Eurostar - Business Premier, Amsterdam Centraal to London St Pancras. An awesome trip.
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2023
- Hello and welcome, join me on this amazing trip from Amsterdam Central in the Netherlands to London St Pancras International.
We are on board with Eurostar and we’re in Business Premier.
Champagne and a 3 course meal (designed by Raymond Blanc) at 320km/h.
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Date of travel: 20.06.2023
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Departure: Amsterdam Centraal, The Netherlands.
Arrival: St Pancras International, England.
Class of travel: Business Premier.
Cost: £330 (£75 + Nectar points).
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What a fine train 👍💯
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Well done on another great video. Its been a pleasure to see the rise in the channel and I look forward to another coach video next! Being disabled I don't get to go on many journeys anymore so seeing these trips really helps.
Hi John, thank you for watching, very much appreciated and I am pleased to hear that you enjoy these videos - thanks for the support, take care.
@@TheGeordieTravels its an absolute joy and pleasure!
Just stopped by to say good video mate. Algorithm actually sent me here for what its worth, so I hope by commenting and watching until the end you might get more referrals!
Hi mate, thanks for stopping by - appreciated, hopefully, fingers crossed anyway.
Well done great video Paul in Kent congratulations on 2 years 🎉
Hi mate, thanks for watching - much appreciated and thanks for the support
Another cracking report , mate! Thank you!
hi mate, thanks for watching, again - very much approached as alway and thanks for the support as always
Well--I enjoyed the voiceover. The personal touch is important. Well done Sainsburys!
Cheers mate, thanks for watching - appreciated
Great video, loved the voice over and, especially your description of the Channel Tunnel(s). Also, thanks for the tip regarding "Nectar" points.
Thanks for watching - appreciate the comment too
Nice ride and the view was some good, the windows were some what dirty.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated. Yeah the windows were filthy, typical....🤣
Wow. The Eurostar checkin area in Amsterdam (compared to London and Paris) is almost an afterthought. It’s like some pokey portacabin affair ‘down the end’ as if they didn’t want to sacrifice anything.
Indeed. And it's capacity limited. I believe it can handle only 240 passengers. The small terminal at Rotterdam handles 160 passengers max.
When they announced the services it was the only space they had available. In Rotterdam the main rebuilding of the station already happened before the services started.
@@life.with.sabine Thanks for mentioning these facts. It means that E* departing from the Netherlands will operate with many empty seats which affects profitability. The Amsterdam route is costly to operate with high infrastructure costs (as the former CEO admitted in 2022).
@xr6lad when the new station is ready it will be far bigger, and have a capacity of 600. But yeah the dutch government is not really invested in the quick connection to London (neither is Eurostar with a 30 plus minute stop in Brussels), although they are willing to spend a few billion euros to move the international trains are moved to the Amsterdam Zuid station (mainly due to space needed for these services).
That said it is quite a big deal from the UK to expect every country to just make space in their main stations for the border checks, especially since space is quite tight in these stations. You could easily do them in London and just send everyone who fails back with another Eurostar, or have an online booking in procedure beforehand.
@@daanwolters3751 Just to clarify... it's the terminal which will be larger rather than the station building. As for sending travellers back you must consider that there are not many E* services to Amsterdam and so a night's accommodation would possibly be needed.
Thumbs up for the Nectar card tip. Thank you.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated. I only stumbled on by chance but it's good ti know if you have something planned in the future
The~ Wow-tthat is great recording. take it easy. 👍
Thanks for watching, appreciated.
Ignore her. Well done!
😮what spoiled this video was the constant french tannoy announcements, especially on the English side of the tunnel. They love the sound of their own voices.
What do you expect when travelling from Europe 🤣🤣
@@rachaeljuddx in England I expect English announcements. Stop being woke.
@@pontecarlo4354 but it’s a European train that’s like going to wales n not expecting them to speak Welsh (e.g I get a on tfw service from Chester in England to Wrexham in wales but they still speak Welsh, get a grip u sado
@@rachaeljuddx go and live in France. There were no French announcements in Holland!
@@pontecarlo4354Low iq person
Nice review. A little underdressed for business premier 😂
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated. I always try and look my best 😂😂
Eurostar is not going to serve Disneyland Paris anymore I think. Which I think it’s very sad. 😢
Imo £300 does sound slightly expensive. Don’t disagree with your opinions however if I compare to a BC fare on a plane you would have more choice of drinks at that price.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - approached and agreed - I may do a comparison video, I'll need to do more shopping first though
@@TheGeordieTravels Aye .
Another good video. Pity that, after taking so long to get going, E* faces a setback in 2024 which *might* mean it cannot serve Amsterdam until 2025. The CEO has been in the Netherlands seeing officials and trying to find a solution. Hopefully something can be sorted out but it might mean that ex-Netherlands pax taking E* have to clear UK Border checks at Brussels Midi (as was the case before the Amsterdam terminal opened).
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated.
it is a a shame. Tough the problem is space mostly, the construction works for the new (temporary) terminal will take up space, and will have to use some of the space that is used now for the terminal. Prorail (responsible for the actual construction and rail infrastructure) does not want to keep the terminal open during construction due to safety.
Meanwhile the construction will already decrease the amount of available platforms (and national trains able to stop at Amsterdam centraal) sacrificing another platform will limit the amount of other trains to the station too much, mainly due to that the four daily eurostars take up as much space as you need for 6 to 10 trains to stop in the station every hour.
Still, I am disappointed that no other solution came up like dedicating another station for the checks, while ns provides a pendel train from Amsterdam to there.
@@daanwolters3751 I hope something can be sorted. The public at large remains unaware of the situation for E* at Amsterdam CS.
@@daanwolters3751 That's because no other station in the Amsterdam area has the space or capacity to host Eurostar trains. There's no capacity for Eurostar to terminate at Amsterdam Zuid or Amsterdam Sloterdijk, no capacity at Schiphol Airport (where it currently doesn't stop, but it does run through there), and no capacity at Amsterdam Amstel either.
For a short while, one of the options was to have the Eurostar run through Amsterdam Zuid and terminate at Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA, but with that option you run into the problem that there's no infrastructure to switch the train onto the correct track to head back west, and the Eurostar would have to run via Breukelen, Woerden and Gouda down to Rotterdam rather than using the HSL-Zuid between Schiphol and Rotterdam, adding a lot of travel time, which was considered unacceptable by both Eurostar, NS and ProRail.
Finally ProRail offered to have the Eurostar terminate at Rotterdam in the meantime but Eurostar found that unacceptable as well.
Hi There My Real name is Mr Cannadine T. Boxill-Harris, I have another interesting idea for most of you Class 313, Class 314 and that also is including those interesting Class 315 Fans out there, rather than scrapping most of those Class 313's Class 314's including the Class 315's maybe you guys can convert them and including the refurbishment into those Volvo B10M Engine, Scania N112 Engine, Cummins M11 Engine, Gardner 6LXC Engine, Gardner 6LXB, Engine, Gardner 8LXB Engine, Class 313's, Class 314's and the Class 315's and convert all of them into a 2 Carriages and Three Carriages of the Class 313's, Class 314's and that is including those Class 315's for most of us Class 314's and the Class 315's Diesel Train Fans Pretty Please Are you still going to do this interesting type of Project
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did your ears pop in the tunnel
Hi mate, thanks for watching - nope they didn't
Much preferred the voiceover instead of missing half the video reading the dreadful captions.
Cheers mate and thanks for watching - I am a fairly shy person so this was a big move but moving forward this should now be standard - hopefully
Please NO AWFUL VOICEOVER only Lovely captionsf
Sorry, have to go with the majority