The Jurbise train station is a small one that is on the line that goes between Brussels and Mons…read more Since its closer to home and less hectic than the Mons station, I often go here and take the train up to Brussels or further afield, to Antwerpen or Bruges. The good thing about it is that there is adequate parking if you travel there on weekends. During the week however, although there are many parking places, you'll find most taken by those who commute to Brussels for work. Don't come here hungry because although they station is very nice, clean, heated in the winter, it has no cafe for a coffee or something to eat. There are none in the immediate area either that are walking distance.

Convenient starting point to travel around Belgium …read more Brussels Central Train station has a ticket office and several kiosks to purchase tickets . During the peak hours, we benefited from having staff who helped explain how to purchase tickets, what the Train Plus option is: Well worth the Euro 6 cost since subsequent trips for the next 30 days are discounted and you don't have to repeatedly type in your name and date-of-birth. Large but not humongous station.

This train station is massive! Yet it's the hub for to go anywhere. I utilized it to get a train to…read morethe airport. The signage is pretty straight forward, but since it's operating at full capacity it can get confusing. Thankfully workers are everywhere to assist! So I did seek help at the kiosk in purchasing my ticket. Amex was accepted here. Then I asked another worker for assurance on what platform to go to for my destination. Everything flowed smooth for the most part. I think their rail system has been the easiest to navigate in Europe so far.

Large train station in Brussels. I arrived here from Paris. There were a lot of moving parts, and…read morepeople, but I'm a New Yorker. Aside from that, I had someone with me, who could speak French. The machines were there, so. Was able to purchase a ticket but nobody took it onboard the train, so it turned out to be for naught. Nonetheless, this was a large station with multiple shops and was extremely neat, I was pleasantly surprised. This station seemed to have local and trains to take you to other European countries.

Slight chaos at this airport with some of the escalators out of service. The taxi service in and…read moreout was quick and not busy, Uber is a horror story in itself. I'm sort of used to airports and expect chaos, although it does not need to feel that way. We were here in Brussels just for the day so we did not have luggage which made it much easier. Every employee was helpful in navigating me through the new routes to my train. Plenty of cafes to choose a good coffee. Eurostar was a delayed disater but not the fault of the train station.

I loved this station. I love the attention to detail, and beautiful artwork aligning the walls as…read moreyou walk into the station. It is a smaller station, and under construction, but I still found it charming. I know the wall details are not what you want to know about, you want to know how efficient the trains are, and if there are any places to eat or drink...or any shopping. The buses drop you off right at the door if you ride the bus to the station, and there is a large bike park. I didn't see a car park, but I'm sure there is one. When we were leaving Gent we were on a tight leash with barley enough time to get to the platform to find which train to catch, which was a tad bit confusing, but we eventually got on the right line. I saw one coffee stand, but had to pass it up, in order to walk through all the construction, and climb the many stars to make it on time. On my way to the platform I didn't see any other types of shops. I'm sure there are some, but I didn't see any. There is a small glass encased "wait room" on the upper platform that we went into, because it was so cold this day, but it was freezing inside as well. I staying in it, just to keep the cold wind from blowing right through me, which really didn't help much, because the door had a gap, and didn't close all the way. Finally here comes our train....ah nice and warm. Train station does have wifi or else I wouldn't have been able to "check in" on Yelp. When construction is done I'm sure this station will be amazing.

Great train with plenty of signage, food and restrooms. Small by European standards it is still…read moreeverything you need to make your travel easy. Bike parking front and bike and it numbers in the thousands. More hikes than I've ever seen. Taxi ride from city center is 10-15 euros and much easier than walking. Next stop Antwerp!

From the owner: En voiture La gare se trouve dans le centre de Valenciennes. Elle accueille les tarins SNCF du…read moreréseau réginoal (TER) en provenance notamment de Lille et à direction de Maubeuge. C'est également une des stations de la ligen 1 du tramway Transvilles de la ville.

I'm stuck at home without the prospect of travel on the horizon anytime soon. I miss the simple act…read moreof relocation. Sometimes, a new environment can help reveal a truth. There's a fuck ton of introspection and self-improvement happening in the eye of this pandemic storm. Hopefully, I'll come out the other side a better version of myself. Anyway, I spend a lot of time thinking about previous travel. This Brussels to Amsterdam route is a lot less stressful than an airport and (after factoring in checkin and security screening and airport chaos) a shorter time investment. The train itself is well appointed with comfortable seats and meal service. Beer and wine are available for pre-gaming your a Belgian Brewery tour. The staff is friendly and multilingual which allowed for gracious correction of my ham fisted attempts at both Dutch and French. They were kind and welcoming despite my poor language skills.

So-so train station. Less than the most comfortable waiting area. Longer lines than you might like…read moreand not particularly great refreshments. I know it's just a train station and getting to 5 stars would probably take a fair amount of effort, but this is a bit disappointing. The best part is that the Eurostar high-speed train from here to London is an amazing way to do it. You get to go from city center to city center in ~2 hours while being on a train that lets you walk around instead of being crammed in a seat buckled into a plane. The actual station though is just fine. There's no nice waiting area before or after the security screening. The security screening itself is a longer line and more of a hassle than you'd like for a train. I get that they have to treat it like a border crossing post-Brexit, but it's still frustrating. Beyond that the only real place to get a snack or drink is a single, pretty sad duty free shop.

This is a train station in Lille. You can find your connection to rest of France as well as to U.K…read more There are take away as well as dine in restaurants. You can buy your tickets from a machine (operate in different languages).

Lille-Flandres Train Station is the major train station in downtown Lille and is where I took a…read moretrain to Paris on Tuesday afternoon . This train station features a bunch of food options from small baked goods and sandwich shops to a McDonalds that's easily accessible from the main lobby. This train station also has a bunch of shops and vending machines around in case you want some candy, drinks, magazines, or phone chargers before you hop on the train. For the most part, this train station does what it needs to do, it looks fairly nice, was kept pretty clean, and I have no real issues with it. The only thing I will say is that they definitely don't have enough seating around, lots of people holding lots of stuff wanting to sit down. Overall, Lille-Flandres Train Station is a pretty standard train station and serves the city of Lille just fine and most importantly, you can't beat the location right next to the mall.