Eurostar's primary destinations are Paris and Brussels. Eurostar also offers direct travel to Calais, Lille and Disneyland Paris, along with connecting travel to 100 other European destinations from its three London departure points.
Eurostar's High Speed 1 trains travel at 186 mph, making the trip from London to Paris in 2 hours, 15 minutes, and from London to Brussels in 1 hour, 51 minutes.
Return fares from London to Paris or Brussels range from approximately $100 to $500 from basic to fully flexible adult fares. One-way trips on Eurostar are $95 to $300.
Though a flight from Paris is just more than an hour, the 2.25-hour journey on Eurostar might be more attractive when considering time, money and energy spent on transportation between the airport and city centers, while Eurostar delivers the passenger to convenient downtown transportation hubs.
Eurostar's high-speed trains produce 1/10 the carbon-dioxide emission as flying the same route. The company's Tread Lightly initiative aims to further reduce carbon emissions by 25 percent by 2012.
