Re: [78attendees] WARNING !!! Re: Maastricht to Brussels-Nat-Aero, Sat 07:09

The NS web site has been consistently wrong about the through trains to Brussels - it shows them as running, even though they are not due to the vacation period.  The departure monitors in Maastricht have even shows through trains to Brussels, even when the trains don't run beyond Liege.  All the trains involved are Belgian, and the B-Rail web site has had the correct information.  Shame on NS.

Thanks,
--David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78attendees-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:78attendees-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Klaas Wierenga
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 5:39 PM
> To: jordi.palet@consulintel.es
> Cc: 78attendees@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [78attendees] WARNING !!! Re: Maastricht to Brussels-Nat-Aero,Sat 07:09
> 
> Are you talking about the Belgian train system? After all you only spent the first 5 minutes in The
> Netherlands ;-)
> 
> Fwiw, I have 0 experience with the website of NS being wrong, and I travel *a lot* by train in the
> Netherlands. I don't know what happened, whether you made a mistake or something broke down (that does
> happen you know!)
> 
> Klaas
> 
> P.s. Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience, some day I may tell you about my experiences at
> Barajas, but let's not generalize.....
> 
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> 
> On Jul 30, 2010, at 9:57 PM, "JORDI PALET MARTINEZ" <jordi.palet@consulintel.es> wrote:
> 
> > - Don’t believe at all in the info about the trains that they provide in the
> > web site.
> >
> > - Don’t believe at all in the info the employees in the train stations
> > provide
> >
> > I will suggest to relay only in the people that drive the trains itself,
> > according to my today experience.
> >
> > I was flying out from Brussels to Madrid.
> >
> > I decided just in case to take an earlier train that actually needed.
> >
> > I was in the station 40 minutes before the train should leave. It was a
> > direct express train from Maastricht to Brussels North and then only one
> > change to the airport.
> >
> > Guess what ... IT WAS NOT TRUE. I needed to change the train 4 times. In the
> > first change in Liege for the info about the right itinerary, and after,
> > asked for a complain form proving them that the web site was WRONG. They
> > told me it is outdated and they know it for ages ...
> >
> > Well the worst is that the new itinerary was also INCORRECT ! I only
> > discovered it asking to the train driver who provided me the right itinerary
> > to all the way thru in order to be able to be in the airport 36 minutes
> > before my train departure.
> >
> > I was not lucky, and the check-in was already closed and was not able to get
> > my bags thru (no problem with me because I had already my boarding pass), so
> > needed to get my bags directly into the plane as a very special favor
> > because I'm Platinum level in Iberia, throwing away some of the liquids in
> > the security control, and when arrived to Madrid, discovered that my bag was
> > lost in the way (a direct flight !).
> >
> > It seems that I will get it tomorrow, as local staff forgot to put it on the
> > plane, even if I run across all the airport with the bag !
> >
> > Of course, I'm going to claim for injuries to the train system, even if I
> > need to spend money in lawyers, but definitively, we should boycott any new
> > meeting that need to use the Belgium/Netherlands train system.
> >
> > I'm sorry about this but, even if I was quite the last days with all the
> > noise about the trains, and I was thinking that people was exaggerating, now
> > I realize that the people was completely right, THEY HAVE THE WORST TRAIN
> > SYSTEM IN THE WORLD.
> >
> > So please, IAOC/secretariat. For any NEXT MEETING make sure that the
> > official web sites for transport are 9999% ACCURATE, 100% is not enough.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jordi
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Gregory Lebovitz <gregory.ietf@gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: <gregory.ietf@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:44:19 -0700
> > To: <78attendees@ietf.org>
> > Subject: [78attendees] Maastricht to Brussels-Nat-Aero, Sat 07:09
> >
> > Hey all,
> > I'm heading to the Brussels airport on Saturday morning, early. I've got a
> > 07:09 train from Maastricht city center, with two transfers, that gets me
> > into Bruxelles-Nat-Aero at 09:10, in time for my 11:00 flight.
> >
> > Anyone from NH want to share a cab to the train station, and make the
> > journey together?
> >
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