London to Bruges in Sept - Online train ticket confusion

Try booking on the Belgian rail (SNCB) international website. I pulled a random day in early September and it showed basically all the London-Brussels Eurostars, each with a single connection to Bruges. Prices varied by time of departure.

I echo what CJean says - use www.b-europe.com, which is the international website for SNCB - but just wanted to add that even if you did not buy a ticket to Bruges as part of your London - Brussels ticket (and no reason for this), you can just buy your Brussels - Brugge tickets on the SNCB phone app, so there is really no need to go buy a ticket at Bruxelles-Midi. Perhaps that will come in useful for other trips in Belgium. The only thing that has really changed is that you can't buy an ABS ticket (i.e. free ongoing travel to Any Belgian Station) any more, you do have to pay nowadays, which is I think why you can't buy ongoing tickets through Eurostar. They just don't sell SNCB tickets through their site.

Lavandula

When you book tickets through Eurostar you use the SNCF booking platform, and that platform is notoriously broken. SNCF has choosen to completely ignore the part of Europe that has no trains to Paris.

So yes, use B-Europe.com, which is actually a pretty good international train booking site. (The Dutch and the Luxembourg reailways use the same site...)

I haven't been to Bruges in over ten years. But to set you mind at ease, during daylight hours, there are usually 4 to 5 HOURLY trains from the three downtown Brussels stations to Bruges. They are unreserved local trains, often double-decker cars that have no long-distance luggage racks. But they always have the same price (absent weekend group discounts, perhaps.) Depending on how much luggage I had, I would not bother to sync my trip with an infrequent Eurostar direct train, if that even exists.

Another option, which may not be the cheapest, used to be the Any Belgian Station endorsement sold by Eurostar. I don't know if that's currently available. I trust you have noted that Eurostar goes to Brussels Zuid/Midi station, which is not walkable to Grand Place, if that is an objective of your train-change time. Bruxxels Centraal is near Grand Place.

Although there is only one change, it's a rather long trip from London to Bruges. The Eurostar trip to Brussels is priced and sold like an airline ticket, with higher prices for times suitable for business travel. And non-changeable, non-refundable tickets are available with advance discounts, but not in the days near travel time. Be sure to note the EARLY ARRIVAL before boarding required for security and immigration, in both directions. People have been denied boarding for failing to arrive early enough.

Thank you all very much for your comments! The advice to use the b-europe.com was exactly what I was looking for, and I never would have thought of it on my own.