Eurostar Business Premier, Lille Europe – London St. Pancras, Siemens E320

Back from this express trip to Lille from London for an important business meeting.

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1TrainEurostar Business Premier, London St. Pancras to Lille Europe, Siemens E320
2TrainEurostar Business Premier, Lille Europe to London St. Pancras, Siemens E320
Today’s itinerary

Experience in the station

The Lille-Europe station was not really designed with Eurostar traffic in mind from the start. As a result, the queue for immigration and police checks stretches for several hundred meters throughout the station.

Fortunately, I stopped one of the agents in the station, who was very nice and made me cut the line, having a Business Premier ticket.

I cut the entire line and passed the formalities (French immigration, English immigration and security) in less than 5 minutes.

Lounge

Once these formalities are over, a heated boarding room allows you to wait in comfort.

The Business Premier/Carte Blanche area still exists, but services have been discontinued. Nevertheless, the station manager offers to make a small cup of coffee in his room and serves some snacks at the same time. Better than nothing.

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Cabin and welcome

The reception is very courteous and warm and I am directed to my seat. I am told that I can sit wherever I want on the remaining seats.

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Very quickly, a welcome drink (a glass of Piper-Heidseick champagne) is brought to me and I am asked to choose my meal. I will choose the cod again.

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Service and catering

My tray arrives shortly before the entrance of the tunnel under the channel. Nothing to say, you already had my comments on the outward journey: but this time, there was cheese. Not good, but present.

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The refills will be constant until the arrival.

Arrival and disembarkation

The impression of fluidity is identical to that of the outward journey, I am out in less than two minutes and catch an Uber that will take me home in 25 minutes.

Bottom line

A quality service, worthy of the fare paid.

Olivier Delestre-Levai
Olivier Delestre-Levai
Olivier has been into airline blogging since 2010. First a major contributor to the FlyerTalk forum, he created the FlyerPlan website in July 2012, and writes articles with a major echo among airline specialists. He now co-runs the TravelGuys blog with Bertrand, focusing on travel experience and loyalty programs.
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