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Euro High Saver from Liverpool

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M28361M

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Looking for options to connect with Eurostar in connection with a possible European trip in September or October (probably using a DB Sparpreis from London).

BRFares says that a Euro High Saver single from Liverpool Stations to London International (CIV) exists, price £44.80. Arrival at Euston before 0940 Mon-Fri is barred, but that should be fine for what I want to do and much more generous (and cheaper) than the normal off peak restrictions on Virgin.

I believe RailEasy is the only site which sells these tickets online these days. However, searching for journeys on the morning of 23rd September (no firm plans at the moment, just plucking a random date to play with timings etc), the site does not offer the £44.80 ticket, even for journeys arriving after 0940. I only see various Advances or the £162.50 "Euro Standard Single".

So, is BRFares correct that this fare still exists? And if so, is a trip to a physical ticket office necessary to purchase it? Happy to buy an Advance if they are available cheaper than the walk-up fare, but most seem more expensive.
 
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I can't definitively answer your underlying question of whether the fare still exists though I imagine it does, however this is what the Man in Seat 61 says about buying London International CIV tickets online from raileasy...

Can you buy these fares online? You can buy these tickets for some routes at www.raileasy.com, but other routes no longer bring up any fares even when a check of fares to destination 'LNE' at www.brfares.com shows they exist. You used to be able to buy them at Loco2.com as well, by using London St Pancras International CIV as your origin or destination, but Loco2 were stopped from selling these fares separately by ATOC so they'll now only sell them as part of a through booking to or from Europe. ATOC have been worried about people without Eurostar tickets abusing them, until recently www.raileasy.com resisted ATOC's noises, Raileasy's problem with finding these fares on certain routes is probably a technical problem.

In other words, their absence of availability on raileasy is not in itself an indicator that they do not exist.
 

M28361M

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Thanks, looks like I may be troubling the Travel Centre at Lime Street at some point then.

One more question: am I right in thinking the CIV ticket can be used to travel down to London on the previous evening, if the connecting Eurostar journey is early in the morning?
 
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