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Hello, I've just booked tickets from Amsterdam Centraal to London St Pancras, changing at Brussels Midi. I'm looking to change our seats to have forward-facing window seats.As far as I understand is we can only reserve seats for the second Brussels-London leg of the journey.I've looked at the Eurostar app seating plan and also the very helpful info on The Man in Seat 61's website (thank you!).I believe our train is due to be an E320 train. I'm looking at either seats 55 & 56 or 61 & 62 in either coaches 4-7 standard class. Does anyone know which of these is better aligned with the window please? Or perhaps there is a better option we choose choose?We don't want a table seat, would prefer style, and away from the toilets.Thanks very much in advance!
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You can guarantee a window seat (or 2, if you are in separate rows), but not necessarily forward-facing seats, for the reason mentioned by Lionheart. Belgian Railways refuses to guarantee the direction of travel.Seats 55 and 61 in the coaches mentioned are window seats, seats 56 and 62 are then obviously aisle seats, and in terms of being 'aligned' with the window (which I understand to refer to being alongside window rather than wall), I guess 61/62 is slightly better than 55/56, fromI don't understand why you say it isn't possible to reserve (do you mean change?) seats for Amsterdam-Brussels: it's a reservation-only train, so you must have reserved seats, they will be shown on your ticket together with the coach number and departure time. Of COURSE you can guarantee forward facing seats if you choose such seats from the seat plan, come on peoples!;0)Eurostar ALWAYS has 1 at the London end, 16/18 at the Brussels end. I have only ever seen a Eurostar train running the 'wrong way round' once in 20 years.If you want to get techy, there are a handful of seats which differ between an unrefurbished classic Eurostar train and a refurbished one (designated e300) (one of which is my favourite seat 61 in 1 st class, annoyingly!), but here we're talking about a new e320, right?See the plan atYou can usually change your Eurostar seats using the 'Manage my booking' link at although whether your booking reference works this feature or not depends where you bought tickets. Some work it, some don't.Now, between Amsterdam and Brussels you MIGHT be taking an InterCity train without seat reservations, you sit where you like, or you might be taking a Thalys high-speed train with compulsory seat reservations. If the latter you cannot change the reserved seats once you have booked.
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You can change your seats for the parts of your journey that are with Eurostar. Once you get to the seat map via 'manage my booking' you can choose your seat. The white panels on the sides of the train seat map are windows. The grey bits are wall.Is the Amsterdam-Brussels leg of the journey with a Eurostar or a Thalys or an ICE or a domestic train?For the future, If you book your Amsterdam-London journey in two parts you can do it all on a Eurostar. Just book Amsterdam-Brussels and than book Brussels-London. You will still need to change trains in Brussels but you will be able to take a Eurostar for the first bit of the journey (which means you can choose your seat). I don't know why Eurostar don't advertise their Amsterdam-Brussels trains.P.S.
All Eurostars to and from Amsterdam are E320s because they are the only type of Eurostar train that are able to travel on the Netherlands railway. Edited: 12:47 pm, April 09, 2018. @MIS61 re 'Of COURSE you can guarantee forward facing seats if you choose such seats from the seat plan'I'm only telling you what Belgian Railways told me, when buying tickets at the station - when it is up to THEM to select from the seating plan according to the criteria you give them.
So either their staff don't understand what is at least partly (5%?) their own seating plan or they think there are more occasions when one or another carriage gets loaded into the train set the 'wrong' way round than you personally have encountered.