Tag: eurostar
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Deutsche Bahn joins Star Alliance
DB joins Star Alliance. Wonderful news. Just like Air France-KLM is already offering Thalys tickets for some of its flights from Brussels: instead of departing from BRU airport to AMS or CDG; just take a train from Brussels South. It looks like Lufthansa, and soon all of Star Alliance, will offer more comprehensive (long-haul) tickets…
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If you ever wondered how fast the Eurostar goes
Bar some tunnels (Lille, Channel) this gives a quite good overview using GPS. Brussels Midi to London St Pancras.
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Eurostar.com sitemap links to spam site…
The Eurostar.com (cached copy) sitemap links to an odd directory: eurostar.com/bestkeptsecret (which was part of a viral campaign in 2006, Google tells me), which in turn redirects to a spam site… 🙁 Visiting that links redirect to a spammy website about real estate… Please clean up your shit -.-) HTTP headers when getting eurostar.com/bestkeptsecret: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved…
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Eurostar cheatness
Did a comparison with a browser set to UK and one to Belgium on eurostar.com. If you live in Belgium, you get free NMBS tickets (from and to Brussels South). However, when you choose UK, you get an option to either choose Brussels South or “Any Belgian Station”: If we compare the prices for 2nd of June…