Join me on my journey from Beijing to Xian travelling my first time on the overnight sleeper train. I will also show you what it's like and also what you should pack! If you like this video then check out some of my other videos about China: th-cam.com/video/kEELmrMKwpQ/w-d-xo.html If you are thinking about moving to China then this video is for you: th-cam.com/video/QxPKTLu15qM/w-d-xo.html Don't forget to hit that subscribe button for more China and travel-related content: th-cam.com/users/nicofilms
Nice vlog 👍 It was nice to see our sweet neighbour china through your eyes. Wish to visit their in future. Keep it up and love to all our Chinese brothers from India.
hahaha yeah, the hard sleeper was ok for a few hours but the soft is much better although I did find it a bit weird sleeping on a train. Where have you guys taken the overnight train too?
@@Nicofilms We've traveled from Shaoxing all the way to Shenyang. We moved houses that way, lol. I personally traveled from Beijing to Shaoxing when I first arrived in China.
P.S. The train service Z19/20 is one of the most genuine Z-series train, as identified with no intermediate stops, no change of locomotives and no hard-seat (YZ) coaches. At some point, China Railways decided to upgrade a bunch of T-series into Z-series, yet retaining a bunch of stops...
If anyone is wondering, The intro song is called ‘Lemon Wedge in the sky’ by Sarah the instrumentalist. I heard that song a lot of times and I was surprised when I heard it 😂
Thank you I'm pleased you liked it and found it interesting. I've never either it was a really interesting experience certainly one you have to do if you come to China!
I took one from Kunming to Dali in 2015, it was old cause the toilets were squat ones. There were 6 beds aaaaaand the music at 7 am to wake us up was unforgettable!
I’ve never been on a overnight train, I’m traveling from Huizhou to Nanjing tomorrow. (24 hours) I didn’t know what to expect. This video was super helpful, thanks for sharing!
The train culture has changed a lot compared to the days of the past. Because of the long travel, people will communicate more at that time, so the train compartment becomes a very magical place, and there will be many interesting people and stories. Nowadays, people are immersed in their mobile phones most of the time, and it is hard to tell which lifestyle is better.
Aw that is really sad I would love this and I totally understand what you mean. I love speaking to other people and hearing stories when I travel. I have noticed this more in China than any other country that people are glued to their phone, maybe if I went back to UK it would be the same now as technology is taking over. I think it is good to enjoy the world around you not just be on your phone.
Nico, you've got to try the luxury soft sleeper car (RW19T) which is also available on your train (Z19/Z20). There are only 2 beds per room and you get private toilet, wardrop, sofa in your room
The difference between sleeper in India and China is crazy hahah! I remember I did like a 27 hour sleeper from Shanghai Tu guiling? I think ..can't remember but you've brought me back ! Love your journalistic style :)
Oh really?? I haven't been to India so I can't compare but I enjoyed my experience here in China for sure! haha thanks, I'm pleased I brought back some memories for you!
Sleeper trains doesn’t necessarily equal to slow trains, your train start with a Z which means it’s pretty much a non stop through train (maybe it stops once or twice). And T is slower than Z, K is slower than T, the ones that have no letters are the actual slow trains. Which sometimes are type 22 carriages, the really old ones and doesn’t go above 100 km/h.
I think for a long haul train like this, there should be a restaurant in one of the compartments. Basically overnight sleeper trains in China are very similar to those in Europe, only much cheaper, more crowded and much longer journeys.
Thanx for this informative video. I'm soon travelling to Bijing, and although it will be a short visit I am planning to squeeze in a trip to the terracotta army. Travelling back and forth with a sleeper train would be a good and relatively cheap option I suppose.
After graduate from university, I swear i would not took this green train again,it is so terrible. but now i think take green train is more relax than flights
haha yeah I think so too, flights are much more stressful then travelling by train in China. I think this video has made a lot of people quite nostalgic about these trains, thanks for watching!
So glad I found your channel! Your videos are super cool!! I’m looking into moving to China in about a year and a half, as I’m finishing up my degree and my TEFL certificate this year!
Hi Moe welcome, I'm so pleased you found it too. That's a great plan and you won't regret it, moving to China to teach was one of the best decisionswe made, we love it here. Hopefully it will be a great resource for you coming as I have loads of videos from all of China.
I took a 16-18 hour train ride on a hard sleeper and I actually slept pretty well (probably because I had been sleep deprived for the past month). I highly recommend to take the bottom birth and to make sure you have power banks to charge your phone since a lot of people have to share the outlet (2-3 outlets per carriage and they aren't guaranteed to work).
Yes I do too although everyone sits on the bottom bunk if you are on it. I have been on the middle and top and found the top really hard to get into haha
Try sleepers in CRH if you get a chance. It’s so much smoother and quieter. But surely more expensive, too. But it might be a bit too smooth that you just sleep in without feeling a thing. Lol. Not sure whether it is a good topic of making video.
Oh yeah I would love to compare it to the High speed sleeper most of the journeys I have taken this hasn't been an option so I'm not sure where the High speed sleeper actually goes. Maybe I should find out and see if I can do a journey, like you say though its probably more expensive :(
I’ve just got back from a 19 hour soft sleeper ride to Shanghai from Chongqing. Unfortunately there were 6 people in my four-bunk “room”! The two extras were very young kids. It was a bit of a nightmare to say the least!
I have traveled on hard seat class with OPEN six bunks to Yichang but my fellow passengers were so nice and friendly it was almost a privilege. Of course what might help is my wife (now OZZIE) was born in Shanghai and grew up in Beijing. I have traveled long haul Qingdao to Xian by bullet train, Beijing to Shanghai bullet train & Beijing to Qingdao to mention a few but with my wife and having some one who speaks mandarin and dialects is a boon. Plus it is interesting to other travelers who are always interested in my Beijing wife married to a English westerner also now living permanently in OZ. Please type "templemain" on You tube search for more info.
There is a very good channel about train in china which is China Diy travel - China train, you have also the the new capsule soft sleeper on some major routes and they look amazing ! But yeah soft sleeper are also nice great video ! This brings me memmories because I actually used the soft sleeper in 2012 on the exact same itinerary, it loooks exactly the same haha except for the train station I guess.
Oh cool I will take a look! Yeah, I saw something about that capsule soft sleeper that looks really nice I would like to do that journey! haha oh really? Yeah, I imagine the train station has probably been upgraded slightly. That's cool I guess its quite a popular route with Xian being so close to Beijing.
My first experience on a slow train from Zhanjiakou in Hebei Province to Nanjing was hell. 15hrs journey on a hard sleeper 😭😭😭. It's a journey I don't want to embark on again. I later had a good one from Nanjing to Shenyang. After that, all my domestic travels within China were by flight
Hey Nico,You should try the high-speed sleeper train from Beijing to Zhuhai, a lovely small Cantonese city right next to Macau. You can visit Macau and Hong Kong at the same time since they're so close. You can use the world's longest bridge, the HongKong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge to travel between HK and Zhuhai.
Oh thanks for the tips and information I will have a look! I've taken a high-speed train before but not that far. I would really like to go on the high-speed sleeper train to see what that is like in comparison.
P.S. The train service Z19/20 is one of the earliest Z-service sleeper trains, and maintains to be nonstop from Beijing to Xi'an. You won't see nonstop Z services now...
@@cyrush8023 Yeah I bet it was really fun as a kid I would love that! I didn't even realise there were overnight trains until I came to China but I recently found an article with some in Europe so I might have to do a few to compare!
I do prefer the overnight train. When I was in Beijing, sometimes I had business trip to Shanghai, and taking the overnight train means saving half day time and I could start working next morning and meet more clients. BTW,the bumping voice is ok for me, and it is extremely quiet in the night.
Nico Thank you for your reply, btw do you and your husband are willing to make videos for business purposes? I really admire the quality and editing of your videos.
@@benjaminlee8585 Thank you Benjamin that's very kind. We sure do! Here is our website, feel free to get in touch if you have a project in mind and we can discuss further www.squarepegmedia.co
lovely video and lovely silver hair~~thank you for your video, which reminds me of my nights spent on the train, almost 10 years ago...my hometown is some little city in Shandong Province and my university is located in Guangzhou, so I was travelling between Qingdao and Guangzhou for about 30 times as a student in 5 years...It was a 30-hour journey! Now I live in Beijing so I can get to Qingdao in 5 hours by HSR. (And of course nowadays I have enough money to take a plane if travelling for some other long distance.) The old days were so simple, so pure, and they are gone forever.
Thank you and thank you for watching I am so pleased I can bring back some fun memories for you. I much prefer taking the train here in China it such a nice experience.
Another great video Nico. Looks decently comfortable. We also haven’t tried a sleeper train before. Might be trying it out here in Vietnam. Great video, super informative 👌🏻❤️
i prefer sleep over train when traveling for around 800-1200 km trips. much better than planes and you can go straight to work if needed with full energy after a sleep...compare to a 3 hour plane trip including the wait time and flying time. and its much cheaper
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Hahah, that's awesome! It brings back good memories watching this. I did my first sleeper train from Beijing to Xi'an too, about 1 year ago, and it was pretty much the same. I slept pretty well, though. But I had just gotten off a 11-hour flight from San Francisco to Beijing, (preceded by a 6-hour flight from Orlando to SF) so I probably would have slept well regardless. Great video!
hahaha yeah I imagine you would have slept well anywhere. It made me feel a little travel sick but I really enjoyed the experience. I think it's definitely something you have to try if you come to China.
haha it is! This isn't even the nicest trains either, the bullet trains here in China a much better than any flight I have been on for sure! I believe there was but I didn't go to it as I had already eaten. As it shows you there was a smaller food trolley that came around also.
it was 20 years ago. spring Festival. the biggest immigration on this planet. since then we never do that. things got better day by day. today if you climb from the window. you will get caught
I REALLY want to try them, you read my mind. I was trying to research yesterday where they travel to but I just couldn't find the information. On the internet it said Beijing to Shanghai but when I put the train number in it didn't exist on Trip.com!
This journey is 5 hours by bullet train and about 13 hours on the overnight train. The slow train is a bit cheaper but not much but it mainly travels overnight which means you get on sleep and wake up in your destination. Where as the bullet train wastes the day time so it really depends on what is more convenient time wise.
Hi! It was the Lonely Planet China guide, it is a smaller version of there massive one so a bit more portable whilst travelling. Here is a link amzn.to/2Io7ABZ
How many snorers were in your cabin? I did Nanjing to Xian in 2005 & hell it was hell, that is a common toilet in China - nobody cleans them - I asked people why & the reply was - its a public space why should i care for it - Thank god China is getting better and better year by year
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Great video Nico! But I really wanted to know the ticket price for hard sleeper, soft sleeper and the deluxe coach. That would also make the comparison easier 🙈
Thank you Simran. Well, it really depends on where you go and the different times as the prices vary from place to place. I have a video coming out soon which compares the sleeper train to the bullet train which has more information about prices which I found on the website Trip.com. This would be the best place to look to compare.
Nice vlog 👍 It was nice to see our sweet neighbour china through your eyes. Wish to visit their in future. Keep it up and love to all our Chinese brothers from India.
I wish that these videos weren't so self-promoting; Look At Me Just try to take yourself out of your video and instead try to focus on the various details of the train!
We used to call these “greenskin carts 绿皮车”, haven’t had a ride in one for many years now! I remember hating it when I was a kid, but now I oddly really miss it
Awww that's so cute I'm so pleased to bring you back some nostalgia. I think I would of loved it as a kid, what an adventure sleeping on a train! You should give it another go!
Yeah, it was a first for me but definitely something you have to try in China! It was a fun experience. Thank you that's so kind! I'm great how are you doing?
@@Nicofilms Of course, you're too beautiful, you don't have to thank me. Anyway, I'm doing good, just ready to travel, and it would be so cool to have a female friend on that sleeper train. Oh the dreams
Join me on my journey from Beijing to Xian travelling my first time on the overnight sleeper train. I will also show you what it's like and also what you should pack!
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The boutons are used for controling the TV
@@yzz969 Ahhh yes I was right! I didn't test it out though, thank you!
@Golden Eagle I need to try them all haha
@Grumpy Cat Unfortunately no, I wish I did!
Is there like a curtain or something so people can’t see you
Nice vlog 👍
It was nice to see our sweet neighbour china through your eyes.
Wish to visit their in future.
Keep it up and love to all our Chinese brothers from India.
Thank you for watching I'm pleased you enjoyed my video. Hopefully, you will get to visit soon!
Miss those classic trains. When I was in college,I take this train for 18-21hrs from Guangzhou to Hefei😅
You should go on and have another ride!
Nice train video! We love riding the trains in China and the soft sleeper is much better than the hard sleeper.
hahaha yeah, the hard sleeper was ok for a few hours but the soft is much better although I did find it a bit weird sleeping on a train. Where have you guys taken the overnight train too?
@@Nicofilms We've traveled from Shaoxing all the way to Shenyang. We moved houses that way, lol. I personally traveled from Beijing to Shaoxing when I first arrived in China.
hard sleeper in the middle is my nightmare, at that time, I was on a train from Hefei to Beijing lol
P.S. The train service Z19/20 is one of the most genuine Z-series train, as identified with no intermediate stops, no change of locomotives and no hard-seat (YZ) coaches. At some point, China Railways decided to upgrade a bunch of T-series into Z-series, yet retaining a bunch of stops...
I’m a railway enthusiast from China, this video is niiiiceeeee!
Great content! Looking forward for more videos. Lots of love & respect from Bangalore, India!
Hi, thanks for watching I'm really pleased you liked my video! I will keep them coming 😊
If anyone is wondering, The intro song is called ‘Lemon Wedge in the sky’ by Sarah the instrumentalist. I heard that song a lot of times and I was surprised when I heard it 😂
I love your videos, and this one is so informative and interesting. I have never been on such kind of train, so it attracts my curiosity.
Thank you I'm pleased you liked it and found it interesting. I've never either it was a really interesting experience certainly one you have to do if you come to China!
Excellent Video! Thumbs Up!!! I like it!!!
Thank you very much!
I took one from Kunming to Dali in 2015, it was old cause the toilets were squat ones. There were 6 beds aaaaaand the music at 7 am to wake us up was unforgettable!
I’ve never been on a overnight train, I’m traveling from Huizhou to Nanjing tomorrow. (24 hours) I didn’t know what to expect. This video was super helpful, thanks for sharing!
Oooh 24hrs that's a long time. Yeah hopefully it will help and I hope you have a good time!
And also enjoy Nanjing I used to live there!
Your channel is amazing. I love it.
Aww thank you that's so kind! :)
I love those overnight sleeper trains. Hop on the train, take a sleep, voila, I am at my destination.
haha yeah it was great! Certainly something i would do again!
The train culture has changed a lot compared to the days of the past.
Because of the long travel, people will communicate more at that time, so the train compartment becomes a very magical place, and there will be many interesting people and stories.
Nowadays, people are immersed in their mobile phones most of the time, and it is hard to tell which lifestyle is better.
Aw that is really sad I would love this and I totally understand what you mean. I love speaking to other people and hearing stories when I travel. I have noticed this more in China than any other country that people are glued to their phone, maybe if I went back to UK it would be the same now as technology is taking over. I think it is good to enjoy the world around you not just be on your phone.
We took the overnight sleeper the other way, Xian to Beijing, loved every minute.
Nico, you've got to try the luxury soft sleeper car (RW19T) which is also available on your train (Z19/Z20). There are only 2 beds per room and you get private toilet, wardrop, sofa in your room
Oooh sounds nice I would love too!
The difference between sleeper in India and China is crazy hahah! I remember I did like a 27 hour sleeper from Shanghai Tu guiling? I think ..can't remember but you've brought me back ! Love your journalistic style :)
Oh really?? I haven't been to India so I can't compare but I enjoyed my experience here in China for sure! haha thanks, I'm pleased I brought back some memories for you!
Very informative video. Thumbs up 👍👍👍👍
Thanks for leaving a comment Alex, I'm pleased you found it helpful :)
Sleeper trains doesn’t necessarily equal to slow trains, your train start with a Z which means it’s pretty much a non stop through train (maybe it stops once or twice). And T is slower than Z, K is slower than T, the ones that have no letters are the actual slow trains. Which sometimes are type 22 carriages, the really old ones and doesn’t go above 100 km/h.
I loved taking this train! I say if anyone is wondering whether to do it, then don't hesitate - go for it!
Yeah, it was a fun experience!
I think for a long haul train like this, there should be a restaurant in one of the compartments. Basically overnight sleeper trains in China are very similar to those in Europe, only much cheaper, more crowded and much longer journeys.
Thanx for this informative video. I'm soon travelling to Bijing, and although it will be a short visit I am planning to squeeze in a trip to the terracotta army. Travelling back and forth with a sleeper train would be a good and relatively cheap option I suppose.
After graduate from university, I swear i would not took this green train again,it is so terrible. but now i think take green train is more relax than flights
haha yeah I think so too, flights are much more stressful then travelling by train in China. I think this video has made a lot of people quite nostalgic about these trains, thanks for watching!
It was so loving. Nice to see.
Thank you for watching I'm pleased you liked it!
So glad I found your channel! Your videos are super cool!! I’m looking into moving to China in about a year and a half, as I’m finishing up my degree and my TEFL certificate this year!
Hi Moe welcome, I'm so pleased you found it too. That's a great plan and you won't regret it, moving to China to teach was one of the best decisionswe made, we love it here. Hopefully it will be a great resource for you coming as I have loads of videos from all of China.
welcome to China.
Can tell you were slightly tipsy towards the end of the night with your tsingtao beer in hand hahaha
hahaha thats what my mum said too, but honestly I wasn't I was just excited haha
Hi Nico, like your vlogs👍🏻
I have been traveled the same ... Beijing to Xi'An by slow train. slept a night.
Great! Did you like the sleeper train?
@@Nicofilms yes it's save time actually . sleep a night morning time reach .. also was my first time to Xi'An
@Indie Dev yes
@Indie Dev Hahahahaha I know what you really mean. I don't mind.
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@@mwangi6885 Yes its a great way to travel and Xian is amazing I loved the food!
I took a 16-18 hour train ride on a hard sleeper and I actually slept pretty well (probably because I had been sleep deprived for the past month). I highly recommend to take the bottom birth and to make sure you have power banks to charge your phone since a lot of people have to share the outlet (2-3 outlets per carriage and they aren't guaranteed to work).
Yes I do too although everyone sits on the bottom bunk if you are on it. I have been on the middle and top and found the top really hard to get into haha
Try sleepers in CRH if you get a chance. It’s so much smoother and quieter. But surely more expensive, too. But it might be a bit too smooth that you just sleep in without feeling a thing. Lol. Not sure whether it is a good topic of making video.
Oh yeah I would love to compare it to the High speed sleeper most of the journeys I have taken this hasn't been an option so I'm not sure where the High speed sleeper actually goes. Maybe I should find out and see if I can do a journey, like you say though its probably more expensive :(
Nico You may try the one travels from Beijing to Shanghai or Beijing to Guangzhou
@@williamzacalias5433 Thank you! I will have a look :)
I am college student,studying from zhejiang to guangxi,1500 kilometers long,takes 19 hours,so l also took the night train.
Its such a great invention and so convenient!
I’ve just got back from a 19 hour soft sleeper ride to Shanghai from Chongqing. Unfortunately there were 6 people in my four-bunk “room”! The two extras were very young kids. It was a bit of a nightmare to say the least!
Oh no I can imagine that was HARD, ouch! Certainly an experience you will never forget.
I have traveled on hard seat class with OPEN six bunks to Yichang but my fellow passengers were so nice and friendly it was almost a privilege. Of course what might help is my wife (now OZZIE) was born in Shanghai and grew up in Beijing. I have traveled long haul Qingdao to Xian by bullet train, Beijing to Shanghai bullet train & Beijing to Qingdao to mention a few but with my wife and having some one who speaks mandarin and dialects is a boon. Plus it is interesting to other travelers who are always interested in my Beijing wife married to a English westerner also now living permanently in OZ. Please type "templemain" on You tube search for more info.
i thought i missed this one...you are a sleeping beauty on this vide...excellent..!
hahaha thank you!
2:10 So anxious to listen to you when the train is about to leave!
hahaha we had like 20 minutes it was ok.
i usually take a short walk outside during the stops...buy a bit of food, etc
Good idea! Just make sure you don't miss getting back on haha
Great contents, loved it
Thank you for watching!
Are charging ports available for mobile charging etc
There is a very good channel about train in china which is China Diy travel - China train, you have also the the new capsule soft sleeper on some major routes and they look amazing ! But yeah soft sleeper are also nice great video ! This brings me memmories because I actually used the soft sleeper in 2012 on the exact same itinerary, it loooks exactly the same haha except for the train station I guess.
Oh cool I will take a look! Yeah, I saw something about that capsule soft sleeper that looks really nice I would like to do that journey! haha oh really? Yeah, I imagine the train station has probably been upgraded slightly. That's cool I guess its quite a popular route with Xian being so close to Beijing.
啊，这种卧铺车厕所正式硬伤啊。毕竟有些车要连续开好几天呢。要是干净点就好了。
I agree, it was unfortunately bad timing when we filmed. They did clean it for the morning which was lucky!
You really had a great train. Back in 2013 it was terrible. Though it was fun to experience
My first experience on a slow train from Zhanjiakou in Hebei Province to Nanjing was hell. 15hrs journey on a hard sleeper 😭😭😭. It's a journey I don't want to embark on again. I later had a good one from Nanjing to Shenyang. After that, all my domestic travels within China were by flight
What's the book you were reading?
Very good video
Thank you for watching, I'm pleased you liked it!
@@Nicofilms I will take soft sleep train in two weeks, D type train from Chengdu to Nanjing. 10 hours day time though. Highly anticipated
@@patzorro7104 How exciting, it was a cool experience, I hope you enjoy it!
Hey Nico,You should try the high-speed sleeper train from Beijing to Zhuhai, a lovely small Cantonese city right next to Macau. You can visit Macau and Hong Kong at the same time since they're so close. You can use the world's longest bridge, the HongKong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge to travel between HK and Zhuhai.
Oh thanks for the tips and information I will have a look! I've taken a high-speed train before but not that far. I would really like to go on the high-speed sleeper train to see what that is like in comparison.
P.S. The train service Z19/20 is one of the earliest Z-service sleeper trains, and maintains to be nonstop from Beijing to Xi'an. You won't see nonstop Z services now...
When I was a child, like 10 yrs ago, I took the EXACTLY SAME train from Beijing to Xi’an w/ my parents🤣
hahaha is that the only time you have used it? It was an interesting experience, did you like it?
Nico there was no bullet trains for Xian back then so I did it twice. It was definitely interesting for a kid to sleep overnight on train😂
@@cyrush8023 Yeah I bet it was really fun as a kid I would love that! I didn't even realise there were overnight trains until I came to China but I recently found an article with some in Europe so I might have to do a few to compare!
Nico 🤗😃
I do prefer the overnight train. When I was in Beijing, sometimes I had business trip to Shanghai, and taking the overnight train means saving half day time and I could start working next morning and meet more clients. BTW,the bumping voice is ok for me, and it is extremely quiet in the night.
Yeah Beijing is quite far from places so I think it works really well doing the overnight train.
Nico Thank you for your reply, btw do you and your husband are willing to make videos for business purposes? I really admire the quality and editing of your videos.
@@benjaminlee8585 Thank you Benjamin that's very kind. We sure do! Here is our website, feel free to get in touch if you have a project in mind and we can discuss further www.squarepegmedia.co
Beautiful
Thank you for watching!
@@Nicofilms welcome, I want to travel in China by train that's why watching this video
@@Tararsupport Great! You should, the trains in China are really great, better than most airplanes I have been on!
lovely video and lovely silver hair~~thank you for your video, which reminds me of my nights spent on the train, almost 10 years ago...my hometown is some little city in Shandong Province and my university is located in Guangzhou, so I was travelling between Qingdao and Guangzhou for about 30 times as a student in 5 years...It was a 30-hour journey!
Now I live in Beijing so I can get to Qingdao in 5 hours by HSR. (And of course nowadays I have enough money to take a plane if travelling for some other long distance.) The old days were so simple, so pure, and they are gone forever.
Thank you and thank you for watching I am so pleased I can bring back some fun memories for you. I much prefer taking the train here in China it such a nice experience.
Did you sleep alone In that little room? Did you share it?
We travelled 2nd class so there are 4 people in each room
How much or how large baggage can you take for soft sleeper? Me and the wife are traveling tomorrow and have 4 large bags
There isn't really a limit but you might struggle to fit it in the carriage as there isn't a lot of space. Good luck!
Did you share the compartment with a stranger, a Chinese man???
When I was still in university, I took trains like this from home to uni, and it took 2 days. Nowadays, it is only half day for high speed train.
It's so crazy how fast the high speed trains go! Where did you have to travel to and from?
you really deserve more.subscribers
Aw, thank you that is so kind! Please feel free to share far and wide and help me get more haha
Nico Sure, I will let my friends know your channel.
@@zhenghe722 Thank you for your support, you are the best!! I'm so happy you like my videos :)
Really liked your accent love from india
Thats so kind, thanks for watching!
Another great video Nico. Looks decently comfortable. We also haven’t tried a sleeper train before. Might be trying it out here in Vietnam. Great video, super informative 👌🏻❤️
Thank you! Yeah, it was certainly a different experience you should give it a try for sure!
i prefer sleep over train when traveling for around 800-1200 km trips. much better than planes and you can go straight to work if needed with full energy after a sleep...compare to a 3 hour plane trip including the wait time and flying time. and its much cheaper
Yes exactly! I find it much less stressful than getting a plane and chances are it won't be delayed either!
Thank you for share a true China.
No problem!
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☁😊☁☁😊Somebody did'nt flush the toilet,but even if you travel by plane,you will encounter the same story..some people do not flush the toilet..🌾🌺🌾🌾🌺🌾🌼🌾🌺🌺🌺🌺🌾🌺🌾🌺🌾🌾🌺🌾🌺🌾🐑🐑🐰🐁🤗
Hahaha yeah it wasn't great timing. It was clean in the morning though so they did clean it,it wasn't that bad the whole time!
It is not looking pleasant on the moment it was being filmed lol!
@@productguru8323 haha I think it was bad timing unfortunately, it wasn't like that the whole trip.
Good video
Thank you for watching I'm pleased you liked it!
Informative 👍👍👍
Thank you, I'm pleased you liked it!
Hahah, that's awesome! It brings back good memories watching this. I did my first sleeper train from Beijing to Xi'an too, about 1 year ago, and it was pretty much the same. I slept pretty well, though. But I had just gotten off a 11-hour flight from San Francisco to Beijing, (preceded by a 6-hour flight from Orlando to SF) so I probably would have slept well regardless. Great video!
hahaha yeah I imagine you would have slept well anywhere. It made me feel a little travel sick but I really enjoyed the experience. I think it's definitely something you have to try if you come to China.
I really enjoy watching all your videos ;)) and this one is super useful and informative ♥️✌
Aw thank you!!
友情提示，车票不要随意展示给别人甚至是公众，上面有您的个人信息！防止个人财产损失。
Thank you
Should be fine, info like your name, passport number, is partially ***ed.
Great info - similar to old sleeper trains in Spain ..
Oh cool, you have sleeper trains in Spain? We don't have them in the UK!
don't get the delux sleeper, it's way over priced and the toilet is too close to the enclosure which makes the whole enclosure smell pretty bad.
Oh thanks! Good to know!
This train look better than many aircraft I've been on. Was there a dining car on this train ?
haha it is! This isn't even the nicest trains either, the bullet trains here in China a much better than any flight I have been on for sure! I believe there was but I didn't go to it as I had already eaten. As it shows you there was a smaller food trolley that came around also.
YES
Lovely ☺️
Thank you for watching!
I miss the old days when we got into the train from the window. you can never imagine
Really??? I can't believe it haha, was it stationary?
it was 20 years ago. spring Festival. the biggest immigration on this planet. since then we never do that. things got better day by day. today if you climb from the window. you will get caught
@@jerrylee1963 haha spring festival is always crazy so I can imagine. Yeh that certainly wouldn't be possible now!
@@jerrylee1963 Today, all air-conditioned trains that windows cannot be opened.
Which part of the UK are you from?
I'm from the North East of England near Newcastle.
ever tried a 30 hours trip from Changsha to Urumqi, hard sleeper, that was really a torture.
haha no but I can imagine! I don't think I could have stayed in the hard sleeper for that long. Which bunk were you on?
why don't you try the new sleeper train?
I REALLY want to try them, you read my mind. I was trying to research yesterday where they travel to but I just couldn't find the information. On the internet it said Beijing to Shanghai but when I put the train number in it didn't exist on Trip.com!
@@Nicofilms Maybe the distance is too short for the new sleeper train. Beijing to Shanghai only takes 5 or 6 hours. You may ask at the train station.
@@user-ms7tf3wi8f That's exactly what I thought but that seems to be the only information I can find. I will have to keep looking, thank you!
Nico th-cam.com/video/ub_V5DUx58E/w-d-xo.html
I am really confused 2 hours by bullet train or 8 hours hard sleeper. The slow train is really cheap.
This journey is 5 hours by bullet train and about 13 hours on the overnight train. The slow train is a bit cheaper but not much but it mainly travels overnight which means you get on sleep and wake up in your destination. Where as the bullet train wastes the day time so it really depends on what is more convenient time wise.
Hey which was the book you showed last?
Hi! It was the Lonely Planet China guide, it is a smaller version of there massive one so a bit more portable whilst travelling. Here is a link amzn.to/2Io7ABZ
How many snorers were in your cabin? I did Nanjing to Xian in 2005 & hell it was hell, that is a common toilet in China - nobody cleans them - I asked people why & the reply was - its a public space why should i care for it - Thank god China is getting better and better year by year
To be honest it was cleaned for the morning I think we just got it at a bad time haha My ear plugs were a life saver, so luckily it wasn't too bad!
@@Nicofilms I`m in my 16th year and know for sure you got to it at normal time before it could be hidden;-D
It's not bad idea to take a sleeping train, at least I can save a hotel fee 😊
Yeah I think that is why it is so good!
The train horn is like a new fashion water torture
hahaha this comment made me lol. You are totally right that is how I felt haha. Thanks for watching, I hope you liked it.
Hi,Nico,where are you come from？ UK？
Hi Andy, yes I'm from the UK. If you watch my Q&A videos then they explain a little bit more about me and my background :)
@@Nicofilms I am Chinese, but I am in your country now.
@@hofmand5145 Oh awesome, where are you in the UK?
@@Nicofilms Which city are you from in the UK?
I'm from a place near Newcastle in the north! Where are you?
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Great video Nico! But I really wanted to know the ticket price for hard sleeper, soft sleeper and the deluxe coach. That would also make the comparison easier 🙈
Thank you Simran. Well, it really depends on where you go and the different times as the prices vary from place to place. I have a video coming out soon which compares the sleeper train to the bullet train which has more information about prices which I found on the website Trip.com. This would be the best place to look to compare.
@@Nicofilms that's great! Looking forward to that video 😄
@@simranchawla6 It will be up in a few weeks!
你好🙊
泥猴啊
Nice vlog 👍
It was nice to see our sweet neighbour china through your eyes.
Wish to visit their in future.
Keep it up and love to all our Chinese brothers from India.
The toilet looked like a crime scene.
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I wish that these videos weren't so self-promoting; Look At Me
Just try to take yourself out of your video and instead try to focus on the various details of the train!
Keep going
Thank you for commenting!
I well watch u forever don't stop
Ur welcome
@@h.101aqel2 haha thank you! I will keep them coming!
as a chiense . I even don't know they sell beer in the train. 😂😂
ltcomment - soft bed goes with western toilet
Did you REALLLYYY have to show the inside of the western-style toilet, especially without flushing it first?????
Love your hair color
Aww thank you!
is there no shower?
Nope no shower, we went straight to our hotel then had one there, haha
We used to call these “greenskin carts 绿皮车”, haven’t had a ride in one for many years now! I remember hating it when I was a kid, but now I oddly really miss it
Awww that's so cute I'm so pleased to bring you back some nostalgia. I think I would of loved it as a kid, what an adventure sleeping on a train! You should give it another go!
现在把25G 25T这些新车全刷绿了，就是以前的蓝色和红色的。比小时候的绿皮车强多啦，那时候是有点可怕。
广州到北京动车夜班车不错，就是贵
这不是绿皮车，不要误导外国友人，人家的票面清清楚楚写得Z字头，这是直达快速
You have a very approachable personality. Wish I could book the same cabin with you I am sure we can strike an interest conversation.😂😂
haha thank you very much!
超喜欢小白毛 哈哈哈哈哈
what's wrong with the BGM? seems like your battery will run out soonly. lol
hahaha maybe it's your computer ;p
Jajajajja omg , "looking nice and tasty" defss... What a cabbage was laid there
hahahaaha yeah that's the best way I could describe it. To be fair it wasn't like that the whole journey I think it was just bad timing! haha
Ooooh, a sleeper train? That sounds cool, by the way, how are you doing Nico? Furthermore, your platinum blonde hair is breathtaking, I love it.
Yeah, it was a first for me but definitely something you have to try in China! It was a fun experience. Thank you that's so kind! I'm great how are you doing?
@@Nicofilms Of course, you're too beautiful, you don't have to thank me. Anyway, I'm doing good, just ready to travel, and it would be so cool to have a female friend on that sleeper train. Oh the dreams
I'm thinking to myself, "why don't we have that in America?" Haha
@@zeldamachina6305 Yeah America is so big it would certainly be a good thing to travel on! It's convenient and saves you a night in a hotel!
@@Nicofilms See, that's why you're so amazing Nico, you understand perfectly. It shows how much more advanced Asia is.
你可以试试硬座.😃😃😃😃😃
haha I don't think I would like it.
great
Thank you!
I booked a hard sleeper 😭😫
Oh dear, how long is your journey?? They aren't too bad.
I will travel next week I booked 2weeks before
22hours
@@sharoneylove Oosh that's quite long. Well it will certainly be an experience for you!
Yes it's a slow train