Great video. For that type of journey it would be worth looking to get an Interrail ticket. An Interrail pass which gives you 4 days of travel in a month costs around £220 second class and about £285 in 1st class. You would need to pay an additional £30 or so for Eurostar, and about 10 euro for the TGV reservation, but would also cover any trains you used in the UK to get to St Pancras and also would cover the return journey, plus it would leave you with another two days to use in Spain. Worth a check to compare costs ...
In theory it is possible to get from London to Malaga in a day but in practice probably not since you only have 21 minutes to change trains in Paris. There used to be an earlier Eurostar that left at 5:25 from London which would've made each of the transfers doable. 06:01-09:21 London St. Pancras to Paris Gare du Nord 09:42-16:34 Paris Gare de Lyon to Barcelona Sants 17:00-19:45 Barcelona Sants to Madrid Atocha 20:30-23:24 Madrid Atocha to Malaga Maria Zambrano
I did this journey this summer, but caught the very last train to Paris, spent the night there and had a very pleasant morning walking around before continuing to Barcelona
Can I ask, which hotel is safe around Paris (thinking of taking night train to Paris and then continue in the morning to Barcelona but scared of hotels as I've heard some of them work with traffickers.
Enjoyable video, thanks. Totally agree with you about the departure lunge at St Pancras. It’s appalling. When we could, we always travelled from Ashford as it was far more civilised, but now, of course, Eurostar have used Covid as an excuse to close Ashford and Ebbsfleet International stations. I welcome the possible competition from Renfe (?).
This is a journey we a few times a year. Barcelona_London and London-Barcelona. Always with Interrail. And between Gare du Nord and Gare du Lyon, I suggest you another way, so by bus. The 91 is perfect.
Great video! I'm doing a very similar journey in reverse in December from here on the French Riviera up to Leeds via Paris and London on a combination of the TGV, Eurostar and LNER Azuma. Gonna be long (especially as I'll have an overnight stop in Paris) but I'm looking forward to it
Thanks for the RUclips. Pre-pandemic some E* trains would stop in Kent at Ebbsfleet and Ashford (where international stations were built) but not since the pandemic which has annoyed local residents who resent making a London backtrack. E* says it hasn't the cash to restore its Kent stations right now. As for Paris-Barcelona note that the route is underserved by SNCF. Renfe wants to launch a rival service but awaits permission from the French regulator.
You can also travel across Paris by bus. It is slower but a much better experience than the Metro. It was route 91 and a direct service. Same price as Metro.
Great review of the journey. Why can we not travel by high speed train all the way? There is no technical reason why we can not get on a train at St Pancras International and travel straight through to Madrid, Berlin or Zurich. People would not fly to to these places if they had to go to Paris, change airports and then fly on.
Differences in rail gauge, overhead power, form factor, power pickup modes and automated brake systems. Though ICE and Eurostar are using multi mode trains, plus the HSL track in Spain is made normal gauge instead of Iberian iirc, the 3rd rail take up in England has been removed from the Eurostar as it just uses overhead and ends at St. Pancras now. So all in all, now, it should be able to be run Eurostar trains to Spain and their trains retrofitted to meet the multimode requirements. But you must not forget the fact of being cleared to travel from the mainland of Europe to London, then all of these European stations along the line would have to have customs checks and border patrol and fenced off platforms. It can get less economical to do so, while now everyone has to check in at Paris or Brussels, all the stops you mentioned would have to be retrofitted but i think rather being skipped with an amount of people have to check in at Paris or Brussels nevertheless. I am from the Netherlands and it is a blessing that i can travel from Rotterdam directly to London. Plus they are smart that in Rotterdam they only fence off the platform before and during Eurostar travel. All other hours could be used by other trains. But nevertheless there has to be a check point. Only if the UK would have been part of Schengen then your wish of an HSL Nightjet would have come true, though i believe it can be that they will extend the Eurostar to Frankfurt, or could be my imagination. There was an ICE train that travelled all the way to st. Pancras as a demo. Btw Eurostar uses the same model of train as ICE. But that was before Brexit and before Covid. Now it won't travel for a certain period not from Amsterdam to London as there are works on the station of Amsterdam and they won't let the Eurostar just only depart from Rotterdam as the capacity there isn't enough as well as not economically viable enough to do so, though i don't agree with that.
To correct you King's Cross is King's Cross ,St Pancras is St Pancras it's the tube station that takes both names and its The Nederland's not Holland is a region
Thanks for sharing, nice trip. Did the same trip in the opposite direction. Gare de Nord really scared us ( retired couple ). We were followed by 3 African looking thugs who were trying to get near to us ( wanted to rob or mug us ). They kept surrounding us, trying to distract us. Early morning so no one was around. Fortunately we made it to safety where several passengers/officials were nearby. It was very upsetting, scary and potentially dangerous. NOT going back there.
For the time/distance travelled its just not worth the money. Just went to Sevilla, did London to Madrid by plane, and took the Spanish inter city down to Sevilla, and did it in under 10 hours. The cost return was £150, plus 24,000 avios which allowed me to return Business Class by BA, and the train ticket was around £100 from Madrid to Sevilla First Class both ways. British trains are a rip off, but when you get to places like Spain, their internal prices are very reasonable.
British Airways Business class in and around Europe is a total rip-off ,exactly the same amount of leg room as economy, A small snack and a drink ,Most inter European flights are under 2 hours , Also trains a lot better experience than flying. "It's not the destination. It's the journey" And the environmental damage on short haul flughts is a lot less.
@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe You clearly don't know what you are talking about. I have had access to a full buffet meal in a lounge, literally any alcohol I wanted, fruit juice soft drinks, coffee and a relaxed environment before the flight. The lounge also had shower./changing facilities and little things like lockers so I could leave all my hand luggage behind and enjoy the lounge in comfort. On board again wide range of alcoholic/non alcoholic drinks and a 2 course meal. On a short haul flight leg room is no big deal. The cost is £37 + 17,500 avios which are dead easy to collect through normal spending eg car/house insurance and other bills. It takes less than 2.5 hours. Much better value than a train and the experience is much more serene than the chaos at St Pancras or in Paris for the connection.
The train is so expensive :( I recently travelled to Spain from Germany and would've preferred train if it wasn't so expensive (even with Interrail as some comments here suggested).
In fact train is not expensive but flying is cheap, mostly because kerosene is 100% tax free. It seems that for our "leaders" climate change is less an issue than protecting benefits of big oil and air companies.
@@SBLandSea-xl6ji No invention. England is a part of the united kingdom. Therefore Catalonia is a part of Spain. You say England, then you say Catalonia. Equation
@@antoni-olafsabater9729England is a country, Catalonia is not! If you want to bother the poor guy at least know your geography…. From wiki: England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain
@@tacodias I don’t need wikipedia to know what you told me . Unlike you, I’m interested in the deep and true facts. The Catalan statute states that Catalonia is a nation. We held a referendum but Spain sent policemen to strike us voters. You cannot say Catalonia is not a country. Stop insulting yourself !. Anyway , “mr wiki-know-it-all”, BTW I’m sure you’re fluent in Catalan, Spanish, French and English. I for one do. For example. Why ? Luckily I’m a well traveled man.
me: I bet one of them is semi-fast btw, HOW DARE YOU ST.PANCRAS AND KINGS CROSS ARE 2 SEPERATED STATIONS!!! unless you were saying the tube station, but it really is uniconic
Nothing switches me off more than swearing. Especially in a RUclips video. It’s become so common with young people that I don’t think they even realise they’re doing it.
Duty free? You're usually better off going to a wine merchants in the parisian suburbs, or in some country outlet when you arrive in Spain. For starters, the quality will be better and you'll get advice from local experts, not West London salesgirls who possibly have never touched the stuff.!! In a REAL establishment, you should be able to taste before you buy.
However, much more CO2 saved by taking the train. 8x in many cases. Though this journey may have been much more. And the views. WOW. A cheeseburger at 300kmh with mountains zooming by is really amazing.
That was my first reaction, but upon reflection, he’s just being himself and it was semi under his breath. The video was actually very honest and informative.
@@charlied4435This is a great way to travel. But sometimes you just wanna swear, and I think it's only natural after a whole day across 3 countries on your own to do so. So much carbon saved this way. And it gets better but the first couple of trips you wanna swear a bit haha
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Traveling by train is far better than air
Yeah sure if you have the time and the money
Great video. For that type of journey it would be worth looking to get an Interrail ticket. An Interrail pass which gives you 4 days of travel in a month costs around £220 second class and about £285 in 1st class. You would need to pay an additional £30 or so for Eurostar, and about 10 euro for the TGV reservation, but would also cover any trains you used in the UK to get to St Pancras and also would cover the return journey, plus it would leave you with another two days to use in Spain. Worth a check to compare costs ...
True they had a sale back in September too, and even if you pay for both ways too though reservation fees. Rather than just one way
In theory it is possible to get from London to Malaga in a day but in practice probably not since you only have 21 minutes to change trains in Paris. There used to be an earlier Eurostar that left at 5:25 from London which would've made each of the transfers doable.
06:01-09:21 London St. Pancras to Paris Gare du Nord
09:42-16:34 Paris Gare de Lyon to Barcelona Sants
17:00-19:45 Barcelona Sants to Madrid Atocha
20:30-23:24 Madrid Atocha to Malaga Maria Zambrano
I’m scared of flying, this is a nice alternative. Thanks for sharing.
I did this journey this summer, but caught the very last train to Paris, spent the night there and had a very pleasant morning walking around before continuing to Barcelona
Can I ask, which hotel is safe around Paris (thinking of taking night train to Paris and then continue in the morning to Barcelona but scared of hotels as I've heard some of them work with traffickers.
@@Plena-np9nn go for most popular ones top rated etc.
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Enjoyable video, thanks. Totally agree with you about the departure lunge at St Pancras. It’s appalling. When we could, we always travelled from Ashford as it was far more civilised, but now, of course, Eurostar have used Covid as an excuse to close Ashford and Ebbsfleet International stations. I welcome the possible competition from Renfe (?).
This is a journey we a few times a year. Barcelona_London and London-Barcelona. Always with Interrail. And between Gare du Nord and Gare du Lyon, I suggest you another way, so by bus. The 91 is perfect.
Great trip, I would like to go by train from Madrid to London in the future.
Amazing upload beautiful vlogs
Thank you :)
There should be direct trains from London to madrid , Barcelona, porto budapest, Berlin munich
Excellent seens n Explanation tku sir
Yes you can fly, but this is the train going under the channel. Can’t wait to do it next year
Fair play to you for doing this. I have been eyeing up doing the same train to Spain for ages but never been organised enough.
Great video! I'm doing a very similar journey in reverse in December from here on the French Riviera up to Leeds via Paris and London on a combination of the TGV, Eurostar and LNER Azuma. Gonna be long (especially as I'll have an overnight stop in Paris) but I'm looking forward to it
You're going to have a great trip :)
Entertaining and informative video. Thanks.
Thank you for watching :)
trains right. fantastic
Thanks for the RUclips. Pre-pandemic some E* trains would stop in Kent at Ebbsfleet and Ashford (where international stations were built) but not since the pandemic which has annoyed local residents who resent making a London backtrack. E* says it hasn't the cash to restore its Kent stations right now. As for Paris-Barcelona note that the route is underserved by SNCF. Renfe wants to launch a rival service but awaits permission from the French regulator.
Reminds me of the time when Chelsea were still in the UCL and I used to travel to away games by high speed rail😢😢😢
You can also travel across Paris by bus. It is slower but a much better experience than the Metro. It was route 91 and a direct service. Same price as Metro.
Brilliant video. The departure station is St Pancras.
Kings Cross St Pancras is the combined tube station between the two station. 😊
in his defence it's probably confusing for a lot of people that 2 of the most famous stations were merged into 1 on the underground
Saved me making a point of pedantry about station naming!
Or merely fact.
Nice!! Welcome to my country!!
😍😍😍cool ❤
Great review of the journey. Why can we not travel by high speed train all the way? There is no technical reason why we can not get on a train at St Pancras International and travel straight through to Madrid, Berlin or Zurich. People would not fly to to these places if they had to go to Paris, change airports and then fly on.
Differences in rail gauge, overhead power, form factor, power pickup modes and automated brake systems. Though ICE and Eurostar are using multi mode trains, plus the HSL track in Spain is made normal gauge instead of Iberian iirc, the 3rd rail take up in England has been removed from the Eurostar as it just uses overhead and ends at St. Pancras now. So all in all, now, it should be able to be run Eurostar trains to Spain and their trains retrofitted to meet the multimode requirements.
But you must not forget the fact of being cleared to travel from the mainland of Europe to London, then all of these European stations along the line would have to have customs checks and border patrol and fenced off platforms. It can get less economical to do so, while now everyone has to check in at Paris or Brussels, all the stops you mentioned would have to be retrofitted but i think rather being skipped with an amount of people have to check in at Paris or Brussels nevertheless. I am from the Netherlands and it is a blessing that i can travel from Rotterdam directly to London. Plus they are smart that in Rotterdam they only fence off the platform before and during Eurostar travel. All other hours could be used by other trains. But nevertheless there has to be a check point. Only if the UK would have been part of Schengen then your wish of an HSL Nightjet would have come true, though i believe it can be that they will extend the Eurostar to Frankfurt, or could be my imagination. There was an ICE train that travelled all the way to st. Pancras as a demo. Btw Eurostar uses the same model of train as ICE. But that was before Brexit and before Covid. Now it won't travel for a certain period not from Amsterdam to London as there are works on the station of Amsterdam and they won't let the Eurostar just only depart from Rotterdam as the capacity there isn't enough as well as not economically viable enough to do so, though i don't agree with that.
Wow that be amazing to do train from London awesome to Spain ❤❤❤❤❤ , how much that ticket cost ???
Very interesting.
Stansted to Barcelona, 2 weeks from today, £25.
A great video! Thanks. Better train in France than UK. And yes, the French don’t do queueing which makes it less present during that time.
I enjoyed this - always wondered what it's like by train from London to Barcelona. How long was it door to door? An extra hour each end?
The crossing time in the channel tunnel is only 20 minutes, not 35!
Brother there is no checking of visa innit?
Visa?!😆😂
Thanks for the ride. 🇺🇾
To correct you King's Cross is King's Cross ,St Pancras is St Pancras it's the tube station that takes both names and its The Nederland's not Holland is a region
Given a flight between London and Barcelona takes around 2 hours, why go by train and take an additional 9 hours
You probably wouldn't want to do it all in one go but you could split the trip and have a few days in Paris
Try taking a bottle of wine and two glasses onto your plane.
@@danensis easy Duty Free
0:33 If only Eurostar went to Birmingham via HS2 if HS1 was connected :/
That would be nice
Thanks for sharing, nice trip. Did the same trip in the opposite direction.
Gare de Nord really scared us ( retired couple ). We were followed by 3 African looking thugs who were trying to get near to us ( wanted to rob or mug us ). They kept surrounding us, trying to distract us. Early morning so no one was around. Fortunately we made it to safety where several passengers/officials were nearby. It was very upsetting, scary and potentially dangerous. NOT going back there.
Hello from India :-)
Hello there!
Germany too. 👍🏻
For the time/distance travelled its just not worth the money. Just went to Sevilla, did London to Madrid by plane, and took the Spanish inter city down to Sevilla, and did it in under 10 hours. The cost return was £150, plus 24,000 avios which allowed me to return Business Class by BA, and the train ticket was around £100 from Madrid to Sevilla First Class both ways. British trains are a rip off, but when you get to places like Spain, their internal prices are very reasonable.
British Airways Business class in and around Europe is a total rip-off ,exactly the same amount of leg room as economy, A small snack and a drink ,Most inter European flights are under 2 hours , Also trains a lot better experience than flying. "It's not the destination. It's the journey"
And the environmental damage on short haul flughts is a lot less.
@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe You clearly don't know what you are talking about. I have had access to a full buffet meal in a lounge, literally any alcohol I wanted, fruit juice soft drinks, coffee and a relaxed environment before the flight. The lounge also had shower./changing facilities and little things like lockers so I could leave all my hand luggage behind and enjoy the lounge in comfort. On board again wide range of alcoholic/non alcoholic drinks and a 2 course meal. On a short haul flight leg room is no big deal. The cost is £37 + 17,500 avios which are dead easy to collect through normal spending eg car/house insurance and other bills. It takes less than 2.5 hours. Much better value than a train and the experience is much more serene than the chaos at St Pancras or in Paris for the connection.
The train is so expensive :( I recently travelled to Spain from Germany and would've preferred train if it wasn't so expensive (even with Interrail as some comments here suggested).
In fact train is not expensive but flying is cheap, mostly because kerosene is 100% tax free. It seems that for our "leaders" climate change is less an issue than protecting benefits of big oil and air companies.
Nice video, pity about the gum
Sod that! I'll take easyJet et al any time over that. A quarter of the time and half the price.
“London England to Barcelona Spain” nah I thought you meant the London in Austria to the Barcelona in Peru 😂
£239.61 why oh why would I pay that when I could fly so much more cheaply and quickly!
Because not everybody flies genius
@@ambitionsskyyyy I guess if you have the money to blow, sure
London England.
Barcelona Catalonia
I’m not getting involved in that argument 😆
@@SBLandSea-xl6ji
No invention. England is a part of the united kingdom. Therefore Catalonia is a part of Spain. You say England, then you say Catalonia. Equation
@@antoni-olafsabater9729England is a country, Catalonia is not!
If you want to bother the poor guy at least know your geography….
From wiki:
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain
@@tacodias
I don’t need wikipedia to know what you told me . Unlike you, I’m interested in the deep and true facts.
The Catalan statute states that Catalonia is a nation. We held a referendum but Spain sent policemen to strike us voters. You cannot say Catalonia is not a country. Stop insulting yourself !.
Anyway , “mr wiki-know-it-all”, BTW I’m sure you’re fluent in Catalan, Spanish, French and English. I for one do. For example.
Why ? Luckily I’m a well traveled man.
@@antoni-olafsabater9729 yet you share lies on the internet
Or, £20 and 2 hours on Ryanair
ok BUT WHAT'S WITH THE GUM?
Awful background noise ruins the video please remove.
Then just do it urself.
Nice on screen dyslexia.
9 metro ride for 2 euro is not JUST. It is too much.
Subscribed :) you have a criminally low amount of subs and this video has a criminally low amount of views. Looking forward to your next uploads :)
Thank you for a lovely comment 😊🙏🏻
me: I bet one of them is semi-fast
btw, HOW DARE YOU ST.PANCRAS AND KINGS CROSS ARE 2 SEPERATED STATIONS!!!
unless you were saying the tube station, but it really is uniconic
He is cute
Haha thanks
Nothing switches me off more than swearing. Especially in a RUclips video. It’s become so common with young people that I don’t think they even realise they’re doing it.
Duty free?
You're usually better off going to a wine merchants in the parisian suburbs, or in some country outlet when you arrive in Spain.
For starters, the quality will be better and you'll get advice from local experts, not West London salesgirls who possibly have never touched the stuff.!!
In a REAL establishment, you should be able to taste before you buy.
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Ryanair, ryanair.
Ryanair it is as dangerous as a wet cable🤣😂
Much cheaper to fly!
For now
However, much more CO2 saved by taking the train. 8x in many cases. Though this journey may have been much more. And the views. WOW. A cheeseburger at 300kmh with mountains zooming by is really amazing.
Great. Although the f words let it down if you want to be professional
from London to Barcelona a good load of drunks
Must you swear? So unnecessary!
That was my first reaction, but upon reflection, he’s just being himself and it was semi under his breath. The video was actually very honest and informative.
@@charlied4435This is a great way to travel. But sometimes you just wanna swear, and I think it's only natural after a whole day across 3 countries on your own to do so. So much carbon saved this way. And it gets better but the first couple of trips you wanna swear a bit haha
I mean, yeah, travel by train is fun, don’t get me wrong, I totally agree….but 11 hrs train vs 2.5 hrs by the air….you tell me….
But it's not just 2.5 hours though is it