I've taken it a few times from Edinburgh to Cologne. You enter the train at around 22:25, then it arrives at London around 6:45 in the morning, then you have br

I've taken it a few times from Edinburgh to Cologne. You enter the train at around 22:25, then it arrives at London around 6:45 in the morning, then you have breakfast and walk over to St, Pancras International and can get the leaving Eurostar at 10:00 or so. Only two train changes. In the afternoon in Brussels and around 17:00 in Cologne. It is very convenient when you have either a good book or work on a laptop because you are going to have quiet quality time which you will probably not have in an airport. For booking, one has to be careful to book the inter-European distances from Brussels with a reduced price a bit in advance (for example from the German bahn.de web site). It's called Eurosparpreis or so. Also, for the British trains there are resellers which sell the seats much more expensive, so one has to watch out not to be short-changed. By the way, another and often cheaper alternative is to take the ferry from Newcastle to Ijmuiden/NL which is a port of Amsterdam. As well as the Caledonian Sleeper, it leaves in the evening and arrives at breakfast time. And you have a nice two-people cabin which is a good place to sleep. It can be like 120 € per person for a return ticket. https://www.dfds.com/en/passenger-ferries/ferry-crossings/ferries-to-uk/amsterdam-newcastle https://www.dfds.com/en/passenger-ferries/ferry-crossings/fe...