Another Brexit Benefit, If There Weren’t Enough Already

[Hymie]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12161219/Eurostar-axes-Disneyland-Paris-service-halts-links-Amsterdam-nearly-year.html

[ToraToraTora]

Florida is better and cheaper anyway.

[Togo]

Haha ... no trains to an EEyyoo fantasy land and a red light hangout for their vassals is a real bonus. Clownland is rightly theirs. We are well out of the ponzi set up.

[jourdain2]

I don't think it's anything to do with Brexit. Disneyland in France always was a sort of second-hand feeling sort of place. It's not been the huge success they hoped for. Yes it's been profitable enough, but not the equivalent of Florida. There has been Covid, and people everywhere tightening their belts (I have friends in France who are very seriously concerned as their bills have soared).
No, circumstances have conspired against it and probably always would have. Travel is not as simple or as cheap as in the USA; they made the mistake of looking at a map and picking a site regardless of the problems (which don't exist in the USA).

[douglas9401]

In short then, a bit of a Mickey Mouse operation.

[jourdain2]

Yes, Douglas.

[Togo]

Scotland would have been the best location. It could have been called Disnae Land. :))

[jourdain2]

BA Togo! :)

[Old_Geezer]

Why would you want to go see Donald Canard and Mickey Souris anyway ?

[Grumpygrandad]

The Eurostar link to Amsterdam is being halted for 7 to 11 months only because of major engineering works at Amsterdam Centraal to improve and enlarge the check - in and security area.

[New Judge]

Indeed, grumpy. The work in Amsterdam was announced in 2021. It includes:

- replacement of steel bridges at the station’s eastern access
- construction of a new crossing at Dijksgracht
- a reduction in the number of through tracks from 10 to nine, with a - simplified system of points and some track renewal
- platform widening and lengthening
- - renewal and widening of the East Tunnel
- improvements to facilities and pedestrian traffic flow in the West Tunnel, and
- relocation of existing and the addition of new stairs, escalators and lifts.

Similar work is carried out at all large railway stations from time to time. A large programme took place at London's Kings Cross, finishing last year. A huge programme to completely rebuild London Bridge took about five years. Neither of those projects had anything to do with Brexit either.

Eurostar has been losing custom for some time, much of it lost because of Covid. The route was never designed for multiple minor destinations and Marne-la-Vallee is a minor destination. It's rather like expecting Eurostar to run services from Paris to East Grinstead.

Nice try, Hymie, but no cigar this time.

[jno]

if Mark Smith says it's down to Brexit, it's down to Brexit. That's Disneymonde, Amsterdam's closure is completely different.

[Gromit]

// We have this post-Brexit situation where Eurostar are doubling down on their core service because the terminal capacity at St Pancras has been reduced because of the extra border checks.

'Until they've tackled that, it's no longer lots of trains to lots of destinations and low fares.

'It's 'we'll run the trains that we can manage to process through the terminal at St Pancras and we'll get the maximum yield from those trains'. 'So it's high fares and an artificially limited train service unfortunately, and it is down to Brexit.' //

[bazwillrun]

OP shoots himself in both feet through kneecaps...yet again