Interrail with eurostar

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Can someone help me in sentences that a 5 year old (ok, menopausal woman) would understand? I've been reading the man in seat 61 and just can't make sense of it.

If we want to do a single destination holiday to a european city, and eurostar tickets are already on the pricey side for our dates, is this potentially a cheaper of way of travelling? Getting interrail passes for a short journey and using them to book the eurostar?

We are UK based but I understand Interrail can still be used by UK citizens post Brexit. 3 out of 4 of us also have EU passports if that makes a difference (although I don't think it does).

I'm no expert but have done quite a bit of reading on this as we've booked interrail tickets for next year. Yes, you can use interrail tickets on Eurostar for 1 outgoing journey from your home country, and 1 return Eurostar journey back in.

However, the potential issue is that even though the ticket cost is covered by the interrail pass, you still have to pay a seat reservation fee for each eurostar seat on top of the cost of your Interrail ticket. You can't always check in advance what that cost is until you book, but it could be £30 per person so potentially adding £240 to the whole cost of the holiday.

Where are you looking to go to? Is there an option of crossing the channel more cheaply then using the European train network once over there, where tickets are much cheaper?

Also, the pass would cover 1 internal journey to get you to Eurostar and same on the return. So if you lived in Manchester for example, your train from home to London would be covered by the ticket, as long as you leave the UK and finish up in Europe on the same day, I.e. you couldn't spend the night in London then get Eurostar the next morning, that wouldn't count. Hope that makes sense!

Thanks, this is really useful! We're not going to be travelling around so the saving might be marginal in that respect, but knowing it will cover travel to St Pancras from home is really helpful as this is potentially quite a big saving, so thanks for that!

I need to do a proper search on an actual computer, not my phone!

Just got back from inter-railing - good advice above. Eurostar have limited spots for pass travellers so get your reservations.

Brexit makes no difference! Interrail predates the EU! Europe does not = the EU!