NIGHTJET Deluxe between Zürich and Vienna ; The famous double decker sleeping coach 

My bad @6:39 it's Budapest not Bucharest... :)

9:45 "We depart from Zurich perfectly on time." Maximum Swissness achieved.

Such great news that OBB continues to invest in night trains, which are a dying art. I hope they get enough custom to make it worth it.

The slippers and the complete breakfast were surprising to see when in a basic cabin, though I'd probably book a Deluxe to get more space and an ensuite toilet. The price, when compared to air travel plus hotel, seems very reasonable, and the train also spares you the ride between the cities and their airports. I'm pleased to hear that this sleeper service is very successful, and I can see why.

This is a train lover's paradise! I am so glad I found this in my RU-vid. I totally subscribed! 👍

Riding from Vienna to Zurich during the day was one of the most spectacular train experiences of my life. I'm sure it's fun at night to be in a sleeper but I can't imagine doing that trip and not being able to see the awesome scenery at all.

3:10 One little addition: The trains that depart between 1am and 4am are local night trains that only drive in the nights from friday to saturday and saturday to sunday. On regular weekdays there are no trains between 1am and 4am. And two other things you didn‘t mention: A thing I think is interesting: As you can see at 3:43 The river Sihl is literally flowing through the Station. The tracks above ground are above the river, while the the Stations of Museumsstrasse and Löwenstrasse are below the river. They had to implement many precautions, cause the Sihl is a river that has a high flood potential and if a flood would occure, it could flood the entire Zürich HB and make it unusable for a while. And the second thing: There actually is a third underground station in Zürich HB: Tracks 21 and 22 belong to the station of the SZU (Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn). It was originally built for the planned subway (which got rejected) and now is start and end point of two S-Bahn-lines: The S10 which goes up to the Uetliberg (would definitely recommend going up there if you are in Zurich. You have a nice view from there and it is an interesting railway line in my opinion) and the S4 which goes to Sihlwald.

A great video which brings back fond memories. There is nothing more exciting than an overnight train.

Kinda surprised about this service. I really hope their expansion plans come true anytime soon, we need overnight trains! Cannot be compared with overnight bus/coach...

I was impressed with the cabin's inside quietness! Properly good for sleeping trains!

"Silentious" is a word that does not get used often enough. Great video!

Thank you for this nice video! I plan to travel from Berlin to Zürich in a few weeks!

Très belle vidéo de train de nuit en wagon lit . C'est très intéressant à regarder, qualité et confort. Top vidéo ferroviaire Thibault. Salutations Pascal de Normandie 👍🚂🤩🤩 🤩🇨🇭🇦🇹👌

Looking forward to using post-COVID, certainly a great way to travel. I would like to see a decent, premium dining car and bar on these trains.

Hey hey! My man Paul is noted in this one! Haha, I love it when my favorite trip report creators are out here mentioning each other, sharing the support and love. It's fantastic.

Wow, what a great train report!!! I saw that Nightjet has started up service from Amsterdam and Utrecht again. So i can do this in the near future!!!

As someone who worked in a life support facility for part of my own training, I am always happy to see products or similar things made by the people who work there.

NightJet double deluxe is the best way to travel! ❤️ The double decker coaches are very nice, but I can hardly wait for the new ones.

When my wife and I did this trip in 2013 (upper deck, 1st class) we found that there was no room for suitcases, only an overnight bag. Fortunately the attendant opened an unoccupied compartment and we were able to store our gear there. Other than that, a very pleasant experience.

These videos are great. I'm somewhat planning a future vacation to Europe once we get covid under control. This would be a fun train to take when going to different countries. Thanks for sharing.

Took the NightJet from Hannover to Vienna round trip and it was a great experience for me. Will do it again.

Great film.again. Our thanks. I particularly liked how you worked in the cross-sectional diagrams of the different sleeper cars.

I'm in the half of the video and wow, its so informative with a lot of infos of the trains, station and other things, Great. I love it

I really love this CNL Coaches. I used to travel with them in Delux Cabins (upper Deck) to Freiburg (Breisgau) when the CNL still existed. I would love to travel in one of them once again...

I’ve had the pleasure to travel on the Swiss railway system and on OBB to and from Austria. Absolutely impeccable service. I’ll need to try the night train next time!

This station is a wet dream for train lovers. Just look at the different and diverse locomotives on the platform.

thanks so much 4 this upload... in Switzerland and Austria all is focused on sustainable traffic.... means a strong focus on trains, there s a great day train from vienna 2 zürich with a glass roof, very recomendable that trip

Nice video as always. I already went on the nightjet to zurich in the deluxe double decker sleeper and it was the best overnight train experience ive ever had. Greetings from France.

great trip report on the double decker sleeper nightjet between zurich and Vienna i like that everything in your room had nightjet branded on it and i also appreciate that sbb and obb and some other countries want to make new sleeper services in the near future promoting not only an alternative to a hotel but also promoting rail services for the post covid era and also as you say more european interconnectivity by rail

Beautiful Zurich! I can't wait to return, one of the nicest cities I have ever visited.

Very nice video !! I can’t wait to try more sleeper train in Europe !

Fun fact: the RE460 hauls passenger carriages in Norway, except it’s painted gray with an advertisement that you should take the train on it! (At least that's one of the 4 liveries)

Amazing video😍 I especially like traveling by train in Europe, but I am upset that I can't do it these days. Watching your video made me feel like I was riding the night train myself and it was so exciting🤗 Thank you so much 🙏

Simply railways videos are simply amazing videos🤩🤩🤩🤩

It looked good to me knowing Finnish people well they are very clean and tidy.You can’t go wrong.👍

We travelled from Koeln to Innsbruck in January 2020 on an OeBB Nightjet. It was superb - and our amenity kit also included a small bottle of sparkling wine each! And the train we were on did include showers in the lavatories for the non-deluxe cabins. It was a wonderful experience!

NightJet is a great operation. I was very impressed with my Munich - Rome trip in '18...

I love you videos! Keep it up and stay safe always!

3:38 there's actually three underground stations, Museumsstrasse, Löwenstrasse and the SZU station

Simply amazing, i don't have words to describe how awesome is to travel in one of this trains, i am really impressed of HOW GOOD this train and this comany are, greatings from Argentina!!!

Amazing stuff! I really hope that some day we'll see Nightjet services running out of St Pancras through the channel tunnel to the continent.

Ive tried this once when i went to Europe last year and it was extremely good .

Loved this clip..so looking forward to being able to travel without insane regulations like pcr tests..as an FF (Paul Lucas is a name I know from air travel especially) locked out of my 2nd country I had hoped to being able to explore Europe..for the moment international train travel seems to be as restricted thus impossible as air travel! Never give up though !

I remember being on a similar train back in 98 on a holiday from Copenhagen to Rome with my parents.... there was similar upper and lower cabins, but the lower ones could be (or at least ours were) connected....

Nightjet videos are always my favourite. great video as always.

Great video! PS The doubledeck wagons can be used in Scandinavia as well. They formerly ran between Basel and Copenhagen.

Heyyyyy i was waiting this video for so long! Thanks for finally doing it. Regards from Finland

Les comfort est bon mais quand-même limité: il n' y a pas de WC privé. La gare centrale (Hauptbahnhof) de Zurich est vraiment magnifique. Mais hélas Zurich est aussi une ville très "chère". Vidéo très informative. Merci.

Well this looks like a lot of fun, as a kid stuck in his little Toronto bungalow I envy you mate.

Thank you for informative video. I wish NightJet included a lounge or cafe car so I could have a night cap and socialize with other passengers like we do on overnight trains in USA.

Wow - this looks like an awesome train. Thanks for the review! I would love to try this one day when the borders eventually reopen (Australia's international borders are effectively shut for the time being).

Thanks for the video. The new Nightjet designs for 2022 look amazing! I think it will be especially a big upgrade for Liegewagen (Couchettes).

Loved the train ride. It was great and lots of goodies came with it. 😃

Videos like this makes me want to take sleeper train around in Europe! I’m loosely planning to take the sleeper train in Sweden from Gothenburg to Kiruna once this pandemic crap has gotten to a point where it’s safe to travel again, I grew up traveling a fair bit in the north and my soul is just longing for the north, but my nowadays disabled self can’t cope with long car rides any longer (used to go north by car and caravan) and you just don’t see much from an airplane, and I can’t sit for very long at a time so sleeper train would be the best of many worlds in a sense. I’ve only been on a sleeper train once (or well, twice as it was two ways) and that was in China between Suzhou in Jiangsu province, and Beijing. I was traveling first class with my ex husband and former in-laws as my former father in law needed to go to Beijing for some business stuff, and as my ex husband and I were in China at the time on vacation, it became a family trip so I could get to see Beijing too. I liked the experience of going by sleeper train, but had some difficulties sleeping on the way to Beijing as it was my first time ever being on a sleeper train and it was so much sounds and the movements of the train that I just wasn’t used to while laying in a bed (upper bunk in a 4 bed “room” in first class) and I was so curious to see things we passed by as well. On the way back from Beijing I slept like a rock though, exhausted from the days in Beijing and more used to the train too so it was easier to relax. Not sure about services on the sleeper train in China, if there’s cafe on board or so as we brought snacks and drinks ourselves to sustain us to our destination, no en suite toilet (think there may have been a sink though) but close to a common toilet and it wasn’t even a squat toilet. Overall it was a pleasant experience and most definitely made me want to try more sleeper trains

I hope they will maintain these standards and will emerge as winner.Nice trip enjoyed a lot.

I've in Zurich station a number of times. One time my former Swiss exchange student took me to the shops. One of them had root beer! Costly! But, manufactured a few miles from where I live in New Jersey Great video

Toujours aussi bien documenté et intéressant ! Merci !

Great video... If I read the map of 2024 right, there will be two different trains/routes Zurich to Prague, one via Frankfurt and Dresden, the other via Linz. Can't wait!

Boredom brought me here. This cheered me up. Great video and information

Beautiful journey. Here in India night trains are the way to go though it does not have such luxury as so many people needs to be accommodated. I have traveled couple of times by city night line from Germany to Zurich. It was good fun.

Just to point out that the Spanish Renfe Train Hotel sleeper trains also included slippers in their amenity kits, in addition to shaving razor, toothbrush, toothpaste, earplugs, soap, shampoo you name it, all in a beautiful zippered fabric toiletry case. They had great private showers/toilets too. Also, some cabins had tv screens to watch movies from convertible bottom seats. So underrated. A real shame that after covid 19 Renfe had to stop that service. Doubtful they will start running them again as travellers seem to opt for high speed trains these days and slower night trains were losing money.

Enjoyed every bit of the journey with you. Thanks nice video of yours .

0:50 My goodness, Zurich HB at Christmas time, I'm so sad that this year won't be the same... Due to this fu**ing virus, I guess I could not travel my loved Milan to Munich NightJet this Christmas :(

Regarding your subtitle at 18:17 about the loading gauge - if the double-decker coaches are those formerly used by CityNightLine, then NighJet should normally be able to deploy them on consists for the Netherlands (as that's what was used formerly for trains to Amsterdam from Zürich/Munich)

Merci pour la vidéo : superbe ! Ça fait rêver...

I like that you included some information about the difference between the WLBmz and the WLABmz. I thought it was a cool little bit of extra info about the train

Me, a german watching the video without really reading the captions: Oh, an old DB Train. The CNL Trains were/are iconic and they just have the typical DB look :D

Et ça fait plaisir de te voir satisfait des petits cadeaux (bouteille d'eau, savonnette, sleepers...) : j'en aurais également été émerveillé ! Beau petit déjeuner, en sus !

Not that it's relevant but my backing picture on Twitter was taken on the early morning train from Zurich to Vienna. I just hope that the modernisation of the sleepers doesn't make it overly expensive which has happened with the Caledonian Sleeper in my opinion.

The Swiss network seems more like the UK network then. Commuter/Fast regional trains run till 1am and then start at 4:30 and the underground runs 24/7 on Friday and Saturday. You might like Clapham Junction which has 2 or 3 trains coming through every minute

If the welcome package would have a dressing gown, too, I could well imagine you standing in a bakery in Vienna railway station in the morning in your nightjet slippers and dressing gown and having breakfast. - Best wishes, Heinz :)

That’s sooo cool , this train really superb, I always curious with this beauty when I saw her in Zurich HB, the only blue one standout among the reds and white Live in Zürich, I really hope I could travel with them soon

Love traveling by train. Would love to live in Switzerland.

This is wonderful video to watch it all

It was perfect view of train station

Yeah the swiss train network is impressive. Great video!

I love the City Night Line earlier. I was often traveling from Basel/switzerland to Berlin and Back. Some Times i have Not more pay then 99 Euros per way. ! Perfekt for me as magician.

Wow !!! Switzerland 🇨🇭 is my dream country and also traveling on train . I hope one day I will make my dream come true. Thanks men and yes did 👍 and subscribed.

Summer of 2019 my brother and I did a trip Berlin-Zurich-Vienna-Berlin on Nightjet sleepers. Other than the beds on the Vienna-Berlin train being a bit too short for us (thought still manageable. Narrower loading gauge on part of the line) it was quite all right even in the 6-bed compartments. Now if we could get good sleeper trains up to Scandinavia and into France and England it would be really great! Surprisingly good breakfast even on the cheapest tickets, btw. And there are showers in the single-level wagons.

If you are traveling through the Zurich train station and coming from some other euro country or from a oversees country make sure you use the restroom on the plane train or at the airport because if you have to ‘go’ in the Zurich station you better have Swiss coins because the restrooms require local coins for entry. No attendance staff for paying. Change machines are worthless for coins.

Hello Thibault, thank you for all the videos you share with us ! I would suggest you clearly display the date of recording of each of your videos, so that the viewer can identify the period it was recorded, and avoid misunderstanding. I mean : at the beginning of this beautiful report, we can see a Christmas market in the Zurich station, and later on we can see that none of the persons featured in the video is wearing a face mask : this could lead some viewer thinking the Covid threat is not taken into account in the visited regions, which is not true. If I correctly understand, you recorded the video short before the end of 2019 when there was no pandemic, this is the explanation. So, systematically displaying the recording date at the beginning of the video (and maybe repeating it during the video) could avoid this misunderstanding. Thank you. Cl.

Great review! Thank you for sharing!!

Sehr schönes Video viel gezeigt und erklärt das war super

Don´t worry about Budapest-Bucharest mix up. Some years ago, a big group of football fans that were travelying to some final game went to the other city !!!

I hope I can use the Nightjet service soon again, but currently they stopped these trains till early December. Rumours are Austria may go down further in lockdown next week, but really hope they keep borders open this time. And at least keep the ICEs running so I can actually get to Vienna for Christmas, or in worst case I need to fly.

Hello Folk! The video was really good as always. I LOVE sleeper trains though I have tried only a single time. This special, environmentally friendly and comfortable way of travelling needs to be supported as you do really well. These videos are one of the best way to make people want to try them. Let me write some little critic/remark! I saw the picture too zoomed at the parts you've recorded in the car and the cabin. Because of that, I couldn't really see the whole cabin. The other thing is at 6:39 those cars are goes to Budapest. (Surely it'd be so cool if they've gone to Bucharest even if that journey would take about 26-28 hrs.) That part of the train contains 1 sleeper, 2 couchette cars and a seating car. In any case, so good video! Keep it up doing these contents! Have a nice evening!

nice overnight train ride; I like the sleeper room; breakfast and snacks looked great.

I did this trip in the opposite direction but in a normal train. It was the longest train trip I did so far, 11 hours if I remember correctly, since my final stop was Basel and the train stopped one hour because of the police.

In 1998, I traveled to Germany and used the DB's overnight service from Hamburg to Karlsruhe. The car's configuration reminded me of the 13 Double Bedroom cars built for the pre-WWII streamliners. The rooms could accommodate up to three people. Talk about a classic sleeping car experience! I hope to return soon.

I have models of these two coaches 61 81 76-94 216-6 and 61 81 76-94 325-5 and now I know how defferent of them. Thank you for your review with so informative about this train. It was super!

The SN night trains from Zürich you showed in the timetable only run on weekends. Usually the operating times during the week (Sunday through Thursday) are from 4:40 to roughly 1:20 and then there's about a three and a half hour break before the next train starts.

Nightjet only runs to Budapest, of course, but the display on that sleeper coach does say “Bucuresti Nord” so I surmise that this is removed in Budapest and attached to a train headed to Bucharest. Just my guess, though.

One blogger complained the deluxe windows were dirty, the trains lost power (no lights), and neither shower nor toilet worked. I hope OBB stays on top of complaints because I'll be riding NightJet from Berlin to Zurich once virus restrictions are lifted.

You are so right , this is how train travel across Europe should be , genuinely intergrated , it sums up the European project , yes we must all pull together and as you dig beneath the surface it all turns out to be nationalistic . This looks an excellent service , the toilet in the deluxe cabins is good because the ones in communal use can get quite bad . The coach is so quiet , compare that to the new spanish made ones on the Caledonian sleeper in the UK to Scotland which are guaranteed to keep you awake .

Thanks for this review and cannot wait to be allowed to travel to Europe again as a tourist. I have a question, though: When travelling from Zurich to Vienna, knowing that the Swiss ticket prices are rather high, would you typically purchase the ticket from the destination railway? I am just wondering whether for the same train, it's more economical to purchase tickets from the destination country rather from the starting point (should it be in a more expensive country)?

It would be so cool if there was a train that went from Trondheim, Norway all the way to Southern Italy.

Need to see more of you !

idone the night train from paris to munich before they finished. such a shame ,it was an excellant service.

Great video as always mate; NEARLY as good as my Nightjet video 😉

Any chances trains will be built with windows to open again? Because of Covid, ect. ..