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Antonia Wilson

Black Friday's holiday deals: rail, coach and ferry offers

A Eurostar train on a platform at St Pancras station, London.
From 28 November Eurostar will have single-ticket deals on offer to several European destinations. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX

National Rail with Interrail

National Rail is offering a 10% discount on the Interrail Global Pass, which is valid in 31 European countries. There will also be 10% off selected One Country Passes, which provide unlimited travel across one chosen European country. The offer launches on 29 November and runs until 31 December. Adult Global Passes (28+) for five travel days (within one month) will be down to £220.50, and a family Global Pass (two adults, two children), valid for seven travel days within one month, will be £524 (children up to the age of 11 travel free).
• Booking available from midnight on 29 November, myinterrail.co.uk/sale

Eurostar

Eurostar will be releasing single tickets to Paris, Lille and Brussels for for £25, and any other station in Belgium for £31 one-way. Tickets will be on sale from 28 November to 2 December, for travel between 7 January and 6 February 2020 (excluding 25, 26 & 31 Jan and 1 & 2 Feb), with a maximum of four passengers per booking. Eurostar passengers can also get 2 for 1 entry to some of Europe’s top museums by showing their Eurostar ticket at the box office.
snap.eurostar.com

Railbookers

Cologne cathedral and railway station.
Cologne cathedral and railway station. Photograph: Sergey Borisov/Alamy

There are several deals over the Black Friday period with Railbookers, which specialises in holidays by train around Europe and beyond. Most run until 6 December, such as £100 off the Ultimate Paris, Brussels and Bruges seven-day trip (from £899), including all travel, passes to several landmarks, several tours and six nights’ B&B (with various hotel options in each city). There’s also £100 off a five-day trip to Cologne and Berlin (from £569), including all travel, a boat trip, walking tour and four nights B&B (in a choice of four hotels).
railbookers.co.uk

Trainline

Travellers who sign up to Trainline and use Paypal as a new customer will receive £10 credit to spend at trainline.com. A debit card, credit card or bank account must be linked to the new Paypal account before 10 December, to gain the extra credit.
paypal.com

Busabout

Busabout will be offering 20% off its Hop-on Hop-off Europe pass, which gives access to flexible routes across 38 destinations in 14 countries on its coach network. Prices will start at £311.20 for the four-week pass with six stops, up to the six-month pass with unlimited stops, reduced to £887.20. The sale goes live on 28 November, with registration open in advance at busabout.com.

Haggis Adventures

Scotland specialist Haggis Adventures’ seven-day Coast to Coast trip currently has 30% off when using the code BLACKFRIDAY (from £599 down to £419.30), if booked before 4 December. It starts and ends in Edinburgh via Glencoe, Loch Ness, Orkney, the Jacobite steam train, and a distillery tour, with all transport and six nights’ hostel accommodation (departs every Saturday from May to October 2020). Several other shorter trips have 20%-25% off, including the Highland Fling (5 days, £291) and Skye High (3 days, £156).
haggisadventures.com

Wightlink

From midnight on 29 November until 2 December, passengers with cars can claim 30% off ferry travel, while foot passengers can claim 50% off (for travel before 31 December 2019) on trips to the Isle of Wight. The sale will apply to all crossings to the island from Wightlink’s three Hampshire ports: Portsmouth Harbour, Portsmouth Gunwharf and Lymington in the New Forest.
wightlink.co.uk

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