departing from London St Pancras Intl...

[mckenzie]

... for our ski holiday. We can get to Kings Cross on the tube quite easily but I was wondering how much of a trek is it from that tube station to the train station area?

As we will have the DCs and quite a lot of luggage (ski boots etc) I'm wondering if we'll be better of just getting a cab direct to St Pancras intl.

Anyone?
TIA

It's just next door!

Really easy. The stations are linked and there are lifts.

thank you

I use the tube from Waterloo to Kings Cross St Pancras, then walk to the Eurostar departure gates quite often when I go to Disneyland Paris.
I usually just have one small pull along case and one handbag or holdall.
Being a skiier myself, and knowing the amount of luggage required for a ski holiday, weight of ski boot bags, and managing kids, I would not fancy using the tube or walking the fair distance through the large station to the Eurostar check in, unless you really feel you can manage this.

With figgygirl. St Pancras is big now and quite busy. The ground floor of the station is a shopping mall, basically, and the trains are upstairs. If your DCs are old enough to help with some of the luggage, and you allow time to get through the station you should be ok.

Can you get there on Thameslink? That's more do-able.

I walked from the Eurostar train to the entrance to Kings Cross tube. Not an easy feat to do at all with any luggage let alone skis. I remember the actual tube entrance to be chaotic and badly sign posted. The whole place was packed to the gunnells as well.

Given the choice I would actually ask for the taxi to drop you all off at the Eurostar entrance then it is a short walk from there to the Eurostar check in/melee that passes for their check in.

Would also check TFL's website in advance re tube line closures. There are a lot of line closures happening at present particularly on the weekends.

thanks very much for the extra replies. I've just had a quote of £25 from home to St Pancras with the local cab firm so we're going to do that instead. We would have paid about £7 to get a cab to the local tube station plus tube fares so a cab all the way is a no-brainer really me thinks .

yeh, only 6 more sleeps....

Make sure you ask the taxi driver to drop you at the station entrance for the Eurostar. When you enter the station there, you will see the check in turnstiles on your right, so no walking through the station or stairs. very easy and convenient.
Hope you are skiing in very high altitude, snow conditions have not been good this year. We came home from La Plagne last week, and it was not brilliant on lower slopes, and my husband is now skiing in Les Arcs and says that although ok at 3000ft, the lower slopes are very poor - slushy and water.
Hope you have a lovely holiday.

thanks for the tip figgygirl. We're not expecting much skiing wise now - our friend lives out there so at least we'll get to spend some time catching up with him.