u/Ok_Nebula5355

I am a single lady who has an invisible disability which makes it very hard to walk or move my hands quickly. I will be travelling from London on the eurostar next Tuesday and arriving in Brussels at 10.00 am.

I am quite vulnerable; will only be carrying a canvas tote bag. I am meeting a friend who is driving to there from Denmark to meet me at the station before we head to where he will have parked, at the q park midi suid.

I have heard it is an extremely large and dangerous station. Can anyone familiar with the station suggest somewhere I can wait for my friend whilst sitting down inside the station that is not too far from the q park?

I had suggested meeting him outside the station at Place Victor Horta on a bench outside the station, but apparently there are no benches outside the station and place victor horta is very dangerous too.

I not streetwise and do not speak anything other than English

Any help or advice for a meeting place would be extremely helpful. This is particularly important as I do not have a cellphone on which to call my friend once I am there. Also, directions to get to the safe meeting space would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

I am going from London to Brussels. I am travelling with small tote bag containing two costume jewellery metal rings sellotaped to the inside of a birthday card, as well as a small wall hanging which has a metal wire going horizontally attached to each side by 2 very small hooks made of metal to hold the hanging to the wall as well as metallic wrapping paper. Will this all have to be unwrapped to show the detecting people the aforementioned items? Will they have to be placed separately inside the tray. I don't have a case, just a small canvas tote type bag. I am also scared my bag may be removed from the scanner at the other end and stolen as I am disabled and can't get through the line quickly.

Does anyone know how to get from Brussels Eurostar exit to the front of the station exit/entrance doors? On the Place Victor Horta side. I have special assistance booked but was told they won't take me further than outside the immediate eurostar area, even though I cant walk more than about 30 steps. I am traveling alone and cannot push my own wheelchair as arms don't have strength due to my disability.

Any help or answers to these questions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Do they print you tickets at St Pancras if you don't have a mobile phone or printer, or does this mean you won't be able to travel due to not being able to get through the gates where people scab their boarding pass as a qr code. Elderly and know no one with a printer and miles from any print shop.

Also, I leave for Brussels on 26th May at approx 7 am from St Pancrss, and apparently according to the email I got on my desktop computer, the arrival time is 10 am is. However, above that ot says the journey time is 4.5 hours. This, even given the time difference doesn't add up. Does anyone have any idea what this may mean as I am meeting someone at Brussels station.

Many thanks in advance for anyone who can help answer either or both of these questions.

I am an elderly lady who has just been told due to a medical condition I cannot fly. I am therefore wanting to go via Eurostar to Paris. Has anyone used special assistance at St Pancras, and if so, what was your experience? Do they continue the assistance at Paris? I am not a wheelchair user but would need a hand with my bag and a shoulder to lean on getting down the platform to my waiting taxi driver at Paris.

Also, being elderly, and only knowing other ancient people, none if whom have children to show us, we are completely unused to and do not have smartphones, only laptops. Does St Pancras accept printed tickets and Qr codes and do Qr codes even show up on a laptop. My concern is getting to St Pancras, which is 100s of miles from my house, and then being turned away if I can't get through the gate.

Any help with these issues would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to you in advance.