Another train booking question -- Eurostar

Assuming the credit card with which you will purchase the fare doesn't charge any further fee, or alternatively that even with the fee included the converted total of €158 to US$ is still less than $184, no there is no reason not to purchase your ticket in euros. I myself purchased a Eurostar ticket in € several years ago versus in US$ because it ended up being cheaper for me.

Eurostar prices its tickets in US$ on its US-facing and "rest of world" site, £ on its UK-facing site, and € on its French/Dutch/Belgian sites, but there is nothing stopping you from using whichever site you want and as you've seen, they aren't "live" conversions of each other. So when there's been movement in the exchange rate since the ticket rates were set, there are opportunities like the ones you've found.

Perhaps the only thing to keep in mind is that if for some reason you end up with a refund or a voucher, your refund or voucher will be in €, so the US$ equivalent amount may be different than what you initially paid.

Thank you Andrew.
I just booked in Euros, no problems.
I'm keeping the thread up in case it will help someone else.

sorry I didn't get to you in time, I've been out all day - I wanted to say that the benefit of Standard Premier has so eroded over the years from when I happily paid the extra for meal and perks that now I wouldn't pay any extra for it. Really, with the cold airline style meal tray now on offer the only benefit at all in Standard Premier is the 2+1 seating. And on such a short trip even that is dubious.

And that's from somebody who used to have substantial numbers of shares in the company.

I hope this may help somebody else down the line.

Thank you Nigel. I wanted the 2-1 seating; money well spent since I’m Covid adverse, as in less people, less chance of Covid.

Once I figured out how to get he price displayed in GBP and euros it proved interesting.

Pricing a trip ( same day/time) in USD, euro and GBP at current ( July 14) exchange rates

USD - 260

GBP -195 ( $230)

Euro -224 ( $225)

Appears they factor in the American penchant for 'tipping' so they just add 10% to the USD price.

No need to tip the conductor, its already in the fare :-)

I thought I’d add how to change currency from $ to € to £. On the Eurostar website in the upper right corner, there is a US flag; that gives you prices in $. If you change the flag to France, you get prices in €. If you change the flag to UK, you get prices in £.

To book your tickets login or set up an account. Hint if you do € or £ and live in the US: as you go through the booking screens you will often have to change things to the US format, like phone numbers, address. There are drop down boxes so it isn’t difficult. For €s many of the screens were in French but easy to understand for non-French speakers like me.

After you book your tickets, you can either print them, have them emailed to you, or download the app and get your tickets on the app.

It took me a few minutes to figure it all out but it worked.

For €s many of the screens were in French but easy to understand for non-French speakers like me.

If you want to purchase in € but stay on an English-language site, a tip is that the easiest option is to choose Belgium English -- it will price in € but the site will be in English.

Thank you OP for the question and Andrew for the Belgium English tip. Very helpful.