How To Store Luggage On Eurostar?

How To Store Luggage On Eurostar?

You cannot check a bag in on Eurostar: every bag travels with you, and Eurostar runs no left-luggage office of its own at Gare du Nord. The company's help pages point passengers to the SNCF luggage office on the lower ground floor, open 06:15 to 23:15, or to partner points around the station. A Radical Storage point nearby costs EUR 3.90 per bag per day plus a EUR 1.99 checkout fee.

That is the short version, and it surprises people. Eurostar travel feels like flying, French and British border controls and all, so many passengers assume there is a hold, a checked-bag drop, or at least a cloakroom at the Paris end. There is none of those things. Your bags go on the rack above your seat or in the luggage racks at the carriage ends, and if you have hours to kill in Paris before departure, the bag is your problem to park somewhere else.

The good news is that Gare du Nord is one of the best-served corners of Paris for exactly this. The station has an official SNCF left-luggage office inside it, and a dense ring of Radical Storage partner points, shops and hotels holding bags behind a counter, spread through the streets around the concourse. This site is a directory of those Paris storage points, and every point recommended here is a real Radical Storage partner location; this site neither owns nor operates any of them.

The choice between the official office and a partner point comes down to timing and money. The SNCF office is cheaper for a short deposit and dearer for a long one, and it can be full. A partner point is bookable in advance, costs a flat day rate wherever the day is three hours or thirteen, and its hours are set by the shop or hotel that runs it, not by the railway. The rest of this article walks through the allowance, both storage options, the London end of the route, and the arithmetic on a worked example.

If you already know you want a bookable point rather than the station office, these are the three areas Eurostar passengers use most:

What The Eurostar Luggage Allowance Actually Is?

Eurostar Standard and Eurostar Plus each allow two pieces of luggage plus one piece of hand luggage, Eurostar Premier allows three plus one, and a child's allowance is one plus one. On routes to and from London the maximum bag length is 85 cm; on all other routes it is 75 cm. There is no strict weight limit: Eurostar's own wording is that if you can carry it safely yourself, you are good to go.

That allowance is genuinely generous next to any airline. Two full-size suitcases plus a cabin bag, with no scale at the gate, covers most families and most moving-house-style relocations. The length limits are the part people trip over, and they differ by route: the London routes accept bags up to 85 cm long, while Eurostar's other destinations, the ski and continental services, cap the length at 75 cm. Measure the suitcase at its longest point, wheels and handles included, because that is what a staff member with a tape will measure if your bag looks borderline.

The no-weight-limit line comes straight from Eurostar's own luggage page, and it is worth quoting because it settles an argument travellers have on every platform: "Unlike airlines, there's no strict weight limit per bag. If you can carry it safely yourself, you're good to go." The operative words are "carry it safely yourself". Nobody will lift the case for you, the racks at the carriage ends involve a step up, and the Paris Metro between your hotel and the station involves whatever it involves.

That last point is where storage enters the picture. A passenger with two heavy cases and a six-hour gap between hotel checkout and train departure is not deciding whether to store bags for comfort. They are deciding whether to drag 40 kilos across a network where only Metro line 14 is fully step-free end to end, every other line predating the accessibility law. Storing the bags at Gare du Nord on arrival in Paris and collecting them an hour before boarding turns a gruelling last day into a normal one.

Excess and oversized items are charged rather than refused. Additional bags start from GBP 35, or EUR 30, with maximum measurements of 85 cm long by 85 cm high by 36 cm wide. Oversized items such as skis, snowboards and bicycles start from GBP 60, with a maximum of 165 by 135 by 57 cm, and any excess or oversized item must travel in a case no longer than 200 cm. Skis and snowboards can count as one of your two pieces, which is the one discount in the grid. Those prices are the reason many skiers store the ski bag in Paris for the city leg of a trip and only bring it to the station on departure day.

One planning note for anyone whose Eurostar trip is part of a bigger itinerary: from 28 March 2027 the CDG Express is scheduled to run non-stop between Gare de l'Est and Charles de Gaulle in 20 minutes, according to mid-2026 trade-press reporting. That will move the airport connection to Gare de l'Est, one stop down the line from Gare du Nord, and it may shift where airport-bound passengers want their bags stored. For trips before that date it changes nothing.

Where Can You Actually Leave A Bag At Gare Du Nord?

Eurostar's own help centre says there is no Eurostar left-luggage facility at Gare du Nord and points passengers to the SNCF luggage office on the lower ground floor, next to platform 3 and opposite the exit marked Cour de taxis, open 06:15 to 23:15 daily. Around the station, Radical Storage lists 10 partner points in the Gare du Nord area, rated 4.75 across 2,937 reviews.

The SNCF office is the option Eurostar itself names, which makes it the default answer. The detail Eurostar adds that SNCF's own pages do not give is the landmark: opposite the Cour de taxis exit. Anyone who has circled the lower level of Gare du Nord looking for it will appreciate that. Pricing at the Gare du Nord office runs by duration rather than by locker size: EUR 4.00 for up to 4 hours, EUR 7.50 for 4 to 12 hours, and EUR 9.50 for 12 to 24 hours. For a morning deposit collected the same afternoon, that is the cheapest staffed option in the area.

The station office has two weaknesses, and SNCF admits the first one itself. Its own pages state that the consignes "encounter strong success and can occasionally be full", and that they can be temporarily closed for works. There is no reservation system: you arrive, and either a slot exists or it does not. The second weakness is the duration pricing. A bag left for a full day costs EUR 9.50 at the office against EUR 5.89 all-in at a Radical Storage point, and the gap widens every day beyond that, because the network charges the same flat day rate while the station adds EUR 5 per parcel per further 24 hours.

That is the honest shape of the choice, and it is why this site exists. The full station-by-station breakdown, including which Paris stations have no in-station consigne at all, is in the Paris train station luggage storage guide. For the Eurostar case specifically, the rule of thumb is simple: under about six hours, the SNCF office usually wins; a full day or longer, a partner point usually wins; and if the office is full, a partner point is not a fallback, it is the plan.

The Radical Storage points around Gare du Nord are ordinary businesses, shops, hotels and cafes, holding bags behind a counter. Hours are set per point and are ordinary business hours: the Gare du Nord Grandes Lignes point, for instance, runs 08:30 to 20:00, while other points in the area open as early as 07:30 and close as late as 23:59. Check the specific point's hours before booking, especially for a late-evening Eurostar departure, because the latest closing time in the area still leaves a window after the last collection. Never assume a point is open around the clock; that phrase appears in marketing page titles and does not describe any real Paris point.

Booking a partner point also means the bag is covered by the Radical Storage guarantee rather than sitting in a station locker. The guarantee is advertised at EUR 10,000, but the binding terms cap payment at EUR 3,000 per claim, and the terms state plainly that it is not a contract of insurance. Claims must be notified within seven days of discovering a loss, and the terms exclude any booking for which you did not supply a signed, itemised list of the bag's contents with estimated values. The practical takeaway: photograph the open bag and its contents, with values, before you hand it over. It takes a minute and it is the difference between a valid claim and an invalid one.

What Happens At The London End, St Pancras?

St Pancras International has a left-luggage office at the north end of the station, next to Boots, open seven days a week from 07:00 to 23:00, according to Eurostar's own help pages. So the London end of the route does have a station-run bag drop, and the same questions about cost and capacity apply there as in Paris.

The asymmetry is worth knowing before you plan a day trip in either direction. Paris gives you a staffed SNCF office plus a ring of bookable partner points; London gives you one left-luggage office in one terminal. If your plan is to arrive at St Pancras at 09:00, leave the bags, and see London until an evening departure, the office's 23:00 close comfortably covers you. If your plan is the reverse, arriving at Gare du Nord at 09:00 and leaving on a 21:00 Eurostar, Paris covers you too, but through the patchwork described above rather than one desk. More of these guides are collected on Luggage Storage in Paris.

Eurostar's help page is the source for both locations, and it is unusually specific: "You'll find a Left Luggage office at the north end of the station, next to Boots. It's open Monday to Sunday from 07:00 to 23:00." The same page gives the Gare du Nord directions quoted earlier, which makes it the single most useful page on the internet for this exact question, written by the operator whose passengers need the answer.

For travellers doing the round trip in one day, the arithmetic of storage on both ends is worth a minute. Two storage transactions, one in each city, plus the Eurostar ticket, is still usually cheaper and always more comfortable than dragging two cases through the British Museum. And a day trip with no bags at all is the difference between enjoying Paris and managing it. The last day in Paris with a suitcase guide covers the checkout-to-departure gap in detail, including how to split a day between a museum and a train.

One caution that applies on both ends: an unattended bag is not a neutral object in a major station. French law of 28 April 2025 set fixed penalties for abandoned baggage on the SNCF and RATP networks, from EUR 72 for involuntary abandonment up to EUR 1,500 for manifest voluntary abandonment, with a free anonymous QR-code label available in stations after a joint trial. SNCF's own figures say an unattended bag takes an average of 19 minutes to deal with. A booked storage point is not just convenience, it is the difference between your bag being a customer's property and being an incident.

How Much Does Storing A Eurostar Bag Cost In Total?

Storing one bag for one day at a Radical Storage point near Gare du Nord costs EUR 3.90 plus a EUR 1.99 per-bag checkout fee, or EUR 5.89 total on the two published figures. For three days with one bag, the total is EUR 13.69, since the fee is charged once per bag. The SNCF office charges EUR 4.00 for up to four hours and EUR 9.50 for 12 to 24 hours.

The EUR 1.99 fee is the number most pages leave out, and it appears at checkout rather than on the location card, which is exactly why it surprises people. Radical Storage advertises "from EUR 1.90 per day" globally, but across 329 Paris location cards counted in research, 316 showed EUR 3.90; the EUR 1.90 price appears on only 10 cards, all in the Bercy cluster. For a Eurostar passenger at Gare du Nord, EUR 3.90 is the rate to plan on, and the honest all-in figure for one bag for one day is EUR 5.89.

The crossover sits somewhere around six to eight hours, which is why the honest advice is duration-dependent rather than one-size. Below that, the station office is cheaper and you should try it first. Above it, the flat day rate wins, and it wins by more each additional day. For two bags the flat-rate advantage doubles, because the network charges per bag while the station charges per parcel, and two cases are two parcels.

Payment methods differ and matter. The Gare du Nord office takes payment at the desk; at other Paris stations the consignes vary, Gare de Lyon has been cash-only with a card-only refit announced for September 2026, Gare de l'Est is coins only, and Montparnasse is card only. Radical Storage bookings are paid online when you reserve, so you walk in, drop the bag, and walk out; there is nothing to pay at the counter. For someone with no euro coins in their pocket on departure day, that alone can decide it.

Cancellation is free on Radical Storage bookings any time before the scheduled check-in, with a full refund, which removes most of the risk of booking ahead for a train that might be delayed. Trains do get delayed, plans do slip by an hour, and a booking you can cancel beats a locker queue you cannot reserve. The deeper comparison of every Paris option, station by station and network by network, is in what luggage storage costs in Paris.

Can You Bring More Bags Than The Allowance, Or Store Them Mid-Journey?

Yes, extra bags travel for a fee: additional bags start from GBP 35, or EUR 30, and oversized items from GBP 60, with every item capped at 200 cm in its case. Mid-journey storage is not a thing on Eurostar itself, since the train does not stop for tourism, so any storage happens at the station ends, Paris, London, or the continental destinations.

The excess-bag fee is the number that usually pushes people toward storage instead. A third suitcase costing GBP 35 each way, charged on both legs of a round trip, compares badly with EUR 5.89 for a day in a Paris storage point if the case is only needed for part of the trip. The classic pattern is the traveller moving to or from London with a household's worth of bags who stores the overflow in Paris for the days before departure and shuttles it to the station in one final trip. The oversized grid, 165 by 135 by 57 cm maximum for skis and similar, is published alongside it on Eurostar's luggage page.

Mid-journey, the question is really about the days around the train rather than the train itself. A Eurostar arrival at Gare du Nord at 09:00 with a hotel check-in at 15:00 is a six-hour gap with two suitcases, and the answer is a storage point at the station, not a luggage trolley. This is the single most common use case in the whole Paris storage market, and the Gare du Nord area is built for it: 10 points, the earliest opening 07:30, the latest closing 23:59, and the whole ring walkable from the Eurostar arrivals hall.

There is also the security angle, which is worth stating plainly because it explains why none of this is casual. Paris station bag checks and the Vigipirate posture mean a suitcase left alone, even briefly, triggers a protocol: announcements, a security perimeter, sniffer dogs or police, and SNCF's own figure of 19 minutes to deal with an unattended bag on average. A booked storage point with a named receipt is the opposite of that scenario. The bag is accounted for, the drop is logged, and you have a claim route if anything goes wrong, subject to the EUR 3,000 per-claim cap and the seven-day notification window described above.

For completeness, the continental Eurostar destinations from Paris follow the same logic with different geography, and the 75 cm length limit applies on those routes rather than 85 cm. The storage question there is the same question with a different map: find the station's official consigne if it has one, find partner points if it does not, and book ahead when the timing matters. In Paris, the station that matters for Eurostar is Gare du Nord, and the surrounding options are the densest in the city.

Before the final questions, here again are the three storage areas Eurostar passengers book most often:

Gare de Lyon deserves its place on that list for a reason specific to Eurostar travellers: it is the Paris terminus for many TGV services, so anyone combining a Eurostar arrival with a same-day connection south often stores at one station in the morning and the other in the evening. Its own area carries 10 Radical Storage points rated 4.79 across 3,009 reviews, with points opening as early as 00:00 and closing as late as 23:59, and the same EUR 3.90 day rate plus the EUR 1.99 fee applies.

Common Questions About Storing Luggage On Eurostar

How To Store Luggage On Eurostar?

You do not check bags in on Eurostar: every bag travels with you on the rack. To store a bag around the journey, use the SNCF luggage office at Gare du Nord, open 06:15 to 23:15, or a Radical Storage partner point near the station at EUR 3.90 per bag per day plus the EUR 1.99 checkout fee, EUR 5.89 for one bag for one day.

Does Eurostar have a left-luggage office at Gare du Nord?

No. Eurostar's own help pages state it has no left-luggage facility of its own at Gare du Nord and direct passengers to the SNCF luggage office on the lower ground floor, next to platform 3 and opposite the exit marked Cour de taxis, open 06:15 to 23:15.

How many bags can I take on Eurostar?

Two pieces of luggage plus one piece of hand luggage on Standard and Plus tickets, three plus one on Premier, and one plus one on a child ticket. On London routes the maximum bag length is 85 cm; on all other routes it is 75 cm. There is no strict weight limit.

What happens if I have more bags than the Eurostar allowance?

Additional bags are charged from GBP 35, or EUR 30, each, and oversized items such as skis from GBP 60. Skis and snowboards can count as one of your two pieces. Any excess or oversized item must travel in a case no longer than 200 cm.

Is it cheaper to store a bag at the station office or a partner point?

For under about six hours the SNCF office is cheaper, EUR 4.00 for up to 4 hours. For a full day or longer a Radical Storage point wins, EUR 5.89 all-in for one bag for one day against EUR 9.50 at the office, and the gap widens each extra day because the network charges a flat day rate while the station adds EUR 5 per parcel per further 24 hours.

Can I leave a bag at Gare du Nord overnight before a morning Eurostar?

Yes, both options cover it. The SNCF office opens 06:15, before the first Eurostar departures, and partner points in the Gare du Nord area open as early as 07:30. Check the specific point's hours before booking, since each sets its own, and never assume around-the-clock access.