I have neither money for railway trips and really need to work most of the time, and I am therefore deply grateful to be able to enjoy travel reports like this. Thank you so much !
Thank you for a very good trip report, well photographed and well-edited. The information you include within the video is thorough and helpful. The full trip details and timed index in the text intro section are especially helpful. Well done !
@@ganapathivibhu8044 I forgot to ask them, but i think the reason why they were locked was either because of broken airconditioning or serious electrical problems... (power outlets were out of service in all compartments, but maybe the lights didn't work in this particular compartment).
The sleeper cars are formed Wagon Service (Slovakia) couchette coaches that were acquired from DB Nachtzug around 2020. These coaches have now been acquired by European Sleeper for this new service. Similar coaches can also now be found operating for MAV Start in Hungary.
I know they don't allow passengers in cars with broken airconditioning during heatwaves on high speed trains. I'm not sure wether it is the same with these.
Definitely a channel worthy of 100,000+ subscribers, if you start to do more of these. I hope you will be able to do more trips as you say, @Nordic Rail. I just watched the Copenhagen to Berlin on Snalltaget (?) one from 2021. I look forward to equally good trips in the future. Cheers from London. It's nearly 20 years, but I miss long visits to Copenhagen and most of Denmark, plus Malmo and Gothenburg and a brief weekend in Stockholm. I would love to see Germany, Switzerland and Austria befoe I'm too old.
Great trip report, thanks for sharing! Did you not book a sleeper compartment with single occupancy? That way you could have avoided the roommate situation, but it’s great that turned out well. I will make the same trip next month. Always nice to see how other people experienced this train so far. So thanks again!
Thank you so much! Yeah about the sleeper compartment sharing with strangers, I know I could've booked a compartment for myselfe, but that would've been very costly. :D So I think I saved at least 100 euros, and at the same time I was in good company.
Say that again after sleeping in a 6 berth couchette compartment 🥲 Without AC, it was an absolute horror. And my travel was in April so not even in the hottest months of the year. I really love train travelling but I would avoid doing that again at any circumstances!
01:50, if you want to go to Brussels's Grand Plce from Midi/Zuid station, the best way is not to walk but to take any train going through Central station: there are tons of them and it takes just 3 minutes. And no worries about the ticket: any train ticket to or from Brussels is valid between any stations inside Brussels, so you don't even need to buy an extra ticket.
I didn't know about the fact that you could use any vaid ticket for the public transport in Brussels, but that's really awesome! But the walk was also nice, because you walk through central Brussels
@@NordicRail Caution: any train ticket to or from Brussels is valid on *rail* public transport within Brussels, not on the metro, trams or buses (although, conversely, most types of Brussels public transport tickets may also be used on trains). The principle, if you want, is that SNCB/NMBS regards Brussels as *one point*, regardless of which station you use, so an SNCB/NMBS ticket to or from Brussels can be used freely anywhere on the SNCB/NMBS network within Brussels (and there are no less than 44 stations within the city).
I get it yeah, but keep in mind that I think the metro would've been the quickest option to/from Midi to Grand Place, so the train was an option as well, but then i would rather just walk and experience wonderful Brussels. :)
Thanks for the video! Do you know the age of those sleeper cars? The ones on the Canadian sleeper trains were built in 1954 and have been in continous operation since. I highly reccomend taking a trip on The Canadian (4500km/4 nights) across Canada from Toronto to Vancouver. It's an amazing journey.
Thanks for the feedback! And regarding the sleeper train age, I think they’re approx the same age as the canadian ones. I’ve actually been to Canada twice, both British Columbia and Alberta… such a stunning country! Will hopefully come back to tryyour recommended train trip.
l used to catch the 23:41 from Brussels to Hannover quite frequently back in the day, years ago !! Late 1990s early to mid 00s . After leaving Waterloo at about 21 ,20 . l remember the first stop was Liege Guillemin ,then Aachen ? . l believe in later years it had a portion for Stuttgart . Is this the same train ?
Not quite the same train, because they recently funded this company “European Sleeper” so it’s actually a very “new” train company, although i get you, because some of the train cars they are using date all the way back to the 50s… so they might be similar to the ones from late 90s. 😀
Thank you so much for the comment! As you can see in the video, the bike storage it there, but it's obviously not 100% safe. Though people inside the train should have no intention whatsoever of stealing your bike, since (almost) everyone will leave at the same station: Berlin Hbf. But they are not 100% locked.
Not only did he book pretty late but I understand he went for a sleeper, which is markedly more expensive than a couchette. On the whole, this private train is reasonably priced, largely within the same range as public operator ÖBB.
Cool video i feel like those train should at least go at 160kmh outside the towns at least cuz over 12 hrs to cover 800 kilometers its nothing good or productive in my opinion.
I know, but as i already mentioned in some other comments, that you need to remember that i also pay for a place to stay for the night. It’s like a running hotel…
That's true... another thing to remember is the fact that I booked only a week in advance, so I guess I payed the max price, and it was also the most luxurious accomandation you can get (sleeper).
PLEASE, don't use this hammering background music anymore! It's really annoying and of no use. Your video is very good and really don't need this music crap.
I tried to turn down the volume as much as possible without completely removing it, but some places in the clip it's a bit annoying yeah, thanks for the comment. Will remember that for upcoming videos - do you think I should completely remove the music in the future, or should I just select music without the same "hammering"?
@@NordicRailThanks for answering. Of, course, it's always a matter of personal taste. But as for me, I generally highly appreciate docus without music. And especially railway videos should live by the railway sounds only, I think.
I'll never understand why Europeans want to go in a sleeper for a journey of only a few hundred miles. This just doesn't make any sense to my American sensibilities. You could easily drive it or just fly.
That’s what most people over here do too. This train caters for a very niche market, which I’m part of. I’ll take a train any time over flying or driving. We have also more and more people making environnent conscious choices over here, which doesn't seem to be the case in America yet. As for who is the richest, we’ll have this discussion again when Manhattan will be flooded under 5 feet of seawater.
Thats because you are very car dependent cant go anywhere without car. You are limited by car and plane only. We can go with plane, car, and train + we have walkable and bikable citys, and you dont. Your american car brain will never understand this simple principle. Therefore we will never understand " american sensibilitys " because they are not sensible. 😅😂
wich is exactly why you are about half as rich and dependent on the US for your defense " < this comment doesnt have anything to do with the subject, but nice try though, changing the subject to make it seem you are intelligent and objective about the matter, wich also seem to be one of the "american sensibilities "
