I also recently traveled in a Nightjet sleeper car in a deluxe cabin. In Deluxe you should get a welcome drink which is prosecco. We also didn't have it in the cabin and after requesting it from the attendant, we got two bottles per person. 😁 And for breakfast I marked 8 products from the list, I wanted to pay for the extra 2, and the attendant just waved his hand and in the morning brought me everything I wanted at no extra charge.
I recently traveled with Nightjet to Zurich and there I also received a welcome drink... I don't know why it wasn't there, probably because it's a domestic route. For breakfast, I chose 6 items, but I didn't get everything that I checked (the coffee machine didn't work and nothing else was available from the sweet options) .. it looks the service isn't consistent :-D
Hello Pete, I enjoyed your Trip Report video between Bregenz to Wien. Magnificent journey on a great train that I would have liked to take to come this past March to Czechia and Austria, my favorite country like Innsbruck. Comfortable cabin, it must be really nice. Don't you have an account like other RU-vidrs to receive money to help? Thanks for sharing Pete. Kind regards. Pascal de Dives Cabourg in Prague 🇸🇽👋😀👍📽️🤩🚅
Hello Pascal! Thanks so much for watching! Bregenz is a nice city, especially around Lake Constance. I have Parteon (in the descriptions under the video is info). Greetings from Prague :-)
Ty podvozky na 200 km/h se na starší vozy dávaly dodatečně. Stejně to je např. s vozy Bomz, což jsou Bautzeny, ze kterých se u nás dělala přestavba na Bdmpee233
Another excellent video, Pete! Interesting review of the NightJet service. I hope you take the route during the day at some point, to see the beautiful scenery! 🇨🇿 🇦🇹 🇨🇦
Thank you for this most interesting video, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I was intrigued to see an SNCF emblem on the side of your carriage, and wonder if is part of a rail pool for sleeping cars ?
Thanks so much! That SNCF logo is because ÖBB also operates night trains to Paris, which are operated with the same type of sleeping cars.. and probably these cars with SNCF stickers also appear on other lines.
díky! Wien - Paris snad ještě posílí od nového jízdního řádu o větev Berlín - Paříž, to by mohlo být také zajímavé. Nové nightjety snad budou co nejdříve, počítá se s nimi na linkách do Itálie.
These WLABmz Comfortline coaches were built for Deutsche Bahn (and one serie for České dráhy). When Deutsche Bahn ended the operation of sleeper train, all these cars were bought by ÖBB for their Nightjet services. The SNCF logo was added to some Nightjet carriages after the launch of the Wien - Paris line, where ÖBB operates the train in cooperation with SNCF. But SNCF has never owned sleeping cars from Siemens, they only have couchette cars operated on domestic trains.
Ahoj, to Ampz se na Berlinerech vyskytuje celkem často jako náhrada za druhou třídu.. a bohužel to pak tak i vypadá, protože poslední dobou mají ty Ampz celkem poničené sedačky.
Interesting video. I really appreciated the walk along the train at Bregenz where you showed the coach types (including the running numbers) and explained their history. I understand that you can’t do this for all journeys as you have to board the train but perhaps you could expand on this information as you do your walkthrough or when you get off?
Thanks so much for watching! If there is more time, I try to add the information about each carriage to other videos as well, usually when passing through the interior of the train I describe the types of carriage and information about the manufacturer, etc. But sometimes I have to melt less information because there is no enough time frame for longer text :-D
No coffee? I always travel with a small jar of instant expresso with me because I need my caffeine fix as soon as I wake up in the morning. Was there hot water for tea?
Unfortunately these carriages have hot water for tea from a coffee machine that was broken. Fortunately, I had a back-up plan with breakfast and coffee in the ÖBB lounge immediately upon arrival.
I love this review. I am really curious about the new refurbished 4 berth couchettes. Have you gotten a chance to ride on those? The mattresses look really stiff from other videos I saw, but I really can't tell
Thanks so much! It wasn't possible yet, I've passed by this car twice but never found a free compartment to look at it. But soon the entire series of these couchettes will hopefully be completed, so then will be a better chance to book some journey.
Yo bruh! That's one excellent trip report that you present here for all of us. Honestly, this sleeper train can be the best sleeper rail service in the world, but slightly shameful that they missed out the WIFI, which is important to most people, especially digital nomads. Overall, everything provided is top-notch, even the water pressure of the shower is way better than my house 😅Nice trip video and keep going Cheers from Malaysia
Thanks so much! These sleeper cars are one of the best in Europe. The Wi-Fi is mostly missing in cars that were manufactured in the 2000s (like these ones) but have not yet been upgraded. Wi-Fi is already common on newly renovated trains (so we have to wait a while for these cars). Greetings from Prague :-)
Very cool! I lived in Berlin, Germany back in the 1980's, as my father was in the US Army, assigned to the "Liaison Mission" to spy on the Soviets. He was based in Potsdam, outside of Berlin and wasn't a part of the "Berlin Brigade". (At that time, Germany was still two countries until 1990.) My father was drafted into the US Army in 1972 and was one of the "lucky ones" that didn't have to go fight in the Vietnam War, as the US was already pulling troops out of Vietnam. (I'm almost 50 years old and can remember things that happened about 40 years ago.) To all US Service Personnel and their dependents, it was illegal to travel on the "S Bahn" between Berlin HBF and Frankfort HBF. This train service was for the German civilians only and if you were caught using this, you were subject to court marshalling. Anyone that had to travel to Frankfort, (that was where the main airport was or "Flughaffa.) had to travel to a West Berlin Suburb called Lichterfelde, where the RTO was and get on the "Berlin Duty Train" to Frankfort. The locals there called it "Der Zundigen Bahn", which meant the fast train. This was a rather factious name, considering the fact that it took Ten literal hours to get to Frankfort, from Lichterfelde. (There were numerous check points along the trains route, as the Berlin Duty Train traveled through the "Iron Curtain".) The first part of the train's trip was handled by the Deutche Riechs Bahn, (East German Federal Railway) and pulled by a Soviet built 232 Class "Ludmilla" Diesel locomotive. (The Soviet Union's version of the EMD SDF40-2 locomotive the US had until 2002) When the train got into electrified territory following the last checkpoint, the Ludmilla Locomotive was removed from the train and the Deutche Bundes Bahn (West German Federal Railways) added an Electric locomotive to the train for the rest of the journey into Frankfort HBF. I have fond memories of my father taking us all around Germany by rail and remember visiting the Heidelberg Castle, traveling to Munich to name a few. (I got interested in trains mostly from my experiences in Europe traveling by rail.) I even have a few Marklin and Roco train cars (Wagons) in HO Scale painted in the Beige and Sea Blue livery that their real life counterparts had, back in the 1980's and '90's. I just haven't gotten an HO model of a 232 Class Ludmilla Locomotive yet, as I live in the US. And getting European model trains is a bit difficult to do and have mostly North American model trains. Keep up the good work, stay safe and God bless.
Hi, thanks for watching and commenting. Ludmilla locomotives are still in operation, I meet several of them around Dresden. I also had a model railway, but in TT scale. One of my models was the locomotive Ludmilla in DR livery and I also had several cars in DR livery. Greetings from Prague (my home city) :-)
Cool, I know many of the Ludmilla locomotives are still in service in Germany, as well as in Hungary, Austria and a few other European countries. Many of them were built in Ukraine, starting around 1975, if I'm not mistaken. The Ludmilla locomotives are now used primarily for freight service and some passenger services outside of electrified territory. Europe has a mostly electrified rail infrastructure system with mostly high speed rail services. Here in the US, the only "High Speed" line that currently exists, is the "North East Corridor Line", between Boston Massachusetts, and Washington DC. Amtrak operates a service called, "Acela" between these two cities, with stops in New York City and Philadelphia. However, the NEC Line is shared with a lot of other services that are slower than most electric trains and are diesel powered. There's even freight trains that are diesel locomotive hauled that aren't fast at all. Greetings from New York, USA. @@PeteBrandy
I think that bright lighting in the corridors is not a problem because the doors are not glazed and it is better for safety. Dimmed night light is available in the compartmentmets.
@@PeteBrandy I was referring to the open seating cars we call coaches in USA. Bright lights are annoying and make it impossible to fully relax or take a nap.
These couchettes are fairly new (newly upgraded) so they probably haven't completed the approval process for other countries yet (the whole series isn't done yet). But I have already seen these cars even on the Nightjet train to Amsterdam.
