Can anyone tell me if the cost of the train through the chunnel is included in the Eurail Saverpass?

If it is not included, how much does the ticket cost?

Thanks!!

The ticket costs between 40€ and 300€ (maybe more).

Holders of passes can get a passholder rate on the Eurostar.

If you check the fares section on the Eurostar website you'll find the price of such a ticket

Passholder fares from in the $70 range one way but up to $120 as they are tiered and sold in limited quantities if the train can be sold out at regular higher priced tickets

In U.K. last year it was a low of about $100 one way but as Alan says see the website eurostar.com - but in the past i could never find the Eurailpass holder fare on it but haven't looked in a while.

And the passholder rate has better conditions than some of the discounted tickets (it's cheaper if going round trip often to buy a return Leisure ticket as it may be cheaper than two one-ways, subject to availability - midweek days are easier to book pass holder fares as well as cheaper tickets and trains to Brussels are easier than Paris IME

But if you wait until europe to buy the passholder fare it could be sold out for the day(s) you want to travel - hard to tell. So book early to get this attractive ticket - the better conditions are that passholder fares can be changed once in Europe up until the train departure without fee (but subject to seats available on the train(s) you want to switch to.

In U.S. thru raileurope.com you can book up to nine months in advance but there is also a $15 booking fee (per order not per ticket and RE has about an $18 mailing fee if under $400 i believe) so adds to cost. www.eurostar.com, if you can book passholder fares there would not charge either fee but could be higher than the cheapest RailEurope price IME. I always refer anyone thinking of booking Eurostar thru RailEurope to call BETS, www.budgeteuropetravel.com a RE agent, for their sheer exertise, being able to talk to an expert (RailEurope charges an extra 10% i believe for phone orders) and they don't charge the RE mailing fee on most orders. But do check www.eurostar.com for price comparisons and if going return look at the Leisure round trip fares that have nothing to do with railpasses.
The passholder fare on Eurostar trains does not require the use of a day on the Eurail Saverpass if it's a flexipass but just that the overall time period of the pass must be valid (two months for flexipasses) - if you have a consecutive day pass then the Eurostar trip must far within the bounds of the consecutive day.
Eurostar also has youth (under 26) and senior fares (60 and over) that are in the same range as passholder fares and don't require a pass at all.

tampa - note the scolding from Brits on a current thread with the dread word CHUNNEL in its heading

NEVER use that word or Brits, rather anal about this IMO, will sooner or later take you for task even though it's been shown the British media coined it and it is repeatedly used in the media.

It's Channel Tunnel or EuroTunnel but not Chunnel

The Channel Tunnel is known as the Channel Tunnel. Eurotunnel is the company which operates the Channel Tunnel, and which also runs trains, known as shuttles, which run between Folkestone and Calais carrying road vehicles. Eurostar is the name of the passenger train which goes through the Channel Tunnel on journeys from London to Paris or Brussels.

Through is spelt through, not thru.

Anal is as anal does. We are all anal about something.

Hi T,

You can get a one-day RT ticket for about $100 at www.eurostar.com.

Are you sure you need a railpass?

Enter your itinerary at www.railsaver.com and click "only if it saves money".

With all due respect to Ira i would say that only if a railpass saves you money is not just the only factor that enters into whether a railpass is your best option or not.

In fact i would argue that it often is not the case.

Indeed there are many other factors to railpasses IMO than cost - that is if the pass does not cost very much more than the pt-pt

Like if going Paris-Geneva with a Eurailpass

railsaver may figure say $100

but say if you get to Geneva at 1pm or so and have a half day there - with the pass you could hop on the steamers on Lake Geneva and take a few hour relaxing cruise on one of the world's most beautiful lakes, where the awesome Mont Blanc Massif looms above it - a ride that may cost $30 or so

Railpasses give you such options so you cannot always just say only if it saves you money

In my limited experience I have found that the earlier you buy your tickets, the better price and more options you get. We waited and ended up having to go at 7:30 a.m. in order to get the cheaper fare. The price between the eurostar and raileurope prices vary so check both. When the cheaper tickets were all gone on raileurope, eurostar still had some. If someone knows better, please correct me.

Yes book Eurostars as early as possible is the best advice as you could pay literally hundreds of dollars more by waiting to London or Paris as cheaper tickets often are exhausted months earlier. Can book up to nine months in advance in U.S. and yes check prices on both ends as they have very little correlation often.

Weird but sometimes you will find that the cheaper Leisure type fares are sold out but the corresponding Leisure type fares in first class may be available

I've seen times when you could pay about the same or just a tad more for first class than the cheapest standard class ticket

and in first class you get a really nice (for a train) meal with oodles of wine or Champagne. Plus seats much bigger and room for luggage, etc.

So check to see if a 1st class Leisure type fare ticket may be available for not much more at times than the cheapest remaining Standard or 2nd class ticket.

Not that this will happen, but I hope you have better luck than this "ill fated" Eurostar journey:

uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080419/tts-uk-france-eurostar-648bc60.html

Raileurope has launched a Eurostar 1st Class Promo where 1st class tickets are as low as $129 one way or $199 return

valid for sales thru July 15, 2008 and travel July 1 thru Aug 31st

includes all usual first class accouterments like the comp drinks and meal served at seat

I wonder if the British who get all emotional and upset when anyone uses the commonly known nickname The Chunnel, get just as upset when anyone calls the London Underground (the official name of that system) the Tube. Is there a list somewhere of what are acceptable nicknames and what are not?

The difference is that only foreigners now nickname it the chunnel, whereas EVERYONE calls nit the tube.

Not that chunnel bothers me really.

Just to be anal again.

The tube is not the same as the Underground. Some lines (Circle, District) run just below the surface, and many were built using the "cut and cover" method. The carriages are larger, and the seats may run across the train, with a central walkway.

The Tube is the name for the (sometimes) deep lines, which were built by tunneling. The trains are smaller, with seats along the sides. The Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines are Tube lines.

Mind the gap!

Yeah, but everyone still calls them the tube (even when they are on an overground bit).

also, the circle line isn't a line in itself. It's just a route created round joined up bits of the other lines.

Wow, someone recently cited a BBC article talking about the Chunnel. I had no idea that the BBC was a "foreigner" organization.
I first heard the term Chunnel from a London businessman who uses it back and forth to Paris all the time -- until then I had never heard the term (that was in its very early days).

And anyone who thinks a lot of Londoners don't just call the whole underground system "the tube" just isn't listening. Let's be honest -- the name Underground isn't right either for much of it. So?

This is an American forum ... used mainly by Americans who use the word Chunnel

Brits who visit the forum should be sensitive to the normal language we use and not to anally IMO try to correct the American language we are using.

It's Chunnel to us and keep your silly comments about using that to yourselves IMO. It does no use to correct us and inevitably throws the thread off from its original purpose.