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context: Great idea and just what we should be doing to get away from polluting air travel. 
  Unfortunately as with all trains, this will cost £500 per seat while an easyjet will be £20 and get you there in 1 hour. >
  
  They list the prices in the article and you’re way off… >
  
  Prices from Brussels, so British people still have to get there. How much is a eurostar ticket? Another 100?
  Also these prices will be if you book 9 months in advance. >
  
  Eurostar to Brussels from St. Pancras is £39 lol. >
  
  Just checked, a ticket on Friday starts at 149 euros, not 39. >
  
  That's the night before new years, you plonker. You can get a return ticket between St. Pancras and Brussels leaving Fri, 27 Jan and returning Sat, 11 Feb for £78.00 in total. >
  
  Yeah I picked and choose a date just like you did to suit my narrative, "plonker". >
  
  
  It's so expensive to travel. Look at how expensive it is at the most expensive time of the year for any medium of international travel! Forget traveling on literally any other time of the year.
  
  Its £50-60 throughout pretty much the entirety of summer. Probably throughout most of the year in general, but I don't have the patience to check every season. >
  
  Misleading headline it's a Brussels to Berlin service. Eurostar London to Brussels CHANGE there. The Eurostar fare will probably cost more per Km than the sleeper service too! How it compars in cost to flying is important too given the time sink of a train. >
  
  Yeah, once anyone has to get off a plane or a train for any reason and drag their bags with them, it's no longer a direct service, no matter how much someone insists it is.
  I guess some journalists need to go to common sense school. >
  
  Astonishing that this wasn't already a thing... like 100 years ago >
  
  If the prices in the article are accurate then it'd cost me less to get from London to Berlin than from London to Cambridge, so I am very astonished that this is a thing. >
  
  Only…we have to get a train to Brussels first. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 80%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Mark Smith, who writes the popular blog, The Man in Seat 61, said: "High-speed trains are a great way to travel, but for longer distances such as Brussels or Amsterdam to Berlin a six- or seven-hour journey takes half the day. A sleeper allows you to leave after a full day's work or sightseeing, sleep in your own bed, and be in Berlin in time for breakfast."
  Engelsman said the biggest challenge the European Sleeper initiative had faced was the lack of sleeper carriages available on the market.
  Given the complications of passport control and logistical technicalities, the European Sleeper is perhaps the closest British travellers will get to the vision of three decades ago for a Nightstar sleeper from London to Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Cologne via a new tunnel under the Channel.
  
  
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  no hs2,£200/300 london to manchester returns,pacer trains still.
  It doesn't matter now,maybe if we had hs2 built and brexit averted it would be ok but this will just lose money. >
  
  What? How would HS2 affect travel between London and Berlin?