An UNCOMFORTABLE night aboard the REGIOJET SLEEPER
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ธ.ค. 2020
- A night aboard the RegioJet Sleeper from Prague to Košice in a solo sleeper!
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Date of Travel: 6 September 2020
Class of Travel: Solo Sleeper (First Class)
Rolling Stock: Siemens Vectron/Various Coaches
Cost of Ticket: €85.50 (£77.90, $104)
Origin: Praha Hl.n., Prague, Czech Republic
Destination: Košice, Slovakia
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Eight hour trip. Despite the bed discomfort, I would take the berth, because of the privacy factor.
most women would as well to feel safe but having travelled in the couchettes in france they are safe ,well they were 30 years ago !! lol
I concur
Me too.
@Kaiser Zaid Great train.
@@dazlebluefrogifysince then, the population has partially changed...
For an 8-hour trip, a low-cost seat might be almost as tolerable as your cabin bed, and those business-class seats looked mighty fine!
Agreed. One of the "1"s in the 1x2 cheap class look doable
Whenever I ride on the Amtrak Coast Starlight, I fall asleep in their wonderful seats whether I'm planning to or not. It almost makes me wonder if a sleeper car would be worth it.
I would prob take 'relax-class', business class prob expensive AF. RC prob isnt much cheaper but the seats looked pretty much the same. Def wouldnt waste money on a sleeper.
@@Cinncinnatus Business Class on RegioJet is actually priced quite reasonably. A trip from Prague to Košice would set you back €40-50, depending on the service and load factor. If you can score an empty seat opposite to you, it's almost as good as a bed, since the two seats can be pulled towards each other to create a single continuous sleeping surface.
@@Cinncinnatus business class is actually not that expensive I looked for a ticket leaving tomorrow and it only costs 30€
I’m from Czechia and I completely agree with you. Czech Railways sleeper train on this route is much more comfortable in my opinion.
Český drahi jsou lepši než regio jet
@@radish9261 Tvoje gramatika je něco hroznýho.
@@Autobus3017 já jsem už dlouho nebydlel v Česku
Áno, pretože ČD okrem ležadlových vozňov Bc ponúka hlavne lôžkové vozne WLAB. RegioJet má len Bc, čo úprimne moc nechápem.
I would go from Budapest to Croatia with Regiojet at summer. I imagined that their sleepers are much better, but these really are very basic couchette cars, the same I travelled 20 years ago, thank you.
I was born in Košice but I live in CZ. Not being able to go home now, the last 3 minutes of the video (from 16:01 onwards) were very heart-warming for me.
Prague & Bratislava are two of my favorite cities in Europe! Thanks for the review & I hope the rest of your stay there was enjoyable!!
Thanks! I love Prague and Bratislava as well 😁
The benefits of the generous Berne Convention Loading Gauge become apparent when you compare the height and the width of this carriage to the British equivalent. George Stephenson has much to answer for!
This "uncomfortable" bed is quite similar the "hard sleeper" in China. The bedding is thin and hard. It's 6 beds per booth. But unlike the RegioJet, hard sleeper on Chinese slow trains don't have sliding door for individual booths. And the lights of the entire coach (except at the ends) shut down at precisely 10:30pm (but you have control of the reading light). And the facilities are sometimes filthy due to the high volume of passengers. But this is how most people still travel now and how everyone traveled before bullet train era.
Soft sleeper has sliding door, 4 beds and independent light per booth.
Bullet train sleepers are pretty much renovated soft sleepers.
I hope you could come to China again and experience our slow trains too. You may not be satisfied with the train itself but you'll enjoy it if you like to chat.
I thought they had this hard sleepers only in jail in China
also the fact that they have those "bullet trains" in China that only travels up to 160km/h(100mph) but were marketed and branded on the same level as the ones that travel at 200km/h(125mph) to 250km/h(155mph) or higher, so it's basically a money grabber and some of them smells like formaldehyde, they are sleepers tho...
@@timlilijinsheng4070 Wrong. There's no "bullet train" category in Chinese railway. There're G for high-speed trains on designated tracks, D for slower trains with multiple-unit bullet trains on slow train tracks, and K, T, Z and number-only for "average-speed" slow trains.
G train tracks are designed to cope with 380kph. The speed was heavily capped after the Wenzhou incident. Now the two major workhorses, CRH380 series and CR400 "Fuxin" series run at 305kph and 350kph respectively, but Fuxin may run at 305 too on certain sections in south China.
D trains are older-generation trains bought from Bombardier and Kawasaki (Shinkansen E2) runing at between 190kph and 250kph depending on tracks.
The slower ones below are towed by locomotives and are not bullet trains.
Z trains run at 160kph
Ttrains run at 140kph
K trains and unnumbered trains run at 120kph.
I have taken all of them so keep your false rants to yourself. And don't even think you know more about China than a real Chinese.
然后如果你是个华裔还看得懂中文的话我奉劝你常回家看看，少作公知。
@@dirkusmaximus9268 And how much do you think you know about China?
Solo occupancy is often quite expensive.
For me personally, the premium of a horizontal straight positioning is worth quite some money. And, expecially if you travel with duo-occupancy, the price is way more reasonable. I would rather not travel through the night in a seated position if I can at all avoid it.
So, wait a minute, the sleeper car 'beds' are just couchettes with a 5cm rock hard mattress stacked on top? Might as well get a couchette car then... As for travelling Prague-Kosice, I agree with you, especially for tourist travellers from outside Czechia/Slovakia, just take the day train. Business class seats are great comfort, the landscape (especially in Slovakia) is really good- so just take the day train
For some reason, RegioJet chose to purchase old German Bcmz couchette coaches instead of actual WLAB sleepers.
8:14 this Relax class isn't relax when it's full!
I was travelling from Prague to Bratislava in this class and when are 4 seats occupied and you are sitting next to the window its horror! My legs hurt so much after I left the train I cannot walk lol.
I've been in it when full and it was okay. Then again, I had a solo seat so I wasn't trapped in my seat by anyone!
Its better than rival train companies. I pick everytime solo seat, its best on this train.
@@lolookie1682 RegioJet has lower price. If you want quiet, buy business class Seat, you can sleep there too, Its comfy. ČD and ZSSK sometimes have older wagons than RJ. If not, price is bigger. Sometimes they have wagons from other companies like ÖBB, DB, PKP or MÁV...
@@lolookie1682 To máš pravdu ! Čd je lepší hlavně majitel RJ bere 65 milionů od Babiše.
I would have used the extra bedding to bolster everything up a bit (maybe you did?) - my main problem with this service would be arriving somewhere at 6.15 in the morning!
I like and need a firm bed for my back so I would have been more comfortable than you were. By contrast when you said on your review of the Caledonian Sleeper that the mattress was soft, that's enough to tell me never to do that trip! Thank you so much for reviews and finding out these things for the rest of us! 😊
Glad you're finding the vids useful 😁
The price is still reasonable considering it doubles as a long train journey plus your own private cabin, saving the cost of a hotel. If your preference is for a firm mattress, you're onto a winner.
Thanks for taking us through all of the Cabins, Dylan!
Thanks, Dylan! I love night trains. You go to great lengths to explain to us how the train works. Very well mounted, explained, seen. Like you, I prefer the cheapest class. I think that's more than enough in this journey. I hope you still got a good night's sleep. The most important thing in night trains is to get a good night's sleep.
Thanks! I agree.
Thank you very much for this review. I'm glad you were so thorough in your experience, for before you arrived at Kosice I thought the day RegioJet would be better !
Thanks!
I enjoyed that vid very much Dylan, thank you kindly for taking the journey, the footage, the commentary and putting it all together, thanks again.🙏
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed 😁
Detailed and review at precision as always ! Keep up your good work and take us further for more and more trips like these.
Thanks, will do!
the station in prague is beuatiful!
happy 2021!
Everything in Prague is beautiful!
Well, it might look beautiful but as I commented elsewhere: almost no food options, lots of useless shops instead, almost no seating and early closing times of those few food establishments and the cash desks are a detour for travellers. It has become an odd shopping mall instead.
@@aswler No food options? 2 restaurants, PONT, Subway, BILLA, Burgerking, 3 cafés, one bakery and small refreshment in RELAYs?
@@matejvondricka2703 I suggest you go to a major German railway station to compare and see what I mean. Try Cologne when covid is over. In terms of fast food, I only count in the rather poor Burger King. And even that always closed early. Even the old railways station had two fast food windows on the same floor as well as at least one booth on the platform. Gone.
Hello Dylan,
Twenty years ago I travveled through former Czechoslovakia in real "hard class" shelf beds in the former CSD coaches. It is always improvisation in rail sleeping coaches, but you can better use the business class cabin when you travel with more persons. Regio jet is an excellent product by day!
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The Prague train station looked huge ] It was nice that they kept the 1909 area as it was. I think you're right about just taking the day train. As far as the various sleepers go, I'd always sleep solo in my own compartment until the pandemic subsides. You just never know where strangers have been or how many precautions they've been taking.
Another great video. As an Aussie, who loves their trains, travelling on an overnighter in Europe would be something I’d love to do (once we’re back to a form of normality), thank god this channel is around, thanks for the awesome work and keep it up.
Thanks! Hopefully you get to do your trip to Europe at some point 😁
Happy New Year Dylan, and another really good video from you. I hope you and your channel goes from strength to strength in 2021, just as it did in 2020
Thanks! Happy new year to you too!
Hey Dylan, I'm from Czech living in UK for some time now. Have to say, I have problems to find comfortable bed in UK as all of them are soooo soft (even the hardest you can buy) and I have a back pain almost every morning. Seeing your reaction of the sleeper brings the point, that it actually might be effected by "local" habits as well. Anyway thanks for your videos, all the best and Happy New Year and stay safe😉
I honestly didn't think of that. Maybe our beds are just much softer in the UK. Happy new year!
13:10
On older rolling stock, the emergency handle is connected to the brake pipe, so it would make it dump all the air and cause an emergency brake application.
On newer stock however, the driver would hear a beep in the cab and they could hit a button within 10 seconds to override it.
Much better this trip during the day and cheaper as it takes in the scenery. It drifts past the Tatras Mountains, if you go back to Kosice again have lunch or dinner at Malina Med at the old town Kosice amazing food.. Thanks for the journey !
Dylan, I have to say I'm disappointed at the absence of the word vestibules this time 😁
Rest assured, it is in next week's video 😅
Vestibules are American Rail parlance. In Europe we call them platforms.
@@PeterNGloor Vestibule is an English word for a small hallway and describes the open area at the end of rail carriages.
Mind blowing choice of classes and coaches on RegioJet, something for everyone really. And I agree the food offer is really good and very reasonably priced. Thanks for giving us a good look at the compartment. Nice firm bed - good for your back, and light bedding. But that pillow looked a waste of cotton.
Ahh, Prague railway station... that certainly brings back a memory.
Back in the early 2000's, I was on vacation with my parents in... I think it was Plzen at the time. We decided to visit Prague. While we had a car, we figured... might as well take the train. Save on parking fees, and it's an experience.
So we get on this train and... it's the oldest rolling stock I've ever been on. Smoky diesel locomotive up front so old, it would've been in a railway museum anywhere else. Carriages looked decent enough, at first glance.
Halfway across the journey, I need to pee. So I walk back to the toilet and open the door. I am greeted by an interior entirely covered in shit. I'm talking: it's on the goddamn ceiling. This train toilet looked like it hadn't been cleaned since before the end of the Soviet Union. I ran back to my parents and got dad to check out that toilet. Grossest bathroom I've seen before and since.
The rest of the Czech Republic was quite nice, friendly people. But goddamn, I'm never getting on a train again there.
Happy new year , these Videos are always a good way to start my Friday morning
Thanks! Happy new year!
Such videos are a treat to train lovers. Informative to travellers. Well covered video. A hard bed is good for your back. Kidding. Thank you the upload. Travel safe
4:25
Sees loco:
Ooh nice modern loco
4:33
Sees what hes gonna sleep in:
*O dear*
If you want also an old loco then come to Romania!
@@bandvitromaniaios1307 i heard you guys still have some locos from Yugoslavia right?
@@timlilijinsheng4070 yup and also from Russia, Ukraine etc.
It's a couchette compartment with one half in day mode.
Looked a nice sleeper cabin.. as you where sole occupancy, maybe you could have doubled up the duvet and pillows for more comfort?
We lucky to still have these sleepers running around so they need appreciation.. cheers
Great trip report! As a local I totally agree with your points. There is a little blue-yellow war raging between the national carrier and Regiojet and while I think that RJ's daytime products > common Eurocity (EC) trains, the ČD's Railjets and Pendolinos are still a superior products. As for the sleepers, ČD's modern sleepers beat RJ's couchettes any day.
Since Regiojet is teasing us with their new upcoming sleeper to Przemysl, most of are wishing to see some upgrades (ehm.. just some.. new.. 2nd-hand sleeper coaches).
Thanks! I agree with you there.
I did not know RJ’s sleeping cars were that bad when compared to Czech Railways. In terms of their daytime services, I was quite disappointed to experience their very basic and once per ride only refreshment options in comparison to the once magnificent but now sadly disappearing Czech Railway’s dining cars.
@@aswler They are getting rid of their dining cars? These dining cars are known by anyone who has ever used them as the best catering on any train... :(. WARS is allright (the Polish one), but it has nothing on the Czech dining cars.
@@aswler To be fair, you should compare this RJ sleeping service with ČD couchette cars. This is not a proper sleeping car like e.g. WLABmee or WLABmz of České dráhy.
Thanks Dylan for the review. I would still take the evening train for time saving but would check out the business class for they looked good. Stay safe 😷
Very interesting and informative. Well done critique. Thanks
Thanks 😁
Single occupancy seems very good value. A hard bed in privacy is better than a slightly softer upright seat with possible disturbance by others. You are lucky to have this choice. Many countries have no sleeper services available anymore.
Another great video Dylan! I always travel by sleeper train if I have a choice. There is just a certain magic about them. Your sleeper train reviews are always my favourite, even this one with the hard beds. All the best for 2021 (or 2564 as it is here in Thailand) and keep safe!
Thanks! All the best 😁
Happy New Year Dylan, hopefully 2021 will be even better travel year for. Looking forward to more wonderful videos
Thanks! Happy new year!
09:52 You need to do a compilation out of this...^^
😅
Nice video and very beautiful station. Thanks
Thanks 😁
Pretty harsh review I think - any idea what you pay in UK for solo occupancy of an 500km plus (as the crow flies) sleeper - a LOT more than RegioJet charged you and drinks and food would be extra! Yes the bed may be a bit hard but really who wants to spend a whole day crossing Czech and Slovakia unless you are sightseeing? Great range of seated options too... (My wife is from Litomysl so nothing against the scenery - it is stunning!) AND overnight sleeper services in Europe should be supported.. So I would have been a little less negative especially in your 'headline'.. But thanks great review again and sat in Lockdown Brexited London made us all the keener to be travelling once again..
I studied in Prague and I would walk from my apartment to the 'bus stop and you could see the train station from the hill and I would watch the trains go by. I wondered where they were going. I wish I rode Regiojet, it looked cool.
Dylan: Beds were rock hard and the duvet and pillow werent thick enough
RegioJet: Clean.. Bathrooms
wonderful video despite your bed discomfort; beatiful prague station nice views of countryside;; and now your 2021 new adventures
Thanks 😁
my mother comes from kosice. not that anyone should care.
I care. Really I do.
Thats the trouble with you studenty types, you expect soft goose down duvets and pillows with hot coffee served at the snap of a finger...only joking mate -excellent video - great idea of yours to carry the extension lead - hope Santa brought you new socks.
And some spare masks
Ah well, at least I got the coffee 😅 Thanks!
I wonder if he could have just taken the mattress from one of the berths and 'doubled' his mattress to make it more comfortable.
Funnily enough that CD train coming in on the left had a similar blue livery that British Rails Regional Railways sector used circa about 1990.
Happy New Year and thanks for taking us along. I would go for the sleeper by myself for privacy and not sharing my air during Covid. I would also end up sleeping with a mask on :-( Stay safe.
A great video. The nicest class on that train appeared to be the 'low cost' coach - as the seats looked lovely. The 'regular' CD/ZSSK overnight train is worth a try though - as it 'proper' sleeping cars, but no flowers in the loos!
Thanks!
Happy New Year Dylan, best wishes John.
To you too!
$109 dollars and a meal and you get to undress and sleep like a human privately seems to be a bargain compared to a trip of the same length on Amtrak in a private roomette
Very enjoyed
Love your videos man
Thanks!
I appreciate your videos. As a US citizen, I can't really travel abroad now because of Covid and it's had me really antsy. Your videos seriously help.
Glad they help 😁
I like this video. Thanks for the heads up about the sleeper. Still, due to covid, if I travel overnight, I'll pay for a solo sleeper. The breakfast didn't look appetizing. That's why I like to bring my own food. Along as there is beer, wine, coffee and tea on board I'm good. I have to revisit Prague in the future. I need to plan another Eastern/Central European trip. The station is first rate. I can't wait until we can all travel again.
Happy New Year Dylan!
To you too!
One of those business class seats would suit me 👍
I've paid more for less so I would definitely take the berth... although that business class compartment looked pretty sweet. Happy New Year!
Wonderful Compilation
Thanks!
KTX-이음 train has started to run since today !! Looking forward to see your review in Korea
Great video !!
Thanks!
Well... given the fact I actually prefer harder mattresses and once spent a terribly unconfortable night on an overnight service from Wuppertal to Dresden in a six-seater compartment, I might still opt for that RegioJet Sleeper if I were to travel on that route... because everything else on that train looks pretty good.
I travelled in one of those couchettes from Vienna to Venice, strangely I actually slept better than the proper bed on a Budapest-Prague train...
Budapest is actually 2 different cities separated by the Danube river. It's technically called Buda on the west and Pest on the east.
Dylan, if you ever get round to travelling in Portugal, you will find the São Bento Station in Porto one of the most beautiful stations imaginable with its "azulejos", blue-tiled portraits of events from the history of Portugal and of how Portugal and the city of Porto were in the 19th century. Truly stunning. The city is itself also outstanding. Thank you for all your videos. Best wishes for 2021.
Ah yes, I've heard they have some very nice stations in Portugal. Happy new year!
Railway stations are intended for passengers, not for architectural freaks.
Great video! Hope you got to enjoy Prague, it's a great city. Can't beat the beer at the price!
Thanks! Prague (and its beer) sure is amazing 😁
I was supposed to go from Berlin to Prague on DB back in April 2020. So bummed I missed out on Praha!
Sorry to hear. Hopefully you get to do it at some point as it's a very nice trip!
Probably wouldn't use a sleeper train as only time I've travelled on one (from Preston to Inverness in the early 80's) every time we stopped I was looking out to see where we were
That’s part of the excitement 😂
For an 8 hour trip, day or night, I would opt for a coach seat. I would prefer the day, for the scenery.
However, it was interesting to see the room accommodations.
Since the bedding was thin, and the knob on your temperature control was missing, I certainly hope that there was sufficient heat in the cabin.
I love your outlook on life. Despite what sounds like a terrible night you were still able to say some positive things in your summing up. I look forward to more interesting journeys with you this year.
Thanks 😁
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2021,Gbu
Thanks! To you too!
My sleeping bag is thicker than those blankets and pillows
Some of my conclusions after the trip in a couchette on the same route (it was my first time traveling in a couchette in like 10 years, so I didn't know what to expect):
- even though I like hard mattresses, that one was a bit too hard
- the pillow was a joke, I had to fold the blanket and the sheet to lay my head comfortably
- there's no AC, and I was traveling in August when there was low-key 35°C outside. Imagine what an oven the coach was, it stood the whole day outside in this scorching sun in Prague!
- in the morning there were about 15 degrees outside, so I woke up cold
- despite all those things... I slept very well without waking up at all, but one of the factors might be the fact, that I didn't sleep a minute a night before (I had to get somehow to Prague from east Poland, which required 2 transfers in Katowice and Bohumin)
I paid €15,5 for the trip, which even for a Pole is small change, so... mixed feelings. I'd sum it up in a sentence: "Great, but never again" 😆
I think that this compares well with AMTRAK roomettes which I love and use all the time on my many trips around the USA, (Now Stuck here at home in Manchester England).
Actually i used to have ride in night train kosice-praha in bus class and i need to say i slept like a baby there :D
I am from Budapest, here we expect the regiojet night service to Croatia starting this summer. I was looking forward to travel with them,, hoping it will be great.
Nice!
well, your day was filled with utter dissapointment and (maybe) your day was ruined
Another great video. I appreciate your honesty and frankness in all your videos. I live vicariously through your train travels and enjoy them very much.
Your comments hit all the right spots ie: cleanliness, space, service, comfort etc.
I would certainly appreciate your comments/opinions on the safety and security of the train stations you visit. As a long time European train fan who has travelled extensively on European trains I have become hesitant of future travel as a result of safety concerns in various cities especially Rome (Termini), Naples and Paris. Obvious pickpockets, thieves, sketchy people and a general sense of discomfort, along with horrifying stories of robbers, predators and victims of crime have caused me strong hesitation for future travel in Europe.
Can you comment about your experiences and train stations to avoid?
FYI- I found that AMTRAK in the USA also has become dangerous and scary trains to travel on.
Honestly, train stations seem to be a magnet for sketchy people to some extent or another no matter where you go.
Regiojet once had real sleeping cars on this line.
Today, few couchette cars are sold as sleeping cars, which I personally don't think is good at all.
Likewise the arrival times in Kosice and Prague at 6 a.m.
Regiojet never had real sleeping cars.
Please come to Slovenia sometime and ride our ICS train, because the countryside here is amazing.
I hope to at some point 😁
@@DylansTravelReports thanks!
I agree. This standard for this price is too much - only for personal compartment. Best option is take only one place in couchette car. But RJ ex-OBB couchettes are one of the best in this cars category (for ex. old and new PKP).
Good video and relation, like always! Good job!
Thanks 😁
Pringles, Twix and a Beer onboard lol Love travelling by train
Makeshift dining car 🤷♂️😅
Great trip report ! As Judith said below I would take the berth for privacy...
Thanks!
For some reason I really like his NEGATIVE reports i dunno why
Must like seeing me "suffer" 😅
Dylan: It's a real shame that those beds were not any better. But I have to laugh in the high point of your video when you rolled down that window and said "everything is going to take flight!" and yeah it looked like just that! amazing! Be thankful those trains where you can pull down a window for fresh air. Trains, like amtrak, don't offer that any more. You are better off in a compartment than a sleeper compartment. Just to be safe. But yeah, daytime trips are MORE FUN. Great way to bang in the new year! keep it up! Stay safe! Hugs! From Sherlock.
Thanks 😁
@@DylansTravelReports That reminds me, the next time you find a tough bed, take a penny or pence or quid, if it bounces on the bed (at least twice) it's a bad tough bed. that way you'll know for sure..
A thin bed is comfort luxury for me. I've slept okay on concrete floors so a thin bed is no complaint from me.
As far as I can tell from the internal layout the sleeper car was built under socialism in czechoslovakia, with the main design goal being cramming as many people into a sleeper compartment, as you would into a regular one. Makes planning easier, or whatever.
Last time I traveled in one of these was almost a decade ago, and I was sort of shocked they were still in use in the original layout back then. Regio jet acquiring the coaches and not refurbishing them at all certainly doesn't reduce my surprise in any way.
I was sorry to hear that the bed on the train was not comfortable. Next time I would take my own blanket with me to keep warm. I would also tell the company to replace the knobs of your control panels in your room. I loved the old station . It looked very historic.
Couchettes are meant to be cheap and cheerful, and these are simply couchettes with a bit of bedding and service added. I can remember using them in the 1960s and 1970s, when the only bedding was a blanket (not changed each day). You were expected to sleep in your clothes, and there was certainly no service (apart from a visit from passport and customs officials who woke you up each time you crossed a frontier (in pre-Schengen days!). But it was relatively cheap - in 1960 I recall it was a flat £1.50 on top of the second-class fare of maybe £20 for a long continental journey.
6 am arrival !! so up long before to have breakfast people talk about "red eye flights " way to early ,i'd pay day train and spend a decent night in a hotel or AirBnB ,nice vid as always
Thanks!
Nice video, very kool and instructive intro to the Prague station and nice approach to Košice. But I think you were a bit harsh about the bed. From the look of it, it might have looked not optimum, but man, you were alone in a sleeping car train! Yeah! :-) Best wishes and super travels for 2021!
Thanks!
Happy New Year, hope travel options open up this year!
To you too!
Good review. Sleeper train vs day train - may depend on whether the sleeper train is a lot slower, as is the case in the UK. Also, sharing cabins outside the family isn't currently allowed in the UK (hasn't been since March 2020) - interesting that a different approach seems to be being taken.
Thanks
meilleur voeux 2021 merci de nous faire voyager malgré les restrictions
Merci 😁
Regiojet has also started routes to croatia, i think they’re seasonal but would be still interesting imo
Yep, seasonal. Got 90% loadings even in the pandemic. They will be back.
I just love railway stations no matter what the architecture is but thankfully its normally very good and Prague certainly is good
I agree!
Yet another thoughtful, fresh and well-put together trip report. Personally, I would be most happy to see the menu as part of the video, rather than linking below. Thank you!
I haven't tried Hungarian overnight sleepers yet, but I'd try this one for sure!
The first time I watched this, I confused Praha hlavny nadrazi with Decin hlavny nadrazi.
Super video
Thanks!
These are 40-year-old Austrian couchette cars, last refurbished around 20 years ago. ÖBB sold a number of them to RegioJet and ČD, others can still be found in nightjet trains, but might be replaced from 2022 as ÖBB ordered new rolling stock and is also rebuilding daytime passenger compartment coaches to couchettes in a new 4-berth layout. As the number of train connections is also increased, we will see how long they actually remain in service.
Of the coaches operated by RegioJet, only the "Astra" standard class coaches with inseat video entertainment are new, the rest is bought used and usually not modified very much. I'm curious how they will go on, perhaps there will be new interiors for some cars.