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Luggage on Eurostar Paris to London?
How much can you take?
I'm thinking second class, leisure fare (lowest possible). Can you carry the same suitcases which you'd have to check on a plane? The idea is to go to London AFTER completing my stay in Paris. So I would have to take my luggage with me, rather than leaving it. Yes of course it would be simpler to make the trip in the middle of my stay in Paris (my return flight to the US would be from CDG, most likely). |
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What is the luggage allowance on Eurostar? Answer Your baggage must be no more than two metres in length. Although there is no weight limit, you must be able to lift it into the storage racks provided. Please note: The baggage allowance on board Eurostar is two pieces of average suitcase-sized luggage and one piece of hand luggage per passenger. From the Eurostar web site. You can't check baggage at all if that's behind your question |
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It's a train, not a plane, so there's no problem for them about weight
restrictions. You can take however much you can carry and get on the train yourself - if you can lift it on and off security X-ray belts yourself, and get it up and downstairs to and from the platforms, you can take it on the train. There is luggage space at the end of each carriage as well as overhead shelves for smaller items. You might risk making yourself unpopular with other passengers if you insist on trying to get huge steamer trunks or kitchen cabinets on to a crowded train, but if you're just taking a fairly normal size suitcase or two with some hand luggage, there's unlikely to be any problem. PJW On Fri, 27 May 2005 21:30:10 -0700, poldy wrote: How much can you take? I'm thinking second class, leisure fare (lowest possible). Can you carry the same suitcases which you'd have to check on a plane? The idea is to go to London AFTER completing my stay in Paris. So I would have to take my luggage with me, rather than leaving it. Yes of course it would be simpler to make the trip in the middle of my stay in Paris (my return flight to the US would be from CDG, most likely). |
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It's a train, not a plane, so there's no problem for them about weight
restrictions. You can take however much you can carry and get on the train yourself - if you can lift it on and off security X-ray belts yourself, and get it up and downstairs to and from the platforms, you can take it on the train. There is luggage space at the end of each carriage as well as overhead shelves for smaller items. You might risk making yourself unpopular with other passengers if you insist on trying to get huge steamer trunks or kitchen cabinets on to a crowded train, but if you're just taking a fairly normal size suitcase or two with some hand luggage, there's unlikely to be any problem. PJW On Fri, 27 May 2005 21:30:10 -0700, poldy wrote: How much can you take? I'm thinking second class, leisure fare (lowest possible). Can you carry the same suitcases which you'd have to check on a plane? The idea is to go to London AFTER completing my stay in Paris. So I would have to take my luggage with me, rather than leaving it. Yes of course it would be simpler to make the trip in the middle of my stay in Paris (my return flight to the US would be from CDG, most likely). |
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"poldy" wrote in message news How much can you take? As much as you can lift into a storage rack. I've seen people wheel cases on board that were damned nearly as big as they were, they dont weigh but you have to be able to lift it onto the train. I'm thinking second class, leisure fare (lowest possible). Can you carry the same suitcases which you'd have to check on a plane? And then some, each pax is allowed 2 suitcases and one piece of hand baggage. Keith |
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On Sat, 28 May 2005 18:39:46 -0700, poldy wrote:
In article , (Patrick Wallace) wrote: It's a train, not a plane, so there's no problem for them about weight restrictions. You can take however much you can carry and get on the train yourself - if you can lift it on and off security X-ray belts yourself, and get it up and downstairs to and from the platforms, you can take it on the train. There is luggage space at the end of each carriage as well as overhead shelves for smaller items. You might risk making yourself unpopular with other passengers if you insist on trying to get huge steamer trunks or kitchen cabinets on to a crowded train, but if you're just taking a fairly normal size suitcase or two with some hand luggage, there's unlikely to be any problem. PJW Are you assigned seats? Yes. Eurostar seats are assigned. Or can you for instance sit by the space at the end of the train? Probably would be easier or quicker to de-board the train if you were near the luggage when the train stopped? Just get up before the station and go to the luggage. For security of mind we use a bicyle-style cable lock for our luggage when it's put at the end of the car, even though there are so few stops on Eurostar there's not much problem. The overhead racks will also take some fair sized luggage. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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