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This Paris Breaks video gives a good idea of what you might see whilst also being entertaining in its own way. Anyway, I thought I’d post it here on the Eurostar breaks blog.

I live in London and when I’ve finished my college course, I’d like to get a job and save up for my boyfriend and I to go to Paris for the weekend.

Some of the prices I’ve seen are outrageous (nearly £400 for two days) and I know nothing about booking a holiday. Help!

Paris is not a weekend affair for couples but for louveures (lovers).
Let the boyfriend pay for yourself to go alone or for the two of you to go together. Either way you go to Paris. Though, it is commendable you
want to go dutch (you treating), I find it uneventful that you pay for the trip.
Perhaps go half, 50/50,right down the middle,including to the hotel/motel room. Boyfriend shouldn’t have any problem tipping, paying for meals for two (2),tourism,car rental and souvenirs. However, clothing, shoes and accessories are the girlfriends’ department.
Check with travel agencies,for various prices.Cheap Tickets, book the reservations months in advance. (Go to www.cheaptickets.com)…
Fill out the form over the internet to get prices that way.
Adieu and Bon voyage!

I wanted to go for a day trip to Paris during December but their site is quoting me hundreds and hundreds of pounds?! Surely there are last minute deals or a cheaper option?!

If it sells out, it sells out… The cheapest deals involve a Saturday night stay.

That said, the following can work:

- Set your home country to ‘USA’. This may need you to clear any cookies for eurostar.com, restart your browser and return to eurostar.com.

- Look on lastminute.com. They sometimes have cheaper deals than Eurostar themselves.

If all that fails… Consider flying. If you’re in London, the London City to Paris Orly service is quite convenient: both airports are central and manageable compared to Heathrow and Roissy-CDG.

Hi there. My boyfriend and I are hoping to go on holiday somewhere in Europe to have a triple celebration (his birthday/valentines day/our 5 year anniversary). But everywhere I have looked seem to be quite expensive (£200 + for a few nights) and we are on quite a tight budget as you can tell! I have looked on lastminute.com and teletext holidays, along with other websites, but I’m wondering if anyone knows of any package deals/eurostar breaks etc on other sites? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

For £200 it would be a miracle to find a city break for two, as a European break means two return flights, which even with a budget airline company will cost about £120 minimum.

Although Sardinia can be cheap depending on where you stay, the flights there will usually cover most of the £200 anyway. (Eurostar is also extremely expensive which i have never really understood.)

Alternatively, what you could do is drive yourselves to Paris or Rouen (which would be cheaper and close enough to visit Paris during the day). Taking the Eurotunnel will set you back about £70 each way, depending on the time and date you go through it.

Otherwise, you’ll have to loosen the purse strings,

If not, somerset is quite nice this time of year…

What’s the best way of booking a holiday to Disneyland Paris with my baby son? I want to stay at the New York Hotel on site and go for 2 nights next Feb, is it cheaper to book last minute? How do I get hold of these ‘vouchers’ I keep seeing advertised? Does anyone know? Thanks

P and O are offering a free Disneyland ticket with bookings. See details here: http://www.ferrytime.co.uk

Eurostar breaks close to passenger milestone

It has been revealed that we are now very close to a major passenger milestone, with the 100 millionth customer due to check in to travel just like all the others on Eurostar breaks on the morning of Friday 28th August 2009. The lucky 100 millionth nominal traveller should look forward to VIP treatment from the English and French crew. Eurostar, the high-speed train operator launched services on 14November 1994 and now offers direct links to Calais, Lille, Paris and Brussels, as well as connections within France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. On the travel routes to Paris and Brussels from London, Eurostar now claims a market share of 75% despite competition from airlines.Richard Brown, chief executive of Eurostar, said: ‘We are proud and delighted to be ready to carry our 100 millionth traveller nextFriday. We are preparing ourselves for our 15th anniversary on 14 November and look forward to welcoming the challenges with on-rail competition from next year. However, we are confident that our knowledge of operating across three countries and through the Channel Tunnel sets us in good stead for our next 100m Eurostar travellers.’

Eurostar’s high-speed rail network now connects more than 200 British towns and cities to the continent, making Eurostar breaks one of the easiest ways to get away abroad no matter where in the UK you startout from.

2 adults and 1 youth want to travel to paris from london next month. But the website is very confusing and the prices keep on changing. This is my first time using Eurostar, and i need some help.

Eurostar sells its tickets from the cheapest.
So for one train, second class, you can first buy say € 20 euro tickets, but they only have a few of them, so than they go on with € 50 Euro tickets and when those have sold the more expensive tickets will be sold and so on.
But different trains on one day sell their tickets at different speeds and they also have special offers.
(Prices are just as examples and have nothing to do with the real prices they charge.)

As a rule it is the best to buy on the day they start selling the tickets for the train you want, or as soon after as possible, (when you have made sure you can travel that day and such.)

But as the different trains sell tickets at different speeds, less popular trains often still have cheap tickets available when other trains do not.
So be as flexible as you can when ordering your tickets.
When you know when you want to travel you can ask the system to show you prices for the whole day, and select the cheapest one of those. Sometimes, if you can do so, you can get better prices a day earlier or later.

If you are really stuck, a travel agent often can help you to get the cheapest tickets, but you pay for the privilege.

. . . namely that you can’t sell Eurostar tickets.

I really want to sell them otherwise they’re just going to go to waste. Any ideas?

You’re right, Ebay UK refuses to carry Eurostar tickets. But on the other hand Ebay France does carry Eurostar tickets. It seems that lots of English people have cottoned on now.
So they will probably carry Eurostar vouchers. I’ve sold plenty of Eurostar tickets on the French ebay, including signles from Londnon to Paris.
Another idea would be to simply go to Waterloo Station or Gare du Nord and sell them to someone queueing to buy tickets.
There are also a couple of French web sites re-selling railway tickets, including Eurostar (kellbillet.com and trocdesprems.com) but they are not really geared for selling vouchers but you can give it a try. Incidentally, reselling tickets in France is only legal if you sell them for not more than the price you paid.
How much do you want for them by the way and how long are they valid until?

As part of eurostar’s Little break, Big difference campaign, 15 fashion bloggers were taken on an exclusive trip to Paris to experience the difference a little break can make.
Find out more at www.littlebreakbigdifference.com

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This blog is all about going on Eurostar breaks to Paris, Lille, Brussels, Amsterdam and other places. Using the Eurostar from London, it’s easy to get away abroad  even if you don’t have much time. Just a weekend will do, or even a day trip but a few days is always better. The Eurostar takes just over two hours to get to Paris these days and Paris is easily the most popular city for Eurostar breaks, even if you have to start from Manchester or further afield.