Rail passengers will be able to travel directly from Amsterdam to London in just over FOUR hours from £40 a ticket in October, Eurostar announces
- Eurostar will launch London to Amsterdam return service from end of October
- Tickets cost at least £40 each way with a travel time of four hours nine minutes
- A passenger service will also run to Rotterdam from St Pancras International
Rail passengers will be able to travel directly from Amsterdam to London in just over four hours from October, Eurostar announces.
The cross channel train service is offering tickets for £40 between the British and Dutch capital, and will launch on October 26.
Passengers will also be able to go from Rotterdam, located south of Amsterdam, back to St Pancras International in London in three hours 29 minutes.
Eurostar launched its direct service to the Netherlands from St Pancras International in 2018.
Until now passengers coming back to the UK have had to stop at Brussels for passport checks.
However UK Border Force officials will be stationed at Rotterdam and Amsterdam, allowing for one direct route from either city.
Eurostar services will soon run from St Pancras International, above, to Amsterdam and Rotterdam, at a cost of £40 each way
Tickets will cost at least £40 each way to either city.
The announcement comes as the UK Government removed the Netherlands from its list of countries people can travel to without having to quarantine on their return.
Since August 15, any traveller returning to the UK from the Netherlands has had to self-isolate for 14 days under coronavirus safety measures.
The Netherlands was added to Britain’s quarantine list after after Dutch cases reached 23.1 per 100,000 earlier this month.
Anyone travelling there from the UK does not need to self-isolate, unless they are arriving from Leicester, who are strongly advised to quarantine for 10 days.
Tickets for the new rail service go on sale from September 1 and can be booked up to six months in advance.
Eurostar said all bookings made from July 1 to December 31 are exchangeable for any dates of travel available at the time of purchase, with no exchange fee up to 14 days before departure.
The company said its trains are deep cleaned before every journey and that a new seat map system will ensure passengers are kept at a safe distance apart.
Earlier this month Eurostar announced it was cutting the number of daily services from to Paris from eight journeys to six.
A spokesman said: ‘We have been tweaking timetable since March. If demand changes we will tweak the timetable on that.’