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Eurostar passenger Elizabeth Romijn, 75, a yoga teacher from the Netherlands said she is used to issues with the train service, but described Wednesday’s disruption as “very chaotic”.
She was planning to make her way home catching the train to Brussels today after visiting friends in Guildford, and has decided to wait in the station to see if she can board a train.
Elizabeth told the PA News Agency: “My plan is to just wait. Maybe I should go and be more proactive and go to ask one of the staff but nobody seems to know anything. And it’s quite horrible long queues.
“On the email they said, don’t go, go cancel your travel or take a voucher or something – but I thought I’m going to travel anyway. I’m just going to wait and if it’s cancelled, then I go back to Guildford where I’ve been visiting my friends. But that’s not ideal because then I have to pay to get back out to Guildford and then come back tomorrow.
“And I also have my appointments at home, so I need to get back. But it’s a thing that I’m a little bit used to because we have strikes in Holland so often the Eurostar is not running from Amsterdam to Brussels. We Dutch people know how to wait – but the problem is it’s chaotic, very chaotic.
“It’s a bit of a horrible place to wait here, I wish it was a nicer place, but it’s dirty, there’s not enough seats so people sit on the ground, it’s chaotic. It’s not an ideal place.”
