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>> No. 2602 Anonymous
9th June 2013
Sunday 11:17 pm
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I need to get from London to Netherlands and back for a weekend sometime soon. I don't have any car.

What are relatively fast and not overly expensive ways?

Eurostar to Brussels and then a local train to the actual destination seems quick, but definitely on the pricy side.
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>> No. 2603 Anonymous
9th June 2013
Sunday 11:32 pm
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>>2602

Britlad in the Netherlands here.

Eurostar would be my choice.
>> No. 2604 Anonymous
9th June 2013
Sunday 11:48 pm
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>>2602
You may be able to get a cheap advance through ticket from your local station, though apparently for some reason you have to get in touch with Eurostar's domestic sales office directly for this.

The alternative is flying from shitty airports in the middle of nowhere (LHR/LGW will understandably be more expensive), and putting up with the kind of shitty airlines that fly from them.
>> No. 2605 Anonymous
9th June 2013
Sunday 11:50 pm
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>>2604

I'm in North London, so I'm pretty close to St Pancras International for Eurostar and Stansted airport for flights. There's more complex travel on the other side to get to 's-Middle-Of-Nowhere, Netherlands.
>> No. 2606 Anonymous
9th June 2013
Sunday 11:51 pm
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>> No. 2607 Anonymous
9th June 2013
Sunday 11:55 pm
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>>2605

Out of interest, where are you heading to out here?
>> No. 2608 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 12:21 am
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>>2607

Again. I ask to help you out with transport arrnagements...bus/train is quite a differential here, both in time and cost.
>> No. 2609 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 12:32 am
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>>2608

I am not going to delete this post, but instead leave in as a warning for future users about drunken posting.
>> No. 2610 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 3:04 am
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>>2602

The train from Brussels to A'dam is only fast if you shell out and get the Fyra train. If you get NS/NS Hispeed you're in for a really long trip on a clunky old train. It's also not much cheaper than getting the plane (can actually often be more). Don't forget that Easyjet fly into Schiphol now.

Cheapest hands down is to get the Eurolines bus from Victoria, but you're looking at a bit of a treck. I've never done it myself so I don't know how long it takes, but I know it's 8 hours A'dam to Paris on the Eurolines so make of that what you will.
>> No. 2611 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 4:52 am
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Please do not take a plane.

Sincerely,
Planet Earth.
>> No. 2612 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 5:00 am
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>>2611
I don't know why you singled out planes, since the emissions per passenger mile are comparable to cars.

Saving the earth won't be accomplished by a few people choosing not to fly or drive cars, but by engineers making these vehicles run on clean energy.
>> No. 2613 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 6:01 am
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>>2612
Which is impossible with planes.
>> No. 2614 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 7:21 am
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>>2613

Naw, you could build rocket planes that burn hydrogen. You can hydrogen with solar power. Easy enough.
>> No. 2615 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 9:20 am
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>>2614
Here's a little bedtime reading.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/future-of-flight-fuel-for-thought-2284963.html
>> No. 2616 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 1:47 pm
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>>2610

Eurostar from London to Amdam is about 4 hours. Fucking rocks.
>> No. 2617 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 2:26 pm
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>>2616

There *is* no direct Eurostar from London to A'dam. Hence the reason for my post in the first place.
>> No. 2619 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 2:29 pm
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>>2617

Yes, but it is hi-speed all the way when you book via Eurostar's website.

I might be a dullard, but at least I take this route every other month.
>> No. 2620 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 5:03 pm
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>>2619
>I might be a dullard

If this is a thing now, I'm going to bloody hang myself.
>> No. 2621 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 5:29 pm
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>>2620

I am with you 100% on that.

>>2619

Weird. I've used this route dozens of times myself using the Eurostar site and I always get the choice to book Fyra, ICE or NS Hi-Speed for the Brussels to A'dam leg.
>> No. 2622 Anonymous
10th June 2013
Monday 5:48 pm
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>>2620
Agreed.

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