Travel from Bruges to Paris - which option?

Option 1

Eurostar is priced like air tickets: Cheaper with advance non-changeable, and cheaper for non-bussinessperson hours.

I see tickets available now for purchase for our July and Aug 2026 travels, but I thought they weren't available until closer to the trip, according to what I've read in the forums. Does that mean these prices are inaccurate or could change closer to travel?

For example, our trip from London to Brussels says it will be $350 for 2 adults and 3 kids. That seems really high to me, especially booking 6 months in advance. From Brussels to Paris, it's only $119 for the same number of people one week later. I'm trying to decide whether I should buy these tickets now, or wait.

Ouigo trains are SNCF's answer to budget airlines. No frills, no services, pay extra for luggage, must be checked in at the station 30 minutes before departure time. The trains I am seeing stop at Marne la Vallee-Chessy, which is basically Disneyland. Since it is only a 1 1/2 hour train ride, it should be bearable. Just make sure the bus gets you to Lille Flandres station (NOT Lille Europe).

rome2rio is very good at coming up with weird routings, like trains to non existing stations.

Best is to just book with the Belgian Railways: www.b-europe.com, and book sufficiently in advance. And yes, there will be transfers. Transfers are a normal and expected feature of train travel, and are trivial.

The two Lille stations are physically connected, although I don't remember if part of the walking transfer is a glass corridor that is, technically, outdoors.

Option 4 is a direct TGV Inoui 8 times a day from Brussels to Marne-la-Vallee Chessy, then local bus or taxi.

It's far too early yet for tickets to be available for July.

Ok thanks for the feedback

It's far too early yet for tickets to be available for July.

That's what I thought but Eurostar has a promo for cheap tickets on their homepage with dates through summer. I got an email about the promo too. I'm able to see tickets for July and Aug, is this not usual? Or did you mean tickets for th other trains/buses?

Tim, it's good to know that the Lille stations are that close, only a 7 minute walk. If I had known that 20 years ago, I wouldn't have been so stressed. In Amsterdam they had made a reservation for me, Lille to Paris. When I went to get on the train, the conductor told me I was at the wrong station and this train was full. Very similar departure times. Anyway, they let me sit in a jumpseat. Whew! Obviously this was before Google Maps and all that readily available information. And I'm smarter now, and more traveled. :)

The Eurostar trains from Brussels to Paris do open very early.

But if you use one of the Brussels to Marne la Valle direct trains those are not Eurostar, but basically SNCF domestic trains extended into Belgium. They continue to destinations in the south and west of France. You would book those on SNCF Connect. Bookings for all SNCF domestic trains until 3 July are due to open for sale this Thursday, after 3 July on an unspecified later date.

But (apart from local travel at Disneyland) if you use one of those you have reduced the number of changes to 1.

Travelling tomorrow those trains are between 39 and 57 Euro each (on some 1st class is almost the same price), travelling on 28 March (the latest date currently available) they are actually around 20 Euro more. But while the pricing is dynamic it is not as much so as on Eurostar.