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Calais, served by P&O in drive-on, drive-off railway
Ferries and Dover to carriages between Folkestone
Dunkirk, served by and Calais. Tickets tend to
DSDF Seaways. There cost a lot less if booked well
is also a longer crossing in advance.
to Belgium itself: P&O Luxembourg City is 415 km
Ferries operates an (258 miles) from Calais, via
overnight crossing Lille and Namur, with motor-
between Hull and ways that link over the entire
Zeebrugge. These are distance. Visitors from Europe
geared to passen gers can cross freely into both
Ferry near the coast of Western Flanders travelling with cars. countries, as they are
Individual foot signatories of the Schengen
from London, visitors can go by passengers will need to make Agreement – there are
Eurostar to Brussels, then change arr ange ments for getting to normally no customs for-
to Luxembourg Railways. and from the ferry ports. malities at the land borders.
Luxembourg City’s station is
located just south of the city Arriving by Car Arriving by Bus
centre. Tickets to all European
destinations can be booked Short ferry crossings reach Eurolines, a group of coach
via Voyages-SNCF, French ports (Calais and com panies forming Europe’s
Railbookers and SNCB, the Dunkirk) close to the Belgian largest coach network,
national railway network. border. Motor way links from operates daily bus services
these ports into Belgium are from London to Brussels, and
fast: Brussels is about 2 hours to Ghent, Liège and Antwerp.
Arriving by Sea
and Bruges only 1¼ hours Megabus runs a daily bus
Belgium can be reached from from Calais. The alternative service between London
the UK by ferries. There are is the Channel Tunnel via and Brussels. There are no
frequent cross-Channel ferries the Eurotunnel. Cars and direct links from London
to the closest ports: Dover to passengers are transported to Luxembourg.
DIRECTORY
Arriving by Air Findel SNCB
Air Canada Tel (352) 24641. Tel (070) 797979.
∑ b-europe.com
∑ lux-airport.lu
Tel (070) 220100.
∑ aircanada.com flybe Voyages-SNCF
Antwerp Airport Tel (0207) 3080812 (UK). Tel (08448) 485848.
Tel (03) 2856500. ∑ flybe.com ∑ uk.voyages-sncf.com
∑ antwerpairport.be Lufthansa Arriving by Sea
American Airlines Tel (0871) 9459747 (UK), (070)
Tel (02) 7119969. 353030 (Belgium). DFDS Seaways
∑ aa.com ∑ lufthansa.com Tel (0871) 5747235.
British Airways Luxair ∑ dfdsseaways.co.uk
Tel (02) 7173217. P&O Ferries
∑ britishairways.com Tel (352) 24561.
∑ luxair.lu Tel (08716) 642121 (UK).
Brussels Airlines ∑ poferries.com
Tel 0902 51600. Ryanair
∑ brusselsairlines.com Tel (0330) 100 7838 (UK). Arriving by Car
Brussels Airport ∑ ryanair.com
Tel 0900 70000. Eurotunnel
∑ brusselsairport.be Arriving by Train Tel (08443) 353535 (UK).
∑ eurotunnel.com
Charleroi Airport Eurostar
Tel 0902 02490. Arriving by Bus
∑ charleroi-airport.com Tel (03432) 186 186 (UK).
∑ eurostar.com
CityJet Eurolines
Tel (0871) 4052020 (UK). Luxembourg Railways Tel (08717) 818178 (UK).
Tel (070) 300046. Tel (352) 24892489. ∑ eurolines.com
∑ cityjet.com ∑ cfl.lu
Megabus
Delta Railbookers Tel (0871) 2663333 (UK).
Tel (070) 300872. Tel (02) 03 327 0812. Tel (+44) 14135 24444 (Belgium).
∑ delta.com ∑ railbookers.com ∑ megabus.com

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