{"id":3963,"date":"2016-02-06T13:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T06:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/eurostar-has-watered-down-its-compensation-offer-after-paris-trip-delay\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T14:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T07:04:52","slug":"eurostar-has-watered-down-its-compensation-offer-after-paris-trip-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/eurostar-has-watered-down-its-compensation-offer-after-paris-trip-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurostar has watered down its compensation offer after Paris trip delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nTrain staff said we would get a free return ticket but the website only offered us \u00a329 eachMy wife and I took a trip to Paris on Eurostar in mid-January. The train had technical problems which meant we arrived in Paris two and a half hours late. The train manager announced, in French and English, that they were sorry for the problems, but that every passenger would be offered a free return ticket, valid for 12 months. We were happy with that offer and so didn\u2019t make any complaint at the time. I received an email when I got back to the UK detailing how to make my claim for compensation. However, the website only offered me \u00a329, the price of a single journey from London to Paris. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/feb\/06\/eurostar-watered-down-compensation-paris-delay\" target=\"_blank\">Eurostar has watered down its compensation offer after Paris trip delay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Train staff said we would get a free return ticket but the website only offered&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-11V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68642,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/eurostars-web-of-confusion-kept-raising-price-of-my-trip-to-paris\/","url_meta":{"origin":3963,"position":0},"title":"Eurostar\u2019s web of confusion kept raising price of my trip to Paris","date":"October 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r I made a booking and then needed to amend it \u2013 but I kept getting an error message followed by a higher fareI recently made a booking to go to Paris. 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