{"id":453,"date":"2017-04-26T12:19:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=453"},"modified":"2020-02-05T09:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T09:22:11","slug":"eurostar-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/eurostar-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurostar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I tried to book my journey from Morpeth to Paris for this coming June. The Eurostar website does not let you book through from Morpeth, only from Newcastle. But I wanted to use one of the direct Virgin trains from Morpeth to London. I couldn&#8217;t find any website that lets you book from Morpeth to Paris, so had to book my tickets separately. But it&#8217;s really important the Morpeth &#8211; London ticket is endorsed &#8220;London CIV&#8221;. This means, should the train be late or cancelled for any reason, you are entitled to get the next available Eurostar train. But the Virgin East Coast website, which I normally recommend, does not allow you to book to London CIV. Why not, I wonder? Eventually I found a firm that does &#8211; RailEasy &#8211; but this means booking charges, credit card fees and no wifi for the Virgin leg of my journey. As if anticipating my frustration and complaint, a surprise email from Virgin told me I was being given 3 months complimentary 1st Class Lounge access &#8211; sadly only from the date of my return journey, not from the outward one. Nevertheless, thanks very much Virgin, though improvements to your rail booking engine would be welcome too. I really do want to use your site &#8211; it&#8217;s just you don&#8217;t let me do what I want to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I tried to book my journey from Morpeth to Paris for this coming June. The Eurostar website does not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chairmans-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senrug.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}