{"id":13671,"date":"2019-06-26T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/eurostar-backtracks-on-train-booze-ban\/"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:03:18","slug":"eurostar-clarifies-alcohol-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/eurostar-clarifies-alcohol-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurostar Clarifies Alcohol Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the alcohol carry-on limit was introduced quite some time ago on Eurostar it is only fairly recently that people spotted the somewhat draconian nature of it &#8211; limiting passengers to one bottle of wine and a max of four cans of beer or lager; bottles of spirits were banned. Now at first glance, this doesn&#8217;t seem unreasonable as no one wants to travel with someone throwing a party on board, and in any event, alcoholic beverages were on sale for anyone who couldn&#8217;t last the journey without a drink. The policy as it transpires didn&#8217;t stop anyone transporting alcohol as part of their stowed luggage and seemed not to widely enforced in any event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No such problems with alcohol on the 15:19 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Se_Railway?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Se_Railway<\/a> London Bridge &#8211; Folkestone today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eurostar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Eurostar<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seatsixtyone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@seatsixtyone<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xFsurq3GEj\">pic.twitter.com\/xFsurq3GEj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian McBride (@brian_mcbride1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_mcbride1\/status\/1143525083002150912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But this is the 21st century and people need something to complain about so cue the outrage on Social Media. This despite the majority thinking it was\u00a0 a good idea:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">60% of Brits approve of the new alcohol limit on the Eurostar train line, which will only allow one bottle of wine or four cans of beer, and no spirits. A quarter (24%) disapprove <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bJaMxQFwKE\">https:\/\/t.co\/bJaMxQFwKE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MDBqhLZdPY\">pic.twitter.com\/MDBqhLZdPY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 YouGov (@YouGov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouGov\/status\/1143905006271258624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for that 24% who like to party and those who found the rule confusing the actual policy has now been clarified:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THUMBS UP FOR EUROSTAR! Have just spoken to Eurostar, it seems their website alcohol policy implied rather more than they actually meant &#8211; which explains why it wasn&#8217;t what was being enforced at check-in. Delighted they&#8217;ve now re-worded it &#8211; now seems eminently sensible. \ud83d\udc4d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SfUfANCEl8\">pic.twitter.com\/SfUfANCEl8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Man in Seat 61 (@seatsixtyone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seatsixtyone\/status\/1143896272954413057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nSo it looks like we can all enjoy a civilised carry on tipple after all while still stocking the home drinks cabinet.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13704\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13704\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1199350957-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1199350957-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1199350957-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1199350957-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1199350957-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_1199350957.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CHEERS<br \/>Image nrqemi\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-48777715\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC News &#8211; Business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the alcohol carry-on limit was introduced quite some time ago on Eurostar it is only fairly recently that people spotted the somewhat draconian nature of it &#8211; limiting passengers to one bottle of wine and a max of four cans of beer or lager; bottles of spirits were banned. Now at first glance, this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1364,1363],"class_list":["post-13671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-alcohol-policy","tag-eurostar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13671"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13705,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13671\/revisions\/13705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}