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EUROPE'S BEST VALUE FIRST CLASS / REGIOJET RELAX CLASS REVIEW / INTERNATIONAL TRAIN TRIP REPORT
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Hello and welcome to another intertnational trip report on the channel!
Today we'll be reviewing open-access operator RegioJet on their Prage-Budapest route hauled by a Siemens Vectron electric loco. We'll be travelling between Vienna Hbf and Budapest Déli on a service which is running around 1 hour late. Enjoy the video!
*PLEASE NOTE* At the time of filming all travel was permitted and has been carried out in full compliance with the local restrictions.
Date of Filming: 12/8/20
Camera: GoPro Hero 7 Black
Operator: RegioJet
Departure: Wien / Vienna Hbf, Austria
Arrival: Budapest Déli, Hungary
Cost: €19 (Relax Class)
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Great video as always and Indeed, RegioJet does provide excellent catering service, but I think they should also provide LCD screens on first-class too. And I really like how European countries are interlinked with each other through trains and it certainly, makes travelling easy.
Thanks Rahill! I expect it would be quite costly to retrofit screens which is why they offer the content through an online portal instead. Yeah moving around Europe by train is super easy 😊🙏🏻
@@NonstopEurotrip oh, I see
appreciate the little bits of info on other towns and cities as the train goes by.
You're welcome Darren 🙏🏻
Excellent video..would love to travel to Europe and experience their trains .but for various reasons I can't, so this is the next best thing.look forward to the next one
You're very welcome Howard ☺️
Great trip with regiojet love the different classes available and the beauty of Vienna and budapest
Both amazing cities ☺️
@@NonstopEurotrip some of Europe's most beautiful
This fabulous train station looks nothing like the tired old building I encountered when I rode train from Budapest to Vienna in 2009.
Quite amazing isn't it!
In July 2019 i travelled by Regiojet from Bratislavia to Prague. The "only" availible ticket was i 1:st class "Business" - Yes , a 4 seat compartment - but it was well worth the money going through the pastoral land of Moravia (Mähren)
What did you think to the 4seat compartments?
@@NonstopEurotrip Real 1:st class experience with excellent service ! Maybe the legroom could be larger... And I'm used to lighter more scnadinavian style light grey-scale fittings. The brownish style seems a bit old to me. E.g finalcall.travel/se/sj-x2000-far-pris-for-deras-nya-inredning/
Great vid! One little correction though: ÖBB does no longer own ICE trainsets, all were sold back to DB. Greetings from Austria!
Good gen!
I decided to do the Regiojet thing before I watched this video, only thought was whether to slum it or pay a bit extra to access the food and drink. Fortunately the chocolate cheesecake just made up my mind! Great value train, I shall look forward to sharing my experience in a couple of weeks time 👍
Oh god what a terrible thumbnail, I must change it 😂
That is a great product and I'm amazed a private operator can run at those prices and still turn a profit.
Brilliant isn't it ☺️
its our Czech gold!!!
Its an eaysy business model - best services on the market for a cheap price - that means its (before Covid) sold out in peaks and very full in non-peak times and days - and not to let the engines to chill out...
- free newspapers and magazines
- free hot drinks in non limited measures
- stward(ess) on board for every wagon in train or for every coach with dekivery to your seat (no low-cost class in trains)
- free wifi anywhere
- free online enteratiment - movie, music, games..
- power sockets in trains and busses - as a 1st one in Europe!!!!
- very friemdly and very helpfull staff!!!
...... and it works!
The model also reflects the demand - if it is sold out befofore departue - they opperativelly add another wagon(s) to satisfy the demand . so you alwas get a seat - all you need to do is keep on checking the web page to get your online ticket
If their bus is sold out more hours before departure - they add one more bus for the exact same departure time.
The service is heavily subsidized by Czech Republic because they offer student and other groups, discounted rates. In fact, this is why their technically First Class is named “Relax” as First wouldn’t qualify for subsidies.
@@afcgeo882 YOU ARE WRONG ! This is an open acces operator that makes the rail business on its own risk - doest NOT get any subsidies from goverment like any other including the national one! Its according the EU rulles! Trains in the Czech republic have been havily used because of tradition and because of the biggest track network density per 100 sq miles in the whole EU. Regiojet bussiness model is very easy - they offer the best european train on board services for the cheapest possible price - and it really works!!! Thats why this company has been so succcesfull and has been expanding all over Central Europe - it has 4 travel classes - thats the reason why can offer for example connection between Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary since 9 EURO ONLY without any promotion - (in Low Cost class) (Low Cost = no food and drink delivery to the seat, no (welcome) drink included in the fare = NO bottle of water/Standart/, juice or spakling wine/Relax, First/)
And regarding student and eldry discounts - its given by law and every carrier MUST provide this discounts to this "social groups" = students and eldery - and also by the law every carrier must be compensated from the sate budget to fullfill 100% of the ticket price. In general it has less than low influence on the demand - its just "politikum" - and evry country in the region has any kind of discounts like this...
Regarding the fares in CZ - they are lower because the population income is lower.
I use regioJet trains very often - they are simply amazing - I like the second lowest class Standart that divides into 2 options:
- Standart 6seat compartments and
- Standart Astra - these brand new open seat Astra coaches have very comfy leather seats and each seat has its own screen for watching movies, music, games, ordering drink and snacks with seat delivery etc.
Nice video! I'm Glad to see the Regiojet in Hungary again. The prices to Prague are more conveninent than the costs of other CD services. Greetings from Romania!
Thank you! I hope to visit Romania soon, are there any routes you would recommend?
Therehas been a plan to set up a new RegioJet train line Munich, DE - Vienna, AT - Budapest, HU - Bucharest, RO (to Romania not all the trains) Expected since 12/2023
To Do List for 2022 for regioJet is to expand within Poland and set up connection Warsaw, PL - Berlin, DE, - Amsterdam, NL - Ostende, NL
RegioJet at this moment ovnes 300 wagons
- 200 of them has been in opperation
- 100 has been waiting for modernisation (the pink ones) fo the polish expansion
- they plan to buy another 100 wagons
Ovnes 15 brand new locos Alstom Traxx MS3
- ovnes some very new Traxx MS2 - first ovner
- ovnes older Škoda locos - second hand
- leas a fleet of Siemens Vectron locos - mostly fom ELL - European Locomotive Leasing
Great video! I took the same train 4 days before your journey, but from Prague. Also the set was the same, I remember the Relax class coach with wheel flat spots and buzz from onboard PA system :-D I like their onboard service, which is great and their prices are very nice, btw. this year they added some hot meals to the menu :-) Greetings from Prague!
Wow Pete that's really freaky 😎 Brilliant trains 😍 Greetings from Kyiv 😂🇺🇦
very good video!
Thank you 🙏🏻
Great vieo. I really enjoyed watching it!
😍😍😍
Planning a trip from Vienna to Budapest and your video has made me decide on the mode of transport. Thanks
Good choice! 😃
At least you weren't on an LNER Azuma this week, like nearly every other channel.. 🤣
That's a fantastic high value, low cost service - on a proper train too with catering!
Toilet comment: did you check to see if they differed between the 4 classes? Surely you get a better class of toilet paper in business class? 🤣🤣
Maybe you could do a trip report cruising down the Danube from Vienna to Budapest...
Hey Mark. You won't find an Azuma on this channel, or any Class 80x unless I get very desperate 😂 The toilets on RJ are slightly different, but not enough to warrant 2 toilets times lol. I have actually been thinking about doing a Danube River cruise, next year probably ☺️👍🏻
Very interesting. Will consider this when next doing Budapest-Vienna (whenever that might be!)
Or Prague-Vienna or internal Czech routes ☺️
Good and nice 😉👍
Thanks 👍🏻
Great train toilet reviews. Very essential for tourism. You can make your videos even more valuable by flushing every toilet like you test every sink !!
I have started doing this 😂😂😂
Great video !!
Thanks!
Excellent video and information. Thinking of doing this route as part of interailing next year.
Have fun 👋🏻😊
Beautiful video !!! 🔝👍🏻👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip 👍🏻🤗
the 2nd class look like a great price for the big leg room, and i had good experiencies with the seats. ( i can fall asleep in minutes in them)
And i find very affordable the menü prices. (our local markets use the same prices)
Absolutely agree ☺️
To me the RegioJet cars are pimped up cars from former express trains (called D-Zug with 6 seats compartments) to which ÖBB intruduced first saloon cars in its international relations (Vienna to Amsterdam/Oostemde). Even the 4 seats compartments remember me to old D-Zug of former Deutsche Bundesbahn. The compartments cars were interational standard in East and West.
- Cheers, Heinz
Notabene: Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the railway wagons smelled differently from East and West, e.g. the trains of the DR (GDR) or the CSD (CSSR), which were also used on West German territory. The reason for the strange smell are plasticizers in the plastic. To cover this up, you have to add small amounts of vanillin. Vanillin has the property of covering up other smells below its perception limit, means you don't smell Vanillin but your nose is blocked to other smells. Vannilin is produced synthetically. (More than 99% of production is used to mask the smell of plasticizers.) No vanilin was used or produced for these purposes in the Eastern Bloc regions. So formerly the railroad cars smelled different.
Ah that's very interesting Heinz! I do believe most of the RJ stock is old DB?
@@NonstopEurotrip - I think. When DB introduced train kind "Intercity" they have a lot of express cars running Vmax 160 km/h but not 200 (intercity). Therefore DB sold many of old cars and let built new.
@@NonstopEurotrip Actually, allot of Regiojet is ex. ÖBB Waggons, from which its siblings still drive as IC, EC and NJ Waggons to this date!
Very nice!😎👍
I'm looking forward my trip in Business class from Vienna to Praha beginning of September😜
Enjoy! 😍
Like you I really prefer loco-hauled trains. They don’t have to be slow. Railjet are pointing the way. Just need the track to be able to realise those 230 km/h top speeds. Conventional track can be modified to allow those speeds as in the line from Berlin to Hamburg.
Railjets are amazing 😍
Well made and enjoyable
Thank you 🙏🏻
Cool trip dude...
Thanks 👍🏻
That's right. Wien (Vienna) Hauptbahnhof is a wonderful railway station. Das stimmt. Wien Hauptbahnhof ist ein herrlicher Bahnhof. C'est exacte. Vienne Hauptbahnhof est une gare magnifique.
Absolutely 😍
Absolut 😍
Absolument 😍
I like the 2+1 seating in low cost coach.
Me too, I was surprised!
Great Video!!! Great train
Thank you Albert! 😃
Nice vid! However Dylan has now thrown the gauntlet down by adding voiceover to his latest… c’mon Non Stop. Audio is the way to go! 😌👍🏻
Sorry, absolutely not! I've had so many comments and DMs asking me not to do this. Also, don't get too excited for any more Dylan vlogs anytime soon 😂
Great vlog
Thanks 👍🏻
I live in Gyor and travel this route many times! using MAV,OBB and regio jet
😍😍😍
Fantastic Wien Hauptbahnhof, awesome Architectural Transport project. 19 Euros, that's really a very good price for such a journey... 8 days in Budapest...!! Would you share with us your video experiences there? That snack has a very good price indeed...!
Yes, fantastic station! And a great value trip too! I don't really do city videos but a lot of what I did in Budapest is already on the channel in other videos 🤗😄
@@NonstopEurotrip Everything is great anyway, Budapest Station is a good start for another rail video.
WoW! Austria is so progressive. OBB even owns ICE train sets!
Yep!
Standard or Low class? If you have in Low class this pink seats (old Frist class under Deutsche Bundesbahn), take them, much more space for you then in Standard class, you can survive without bottle of water, coffee and newspapers (CZ only), infotainment is not something what do you need today with mobile tariffs (plus you have Wi-Fi on board anyway), 10 years ago, for sure this was a plus, but today...
I agree the low cost 2+1 seats are good!
Interesting video. European trains are really quite good.😀😀
They are, aren't they? 😁
@@NonstopEurotrip Oh yes!!!
A vectron hauled regiojet you got lucky.
Whenever I've seen one on this route, it's always been a vectron?
Hi those fares are fantastic compared to fares on British Trains
Not bad are they? 😃
Hello, and thanks for one more exciting report. Am I to understand that RegioJet have resumed their Bp.-Vienna service after a long "corona" suspension?
I believe so, yes!
this train is very nice.
Not bad is it 🙂
ÖBB Departure screens are so small
I find them ok 🤷🏻♂️
Thank you for sharing with us this video. But I can see that windows cannot be opened. This would be a bit uncomfortable for me
The AC worked fine
Usually trains with AC can't have their windows opened as all the cold air would just escape and it would be a complete waste. I've noticed on Scotrail Class 158s and 334s they have sealed the previously openable windows shut since installing air conditioning.
Hey Max 👍🏻. So, as an American, not sure what “open access is”. The explanation given … “rail transport in Europe, an open-access operator is a train operating company that takes full commercial risk, running on infrastructure owned by a third party and buying paths on a chosen route and in countries where rail services run under franchises are not subject to franchising.” In simple terms does this boil down to train operators freely competing against each other for passengers/market share? Also, would love to see an ICE-T review 👍🏻
Exactly that Rob! Private companies which compete under EU competition rules with (usually) the state run operator. Like with Ouigo España. You tend to find their service and prices are always great; LeoExpress, Italo and ofc Regiojet too. 🙏🏻 I hope to film ICE T later this year 👍🏻
If I can add my opinion.
These open-access operators also help improve the transport system forcing the state owned operators to buy new vehicles, rebuilding older ones according to nowaday standarts, and maybe make a schedule a little bit better and faster.
In my case,
the RegioJet trains attracted some passengers on Budapest - Prague route into their trains, from the then overcrowded EuroCity state operated trains via Bratislava...
So, win-win to me.
@@janpf0624 … competition is always a good thing. 👍🏻. It motivates to improve or lose customers
Any chance of RegioJet running services in the UK 😁
Would be cool 😎
ICE T is a great train id Like to see a review
As soon as I can get around to it! ☺️
Hi what do we need to bring or what do they check in this train? Do they look for residence card or passport is allright?
Yes, you always need to carry ID
Would you be able too and Can you film and publish a walking tour of Budapest , of the city’s main attractions ?.
Not my thing, sorry!
6:01 the train is moving west although Budapest is in the east.
What? 🤣
Is Regiojet in Austria the most expensive or the most cheapest train operator. Plus in Austria the language they speak is bit like German, Dutch and Swedish. Or is it similar. Have to say the station is amazing and there’s lots of shops to look at.
Regiojet is very cheap compared to ÖBB in Austria and as good as service in my opinion... And yes the language they speak is very much like German, in fact it is German 😂
Should I book the ticket online ahead of time or in the train terminal?
You can do either!
Hi can i know the tickets include how many luggage?
Whatever you can carry 😝
10:22 I don't pay TH-cam Premium for anything, just for watch videos ad-free
Video's final score: 9.1
Thanks Pedro! 🙏🏻
Is there space for a big luggage in Relax class?
Yes, just relax ☺️
Hi, I am trying to book regiojet train from their app. And no option is coming to add name of passengers. However, names are required for my visa booking. Do you know how this can be resolved. Thank you.
Contact them on twitter or Instagram
@@NonstopEurotrip ok. Thank you.
Your camera moved too fast when showing the items on the menu until it is a blur! Please slow down.
Your seat as part of 2 seats had only 1 plug outlet, so need to share, correct?
The solo seat on the other side, did it have its own plug point?
1 plug socket on both sides
Well but when will be Warsaw? 🐱👤
Hopefully soon! 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip Then I wait it! 👏😁
in 2022 for sure - its alrady allowed by polish track infrastructure manager PKP - PLK
Wait, but Relax Class isn't still 2nd Class?
Technically yes, but it should be 😂
Question. Why are all Budapest railwaystations so unbelievably dirty???
How did deli station looked like befor it got the brutalist-style face?
They're not all dirty
@@NonstopEurotrip All 3 makor Railwaystations are inside unbeliavable dirty - Keleti, Nugati, Déli
only kelenfeld is renovated - but not the building that looks like meeting point for aal Budapest druc addicted..
Seems to put BR to shame !
Six ads by 8:30 in the video. Too many to keep watching.
Thanks for watching!
Really good review, and please keep going doing reviews like that, don't put voice over 😄
Don't worry, I will keep the videos the same as they are now! ☺️
Speedo Vectron Is ONLY 160km/h
Some are 200
13:56 Tell me you're in Hungary without telling me you're in Hungary
😂😂😂
LOL nobody is wearing a mask properly.
😂
You deleted my honest comment about RegioJet. Are they paying you?
I don't delete any comments. It might be in held for review if TH-cam thinks it's abusive or spam. I'll check later, can't do it on my phone!
There is nothing 1 Class on this Train its Old and Dirty
Strange comment