BahrainLad
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Planning a trip down to the southwest of France towards the end of July, when hopefully travel restrictions will be eased a bit more.
Route is London - Paris - Bordeaux - Ste Foy Le Grande.
Passengers are myself, my daughter (3) and my brother. So my daughter doesn't need a ticket.
Seems I can book London - Bordeaux on Eurostar.com, or London - SFLG all the way through on RailEurope. I like to collect Eurostar points, so can I do that on either platform? (I wonder if I would get points for the full spend if I booked on E*, but only the E* sector spend on RE.). What about Trainline? I suppose I may want to book Standard Premier + TGV First Class and then 2nd class on the TER, but RE won't let you do this on one ticket.
How do I select seats? I presume if I book on Eurostar.com, I would be able to select seats for the Eurostar legs on their website? I presume any booking for the TGV will just give me something random (but RE allows upper/lower/duo/solo I think?)
For my daughter, I think I can get a €9 seat reservation on the same TGV from the InOui website so she could have a seat without a ticket, but how do you get this adjacent to wherever Eurostar/RE have dumped you. Is it feasible/allowed to book 2 x €9 reservations at the same transaction just to get two seats together? Or even 3, if my brother joins us (he may be on a separate itinerary for either the outbound/return anyway)? Am I likely to get a telling off for doing this and not sitting in the seat on my ticket?
Any thoughts?
Route is London - Paris - Bordeaux - Ste Foy Le Grande.
Passengers are myself, my daughter (3) and my brother. So my daughter doesn't need a ticket.
Seems I can book London - Bordeaux on Eurostar.com, or London - SFLG all the way through on RailEurope. I like to collect Eurostar points, so can I do that on either platform? (I wonder if I would get points for the full spend if I booked on E*, but only the E* sector spend on RE.). What about Trainline? I suppose I may want to book Standard Premier + TGV First Class and then 2nd class on the TER, but RE won't let you do this on one ticket.
How do I select seats? I presume if I book on Eurostar.com, I would be able to select seats for the Eurostar legs on their website? I presume any booking for the TGV will just give me something random (but RE allows upper/lower/duo/solo I think?)
For my daughter, I think I can get a €9 seat reservation on the same TGV from the InOui website so she could have a seat without a ticket, but how do you get this adjacent to wherever Eurostar/RE have dumped you. Is it feasible/allowed to book 2 x €9 reservations at the same transaction just to get two seats together? Or even 3, if my brother joins us (he may be on a separate itinerary for either the outbound/return anyway)? Am I likely to get a telling off for doing this and not sitting in the seat on my ticket?
Any thoughts?