About Thalys
Starting on December 13th, Thalys is even quicker.
Starting on December 13th, Thalys is even quicker, bringing 45 million Europeans even closer together.
Save nearly an hour on trips to and from Amsterdam, 36 minutes to and from Cologne!
A real benefit in terms of travel times.
Check out the new travel times on the interactive map below
However, with Thalys, high-speed travel offers other advantages:
- it encourages use of the most sustainable means of travel -rail - thus preserving the environment
- it speeds up flows, history, cultural and economic exchanges and creates new links between people
- it shrinks intercity spaces to form one great “Metropolis”, as Zedz points out, a Dutch graffiti artist invited with three of his European compeers to “tag” (in 3 hr 15 min, the average time between Paris and Amsterdam or Cologne) a Thalys train with “street art” already visible in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne.
