Belgium and Luxembourg (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

TRAVEL INFORMATION 331

ARRIVING BY BUS

Eurolines, a group of coach

com panies forming Europe’s

largest coach network, oper-

ates daily bus services from

London to Brussels, and to

Ghent, Liège and Antwerp.

There are no direct links from

London to Luxembourg.

ARRIVING BY SEA

Belgium can be reached from
the UK by ferries. There are
frequent cross-Channel ferries

ARRIVING BY CAR

Car drivers from Britain can

cross the Channel by ferry to

Oostende and Zeebrugge in

Belgium, but shorter ferry

crossings reach French ports

(Calais and Dunkirk) close to

the Belgian border. Motor way

links from these ports into

Belgium are fast: Brussels is

DIRECTORY

Findel

Tel (+352) 24640.

http://www.luxairport.lu

flybe

Tel (0871) 7002000 (UK).

http://www.flybe.com

Lufthansa

Tel (0871) 9459747 (UK),

(070) 353030 (Belgium).

http://www.lufthansa.com

Luxair

Tel (352) 24564242.

http://www.luxair.lu

Ryanair

Tel (0871) 2460000 (UK).

http://www.ryanair.com

ARRIVING BY TRAIN

Eurostar

Tel (08432) 186 186.

http://www.eurostar.com

Luxembourg Railways

Tel (352) 24892489.

http://www.cfl.lu

Railbookers

Tel (02) 03 327 0800.

http://www.railbookers.com

station. To reach Luxembourg
City from London, visitors can
go by Eurostar to Brussels,
then change to Luxembourg
Railways: the London–Brussels
ticket is valid up to Arlon in
southeast Belgium.
Luxembourg City’s station
is located just south of the city
centre. Tickets to all European
destinations can be booked via
RailEurope and Railbookers.

RailEurope

Tel (08448) 484064.

http://www.raileurope.co.uk

ARRIVING BY SEA

Norfolkline

Tel (0844) 8475042 (UK).

http://www.norfolkline.com

P&O Ferries

Tel (08716) 645645 (UK).

http://www.poferries.com

SeaFrance

Tel (0321) 77033 (France).

Tel (0871) 4237119.

http://www.seafrance.com

TransEuropa Ferries

Tel (059) 340260.

http://www.transeuropaferries.com

ARRIVING BY CAR

Eurotunnel

Tel (08448) 797379 (UK).

http://www.eurotunnel.com

ARRIVING BY BUS

Eurolines

Tel (08717) 818181 (UK).

http://www.eurolines.com

ARRIVING BY AIR

Air Canada

Tel (070) 220100.

http://www.aircanada.com

Antwerp Airport

Tel (03) 2856500.

http://www.antwerpairport.be

American Airlines

Tel (02) 7119969.

http://www.aa.com

British Airways

Tel (02) 7173217.

http://www.britishairways.com

Brussels Airlines

Tel (02) 7232345.

http://www.brusselsairlines.com

Brussels Airport

Tel (02) 7537753.

http://www.brusselsairport.be

Charleroi Airport

Tel (071) 251211.

http://www.charleroi-airport.com

CityJet

Tel (0871) 6665050 (UK).

Tel (032) 878080.

http://www.cityjet.com

Delta

Tel (02) 7119799.

http://www.delta.com

to the closest ports:

Dover to Calais, served

by P&O Ferries and

SeaFrance; and Dover

to Dunkirk served by

Norfolkline. There are

also longer crossings to

ports in Belgium itself:

Ramsgate to Oostende,

served by TransEuropa

Ferries and overnight

cross ings to Zeebrugge

from Rosyth/Edinburgh

by Norfolkline and from

Hull by P&O Ferries. These

are geared to passen gers trav-

elling with cars. Individual

foot passengers will need to

make arr ange ments for getting

to and from the ferry ports.

about 2 hours and Bruges

only 1¼ hours from Calais.

The alternative is the Channel

Tunnel via the Eurotunnel.

Cars and passengers are trans-

ported in drive-on, drive-off

railway carriages between

Folkestone and Calais. Tickets

tend to cost a lot less if

booked well in advance.

Luxembourg City is 415 km

(258 miles) from Calais, via

Lille and Namur, with motor-

ways that link over the entire

dis tance. Visitors from Europe

can cross freely into both

countries, as they are

signatories of the Schengen

Agreement – there are

normally no customs for-

malities at the land borders.

Ferry near the coast of Western Flanders