I%26#39;d be very grateful for advice.
I%26#39;m taking my wife on a suprise trip to Bruge and have booked Eurostar from St Pancras to Brussels.
Can we get a train from the same staion we arrive in on the Eurostar to Bruges ?
Any other advice gratefully received...
Thanks
Cliff
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Yes, you just need to change platforms. I believe you want the trains for either Ostend or Knokke.
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Hi,
Yes, you can get a train from any of the stations in Brussels to Bruges. There%26#39;s a train at least every half hour.
Trians to Bruges from Brussels take just under an hour. Have a look here for more accurate times http://www.b-rail.be/main/E/ as already mentioned they%26#39;ll be marked Oostende or Knokke.
Never been Eurostar before but my understanding is that your ticket entitles you to onward travel from your destination so you shouldn%26#39;t need to buy a ticket to get from Brussels to Bruges.
Regards
Rob
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Yes, Rob%26#39;s quite right - your Eurostar ticket automatically entitles you to onward rail travel to any station in Belgium (I think you have to go straight to your final destination, however - in other words, you couldn%26#39;t overnight in Brussels and then travel on to Bruges the next day (not that it sounds like you will be doing that anyway)).
Bruges is a delight - though be prepared to bump into lots of tourists in and around the main square and the canals; however, there are plenty of attractive little quiet back streets where you will be able to absorb the atmosphere of this charming place. It%26#39;s very much a place just to stroll and %26#39;follow your nose%26#39; - you can%26#39;t really get lost, and even if you do, nowhere%26#39;s very far from the centre!
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Unless something has changed very recently, it isn%26#39;t true that any Eurostar ticket from London to Brussels automatically entitles you to travel to any other station in BELGIUM! This is an option (ABS = Any Belgian Station) that you can book at the time of purchase, but if someone has reserved for St. Pancras to Brussels and NOT selected the ABS option, then Brugge would not be included.
Previous poster may have confused this with automatic entitlement to travel to any other station in BRUSSELS (there are more than half a dozen railway stations in the city, 3 of them on the same line through the centre, i.e. Midi, Central and Nord)!! Which is not relevant here.
I would check your ticket very carefully, there may still be time to change a London-Brussels ticket for a London-ABS (Any Belgian Station) ticket, thus avoiding the need to buy another ticket on arrival in Brussels. Of course if you have actually have a London-Brugge ticket already, this is not an issue.
Anyway, you have to get off the Eurostar at Gare du Midi, where you arrive on platform 1 or 2 (= Eurostar Terminal) and should look on departure board for trains to Knokke, Blankenberge or Oostende, all of which will stop only at Ghent and Brugge on the way to the coast (there are also slower trains to Brugge that stop everywhere in between, especially at commuter times when they are often double-decker).
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I booked a Eurostar ticket to Belgium on Sunday - the only option on their internet site is %26quot;Brussels Any Belgian Station%26quot; so I%26#39;m 100% sure that it includes free travel onto Bruges.
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We have just received tickets booked through Eurostar Customer Services to go to Bruges - the top of the ticket does say London St Pancras to Bruxelles Midi BUT at the bottom in small print it says Valid from/to any Belgian station.
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