Holy crap, Trenitalia, that's an insane value you get for the price! Everything looks so nice and just gorgeous. They even put a goddamn lamp on the dining table! I'm really impressed that even the menu was included in the price, that's insane! I was in Rome a couple of months ago but I think I might just go back now.
Trenitalia is shit...... you also get a very nice experience of thefts and illegal immigrants in the stations because they don't give a shit...... and also many gipsy asking for money
Wow, those sleepers bring back memories of the sleeper from Luxembourg to Firenze back in the 70s as a child. The train left Brussels and went all the way to Rome, stopping off in Luxembourg amongst others. Sadly long gone...
This really feels like the gold standard that all European night trains should be aiming for. Whether designed for tourists or travelers, this is the level of comfort all rail passengers should expect and demand. OBB's Nightjet is very close to this, if only they'd add a restaurant car!
This is absolutely outstanding. Italy seems to have taken over lead in trains over other conventional big players in Europe. Their trains are not just First Class but fares also very attractive. Good Luck. Thank you for the job well done. 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Love the dining car. Better than a cardboard box at your seat, which is what we get here in New South Wales. And you're right about young people. When I was a volunteer on a tourist railway in Tasmania (which no longer has public passenger trains) many of the younger people had never been on a train in their life. They were really excited.
The TTI is actually some kind of joint venture between three Gruppo FS companies: Trenitalia, Mercitalia (who helps with the shunting personal, which Trenitalia lacks) and Fondazione FS, the national historic and museum vehicles operator. For example: both D 445 hauling the train on the non-electrified part are from Fondazione FS historic fleet, and painted in original colour scheme. For the winter season, when the A/C is not needed, Fondazione FS also added a MU sleeping car from historic fleet, the only one restored in original state, painted in old TEN colours.
From the '60 till 2012 there was a seasonal (and daily during the peak weeks of the winter-summer seasons, with two trainsets running the same route) link between Rome and Calalzo with "auto al seguito" that mean you were able to load your private car on a wagon and then drive it from Calalzo to Cortina. Unfortunately the service was extremely costly for the FS to run and due to passengers numbers dropping steadly from the beginning of the millennium, they decided to suppress it. I was born in Calalzo and seeing this huge intrest and hype about my beloved Cadore railway line is great!
Now THIS is how you run a choo-choo! Great food, great experience, good price. If you assume (roughly) 65 for transportation, 80 for a hotel, 20 for dinner and 15 for breakfast, then you are already at 180. After that, you are paying 17 for the "experience" and the convenience. THAT IS A TOTAL BARGAIN. If this kind of service ran every day on every reasonable route in every country, people would just USE it.
I'm also really impressed by the quality and price - it's just a shame that these trains don't also run to Switzerland, which would be a real alternative for the Zurich - Rome flight route.
Yes! Especially now that the Gotthard Base Tunnel will be opened soon, I would really wish for connections between Zürich and Rome or Rome to Basel. Be it night trains or Frecciarossa
I would LOVE to take this train one day! Very good video! It makes me so very happy to see train travel becoming so popular in Europe! Hopefully it will spread to the United States one day!! I hope this train is a BIG success!!
The wagons' and locomotive's livery are a tribute to another luxurious train that travelled through Italy in the 50s. It was called "Treno Azzurro" (Light-blue train), after its livery. It would travel from Milan to Naples, via Bologna, Florence and Rome. The livery was meant to celebrate Naples and its colors, light and dark blue. The train maintained this name until 1971.
It is pleasing to see that Italy has woken up to travel. These trains look wonderful and worth a journey, just to enjoy the meal service as well as the couchette. As an aside, the airline Ita which rose from the ashes of Alitalia seems to be doing well also.
If you go due west from Rome, you get to the French island of Corsica. They have a modern narrow-gauge passenger train "Chemin de Fer de la Corse" that may be of interest.
I'm an old nostalgic, it's true Frecciarossa (high speed) gives a good service (in some cases excellent, although, as for anything, inconveniences can happen), but would you like to put the charm of these old trains beautifully restored? Nice video, bravo.
YOUR excited? Imagine how some of us feel! This was so interesting, and I hadn't heard of this service. You just gave me another reason to return to Italy and explore a new area. Thanks, your videos are so interesting.
So nice to see the older rolling stock refurbished. The world is so focused on the latest and greatest. It may be old but nothing major was wrong within
Nice video, well documented. The train livery, anyway, is inspired more to the mithical "rapido" "Treno Azzurro" (blue train limited express) with a very pale blue instead of pearl gray on E444 and a ligher shade than the "Blu Orientale" of the E444. As for the preserved rolling stock and the level of the restoration, please note that TTI CEO is the same Ing. Luigi Cantamessa that's the director of Fondazione FS, and you can be sure of one thing about this man, he does love FS and trains. Sad you lost the best part of the trip, to Calalzo, but we experienced severe bad weather that caused service interruptions. And the future does not look brighter as for the weather due climate changes.
Bello! Sei stato fortunato, questa carrozza è stata ristrutturata in toto e le cabine sono molto più spaziose e comode delle care vecchie Wagon-lit. Complimenti! 👍🏻
Nice video, I'm proud to be Italian 🇮🇹 Please try the Espresso Versilia. Espresso Versilia stops along the most beautiful places of the Cinque Terre, Liguria. And then it goes to Pisa and in some beaches of Versilia area, Tuscany.
TTI is launching other two services: a daytime train Milan-Genova-Nice, and a night train Rome-Foggia-Bari-Lecce. They're planning other services too...
WOW. You've just taken me back to my childhood in the 80's when we used to take a sleeper train from Boulogne to Milan. We lived in London and went to Italy every August. We would drive to Dover, cross the English Channel by Hovercraft and then load the car onto the train before departing at 3pm for Milano. We would take two sleeping compartments ( 6 of us ) and open the doors in the middle to create one large salon during the day. At 7pm we would head to the dining car and have dinner whilst travelling through Paris and on our return the beds would have been made in our compartments ( 3 per side ) with proper white cotton sheets and pillowcases with SNCF embroidered logos. The toiletries in the washbasin cabinet had TEN ( Trans Euro Nuit ) logos. Breakfast was at the station bar at Milano Porta Garibaldi Station using a voucher that came with our tickets. I wish it still ran. I would favor it over air travel any day!
So after the revolutionary break throughs in rail transportation that brought us the treno Italia and the frecciarosa traveling at a speed of three hundred kilometers per hour some people have become nostalgic and are yearning for the era when these trains moved at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour that they recall as the golden era of rail. Thank you very much and enjoy your afternoon ☺️☺️
I haven't seen one of your train trips for a long time ,but I think you and you brother have the best site ! I really enjoyed your trip on the "Espresso Cadore." The color of the cars reminds me of the old Italian Azuro express back in the 'Fifties ! I loved the cooked meals! Doubtless delicious ! Thanks to. you so very much !!
Just out of curiosity, I looked up how the €192 fare compares with London to Edinburgh, a slightly further distance, on the regular Caledonian Sleeper 😴 . Seems that the regular fare is (the equivalent of) about €165, and that's for an ordinary bunk with no particular extras. So this, even though it's a luxury service, doesn't seem outrageously expensive
I think you need to put out a petition to restore the paris-istanbul Orient Express no matter what. LEGO did it, hopefully you can too! (Since you do such a great job covering night trains, especially scenic ones like Califoria Zephyr)
Great video. Greetings from USA. I rode Tren Italia in 2011 Paris to Rome. I remember a six sleeper car. So you are telling me that these are refurbished and transformed to "real" sleeper cars? Nice. I have to do it again!!
@@SimplyRailway I hope you'll enjoy it! Also, recently seen the review of the fyra you did a few years ago, I'm glad to say that it's gotten better now that's under the Frecciarossa brand. I work at the Trenitalia HST maintenance site in Milan, I can say that whilst quality is still mid, at least you won't get stuck in the toilets anymore. It's really reliable too, somehow. I know it's hard to believe 😅
Refurbished cars from Thello means that that train will never come back again, that's sure! Just one example: I live in Udine, not far from Venice, and should go to visit my wife's sister in Paris. With the good old Thello it would have been easy and comfortable; instead, I should leave in the morning at 6 o'clock and arrive in Paris after 19, with change in Milan and in Zurich or Basel. Night option could be Udine-Stuttgart in nightjet, then Stuttgart-Paris in TGV, but for a huge price....😩
This looks fantastic and is an amazing deal!! However, I'm worried if this is going to be feasible in the long run, knowing how much it costs to run a train with that much staff offering such high level. Either it's just low pricing to attract people right now or it must be heavily subsidized. Either way, I hope they'll be able to keep this up...
As an older person I would have liked to see a shower in-suite sleeper as part of the refurbishment. The restaurant car with its magnificent selections (as you say: "over the top") was impressive. To compare amenities with new sleeper train equipment from Austria may not seem fair. Nevertheless, I would be more inclined to choose the Trenitalia sleeper version with dining than a new sleeping compartment with a "feet first" entry (Siemens) and "breakfast-in-a-box" served at bedside. But the service may be more attractive to this (not Italian) traveler if the route included two major terminals, say: Rome to Vienna.
I cant belive it u came to Calalzo 😂 Edit: it's a shame u couldn't finish the trip, after Vittorio Veneto the views get pretty nice for the last 80 km Let's hope this train is succeful it looks really nice
I don't speak Italian and just assumed for a long time that it was named as such because it's a terminus. However the last time I was at Roma Termini I crossed the square in front of it to the museum at what was once a Roman bath complex, the Terme di Diocleziano. I then figured out where the station is named after 😊.
In the USA, Pullman cars used to have blue lights. With them you could see out the window at night without being blinded by the reflection. The very last batch of Amtrak sleepers, that I'm aware of , restored them.
We Italians are proud and honored that you enjoyed your trip on our trains.
Welcome in Italia. 🇮🇹👍
Me to I'm italian and I'm proud like you
Holy crap, Trenitalia, that's an insane value you get for the price! Everything looks so nice and just gorgeous. They even put a goddamn lamp on the dining table!
I'm really impressed that even the menu was included in the price, that's insane! I was in Rome a couple of months ago but I think I might just go back now.
Trenitalia is shit...... you also get a very nice experience of thefts and illegal immigrants in the stations because they don't give a shit...... and also many gipsy asking for money
Solo in Italia!
(Only in italy!)
The aesthetic of European night trains is just beautiful
Wow, those sleepers bring back memories of the sleeper from Luxembourg to Firenze back in the 70s as a child. The train left Brussels and went all the way to Rome, stopping off in Luxembourg amongst others. Sadly long gone...
TuRIStiTCHI !
@@marclemire1414 Wasteels! Remember those tickers?
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This really feels like the gold standard that all European night trains should be aiming for. Whether designed for tourists or travelers, this is the level of comfort all rail passengers should expect and demand. OBB's Nightjet is very close to this, if only they'd add a restaurant car!
Now all I need is Rome to Paris, Rome to Berlin, Rome to Copenhagen or Rome to Budapest. ❤🇦🇺
And Rome to Zurich...
@@thomasfehlmann4680 And Lisbon!
@@thomasfehlmann4680 Yes, Rome to Zurich please!
This is absolutely outstanding.
Italy seems to have taken over lead in trains over other conventional big players in Europe. Their trains are not just First Class but fares also very attractive. Good Luck.
Thank you for the job well done.
5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Love the dining car. Better than a cardboard box at your seat, which is what we get here in New South Wales. And you're right about young people. When I was a volunteer on a tourist railway in Tasmania (which no longer has public passenger trains) many of the younger people had never been on a train in their life. They were really excited.
The lack of functional public railways, that are not tourist trains on Tasmania terrifies me ngl
Hello, Thailand 🇹🇭 train are also well organise for dining. You can see @Travel.Highlights and for train fun @Travel-by-Train 🍒🍒🍒 Enjoy
The TTI is actually some kind of joint venture between three Gruppo FS companies: Trenitalia, Mercitalia (who helps with the shunting personal, which Trenitalia lacks) and Fondazione FS, the national historic and museum vehicles operator.
For example: both D 445 hauling the train on the non-electrified part are from Fondazione FS historic fleet, and painted in original colour scheme. For the winter season, when the A/C is not needed, Fondazione FS also added a MU sleeping car from historic fleet, the only one restored in original state, painted in old TEN colours.
Now, that’s a night train I would definitely consider travelling on. All night trains should be like this. Great video Thibault, many thanks.
It's nice to see how much Treni Italiani are making amazing train experience. 🙂 Enjoy Italy
Wow! This looks like an Italian version of the Orient Express!😮
I was on this train from Syracuse (boarded in Catania) to Rome, back in March 2021... AMAZING experience!
That was excellent !!! The train was amazing and the dining car was WOW The price was great with free food...:):):)
A truly splendid train ! The dining car was outstanding, and good to see the high quality food, and service.
Thanks for showing this train. It is now on my bucket list.
What a gorgeous train! Is that a whole bottle of wine with your dinner? Wow!
Great trip. The dining experience feels luxurious, and yeah really appreciated the transformation from couchette to sleeper cabin.
I loved this train. The dining car was elegant
Many thanks for this! My wife and I have this idea of taking a night train, and this one definitely made the shortlist.
This is luxury on the rails!!
Bellissimo!! I didn’t know about this opportunity, thank you very much for showing some amazing stuff from il Bel Paese ❤
Perfect Italian experience, impressively stylish with a delay.
From the '60 till 2012 there was a seasonal (and daily during the peak weeks of the winter-summer seasons, with two trainsets running the same route) link between Rome and Calalzo with "auto al seguito" that mean you were able to load your private car on a wagon and then drive it from Calalzo to Cortina. Unfortunately the service was extremely costly for the FS to run and due to passengers numbers dropping steadly from the beginning of the millennium, they decided to suppress it. I was born in Calalzo and seeing this huge intrest and hype about my beloved Cadore railway line is great!
Wow! What a gorgeous train.
Now THIS is how you run a choo-choo!
Great food, great experience, good price.
If you assume (roughly) 65 for transportation, 80 for a hotel, 20 for dinner and 15 for breakfast, then you are already at 180. After that, you are paying 17 for the "experience" and the convenience.
THAT IS A TOTAL BARGAIN.
If this kind of service ran every day on every reasonable route in every country, people would just USE it.
This is an awesome sleeper train ride in Italy🇮🇹👍🇮🇹:)
Love it!!!! This is a proper train, unlike most cattle class provisions these days.
Wow thibault, they are certainly putting the luxury back into sleeper trains and not a bad price for the journey and your mobile hotel room 😊
Wow, watching from Florida such a beautiful train and I absolutely love the service from a dining perspective. Great job pal
The train is really delightful especially since it is not filled with old people like me.
What a fantastic sleeper train in Italy! I can't wait to take it for an unforgetable trip!
This all looks GREAT! Will have to take it... Thanks for the great video!
Amazing train. Pleasant sleeping compartment and dining car. Thank you Thibault..💚👌👍
Viva Italia!
I'm also really impressed by the quality and price - it's just a shame that these trains don't also run to Switzerland, which would be a real alternative for the Zurich - Rome flight route.
Yes! Especially now that the Gotthard Base Tunnel will be opened soon, I would really wish for connections between Zürich and Rome or Rome to Basel. Be it night trains or Frecciarossa
I would LOVE to take this train one day! Very good video! It makes me so very happy to see train travel becoming so popular in Europe! Hopefully it will spread to the United States one day!! I hope this train is a BIG success!!
I agree, that's a good deal. Delicious Italian food and a very comfortable room. It's a shame that you didn't make it all the way to the Dolomites.
I love the atmosphere of sleeper trains.
The wagons' and locomotive's livery are a tribute to another luxurious train that travelled through Italy in the 50s. It was called "Treno Azzurro" (Light-blue train), after its livery. It would travel from Milan to Naples, via Bologna, Florence and Rome. The livery was meant to celebrate Naples and its colors, light and dark blue. The train maintained this name until 1971.
Wow - this looks like night trains done right!
It is pleasing to see that Italy has woken up to travel. These trains look wonderful and worth a journey, just to enjoy the meal service as well as the couchette. As an aside, the airline Ita which rose from the ashes of Alitalia seems to be doing well also.
wow some classic railways vibes here 🤩
If you go due west from Rome, you get to the French island of Corsica. They have a modern narrow-gauge passenger train "Chemin de Fer de la Corse" that may be of interest.
Already reviewed... coming soon the channel ;)
@@SimplyRailwayLooking torwards it, any plans for some polish trains?
@@SimplyRailway When are you gonna get to China?
I'm an old nostalgic, it's true Frecciarossa (high speed) gives a good service (in some cases excellent, although, as for anything, inconveniences can happen), but would you like to put the charm of these old trains beautifully restored? Nice video, bravo.
YOUR excited? Imagine how some of us feel! This was so interesting, and I hadn't heard of this service. You just gave me another reason to return to Italy and explore a new area. Thanks, your videos are so interesting.
I love the art work that is visible when the upper bunk is up.
So nice to see the older rolling stock refurbished. The world is so focused on the latest and greatest. It may be old but nothing major was wrong within
So true!
Nice video, well documented. The train livery, anyway, is inspired more to the mithical "rapido" "Treno Azzurro" (blue train limited express) with a very pale blue instead of pearl gray on E444 and a ligher shade than the "Blu Orientale" of the E444.
As for the preserved rolling stock and the level of the restoration, please note that TTI CEO is the same Ing. Luigi Cantamessa that's the director of Fondazione FS, and you can be sure of one thing about this man, he does love FS and trains.
Sad you lost the best part of the trip, to Calalzo, but we experienced severe bad weather that caused service interruptions. And the future does not look brighter as for the weather due climate changes.
Bello! Sei stato fortunato, questa carrozza è stata ristrutturata in toto e le cabine sono molto più spaziose e comode delle care vecchie Wagon-lit.
Complimenti! 👍🏻
Nice video, I'm proud to be Italian 🇮🇹
Please try the Espresso Versilia.
Espresso Versilia stops along the most beautiful places of the Cinque Terre, Liguria. And then it goes to Pisa and in some beaches of Versilia area, Tuscany.
TTI is launching other two services: a daytime train Milan-Genova-Nice, and a night train Rome-Foggia-Bari-Lecce. They're planning other services too...
WOW. You've just taken me back to my childhood in the 80's when we used to take a sleeper train from Boulogne to Milan. We lived in London and went to Italy every August. We would drive to Dover, cross the English Channel by Hovercraft and then load the car onto the train before departing at 3pm for Milano. We would take two sleeping compartments ( 6 of us ) and open the doors in the middle to create one large salon during the day. At 7pm we would head to the dining car and have dinner whilst travelling through Paris and on our return the beds would have been made in our compartments ( 3 per side ) with proper white cotton sheets and pillowcases with SNCF embroidered logos. The toiletries in the washbasin cabinet had TEN ( Trans Euro Nuit ) logos. Breakfast was at the station bar at Milano Porta Garibaldi Station using a voucher that came with our tickets. I wish it still ran. I would favor it over air travel any day!
So after the revolutionary break throughs in rail transportation that brought us the treno Italia and the frecciarosa traveling at a speed of three hundred kilometers per hour some people have become nostalgic and are yearning for the era when these trains moved at a speed of sixty kilometers per hour that they recall as the golden era of rail. Thank you very much and enjoy your afternoon ☺️☺️
Amazing work Trenitalia
Hello from Romania.Nice video!!
I haven't seen one of your train trips for a long time ,but I think you and you brother have the best site ! I really enjoyed your trip on the "Espresso Cadore." The color of the cars reminds me of the old Italian Azuro express back in the 'Fifties ! I loved the cooked meals! Doubtless delicious ! Thanks to. you so very much !!
che spettacolo!!
That looks a lovely retro Wagons Lits style aesthetic
Great video. The train looks incredible and your compartment looks very comfortable. What a nice touch all the historic pictures are 🙂
Les Italiens sont à un autre niveau là...
Awesome bed linens & satin pillows ! And hot pink chairs in the dining car !! 👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇮🇹🚈💕💞Maybe red ? Either way,it's very lovely !! 😍
Thanks for your video. Been looking for a European Sleeper that really gets my interest and I think you've found it for me!
I love really good dining cars. Looks like one to have a cuppa while viewing the splendid European landscape.
LOVED IT! :) thank you!!
Looks like a 4-star hotel on wheels. I hope this service is a success and triggers the service of more routes across Europe.
❤ Wow. Thank you. I will take it. Kind Regards from Hamburg. Germany.
Great trip report
That's how Night Trains should look like!
Great video, thanks for sharing
Thank you.
Beautiful video.
All the best
1:04 ATTENZIONE!! TRENO IN TRANSITO AL BINARIO 1!!! ALLONTANARSI DALLA LINEA GIALLA!!!! 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🤌🔥🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🤌🤌🔥🗣️🔥🤌🔥🤌🔥
These stand for "Italian Touristic Trains".
Just out of curiosity, I looked up how the €192 fare compares with London to Edinburgh, a slightly further distance, on the regular Caledonian Sleeper 😴 . Seems that the regular fare is (the equivalent of) about €165, and that's for an ordinary bunk with no particular extras. So this, even though it's a luxury service, doesn't seem outrageously expensive
Would love to be on that train to anywhere. The dining experience looked fantastic. Comfort and deluxe everywhere❗️
It's great to see a true dining car back in service. 🍽 Enough with those cafe cars.
Nice Video and The Nice Night train
Looks very good !
I think you need to put out a petition to restore the paris-istanbul Orient Express no matter what. LEGO did it, hopefully you can too! (Since you do such a great job covering night trains, especially scenic ones like Califoria Zephyr)
Great video. Greetings from USA. I rode Tren Italia in 2011 Paris to Rome. I remember a six sleeper car. So you are telling me that these are refurbished and transformed to "real" sleeper cars? Nice. I have to do it again!!
Love it!
Bel convoglio 👍
Amazing! It’s like Amtrak, but even better. I hope the will be successful.
Well, good news is TTI added a new service that connects Nice with Milan. An amazingly scenic route, even though it's not a sleeper.
Taking it next week :-)
@@SimplyRailway I hope you'll enjoy it! Also, recently seen the review of the fyra you did a few years ago, I'm glad to say that it's gotten better now that's under the Frecciarossa brand. I work at the Trenitalia HST maintenance site in Milan, I can say that whilst quality is still mid, at least you won't get stuck in the toilets anymore. It's really reliable too, somehow. I know it's hard to believe 😅
Very good refurbishing "old style"
Good video Thibault
real cooked food on a train - now that's a very nice experience!
Lovely.
Ótimo retorno de viagem simplys show
Awesome ride
Awesome video!!!
Refurbished cars from Thello means that that train will never come back again, that's sure! Just one example: I live in Udine, not far from Venice, and should go to visit my wife's sister in Paris. With the good old Thello it would have been easy and comfortable; instead, I should leave in the morning at 6 o'clock and arrive in Paris after 19, with change in Milan and in Zurich or Basel. Night option could be Udine-Stuttgart in nightjet, then Stuttgart-Paris in TGV, but for a huge price....😩
This looks fantastic and is an amazing deal!! However, I'm worried if this is going to be feasible in the long run, knowing how much it costs to run a train with that much staff offering such high level. Either it's just low pricing to attract people right now or it must be heavily subsidized. Either way, I hope they'll be able to keep this up...
Am I right in thinking that Interrail and Eurail are NOT valid on Treni Turistici?
That's something to check.
As an older person I would have liked to see a shower in-suite sleeper as part of the refurbishment. The restaurant car with its magnificent selections (as you say: "over the top") was impressive. To compare amenities with new sleeper train equipment from Austria may not seem fair. Nevertheless, I would be more inclined to choose the Trenitalia sleeper version with dining than a new sleeping compartment with a "feet first" entry (Siemens) and "breakfast-in-a-box" served at bedside. But the service may be more attractive to this (not Italian) traveler if the route included two major terminals, say: Rome to Vienna.
Nice video🎉
I cant belive it u came to Calalzo 😂
Edit: it's a shame u couldn't finish the trip, after Vittorio Veneto the views get pretty nice for the last 80 km
Let's hope this train is succeful it looks really nice
I don't speak Italian and just assumed for a long time that it was named as such because it's a terminus. However the last time I was at Roma Termini I crossed the square in front of it to the museum at what was once a Roman bath complex, the Terme di Diocleziano. I then figured out where the station is named after 😊.
In the USA, Pullman cars used to have blue lights. With them you could see out the window at night without being blinded by the reflection. The very last batch of Amtrak sleepers, that I'm aware of , restored them.
there was/is a new line going from Liege,Belgium to Achen,Germany via Maastricht,Netherlands
Hernan cinema loves this train