How long check in before eurostar

Gare du Nord is also a very busy station. My questions: 1 is 2. Apologies for the delayed response. In the last 30 hours we were making our long journey from Paris to Sydney. Distance between Gare de Lyon and Gare du Nord is about 5 km. Taxi ride will take about 20 minutes.

Our driver to the airport says that the drivers like August because the roads are less busy. The taxi stand at Gare de Lyon is just outside the main concourse. The Eurostar site specifies check-in times of at least 30 minutes or 45 minutes for weekends and holidays. In all, your 2. August is holiday time for Parisiens and those who are going on trips would have left by mid-August.

We unfortunately got caught in the mad rush at CDG and it was quite chaotic there. Total travel time is 22 minutes, which includes walking time of 10 minutes. If you see any recommendations online to use the RER, please disregard this option as access to the whole RER network within the Paris central city area has been closed off for works. Although you are ticketed all the way through from Geneva to London, you will actually have your bags with you at Gare de Lyon and will have to put them through security check at Gare du Nord — just like airline checks.

France is operating under a State of Emergency, which means that they can employ their military on the streets to help with security. Where we stayed in the Marais district, we were happy to see the soldiers and police as at least they serve as a deterrent. PJ, I wanted to get this off to you quickly to allay your nervousness. We are Australian citizens couple in our fifties travelling to Europe for a vacation including six days in Paris and then travelling to London by EuroStar from Gare du Nord on 30 April We will stay in London for three days and then fly to Canada electronic travel authority and air tickets already obtained for Canada.

Will the UK border control in Gare du Nord create any hassle on account of we were both born and raised in India? We have been Australian nationals since You also have your onward ticket and travel authority for Canada to show that you are not intending on overstaying in the UK.

Kaiyo, the number of Indians from India heading to Europe for holidays has increased vastly in the past years and the United Nations World Tourism Organization estimates that by the number of Indians heading overseas will grow to 50 million for both business and leisure travel. So you should not worry about being born and raised in India during your travels! Have a great trip and enjoy your holidays!

Thank you so much Helen for your post. I arrived at Gare de Nord at am. There were only people checking in, which makes it less stressful. I had no trouble at all, using my digital boarding pass.

Apart from the ease of quicker check-in, the other advantage of arriving early is that there is minimal queue when it comes to buying food from the cafe. On a whole, it was a stress free and smooth journey, thanks to Helen!

Credit goes to yourself for planning an early arrival at Gare du Nord. Thanks Alvina for taking the time to share your experience and please feel free to share other travel experiences that you have on our site. Hello i would like to ask some questions if you don t mind me asking. Im non eu citizen but my wife is french and we are thinking go to london. How can i take visa before going? They giving visa on gare du nord or? Eurostar ticket checks will close 30 minutes before departure.

Travelling from Rotterdam: …to London: The Eurostar departure building on platform 15b will open 90 minutes before your train departs. Travelling from Brussels to the Netherlands: Please arrive at the station at least 20 minutes before your train departs. Alcohol on Board: Although you can bring alcohol with you and we serve alcohol on board, safety is our top priority. So, please drink in moderation. If you behave in an antisocial way which ruins the journey for other passengers or break any laws or by-laws, we might ask you to leave the train at the nearest station.

Toggle navigation. Turn up at the security gate at Gatwick on easyJet with less than half-an-hour to spare, or at Heathrow on British Airways with under 35 minutes, and you will be refused further progress and invited to re-book possibly at huge expense.

In my experience Eurostar is more flexible — partly because progress through the security check and passport control to the platform is a matter of a few minutes. And at the smaller stations — Ebbsfleet, Ashford and Calais — you really want to minimise the time you spend there. So I have on occasion arrived 16 or 17 minutes before departure with a Standard Class ticket, and was allowed on with barely a ticking off. I daresay if you have had a nightmare reaching the station and you ask very nicely at the Business Premier area you might be allowed through with, say, 12 minutes left.