From today, the right to a free transfer between Brussels Midi & other Brussels stations (such as Brussels Central) with any Eurostar ticket is discontinued. www.andybtravels.com/news/eurosta... - ThreadSky

seatsixtyone.bsky.social • 79 days ago

From today, the right to a free transfer between Brussels Midi & other Brussels stations (such as Brussels Central) with any Eurostar ticket is discontinued. https://www.andybtravels.com/news/eurostar-connection-fare

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jrowanbxl.bsky.social•79 days ago

Didn't Eurostar tickets used to take you to "any Belgian station"? I'm sure that's what it used to say on them.

seatsixtyone.bsky.social•79 days ago

Pre-2010 yes. Post-2010 yes IF you specifically buy to Any Belgian Station.

brickie78.bsky.social•79 days ago

Presumably if you do that, you can still go on to Centra(a)l?

seatsixtyone.bsky.social•79 days ago

Yes, you simply pay the extra €13 then your ticket includes this €2.50 transfer.

brickie78.bsky.social•79 days ago

Well quite

guitarmoog.bsky.social•79 days ago

Down with this sort of thing!

seatsixtyone.bsky.social•79 days ago

The rail industry seems to want to reverse rather than improve integration, even where it currently exists. It’s not as if anyone ever checks tickets between Midi & Central anyway! 🤨

dzyrl.bsky.social•79 days ago

Oh no! That’s really poor.

dzyrl.bsky.social•79 days ago

(The discontinuation I mean)

justincormack.bsky.social•79 days ago

I mean for a long time I was confused about whether those were even different stations or just the names in different languages!

gkaper.bsky.social•79 days ago

I still have to find out why the station in French is called 'Midi' and in Dutch it's 'Zuid' (meaning south)

bedfojo.bsky.social•79 days ago

Midi also means south in French. See definition 3: https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/midi/51356

cyclingcapital.bsky.social•78 days ago

Correct, midi often means “noon” or “midday” and by extension “south” because south is where the sun is at 12.

justincormack.bsky.social•79 days ago

Ah cool that makes sense!

peter-mugridge.bsky.social•78 days ago

Not so long ago a Eurostar ticket to Bruxelles was also available with validity onwards to any ( pre-selected, I think? ) Belgian station, was it not...?

gabrielstravels.bsky.social•77 days ago

Can someone direct me to SNCB complaints?

gillhughes.bsky.social•79 days ago

Everything feels in a mess! Feel like I’m getting daily emails from DB rerouting and/or cancelling legs of our Berlin trip!

bedfojo.bsky.social•79 days ago

Eurostar is becoming increasingly passenger unfriendly. Astronomical fares, worsening ticket conditions, poor reliability, appalling queues at the terminals

gabrielstravels.bsky.social•77 days ago

It's not eurostar fault this time but SNCB.

silentsweeney.bsky.social•79 days ago

Wondering if you think that this is a result of the Thalys/Eurostar merger? Seems to me that ever since the merger Eurostar from the UK has become ever more expensive and less user friendly - in other words more like the Thalys trains in Europe which you avoided unless you didn't have any choice

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