Hi all,
I%26#39;d appreciate any advice you have on the best way of travelling from Brussels Charleroi to Liege? I will be arriving on a Ryanair flight in the early afternoon and ned to get to Liege and will also be returning a few days later in the evening, post 6 o%26#39;clock. Is the train the best means to do this? Any help much appreciated.
Thanks, James
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Local TEC bus A or 68 to Charleroi-Sud railway station (10 mins) then train.There are direct trains (final destination Lier) that take just over an hour, which leave Charleroi every hour on the hour (at other times you have to change once), and you can buy a combined bus and train ticket from a desk inside CRL airport for maximum €11 single, €22 return.
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Or you can buy the same ticket on-line and print at home, it will not save you any money but you can go straight out of the Airport and, if you are lucky jump straight onto the bus which APS the ticket includes
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Would be interesting to know if homeprinting works outside Belgium, because somebody told me it didn%26#39;t (or maybe that was outside Europe?).
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Just hit the previous stage button a couple of times as that was just a test.
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Dam i was sure i had got through this on previous tests that i had done but apparetly you cannot get this ticket on-line, sorry about that its annoying because i wanted to get one myself this week, oh well at least i corrected my mistake.
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Hi all,
thanks for the replies, think it seems fairly straight-forward and the trains seem to run pretty often. Every Liege topic has been locked for some reason on the forum so I%26#39;ll let you know if there%26#39;s anything wonderfully brilliant or horribly bad I come across when I%26#39;m there ha ha.
Ta much
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Well, all (5) 2009 %26quot;topics%26quot; in that forum (tripadvisor.com/ShowForum-g188655-i2291-Lieg…) are still open and if you wanted to ask a new question there is nothing to stop you!
But I must say I am aggrieved that Tripadvisor has decided to remove the ANSWERS to questions that are %26quot;inactive%26quot;: of course people aren%26#39;t continuing to add stuff when, for instance, they were about how to get to the football stadium for a match last year, but that does not mean that the answer might not be useful to somebody next time there is a match at the same stadium! If they are trying to %26quot;make room%26quot; for more active questions (and I don%26#39;t know why, there are only 27 in the Liège forum anyway) you would think they would delete the whole question, not leave the question without the answers. I did quite a lot of research for people for some of them and now it isn%26#39;t available for anyone else - and it is even more infuriating for people to be able to see that someone asked the same question before but the answers aren%26#39;t there!
If TA continues that policy, I will stop answering questions - why bother if the information is only going to stay up for a few months, however useful (and unlikely to change) it may be?! Also I fail to see why TA would want to encourage people to add their question to an existing one to keep it %26quot;active%26quot;: 9 times out of 10 when people do this, their question isn%26#39;t in fact the same as the original one and you end up with several topics muddled up together.
And there I was thinking that the recent redesign was an improvement because you can see previous answers when providing a new one! Missed the removal of inactive ANSWERS altogether. What an odd policy for a site that is supposed to collect together practical information.
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Yip let me know i will be in Liege in 3 weeks for a day next month (my 1st time), comming back from Maastricht and using the special 11euro ticket to get to Charleroi, which i have used before as a cheap entry/exit to mainland Europe,(you can also buy them at a train station if you have proof of an onward flight ),and it all works if you can pick up your flight for £5.
It is the best deal for travel through Belgium on the train,but i do know now you cannot buy the dam thing on-line doh!!
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Yes you can buy this special %26quot;airport%26quot; ticket at a railway station when you are LEAVING Belgium, and when arriving at BRU. However, as CRL airport doesn%26#39;t have a station, the only way to prove that you are travelling between the airport and another Belgian station when you arrive there is to buy the ticket at the airport, and not wait till you get to Charleroi-Sud railway station, when you could have come from anywhere. The station staff MIGHT just accept the argument, at least from a foreigner who could present a boarding card from a flight showing arrival that day, that they jumped on the bus (and paid for it) because it was there and didn%26#39;t realise they had to buy the ticket at the airport to get the special price, but I wouldn%26#39;t bank on it. Which is why I pointed out that this ticket should be bought before leaving CRL - in which case it also covers the bus between airport and station.
It might also be noted that €11/22 is a maximum price, which is always worth having if going to e.g. Brugge or Oostende from either CRL or BRU (or vice versa). However, for shorter trips, where the normal price would have been lower than €11, the special airport price is adjusted (downward) accordingly.
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Hmmm Gaminari
I emailed then yesterday asking why i could not buy this ticket on-line, i stated that i was trying to buy the single ticket 811/814 for Liege - Charleroi, they replied that they cannot sell the ticket on-line because there is no agreement between them and TEC, which in its self appeared a bit of a wierd answer to me, given that the ticket includes travel to the Airport on a TEC bus however, they did state in the email that i could purchase the ticket at Liege provided i had proof of an onward flight out of Charleroi.
Anyway i get to Liege in the morning so if i cannot i guess i will just have to buy the regular ticket to Charleroi instead, i will find out in 3 weeks anyway.
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