Cross-border Student Flex 8 Trips
Do you travel regularly between Belgium and the Netherlands, Germany or Luxembourg to get to school, university or your internship, without making the journey every day?
With the cross-border Student Flex 8 Trips, you get 8 single journeys to use over a 1-month period on a fixed route. For each journey, you are free to choose the direction of travel.
- For students aged under 26 who travel regularly between their home and their school, university or traineeship location
- 8 single trips valid for 1 month, with free choice of travel direction for each trip
- personalised card (paper format) valid for 1 year that goes along with a validation ticket valid for 1 month allowing you to make 8 single trips between the two stations on your fixed route, in the travel direction of your choice
- available in 1st and 2nd class
- available for purchase only at ticket offices of Belgian rail stations. Validation tickets only available at the ticket office as well.
There's a Cross-border Student Flex 8 Trips for travelling between the chosen Belgian station and:
- Luxembourg (any Luxembourg station)
- Aachen (not valid on ICE and Eurostar)
- Maastricht + intermediate stops Eijsden and Maastricht Brightland
- Breda
- Roosendaal
Practical info
The Cross-Border Student Flex 8 Trips can only be purchased at a ticket office in a Belgian rail station. It cannot be bought at stations in the Netherlands, Germany or Luxembourg.
Go to the ticket office with a valid form of ID. You can make your purchase up to 31 days before your chosen start date.
When you make your purchase, you will receive a plasticised card in your name valid for 1 year and a Student Flex 8 Trips validation ticket valid for 1 month, comprising 8 single journeys. If you are aged 18 or over, you must also present a valid student ID.
The Student Flex 8 Trips in paper format allows you to make 8 single journeys during its one-month validity period, between the two stations on your fixed route..
Before boarding the train, use a ballpoint pen to fill in the next available line, in numerical order, stating:
- the day of the week, written out in full letters;
- the date of travel in DD/MM/YY format;
- your destination station, written out in full letters.
For each journey, you are free to choose either of the two stations on your fixed route as your destination. Your 8 journeys do not therefore have to consist of 4 outward and 4 return journeys.
Crossings-out, overwriting, erasures or incorrect entries render the line unusable. If you make a mistake, fill in a new line. A line left blank cannot be used once the following line has already been filled in.
Yes. For each journey, you are free to choose the direction of your journey between the two stations on your fixed route. Your 8 journeys do not therefore have to consist of 4 outward and 4 return journeys.
Before boarding the train, write the name of the station you are travelling to in ballpoint pen on the next available line.
On the Belgian section of your cross-border journey, the Student Flex 8 Trips is valid on domestic IC, EC (EuroCity), L, P, S, EXTRA, EXP and T services listed in the timetable on belgiantrain.be. On the foreign network, it covers the continuation of your cross-border journey until the destination specified for your Student Flex 8 Trips.
It is not valid on other international trains (conventional trains, night trains or high-speed trains), nor on special trains. It is also not valid on the Eurocity Direct (Brussels-Midi – Amsterdam Zuid), between Brussels and Antwerp, or as far as the border (Hazeldonk-Grens).
