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The good news for anyone travelling between London and Amsterdam or Rotterdam is that DIRECT Eurostar return trains are about to start running.

Eurostar has been running from London TO Amsterdam and Rotterdam for a while now.

However, due to on-going work constructing immigration facilities, you could not travel TO London directly.

Passengers from Amsterdam needed to get off the train in Brussels, clear passport control and get back onto a different train to complete their trip.  Passengers from Rotterdam had to take a Thalys train to Brussels and change.

This nonsense is about to end.

From 30th April, trains will run directly from Amsterdam to St Pancras.  From 18th May, you will also be able to travel directly from Rotterdam to St Pancras.

If you book a ticket THIS WEEK (the final date to book is 25th February) for travel to Amsterdam between 30th April and 30th June, or Rotterdam between 18th May and 30th June, you will receive double Club Eurostar points.

I value a Club Eurostar point at 10p-12.5p as this article explains.   With this offer, you will be earning 2 points per £1 spent which means a rebate of 20p-25p per £1.

You can also transfer Eurostar points to the Accor Live Limitless hotel loyalty scheme at 1:3 (minimum transfer of 500 Eurostar points).  As Accor points transfer 1:1 to Avios in Iberia Plus, you could earn 6 Avios per £1 spent on Eurostar via this offer.  We explained how the Accor / Eurostar partnership works in this article.

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How to get Club Eurostar points and lounge access from UK credit cards

How to get Club Eurostar points and lounge access from UK credit cards (April 2025)

Club Eurostar does not have a UK credit card.  However, you can earn Club Eurostar points by converting Membership Rewards points earned from selected UK American Express cards. 

Cards earning Membership Rewards points include:

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SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

Membership Rewards points convert at 15:1 into Club Eurostar points.  The cards above all earn 1 Membership Rewards point per £1 spent on your card, so you will get the equivalent of 1 Club Eurostar point for every £15 you spend.

American Express Platinum comes with a great Eurostar benefit – Eurostar lounge access!  

You can enter any Eurostar lounge, irrespective of your ticket type, by showing The Platinum Card at the desk.  No guests are allowed but you can get entry for your partner by issuing them with a free supplementary Amex Platinum card on your account.

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Comments (155)

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  • Jordan D says:
    17 Feb17 February 06:00

    I seem to remember the Athens to Heathrow route back in about 2004 had a similar flight, at around 0445 departure time, so this is only a little earlier.

  • Robert says:
    17 Feb17 February 06:27

    OT – does anyone know when the Emirates sale is due please?

  • Annabel says:
    17 Feb17 February 07:02

    Do you know when BA will announce the halving of flights to and from HKG please? I have reward in First flight booked mid April from HKG on A380 which looks like it will be cancelled as they’re not selling that flight anymore ( looks like later flight on 777 is going ahead ). Not had any contact from BA yet either. Thank you.

    • AndyGWP says:
      17 Feb17 February 07:16

      Have you checked Manage My Booking?

      (If you know it’s going to be cancelled though, I’d be inclined to proactively contact BA 🙂 )

      • Annabel says:
        17 Feb17 February 08:11

        Hi Andy. Yes -still says ‘confirmed’ strangely enough. Yup will contact them. Thank you

    • Rhys says:
      17 Feb17 February 08:11

      Mid April is still a way yet. You may not hear anything until March.

  • Planeconcorde says:
    17 Feb17 February 08:25

    But what’s happening to the 10:05 arrival slot now there won’t be an Athens arrival at that time? 🙂

    • Rich says:
      17 Feb17 February 10:24

      Presumably, like the 0445 slot, they only need to achieve 80% usage to keep hold of it. Maybe they’ll cycle through a bunch off different Alyssa as necessary

    • meta says:
      17 Feb17 February 10:25

      They’ve been using it for Athens during October to March season for more than 80%, so now they’re safe until October.

      • Lady London says:
        17 Feb17 February 12:37

        They’ll can it as soon as they can commercially re-use the slot for a long haul route – HKG or another one. Maybe even mid-season as costs will be low to reroute people.

    • Nick says:
      17 Feb17 February 12:42

      I suspect there’ll be a ‘new’ flight somewhere quietly slipped in, using both the HKG departure slot and the ATH arrival one. Probably domestic… this kind of thing happens a lot, usually unnoticed. Wouldn’t take much to put in LHR-GLA (for example) in the evening, then GLA-LHR to arrive 1005.

  • GRIMZ says:
    17 Feb17 February 08:41

    OT, If I have booked car hire in the USA does my Platinum cc cover insurance even if I never booked it with my Platinum cc?

  • Secret Squirrel says:
    17 Feb17 February 08:51

    OT:
    The IHG White card with the new 20k bonus on £500 spend, how long does it take for the extra 10k pts to credit? I got the 10k for spending the £200 requirement immediately but this morning the £500 spend requirement purchase cleared but only the base points, no extra 10k?

  • Also says:
    17 Feb17 February 09:11

    OT:
    Based on the survey I took yesterday, looks like there could be a hotels.com devaluation on the way (or at least a change to the way the system currently works).

    • meta says:
      17 Feb17 February 10:26

      Could you please elaborate more?

    • Peter K says:
      17 Feb17 February 11:35

      I was on a 48 hour long research group for them at the end of last year on this and yes it seems likely there will be a change to the way it works.

      Too many people fail to get beyond 3 or 4 nights in the current system so they want to shake it up. I gave several suggestions like being to redeem at 5 nights at 40% value (and also keep the 10 nights for 100% value). A points system was also mooted.

      They may even keep a “classic” version as now for casual users with an “advanced” version with a points based system for those with more an interest in these.

      They are also looking at being able to redeem points earned from nights on things like breakfast/parking etc (though likely at a poor value).

      • Also says:
        17 Feb17 February 13:09

        Sounds like they might have taken onboard some of your suggestions but redemption rates will definitely be more expensive than before

        Most of the “options” they wanted feedback on in the survey included earning points and spending them at various rates e.g. “Earn 10 points per £1 spent. Redeem 1XX (anything from 100 to 180) points for £1 off the price of a redemption”.

        Redeem points at 50%/70%/90% of their value if you haven’t stayed 10 nights/don’t have enough points to cover an entire night.

        Ability to redeem points with some partners (various, mainly hotel related)

        Those are the main things I remember.

  • Alan says:
    17 Feb17 February 09:26

    OT, sorry.

    Just a quick question. Can you still refer someone to an AMEX card from a different type of AMEX card i.e can you refer someone to a BAPP from a gold card for example?

    I know you used to be able to do it but not sure whether you still can following all of the changes at AMEX.

    Thanks

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