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I'm now 90% sure you can save yourself £45 each way by just carrying the bike bag on board yourself, which will regardless be within the 85cm length limit for standard bags. Would be a pain on a busy train through.
No chance, even in pre-brexit days they didnt allow this. I tried a couple of times. Fuck Eurostar, driving is way easier.
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'I'm still waiting for an email' would be an appropriate response these days. It takes days and days for a reply (I tried to change trains because the French ones from Basel were booked out - that follow-up email took three days).
In the end it was just my bike boarded both ways. But they both had three members of staff ready and available to carry my bike bag and put it on the trolley. -
I took the eurostar a couple of weeks ago and there was a guy there was a bike bag, carrying it onto the train (on the London end). No idea how he got it through security, maybe now they're all employed by Serco or Mitie they don't care? Bit of a risk though
caveatgez
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At the moment you have to bag up your bike for the London - Paris route. You have to take your bagged bike up to the Euros dispatch counter at both London and Paris stations for check-in as before.
On arrival at the other end they give you back your bagged bike on the platform, you carry it through the exit yourself. The bag is security zip-tied, so you need a pair of scissors to open the bike bag (don't leave this in the bike bag like I did).
This costs £45 each way and about 2 weeks to sort out.
I'm now 90% sure you can save yourself £45 each way by just carrying the bike bag on board yourself, which will regardless be within the 85cm length limit for standard bags. Would be a pain on a busy train through.