Tips for Riding the Eurostar Train from London to Paris

If you are planning to take a trip to Europe and go from London to Paris, then in all likelihood you will be riding on the Eurostar train for this journey. When I took this trip, I had all kinds of questions about train travel in Europe and about this specific train, and I spent months of research trying to find out specific information. Hopefully these tips will make your experience an easier one.

1. The first thing you will need to know is how to book tickets to ride on the Eurostar. The best site to use is raileurope.com . I found the best prices on this site, as well as other useful information such as schedules. Raileurope also has an 800 number you can call for additional assistance. If you go to the raileurope site, on the left hand side of the home page, there will be a place you can click on for eurostar tickets. This will take you to a page where you can put in the dates you wish to travel, and it will pull up options for ticket prices. If you really don't want a lot of detailed information, you could just purchase your ticket here and be done with it. But I am guessing, like me, you will have many more questions.

The Eurostar Train is a train that goes either from London to Paris on London to Brussels, Belgium. It is an incredibly advanced train, and it travels faster than many other trains in Europe. The London to Paris option, discussed here, takes about 2 hours and 35 minutes. The Eurostar goes underneath of the English channel through the Chunnel, a tunnel that was actually built underneath of the water, through the rock below. When I initially heard of the Chunnel, I assumed that you would be going right through the water, but you are actually underneath it in a layer of rock. This made me feel safer, because I had visions of a leak springing in the chunnel or something else going awry!