TRIP REPORT | Prague to Budapest in Couchette | EuroNight Metropol Sleeper train | Czech Railways
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- I travelled from Prague to Budapest aboard Euronight Metropol sleeper train. This service is operated by České dráhy. For this journey I tried a couchette accommodation. On this route are in operation Bcmz couchettes built by Jenbacher Werke in 1981. These couchettes are now under observation due to suspicion of a design fault at the request of RegioJet, which also operated these cars.
UPDATE INFO:
- Currently there's only one couchette car operated between Prague and Budapest (instead of 2 cars).
- ČD couchettes passed stress tests in July and met the conditions.
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DETAILS:
Railway company: ČD
Train number: IC 577 / EN 477 Metropol
Category: Night train
Route: Praha hl.n. - Budapest Nyugati
Duration: 10h26m
Date: June 2024
Class: Couchette car (2nd class)
Coach / Berth: 363 / 32
Train type: Loco hauled train
Train composition:
Prague to Budapest portion: 2x Bcmz834 couchette car, 1x WLABmee823 sleeping car
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0:00 Praha hl.n. station
2:19 Train arrival
4:13 Connecting with InterCity train
5:10 Compartment tour
8:30 Journey info
9:47 Amenities
12:18 Bathroom
13:42 Train tour
17:29 Dining car
18:42 Shunting at Breclav
20:02 Good night
20:31 Morning
21:19 Breakfast
22:33 Summary
25:10 EN Metropol preview
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Both amazing cities, Praha and Budapest 😍
I agree :-)
Díky za další skvělé video. 👍
Díky za zhlédnutí :-)
A opět jako vždy chvála Péťa nezklamal 👍
Hlavní nádraží při západu slunce❤
Ano, a fotky co jsem udělal jsou ještě hezčí :-)
To by se mohla udělat videokoláž fotek (možná, když máš jich více a též z jiných míst - nevím, to jen nápad....)
Děkujeme za toto nové krásné video Trip Report mezi Prahou 🇨🇿 a Budapeští. Přátelský pozdrav z Dives Cabourg v Praze 👋👍📽️🤩
Salut Pascal! Merci beaucoup :-) Greetings from Prague :-)
Vere nice, Pete! I like sleeper trains. It is something different, a type of an adventure during night and morning breakfast and so. You know how I mean it. Thanks 😊
Thanks so much for watching and your comment! Sleeper trains are very nice alternative to flying :-)
Wonderful video ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Superb video yet again! 😍
Thanks so much! :-)
Great video! ;))
Thank you :-)
Pěkný video 👍
Díky moc!
Tyjo, moc hezké vozy a super video 🤩!
Mockrát díky :-) Ty lehátkové vozy myslím loni prošly rekonstrukcí.
Extraordinary video. I also travelled on this route, from Budapest to Prague and back, but with EuroCity Metropolitan. And the experience was great. I also travelled this year from Budapest to München by ÖBB Railjet, and i'm planning to go to Zürich next year, of course by EuroNight Kálmán Imre. Central Europe has the best trains, with very good conditions and also good services.
Many likes and subscribes!
Greetings from Romania
Thanks so much for watching! I tried all ways between Prague and Budapest, Metropolitan is also good :-) Greetings from Prague :-)
Ai folosit vagonul restaurant pe Metropolitan?
@@CalinFR speak English. Because the youtuber does not speak Romanian
@@paulalex7664 I'm good friends with Pete and he said it's ok for us to babble in our own native tongue :))
@@CalinFR sorry, I didn't know. My mistake
Coach No. 372 is 1st Class Section of the IC Train to Breclav. You probably mean No. 362 for the couchette car.
Thanks, fixed .. I have a template for descriptions and since I mostly travel in 1st class, I have car 372 written there by default :-D
Thank you for another comprehensive trip report, amazed the dining car is open so late.
Thanks so much for watching! It's a great benefit to have dining car which is open so late :-)
Looks great! Love the dining car on the Czech trains since the prices are reasonable and it's a swanky way to get fed. Haven't had a single problem free trip with the Hungarian trains though. Absolute disaster and the Hungarian passengers were absolutely awful too.
Czech dining cars offer high-quality services and are popular. I also want to try the Hungarian dining car in the future, the last time I traveled on the MÁV-START long-distance train there was no dining car.
@@PeteBrandyTake the Hungária EC, there is dining car. It runs betwen Budapest-Nyugati and Hamburg-Altona. It also stops at Prauge.
@@leventedavid8649 I plan it
@@PeteBrandy you'll be pleasantly surprised of the goodies Utaselatto offers. Prices are great too, especially on the Szamos/Tisza, Dacia and Corona trains.
Pete, what was the price you have paid for this travel in a sleeping train from Praha to Budapest? and where have you booked youre travel? over CD or Hungarian Train
Which attractions will you visit in Budapest? I recommend the Railway History Park at Tatai Road.
Maybe next time, I was only 4 hours in Budapest :-D
Sadly Regiojet took all austrian couchettes from Service because of the Accident. Honestly, i dont think the Cars were to blame from their Construction. Old Cars just didnt have Crash Norms.
I think it's about maintenance, I also don't believe it would be a construction fault. Otherwise, ČD cars are in much better condition, a year and a half ago I traveled in the same RegioJet couchette car and it was in much worse condition.
@@PeteBrandy they same sleeping cars were going to Croatia and it was really a museum on wheels
@@PeteBrandy Nebýt toho vagónu kterej se takhle zlomil u ÖBB (jakožto 4. od lokomotivy, kde se zbytku nic nestalo), tak bych i souhlasil, údržba u RJ je nic moc.
Uvidíme, jak se k tomu vyjádří ERA.
@@PeteBrandy Could be, ÖBB modernized the CD ones, (for example Air Condition) so they could be in better condition
Zajímavé oběhy souprav a vozů. 👍
A raději Ti budu psát česky (nebo slovensky), nechci tady mít někoho, kdo není v obraze, štěkat do mýho komentu. 😁
Můj maďarskej kámoš byl rád za všechny informace o rotacích souprav, mnohdy tady se bavíme o věcech, co můžou býti k dobru ostatním, a tady vstupujou trollové....
To je pravda
Poslednú dobu jazdím v týchto vozňoch dosť často a musím uznať, že tá modernizácia je skvelá. Len škoda, že nepoužívajú konfiguráciu pre 4 lehátka. Stredné a horné lehátko sú upevnené na mechanizme ktorým by sa mali dať posunúť tak aby boli tesne na sebe, vznikli by tak 4 miesta kde dolný aj horný pasažier by mali o dosť viac priestoru a bolo by to oveľa komfortnejšie. Zvyknem cestovať hlavne hore, kvôli väčšiemu súkromiu a vzhľadom k zahnutej streche by som toto fakt ocenil. Chápem, že s tým je nejaká práca, ale stevardi sú predsa vo vozňoch aj tak dopredu aby ich pripravili pre daný počet cestujúcich. Keď tam tá možnosť z technickej stránky je, príde mi to jednoducho ako lenivosť to nepoužívať, škoda.
Nevím proč je ve 4-místném uspořádání prostřední lehátko jen vyklopené šikmo nahoru .. ale co jsem se díval, tak mi přišlo že ten mechanismus je maličko rozdílný oproti původním ÖBB vozům, ptal jsem se i stevarda a říkal, že takto to má bý ve variantě T4.. ale zkusím to zjistit, samotného mě to zajímá :-)
In a 4 berth configuration, the right thing to do, would have been the middle beds to be lifted into position at their upper site and the top ones folded up completely. I've traveled on many couchettes in Europe and the staff simply ignores that configuration. If it's a 4, they simply still use the 6 configuration, leaving upper passengers with no headroom on top and less bed space on the bottom. Kinda sucks
So... if you book a berth and lock it from the inside before anyone else arrives, does this make it a private compartment?
No. A private compartment is when no one else buys a berth in the same compartment .. On less occupied trains, this is possible if you know in which car the system automatically assigning reservations and then you just need to go to the ticket office to purchase a reservation and request a specific bed in the other (less occupied) car.
That's an amazing big menu. How many people are in the dining car crew?
Depends on type od the carriage, there is usually a 3-person crew in this type of dining car..
😉😉😉😉😉🙋♂👋👋👋👋
if you wanna use just 2nd class, you have to use this train only as IC that ends in Břeclav and you have to wait to 5 morning to use another 2nd class that come from another country, if i understand it right :D ČD joke again.
What is the ridership on this train that looks almost empty. You lucked out and got a room to yourself?
The seated carriages were quite crowded (especially the open plan ones), which can also be seen in the video. The sleeping car was sold out, the other couchette car next to mine was almost full, only my car was almost empty because it was an additional car, which was then full on the way back from Budapest.
Is the restaurant fully opened during the section to Brno/Breclav? Do they actually cook you meals at 11pm?
Yes, all the way between Praha and Břeclav. I was there after 11 pm and the kitchen was opened.
@@PeteBrandy Great!
Interesting video, am curious, you usually book a room for a single person, why did you book the couchette and how did you know that you would not be sharing? I would assume that the dining car does little business during the night but does some sales in the morning. All in all a nice trip. Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching! I usually travel in a sleeper car, where it is possible to reserve an entire compartment, but this is not possible with couchette cars. Having a compartment for yourself in a couchette car is possible if you know in which car the system automatically assigning reservations and then you just need to go to the ticket office to purchase a reservation and request a specific bed in the other (less occupied) car. And I also knew in advance that they will add one extra couchette car that week that only went full in the opposite direction :-D
@@PeteBrandysmart move
Welcome to Hungary. Vítejte na Maďarsku.
Köszönöm, thank you :-)
I hate blinding bright lights in coaches.
How was the ride quality?
I think good, because this couchette has good bogies.
ahoj máš v plánu confortjet protože už vyjel já s ním jedu až o prázdninách :-DD
Ahoj, už ho mám natočený, zrovna se stříhá video :-D
Akorát je škoda, že ještě nejezdí jídelák
@@Simonsvlaky Zatím jezdí na konci soupravy klasický jídelák z Berlineru.
@@PeteBrandy aha to jsem nevěděl
@@PeteBrandy ok díky moc 😁
ČD Bcmz jsou na tom vidno líp, než ty, co má RJ. Nedávno se to i potvrdilo...
To ano, vyzkoušel jsem oba vozy a ty ČD jsou o 2 levely výše, a věřím že i technicky