have one outbound and one inbound journeys.. but be interested to hear if they say otherwise!
I sent Eurostar a message regarding this on twitter. And they *helpfully* replied telling me to go look at Interrail T&Cs! Time to message Interrail I guess…
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Contrary to the best efforts of some(!), the UK is still a part of Europe, and thus eligible for Interrail.
You’re allowed two travelling days in your home country, and any travel must be direct to your point of departure (St Pancras or Dover, for example). Eurostar counts as travel in your home country.
So if you travel from, say, Scotland to Euston and then onwards by Eurostar (paying your supplement) on the same day, you’ve used one UK travel day. If you spend the night in London, you’ve used both your UK travel days, and have to buy a full ticket if you want to get Eurostar home.
I suppose technically you could take more than two Eurostar trips, if one of them was a day return?
Bear in mind that the pass holder fee on Eurostar (€30 each way to Paris) is of the same order of magnitude as a cheap return (£59), so if you’re booking in advance, you won’t miss out much by having to buy a full ticket.
I think I’ll get two 2 month passes, and hopefully make more than 2 trips. The value of a trip down from Newcastle to London accounts for a significant portion of the cost!
Now this is odd the interrail.eu site says the offer expires today and the myinterrail.co.uk says tomorrow, if the countdown counters are to be believed
The UK countdown counter is wrong! Click through and the offer finishes today!
The offer has been extended by a day until 23:59 tonight (11/05) on myinterrail – it’s still selling discount passes at the moment
and 4.25% back on TCB as well
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