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The Eurostar train from London to Paris takes only 2.5 hours. Much faster than driving.
by t0mas88 2y ago
The Eurostar train from London to Paris takes only 2.5 hours. Much faster than driving.
- maest 2y agoIt's also less agro
- 4ndrewl 2y agoIn theory yes, but we were specifically talking about driving. And whilst 6 hours CDG to LHR is possible in theory (and I've done it a number of times), it does depend on a whole load of other factors that are not present compared to hiring a car at US airport 1 and driving to US airport 2. Unless you're in the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
- margalabargala 2y agoI brought up driving to illustrate the incorrectness of the original claim, the person I replied to did not mention driving. The person you replied to is correct to bring up the EuroStar option. By the way, the snide remarks you add to the end to each of your comments may be better suited for a place like Reddit or TruthSocial. The community standards guidelines for HN can be found at the bottom of the page.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoI was replying to "It is a six hour drive from Heathrow to Paris." I live close enough to LHR to notice the replacement of Boeing/Airbus with Cessna/Pipers from local airfields in the sky today. I also regularly drive to and/from Paris. It is a six hour drive. But ONLY if you have your car ready, have booked a crossing ahead of time (otherwise you might want to slap another half day on those times), make no stops, you don't end up in a queue at UK customs (1 hour+ not infrequent occurrance). Don't happen to have your car sitting at CDG waiting for you? You'll have to hire one, but you'll be unlikely to be able to take that to the UK so you're then finding somewhere to drop that off and somehow cross as a foot passenger which you can't do on Le Shuttle... Point being, cross-border travel throws up all of these hurdles which you simply don't have in the US example.