If its trains are full, the NMBS will make a distinction this weekend between tourists and those who want to go to the coast for “essential reasons”, De Standaard reports.
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On Tuesday it was decided to limit the train offer from NMBS to the coast. Moreover, the trains that do run will not be more than 80 percent full. If this maximum occupancy has been reached, the NMBS will be able to refuse travelers. Or better: then the NMBS will refuse day tourists. “People who live or work in one of the municipalities along the route are always allowed to take the first train,” says NMBS spokesman Bart Crols. So they get priority.
The NMBS asks that they can also prove at that time – “with their identity card or a document from their employer” – that they are not a day tourist. Even those who go to the sea for several days and therefore have booked a hotel will have priority over those who only go one day. “We will not refuse anyone who absolutely has to be at their destination.”
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