Belmond, the company that runs the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express , has decided to drop the London to Folkestone route due to delays in crossing the English Channel to the French port city of Calais.
From there, passengers will be ferried on coaches to cross the Channel before boarding Belmond’s continental train at Calais to continue their journey across Europe. “We’re adjusting operations in 2024 ahead of enhanced passport and border controls,” The Guardian reported a Belmond spokesman as saying.
The EU is introducing a new biometric system where people will need to get off their coaches to have their passports, as well as fingerprints and faces, biometrically checked.Passengers from London will be able to take the modern high-speed Eurostar to Paris and join the VSOE there, but “it’s not the same”, Mr Mark Smith, founder of the train travel site The Man in Seat 61, told The Guardian.
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