The NEW look of ÖBB Nightjet - Comfort-Couchette Night Train Review
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- Hello, and welcome back to another train trip report on my channel.
In this video I will be travelling on-board the ÖBB Nightjet, this time to try out the newly refurbished Comfort-Couchette (Comfort-Liegewagen) on an overnight journey through Austria from Wien Hbf (Vienna) to Bregenz.
These carriages were formed from redundant seating carriages, and now are the first vehicles to feature Nightjet's new interior style, ahead of the brand-new carriages entering service on their routes soon.
It was a very different experience to the usual Nightjet Couchette, and definitely well worth a look.
Enjoy the video. :)
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Journey Details:
Origin: Wien Hbf (Vienna)
Destination: Bregenz
Company: ÖBB
Train: ÖBB 1116 + Comfort-Couchette
Accommodation: C4
Distance: 432 miles / 695 kilometres
Price: €239.00 (£200.50 / $264.30)
Time: 9h34m
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I am really happy that ÖBB went against the trend a few years ago and continued to offer night trains, even bought Deutsche Bahn's old stock of sleeper trains. Otherwise no European train manager would have notice the uptick in demand. Travelling at night in a modern sleeper compartment makes train journeys of 8 hours and more pleasant and it's a real alternative to taking a plane. There are new European night services in the works and I hope we will eventually have a network of night trains that covers the entirety of Europe.
yes please!
True that and I really hope that this trend will change again towards better quality and quantity of sleeping trains because choosing between a ultra long bus haul in uncomfortable european busses or airplanes there's no real solution for it.
Yea, pretty sure night trains would simply be dead if not for the ÖBB. Without NightJet, politicians would never have gotten the memo.
Yes, I too read that the Deutsche Bahn sold their nightcompartments to Austria. As I travelled once from Berlin to Basel in a night compartment , I am still looking to where they sold it to? It was single bed and bathroom inside. This journey was breathtaking and luxurious. Does anyone know where these compartments were sold to?
@@selini52 You mean the deluxe compartments? There are deluxe compartments in both the normal sleeper carriages used on Berlin-Zurich as well as in the double decker ones used on Hamburg-Zurich.
ÖBB really knows how to design a good sleeper service when every other state railway around them abandoned the service. Specially Germany in 2016 with their CityNightLine being discontinued
It's good to see they've made it work!
And renfe Trenhotel... ;(
a lot of the oebb's trains are just repainted citynightlines
We don't even have dedicated sleepers in Australia any more. I think it's a bit of a missed opportunity too, with the trips being so long and all.
Not SJ!
Edit: Yeah maybe not so close, sorry!
I really love how ÖBB is continuing to maintain and upgrade the night trains... I only wish they would actually be competitive to flights from a price point of view.
The standard ticket is some 50 Euros IIRC. It's probably possible to find cheaper flights, but not by much!
The problem is that airplane tickets are highly subsidised and train tickets are not
@@Ninaheijnink Most train tickets are subsidized too, just not as much. It is heavily dependent on how you count taxes on oil-based fuels.
Things look different when one factors in the cost of hotel accomodation for the night(s) spent travelling...
@@henrikgiese6316ell once you consider that you have to include hotel and transportation costs to that cheap flight the train seems more reasonable
The scenery is just gorgeous.
I really like how they were thoughtful enough to put tables between beds, both upper and lower. Seems like a very comfortable compartment with a nice amount of storage.
Thanks for sharing!
It's well thought out, isn't it? Thanks for watching!
This showed me what I appreciate in Austria. I've always had an impression everything is done "not too less, not too much". As Austrian Railways are the best ones in EU. Finally, I must say: I love Austria. I'm going 4th time on 04.07. and hope to move to Vienna in a few years.
Austria is very nice, I agree with your assessment. :)
No in terms of train technology Spain is ahead of the bunch. Then France follows. But in many other regards Spain is a failed country.
@@Telencephelon austria has the best modern railsway and make the best locomotives in europe together with the swiss national railway. in terms of high speed trains i think france is actually number 1 their tgv in 1975 went 575 km/h. fastest train on wheels and rails.
For someone from India, where overnight journeys are the norm rather than the exception, it was really weird for me to see when I moved to Germany that most European trains were scheduled during the day time. It's nice to see Austria set this trend and continue it!
The trend is going in favour of night trains now, good for me as I am obsessed with them! ❤️
The Google Map sequence from 2:40 to 3:15 is extremely well done, and super informative. Kudo's!!!!!
Excellent video
Thanks for noticing! I'm super proud of how it came out. 😍
Wow! This is so good. From your intro and narration to the use of Google Earth to show the route, it is just so well done. Your best video yet!
Thanks, I am really glad you like it. This is the standard I'd like to uphold going forwards.
The google earth thing was the coolest thing!
This is your best yet: well done. Excellent commentary and your spoken delivery is first class. I found this very informative, lovely to look at and the music well chosen. One of the best of its kind on YT. 😁
Thank you so much! I'm super proud of it, so I am glad that you like it too.
@@SuperalbsTravels Ah so ur grandparents were on bad side of ww2 if ur shouting slava ukraine? better be neutral nowadays or support civilians and refugees and not those ugly ukraine government i think.
second all of the above. wish the music credits were included. 🙃 helped me understand lots. thanks!
As a trainmanager im simply enjoying your feedback, you have a calm voice really relaxed 😉 keep up the good word lad 😌
Thank you very much! Do you work on the night trains?
Professionelles und sehr informatives Video über die neuen Comfort-Liegewagen der ÖBB. Interessante Reise von Wien Hbf über die Alpen (Arlberg) zum Bodensee. Es ist schön, dass die relativ kleine Stadt Bregenz eine NightJet Verbindung in die Bundeshauptstadt Wien hat. Wahrscheinlich fahren einige Touristen und auch andere weiter in den gesamten Bodensee-Raum, also nach Lindau und Friedrichshafen in Deutschland oder in die Ostschweiz (St. Gallen, Chur). Wien Hauptbahnhof, wo ich schon war, ist wirklich ein beeindruckender Großstadt-Bahnhof, der Wien alle Ehre macht. Danke für das Video und Ihre Mühe. Perfekt.
Danke!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, there's more just like this to come soon.
ho-manno.-...ich fahre im juli nach hamburg...vielleicht habe ich das glück...und die neuen sleeper fahren schon auf der strecke...kanns kaum abwarten
@@Wrenchcool Vielleicht fahren sie schon.
@@helilebon2383 sie fahren schon ??? oder was willst du mir jetzt sagen
@@Wrenchcool vielleicht fahren sie im Juli schon nach Hamburg, wollte ich sagen.
This looks very good and comfortable. Fantastic review really enjoyed it 😃🍻
Thanks, it was great! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Great video!! As a ÖBB train driver I feel you really showed what I love about "my" employer. And the main station is indeed well done.
(Westbahnhof is still open. The new main station combines the old South Railway Station and East Railway Station which both were dead-end stations.)
Thank you very much! You should be proud, the service is great.
I've taken your trains several times and its always been a pleasant ride! Only critique is that with the older model couchettes, there's quite a bit of outside noise coming through the cracks of the window ^^'
Please pass on the huge thanks of worldwide rail enthusiasts and many travellers to your management at OBB for 'saving' overnight trains in Europe (well, there are still some non-OBB trains, but I'm referring to DB's abandonment of CityNightLine, trains I had previously travelled on when visiting from Australia.
You should indeed feel proud!
You may not have realized the rarity of what you filmed at 16:05. That last car is a CAT, the line that runs exclusively between Vienna "Center" (not Central) and Vienna Airport. Spotting that on the other side of the country is really rare
Glad I'm not the only person who noticed, I was gobsmacked when I saw that green connected to a cityshuttle in Dornbirn??
What a glorious view to wake up to. Its the stuff of fairytales Great video as always.. And I think the ' Doh Ray, Me Fah, So, La, Ti, Doh' tune of the locomotive on start up is simply priceless! ☺️
Thanks, it was an amazing journey, with good carriages to go with it.
What looks most important for me, is that OeBB has finally abandoned a concept to pack 6 people in one compartment. These 2+2 sleeping compartments are used in ex-USSR countries for decades and proven to be really comfortable, especially when you trip lasting several days. And it is curious if the second WC has a shower facilities? This is definitely the thing I'm missing on many night trains
Yeah, the soviet sleepers never went more than two bunks, how very considerate!
However they did invent platskartnyy...
they still have the 6 people compartment, its the liegewagen compartment which is way cheaper
@@lumiina2499 It does seem like they are planning to phase them out eventually. The refurbished as well as the newly built Couchette cars both only feature 4 people rooms
@@lumiina2499 Yeah I've used it but it's impossible to sleep there, you'd have other people's feet in your face, they can work for 3 people tho, all on one side but otherwise nah
Thanks for the nice feature. Only issue I have with ÖBB in the context of the new nightjets is that while they ADVERTISE all services with images of the new couchettes, you don't get to experience the new service level at some of the routes considered "lower priority" by ÖBB. E.g.: I recently took the Vienna-Berlin service, booking into a 4 bed couchette, which was advertised with the "new" interior. However, what I got was an old 6-bed couchette, into which only 4 passengers had been booked. At least servicing of the toilets has improved over the past years. Also: While I do use the night-train every now and then for private journeys, where my appearance upon arrival in the morning does not matter, it is not really possible to use this if you have to attend a business meeting, where you are expected to be showered, shaved and at least wearing a suit (tie is nowadays becoming increasingly optional) at the other end.
Not really that hard to fix, with business lounges at the train stations, or even just shower compartments on the train you can optional book.
Wien Hauptbahnhof station is a very big railway station that almost looks like a airport terminal. Great video as always 🙂
Or, it looks like a shopping mall. 😉
@@Neville60001 Yeah could be that as well
Thanks! It is an impressive build.
@@SuperalbsTravels It is designed by Zaha Hadid!
@@SuperalbsTravels and much more friendly than the similar design of London Bridge.
I live near Götzis and I don't know exactly why this was recommended to me, but I'm glad I watched it to the end and now know what the inside of the night train looks like.
Thanks! Hopefully you can try it out one day. 😃
Please continue making more videos with your excellent commentary. Well done.
Thank you very much! I will be. 😃
Congratulations on your very informative commentary. At last you are on the same level as Dylan. I wish others would follow suit. It's so much more fun listening rather than reading on-screen stuff. Your presentation is first class.
Thank you!! :)
Thank you, Superalbs Travels, for such an outstanding video! Superb cinematic content, well-edited, and - above all - with so much useful information.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! There's more like this to come...
Great vid with excellent and informative voiceover. Gonna have to stick that one on an ever expanding list.
As you say, the cost may be high for a single passenger, but it is certainly good value for two or three people.
Thanks! And yeah, I think sharing with your friends is the way to go here!
I paused and thought about the cost for a while, and it's a bit expensive for a single traveler but it's not hard to justify the cost. What's the alternative? Spend half a day driving (which also isn't free) and then stay in a hotel overnight? So let's say that would cost about $200. While you're driving you're not working, or relaxing, or admiring the fantastic scenery, so there's also some value in being able to do those things instead of driving a car.
A coach seat on the express train might be a bit more practical, but for a nominal extra cost this train seems much more relaxing and fun.
@@ianmcnaney6528 team up with others and share the cost.
In Austria you can travel with your car on certain night trains
Great video! Thank you. FYI, what is so impressive about the new Wien Hauptbahnhof (Vienna Central Station) is the ability to build a brand new central facility in the city centre which replaces all previous Koopfbahnhoefe (terminal stations). All routes from North to South, East and West can now link up under one roof and across from each other. This will make Vienna one of the best and newest HUBS for train travel within Central Europe! Great foresight by Austrian National Railway OEBB! Bravo!
I don't know many locals who like Hauptbahnhof. Most commuters and regular travellers I know prefer Meidling, which is of course not build for that sort of traffic load. There's no point in living in a city with outstanding public transport that takes you to most places in less than thirty minutes if you then need more than ten minutes to get from the underground station to your train. Hauptbahnhof is badly planned, chaotic, and even the usually excellent Viennese signage system can't fully compensate its mess.
@@frauleinbird Being from Vienna myself, I completely disagree. The walk from the underground to the platform is similar to what you would expect from any major station (its not much longer than on the decidedly smaller Westbahnhof and even better than on Zürich or Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof for example). The older Südbahnhof that was there before it was a complete disgrace and the new Hauptbahnhof as well as its facilities and location are absolutely superb in my opinion. Although I live closer to Meidling than to Hauptbahnhof, I absolutely hate it there and from the city center itself, Hauptbahnhof is also much more reachable. I think Meidling should be rebuilt though to offer similar comfort.
@@astra1360 I don't have hard measurements, but get the feeling it even takes longer from U3 to the trains on Westbahnhof than U1->trains on Hbf.
@@dahauns That's because they purposely reconstructed the passage to route you through the shopping center.
There used to be a direct escalator to the main platforms form the U3. Now there are only 2 (or 3?) elevators in a corner that bring you directly to the upper level where the trains are.
I didn't like the Hauptbahnhof (main station - it's not a central station ;->) at first, because I missed the trains being made available half an hour or even an hour before it left. But now we have more trains that pass through (eg Budapest - Zürich), so that's less an of an option anyway.
The one thing it's missing is a good waiting area. People are using the food tables to wait for trains and it's often quite hard to find one to eat in the evenings because people sit there until their train is available, even if they don't eat. (Or I suspect some also just go there to use the free Wifi.)
Really enjoyed the slight change in presentation, especially using Google Earth to show the route. Looking forward to seeing some more.
Thank you, glad you like it! :)
I just LOVE these refurbished trains. ÖBB is really transforming the night train industry!
The only thing I'm even more hyped for are the capsule single-mini-compartments ... 🤩
After seeing how outstandingly well-designed these refurbishments are, I cannot wait for the brand new carriages! I mean, just an example, but think of the top-bunk table and the control panel including even the toilet occupancy - isn't this outstanding!?
Thank you for this awsome video! 😁
Thank you, I am excited too! :)
Thank you for your train trip review. Nice ride through the Austrian Alps.
Glad you enjoyed pal! :)
I am just amazed how smooth the ride is. First noticed it with the bottles of water just standing there unsheltered
Very nicely presented, when working in Germany I was fortunate enough to get down to Bodensee ( Lake Constance) on the German side of the lake and it was absolutely beautiful and by bus and train travelled up to Dortmund through Ulm and along the Rhine, great description of the refurbished cars looking forward to seeing your next post
Thanks, sounds beautiful, it's a lovely place. More like this to come soon!
The Voiceover is definitely the way forward. Also the google earth route presentation really helps with visualizing what’s going on. Great work keep it up!
Thanks, it's something I've been wanting to do for quite a while, and now is finally the time. :D
@@SuperalbsTravels did you study German by any chance? You pronounce Südbahnhof very accurately
@@budapestkeletistationvoices Yeah, I did it at secondary school level, and then self-taught a few little additions.
I don't speak German, but I can get by.
Thanks for the review! Currently planning summer holidays so this will be super useful as I love rail travel 😊👍
Awesome, I hope you can give it a go in summer then! 😃
@@SuperalbsTravels Thanks very much! I hope so too 😊
Excellent video & very professional. Great inclusion of the Google map to show the route.
Thank you! :)
Excellent, intelligent commentary and editing. Enjoyed your journey!
Thank you very much, more to come! 😁
Feldkirch is an adorable town btw. I spent a year living there and know this route between Feldkirch and Vienna quite well. The best bit of scenery I think is when the train makes a big S swoop on the track east of Bludenz as you're entering the Klostertal (east bound). If you time it just right you can get a great shot of your own train and engine with the mountains in the background (provided you're sitting in a rear carriage).
Thank you so much for including the Taurus with the music scale!
Nice modern couchette... The wc occupancy display is a really clever feature and all trains should have it so avoid the crowding around the toilet.
Thanks for the great video and commentary.
As an old person who tires a bit quicker now, the Night Jets will become a more restful way to travel round Europe.
Thank you! :)
Excellent voice-over. Very informative. Nice journey.
Thank you very much! :)
Nicely detailed video. As someone who doesn't much like new trains I'm really impressed with that interior. The blanket instead of a duvet is a massive plus and the deal sealer for me! And thanks for showing the menu - useful to know. Nice way to get to Lake Constance.
Thanks, it seems like a well thought out carriage to me. :)
Wow what a modern train to travel on. I’d love to ride on that one day after covid times 😊😊👍👍. I love it bro
Thank you! I hope you get to ride it soon. :)
Vienna-Bregenz-Vienna. My old RJ or NJ route from studing to home. This is by far one of the most beautiful train rides. Through the plains of the donau valley and through the mountains.
And cheap too compared to CH and DE.
Back then it was mainly from the (still beautiful) Westbahnhof - but still a great ride. I miss it even.
Great video! I really enjoyed your use of Google maps to show the route of the train.I've never seen it done this way in other videos. This was my first video of yours, and I'll watch more. Good work!
Thank you very much, I'm glad you like the feature, and look forward to seeing your comments in the future. 😃
Loving the new commentary dude. Really sets the vibe off!
Thank you! More like that to come. :)
honestly, this is the first vid i've watched on your channel and I love your train reports already. especially the voiceover, it legit sounds like asmr
Welcome, and thank you very much! :)
The problem of the main station is that they built it too small with only 10 platforms. Original plans included a separate commuter station underground. This is especially problematic for night trains as they usually arrive during morning peak hours and need longer stopping times, so they need to be slotted in between the daily commuter and domestic trains. If overnight train travel continues to rise they might need to run some trains out of (or probably into, as evening departure times are less crowded) the old Westbahnhof again.
... which wouldn't be too bad for services that terminate in Vienna anyways. Even for passengers who need to change to other international trains there are decent connections between Westbahnhof and Meidling/Hauptbahnhjof (or Hütteldorf and Meidling/Hauptbahnhof).
But yes, during the rebuild of the main station, unfortunately the underground car park was more important than a proper commuter station 😞
Tracks 1 and 2 are underground for commuter trains (Schnellbahn), though you have to walk some distance to reach them.
12:24 Wow those views are amazing! Great video! I hop you had a nice stay in Bregenz.
Thanks! It was a pleasant short stay. :)
The picture you show from Götzis, shows platform 2 and 3, the actual building that belongs to the railway station is located on the other side of the train (platform 1)
But you made a nice and informative video! I like your content!
In Dornbirn you actually caught the weird CityShuttle, that exists because the ordered Talent3 fleet from Bombardier didn’t get delivered and the ÖBB tries to assure that they still provide the service of available trains according to the turntable… (so these old carriages are kept operating until the new/longer version of the CityJet (Siemens Desiro) will get delivered…
The new/longer version of the CityJet should start operating in Vorarlberg in December 2022 (shorter versions of that train are already operating in other parts of Austria)
Thank you for showing me, how i will travel through Austria in the future!
Thank you for the information and kind words! :)
I really like these trains, I enjoy travelling in them when I do. It also helps that I don't have to pay because I work for the ÖBB
That sounds great, haha!
First night train was the older, 6 person couchette, 2 days later had one of these, it was like heaven compared to the older ones
Yeah it's such a difference!
Very cool train! Though I'm amazed that in Austria there's no barrier between the train system and outside world. The parking/transit is literally in the front of the carriages.
I don't know if that's specifically Austrian, but it becomes especially apparent when using lesser-frequented, slower routes. My grandma has a railway line basically framing one end of her garden. They started to sell plots in this part of the village in the 50s and whoever moved there would quickly set up hedges to ward off the noise of the semi-hourly trains passing by. No other noise-prevention has ever been taken. In fact, the streets there didn't even have crossing gates until about ten years ago. Up to then, trains would whistle three times before passing a road.
Interestingly, you just get used to it. After a few days you don't even notice the trains passing by anymore.
In fact, there weren't even many accidents until tourism started to pick up in the region. Locals would just know when and when not to cross (or even walk on) the rails.
Why would that be a problem in civilized country?
Great video! Really well done and enjoyed the narration, hope you keep doing it for future ones
Thank you, I certainly will be!
Thank you. Nice overview, so far I have only seen photos/video of the stationary carriage, not in motion.
The design is now with 4 fixed berths to save the staff the work of rebuilding the compartment. Technically everything should be working fine, considering they have just come out of rebuilding.
Are there just the two toilets or also any washrooms? Other couchette cars have washrooms in addition (just a small room with a faucet) so you can brush your teeth even when the toilet is occupied. Sleeping cars don't need this, having a tiny little sink in each compartment.
The newly built trains (to go into service next year) should have 4-berth compartments of the same design, plus mini-cabins, regular and deluxe 2-bed sleepers and some seating.
Thanks! It's just the two toilets in this carriage. I can't wait for the sleeper pods in the new stock.
ÖBB rules Europe !!!
And I wish them well; a daring step in a niche-market have payed off.
Let this service be a vast money maker and ever lasting.
These look much nicer than the old 1960s one
They are a little bit more modern hahaha.
Woww, great review my friend, really liked it!
Travelling in Romania a lot as well with train, just been on my vacation in Vienna and a short stay in St.Polten.
Enjoyed reseeing where I've been.
Have a good one and good luck in the future, cheers!
Amazing loving every second of the clip
Thanks so much!
Thanks for mentioning bike onboard facility. It would be great if you mentioned this in every video. :-)
I will try where I have the footage.
Would be nice to know what the rules are for travelling with a bike. I know ICE trains don’t allow it. But every operator is different. :-)
A few years back i came back to Budapest from Zurich in a 6 birth compartment on the NightJet.. it was definitely a "sardine can" experience. looking forward to traveling in one of these upgraded 4 berth compartments.
Excellent video, very informative & professionally presented.
Thanks! :D
Investing in railways and trains would be greener than any other mode of transport
Good Video, thanks for share it.
What a huge improvement, wow! Really impressed by this design. Sadly it'll not be for me, motion sickness is probably still an issue as the beds are still oriented the same relative to direction of travel. But this will be a game changer for nightjet and its brand. Now to change those 80s compartment seating carriages to modern open saloon reclining seats carriages and you really have a full train that'll feel premium and classy.
Sad to hear, but it really is a nice experience now! Thanks for watching.
5:04-These compartments look amazing now.
It's such a difference to the older ones, isn't it!? :)
@@SuperalbsTravels, it is.
Interesting change of narration, from hard-coded text to voice over!
Hope you like it! :)
Very nice video nice to voiceovers again you should try the sleeper varient of the OBB Nightjet
Thanks! I have a video of the sleeper deluxe filmed to come soon...
@@SuperalbsTravels thats good then can't wait!
Fantastic mate I will do it in my quest to tick off all the nightjet routes
Oh good to hear, you must be rich? 😃
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exactly the video i need. thank you!!
Glad it was helpful! :)
Very nice trip with this train, its nice expirins 👍
It was, thanks! :)
Very well done, informative and detailed!
Looks nice. Looking forward to seeing the updated sleeper cars
Me too, that will be incredible! :)
That seems like great value for saving a hotel night
great video. look forward to trying the new ones soon.. have taken the night jet between vienna and zurich many times and am now frequently taking the one between vienna and amsterdam.
Sounds great! Thanks for watching. :)
love the commentary
Thanks! :)
Lol! I was surprised to see a CAT coach at the other end of Austria, but then I remembered they used them for other routes during covid period as CAT train wasn't operating. It also surprises me that the train didn't go to Zurich, as they usually do.
Great Video! One very minor tidbit: I loved that you showed the stations via Google Maps, but unfortunately only connected the stops with direct lines. So for example, did the train follow the Westbahn route all the way, or did it cut through Germany between Salzburg and Innsbruck? The ÖBB website has a map feature that shows the actual route, if you ever plan to do another ÖBB vid. Great work!
Unfortunately there's no way for me to do that without tracing the exact route by hand. I'll try and add a few routeing points in future though. :)
@@SuperalbsTravels Travellers can purchase the wonderful European Rail Timetable in print (preferably) or digital top have far more detailed information. It's a 'Bible' for rail users, and frequently updated. It's by six gentlemen who previously worked for Thomas Cook Publishing.
Beautiful video👍👍👍 ciao from italy 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Ciao!! Grazie!!
Excellent report
Thanks!
I´m going to try it, between Hamburg and Munich this month 😀
Great video !!
Thank you! :)
Woah! Superalbs face and voice reveal?? i like this new style of video as i had to keep pausing the video to read what you said, i like this better 😊
Great video & impressive carriages. Curious: while fairly obvious why services between Vienna & Belarus/Russia are suspended, might you have an idea why Monaco services are also not operating..?
Because it was the same train, Moscow - Vienna - Monaco - Nice.
@@markoobid2005 Ah! Thx!
As Marko said, it was a Russian Railways train that connected the South of France to Wien, then onwards to Minsk and Moskva.
France was not connected to Austria at all for a while, until the introduction of the new Paris train.
Services to Belarus and Russia were actually suspended due to Covid, but I find it unlikely they will return for a long time.
Much much much much prefer this style in your presentations going forward! 😉👍🏻. Just curious … are there deluxe cabins as well or just couchettes? Was there a bar/bird restaurant car? Because the scenery is so beautiful, I’d probably opt for a day rail jet business class seat 😉
Sleeper rooms, including deluxe is available. But I wanted to try out the new style! 😃
Thanks, more like this to come...
No dining car of any sort, but snacks are available from the service compartment.
Hope to see these coaches in Italy someday
They can only go to Germany Austria and Switzerland. There'll be railjet like sets for Italy
I'm excited for the new sets!! :)
I think most travellers will find the mattress uncomfortable. Too firm and too thin. The power and usb sockets kept cutting out so come the morning, our phones and computers had barely been recharged. The reading lights for the top bunks are mounted in the ceiling and are non-adjustable. They're bright and point directly at the occupants in the bottom bunks.
On the plus side, our trains ran on time, the tasty hot and cold snacks were surprisingly affordable and the attendents ranged from good to fantastic.
Overall, I'd still recommend Nightjet. Next time I'll either pack a roll-up foam mattress or go for the full sleeper option.
Love it! Great video!
Thanks!!
Great report, thank you.
Just one little thin I’d like to mention: Hauptbahnhof replaced Südbahnhof and Ostbahnhof. The terminus Westbahnhof is still in operation but has been downgraded
Ooh, didn't even know about Ostbahnhof!
IN the review of the bed, it would have been nice to know how long and wide it is.
I am working on sleeper train services from the Netherlands to destinations like Prague, Budapest, Vienna and Stockholm etc. I have the 'pleasure' to still work with the 1960's carriages tho. Happy to see that it's slowly changing tho
"European Sleeper"?
great video, love austria
Great video! 👌 Loving this updated style. Can tell you put a lot of work into it. Also, your pronunciation of the station names etc seems spot on - do you speak German? 🤔
Thanks! I did a bit of German through school, but I learn pronunciations through my experience when travelling there.
@@SuperalbsTravels I’m impressed. 😁
Hi. Nice video! Well done. I just kindly would like to correct you: the vienna main station replaced east and south station (ostbahnhof and südbahnhof) but not Westbahnhof. The Westbahnhof still exists although it is less important now.
Just to let you know…
schaut wesentlich komfortabler aus als die alten Schlafwagen, bin in altem Schlafwagen kürzlich nach Köln gefahren, war SEHR unerfreulich, fürchtete Seekrank zu werden 🥵
Oh no! :(
It was certainly high-quality, I do wonder what the refurbishhed Schlafwagen will look like, if they are doing that.
actually, the hauptbahnhof replaced the südbahnhof and the ostbahnhof (south and east station). west was never replaced, it is still standing, but with the opening of the lainzer tunnel from meidling to the west, trains from western austria are either terminating at hauptbahnhof or even passing through (since only westbahnhof is a head-railwaystation, süd and east were head stations too).
oh, and north? it's now called praterstern.
New nj Bc4 is cool like a modern ex-Soviet kupe (coupe). I like it.
Good to hear your voice on the videos, you were talking a bit quick in the intro but the rest of the video was fine
I get self-conscious when filming myself in public. 😅😅😅
"The deafening announcements" subtle British put down lol
I booked a 4-litters couchette for our next trip on May 2023 from Wien to Milano, and I don't think I can experience these new wagons. It's a pity that we probably can´t travel on these renewed cars and have to face the older ones, much less modern and confortable. May be next time...
Sadly these carriages are prohibited in Italy, instead brand-new ones will be introduced in summer.
Hi 🙂, can you explain me please: All Night Jet trains for journey example Wien-Bregenz have a brand-new design? Also Couchette? Or only Sleeper Cabin? I would like to travel on July 2023 with two small children and we need some privat room. And I would like to know, what I need to order. On your video, is a 4bed couchette? Or its sleeper cabin? Thank you veru much for your answer. Have a nice day 🙏🙏😉
At the moment, only a few couchette carriages have the new design, with the rest to follow after the new trains come in.
Brand spanking new is always great.
Or in this case, brand spanking refurbished. :)
Great video! And I like it very much that you don' t film yourself all the time. And a nice train! One question, wasn' t there a shower???
Thanks, I'm glad you like the balance and style to my new videos. There is no shower in couchette carriages, only for sleeper passengers.