I am looking into 4 tickets (2 adults, 1 child, 1 youth) for the Eurostar from London in August. According to the UK website the cheapest fare (29 pounds) has a restriction of no-saturday-away stay. We are leaving on a Thu and returning on a Mon. On the US website, there is no such restriction but it works out more espensive. Plus on the US website the youth ticket is more expensive than the adult one. Would it be ok to buy an adult ticket for my daughter and not a youth one? Or should I wait to purchase closer to my departure date? Any advice and ideas are appreciated. Thanks!

Hi jand,

No one will care if your daughter is traveling on an adult ticket.

I suggest that you buy your tickets as soon as possible.

I went to www.eurostar.com and entered depart on Aug 5 and return on Aug 9 and got fares of $45 each way.

Are you sure about that, ira? The same issue arose with the Gatwick Express and several posters said they do care.

Ira: My dates are Aug 19 - Aug 23 (London - Paris - London). It shows $60 for the adult ticket. I did try your dates too and it still shows $60. Am I missing some trick?
Thanks

jand, the $45 rate is available on the 19th at 12:09 and 13:41 (you probably were looking at earlier trains). I didn't check your return. Good luck.

Hi jand,

A lot depends on which train. Some are cheaper than others.

I did it for your dates and this time got 29.5 GBP.

Why is it that one time it quoted me in $ and one time in GBP?

(I erased all of the cookies and started over in order to get quotes in GBP, and it came up $. This time it came up GBP.)

Hi will,

I think that that was a case of someone on a child's fare who was a youth, wasn't it?

When we went in April, I had bought an adult ticket (via eurostar.com) for my 13 year old son since the youth fare was more expensive. They did not care.

Thanks for the message Nena. I suppose it is safe then to buy the adult ticket for my daughter.

For future reference, is the 29 pounds one-way or round-trip?

According to http://www.eurostar.com/dctm/jsp/ser...001a59800b3af8 the cheapest rate I see is 59 pounds for a round-trip ticket.

Thanks.

By the way, I discovered while booking a couple of days ago that sometimes deleting cookies isn't enough to reset various pages. This is enough for resetting country of residence. But you may have to "delete files" as well under "Internet Options" in Explorer. This will reset everything and avoid the currency problem (i.e. getting quotes in Euros when you want quotes in pounds, etc.). UK residents get quoted in pounds and French residents get quoted in Euros and US residents get quoted in dollars. The pound/Euro prices are pretty comparable, and the dollar prices are usually higher, at least when I tried.