I hope you have reported this matter to ÖBB. My experience with Austrian authorities has been pleasant and they are very considerate. They cannot give you your night back but they will definitely compensate. I am sorry that you had such a horrible experience with ÖBB which has never been with me. Throughout my stay in Austria I used ÖBB a lot. I find them better than SNCF and DB.
That kind of heat could cause a medical emergency for some people. Surely they could have found a cooler place where you could sit. I'd consider using the lifeless pillow as a cushion and sitting in the narrow hallway.
I took a train from Prague to Berlin. No windows opened. AC broke on entire train. It was 38c outside. My Twix bar emergency rations MELTED. Like soup. Last nail in the take a train coffin.
When you discribed the pillow i was like. That sound bad. Then you lifted the pillow with two fingers and the way the pillow folded was the saddest thing ever. Im sorry but I laught my ass off.
Luckily, these trains will be phased out on this route soon. The mentioned new-generations nightjet trains will start running from this April: also on this Amsterdam Vienna / Innsbruck routes. I do think (/hope) that these will make a great improvement. For those who prefer, these also still feature the traditional 4-berth couchettes.
They literally need to learn from Japan how it’s done. I had the worst experience on OBB from Munich to Wien .. Thanks a bunch, Kevin .. never ever miss my Thursday & Saturday evenings!
Squishy rooms shared with strangers and scarce but conveniently placed power outlets - have to admit I laughed way too heartily. Then the temperature gauge came out. Two things: I’d have made it their problem. Stand in that narrow space called a hallway to cool off? Hell no. I’d drag a (flaccid) pillow and blanket out there and take up aaall the space. It would be pure pleasure debating the merits of returning to a room with dangerously high temps. Second, maybe Camus didn’t need to choose between other people and fire and brimstone to describe hell, maybe he just needed to make this train trip.
Wow! What a nightmare of an experience. We took a train from Amsterdam to Hamburg (albeit not sleeper) but can’t imagine the whole trip in 38 degree heat. Might as well take a flight and call it a day.
I took the nightjet with my wife and two kids from Arnhem to Sankt Pölten. It was a disaster both ways. Old train, noisy, hard beds. Train was parked without electricity and heat after we passed Cologne for 2,5 hours. Never again.
Yeah if it hadn’t be for the “it’ll get better in Germany” spiel, I may have… but then by the time we crossed the border, standing in the hallway became a better option than a potential snowball effect on my itinerary.
Middle of summer in Australia. Living in Sydney NSW ,at last all our public transport is air-conditioning. Last few days been 42c. Like a blast furnace out side
Whilst I'm a rail enthusiast, and always try to get somewhere in Europe by train first, all I can say is that going with a night train is a challenge to say the least. You have to book months in advance to get a spot, the private compartments are hard to come by, prices are a high, sharing with people is a hit and miss, delay prone, problems with rolling stock etc. The last time I was in a train full of boozed up people, and all the toilets were broken bar one. It was a battle and felt unsafe. I arrived in Switzerland a few hours late after problems with the rolling stock. I was completely tired out. I had a day of sightseeing planned , but had zero energy. So lost a full vacation day, and even the days after I still felt the backlash of that sleepless night. Whilst in theory you can save a travel day, in practice for me this was never achieved. And for the money you save when flying you can upgrade yourself to a better hotel (or take a really early flight and sleep at an airport hotel).
Yeah, I have always loved high speed rail and kinda just assumed I’d enjoy overnight trains but 4 outta 4 overnight experiences I’ve had in the past couple years have not been things I’d do again each for different reasons.
@tfft yes the high speed trains are different, and I can travel quite the distance with them from the Netherlands if I start really early. Or drive up to a station in Germany etc . Curious to see your other train trip reports. Thanks !
Since I freeze to death on what is considered normal temperature in most sleeper trains, I can only hope that one day I get to book the cabin u were assigned.
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience, the old trains certainly have a lot of problems and the price usually is quite high for what you get. However, I love travelling by sleeper trains, and have used the öbb nightjet a lot. It's just somewhat magical to fall asleep in one place and wake up to a completely new landscape, and a bit of an adventure, too. I normally use them, when I get a good deal though (which is possible, even only a couple of days before the trip sometimes) and find travelling by nighttrain a lot more relaxing than by plane. I have yet to try the mini cabins, but am looking forward to it!
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. I lived in Amsterdam for nearly six years in the 90s, and often travelled by train to other parts of Europe, including by night train; Amsterdam CS was a five minute walk from my home, so it was dead easy to catch a train, any train. My favourite trip was on Swiss 1st class (ie, Swiss rail cars) to Zuerich, featuring 2 + 1 seats that were effectively large armchairs, and huge panorama windows stretching from quite low to up and over. There's a new and faster track in use today, but at the time it was a gorgeous full day journey starting at 8 am, meandering through beautiful landscapes and along the Rhine, while the windows made you feel you were gliding through the landscape on a magic carpet. You can still travel that route, but you have to do something to not get the faster route. And shame on me (having lived there for so long), I always thought the train station was designed by the same architect (Berlage) who designed the old stock exchange just down the road. In my defence, the styles look very similar, but I'm puzzled why I thought so. Much kudos. :-)
First, they introduced the uncomfortable hour hotel cabines. Then they cook their passengers at the OBB. Their Day service was decent though at few years ago…. Nothing changed in Amsterdam.
Used the Nightjet sleeper from Amsterdam to Zürich 2 years ago. Most uncomfortable travel experience I ever had.. The bed was rock hard, the pillow was the size of a 13" laptop and of equal thickness, the sheet was 30cm short and I couldn't even stretch my legs. On top of that the windows wouldn't open, it was 30 degrees in the cabin, the door wouln't lock, 3 toilets were broken, electricity was down for 80% of the journey and no staff to be found at all. These trains are the new "must do" low cost (for the ones operating them) travel method of Europe. I might have been happy with this if I had lived in the stoneages, but not in the 21st century. Never again, I rather pay 4x the amount and fly than taking a night train.
Nightjet crew are infamous for being rude n indifferent unfortunately. I don’t know why Nightjet and ÖBB don’t address any of the issues that are rampant there
Ugh. Sorry that you had to experience that, Kevin. Personally, I can't stand excessive heat in any situation. I can't imagine trying to actually get some sleep in that oven on rails.
Are you sure you didn’t click the optional sauna in carriage box by mistake? 😂 Sorry you had a bad experience but statistically it’s going happen from time to time.
EUR 200 for a night of extreme heat. It's an overwhelming no from me! I'd rather take an easyJet flight across Europe during the day and spend the money on a decent hotel room with functioning air conditioning.
That sounds absolutely horrible - as well as the experience itself, the lack of sleep must have made it so much harder for your brain to function the following day too. That said, I wouldn't mind trying out one of the capsule pods - I 100% agree on the not wanting to share with strangers thing, plus with them being newer, hopefully their aircon works how it should.
I'm quite sure you had this report some time ago. I remind well the reaction of the dutch employee. Or did you ride a second time me that nightjet with same problem? I doubt. Anyway, I normally watch any of your videos and enjoy them being thankful about the content. That's why I remind....
😂I should look for a dream recorder as I was absolutely sure to see a similar report a year ago. Hope I forecast next time the Powerball combination for a high jackpot and can remind as well 😁😁 Thanks for your inspiring videos. I watch every one!
UA-cam recommended your video and I’m so happy it has!!! Loved your trip report n loved that I didn’t have to read the narrating 😍 as for ÖBB NightJet - so far I’ve only heard negatives mostly. On the new trains pax r complaining about super low temps and that they freeze through the night, recommending others to bring an extra blanket 😂 But 200 for this sh*tshow and staff attitude is criminal (but not unheard of). European leaders are known to talk about the importance of train travel and saving the planet, yet our national operators are often criminal at providing any kind of service. Train travel should be affordable, comfortable and pleasant enough to convince us to leave air travel - THIS is not it. Especially if what I hear is true that ÖBB really don’t like to refund anyone for anything when it comes to NightJet services. Dear European leaders - leave your fancy cars, your private jets, and travel by train yourselves, see whether you like what you’ve COOKed (pun intended).
It depends on the situation, but generally I do not ask. If offered compensation proactively I’ll sometimes take it and consider it part of their service recovery. But, me chasing them for a refund and then getting one makes me feel I’d need to temper a video about an experience like that, something I don’t want to do.
Do the right thing and make a complain . Your AC was obviously broken . Bad Luck . But your cabin looked good . The ride was good . The pillow ... well , there are ways to make a pillow better , by your own . Or like they say : a sailor prepares himself in land . 🤔
38 DEGREES C??? That's the average mid day temperature here in Indonesia, A TROPICAL COUNTRY. Also, you didn't get any compensations?? Here you can get some of your money back if your seat can't recline!
Had an opposite experience in Niagara on the Lake, Canada. Stayed for two nights. Temp in room and max temp available from heating unit was 55 F/13.7C. The teenager at the desk had no solution. Entire motel had been winterized. Of course , no discount.
I am not and never have been a fan of the inside of Amsterdam Centraal (I am a fan of the front facade though) but "poor signage"?? ... how? Signage is not a complaint I hae ever heard before regarding any Dutch station. And I agree.. nowhere in Europe is 38c a "normal sleeping temperature", that would be horrible. You should have gotten a replacement cabin or, if not availabe, at least a big discount.
Most signage in the station centers around small icons which if you aren’t familiar with the system are not easily identifiable. It’s clear they’re trying to make a universal system not reliant on language, but it could have been done much better to help tourists.
@@tfft If that is your experience fair enough mate. It is just something I have never heard before and I have done customer surveys for NS/ProRail (ProRail being the organisation responsible for the rail infra and stations). Heard enough complaints about maintenance or cleanlyness but never about confusing signage.
You have my sympathies my friend. We sleep at around 68. That’s probably on the cool side, yours was just nasty. In fact a pretty dangerous environment for some. All the best with your dealings with OBB
Solved in Germany sure! .... Crew change in Bad Bentheim. This is not acceptable. Did you contact NS International and)or ÖBB about their "service" and get a refund?
Very odd there was some switchboard somewhere in the carriage that they couldn't turn off the power in your cabin. OBB should at least give a refund and should look if there was a simple remedy they can put in there internal documentation, so if problems do arise again they have a solution, because I doubt issues like this won't happen again.
OBB is unwilling to compensate even if your carriage is missing n u have to stand the whole way or are downgraded to a seater cabin. Their Nightjet management is downright criminal.
Unfortunately, 1 can of the French Gnome would be insufficient. I gurantee you after 4 pints of Chouffe, you would have slept like a rock. That's what I'd recommend next time around.
@@loudspkr56789 well sorry to say, but you are right. I live in the Netherlands and the service level is just not there (on many levels ). So basically pay up and shut up (with a few exceptions). I always get a major culture shock when traveling to the middle east etc. A pleasant culture shock at that.
72 degrees if my favorite temp to get a good rest. As much as I love trains I do not think overnight trains are for me. Too noisy and the inconsiderate other folks slamming doors or deciding to have a discussion at 3am so eveybody in the carraige can hear. I have tried it and not something I would do again unfortunately.
Oh yeah, honestly this looks horrible, so sry :( I believe that we should rake a moment to appreciate your videos. Regarding Lufthansa, I believe that you should try their new allegris and their new "tasting heimat" menu on their business short haul flights. It truly is a game changer and the food form the new menu is impeccable. Thanks so much for your videos!
When (and IF) they get Allegris across a decent portion of their fleet I'd love to try, but it's far too much of a gamble at the moment booking just to fly it.
Too bad there are only Thumb Up and Thumb Down choices and not a third: That Sucks (as in "Talking to Ralph on the Big White Phone (or Stainless Steel in your case)). You have my sympathy.
What a shame! We live in a real world and things break or malfunction. There is an upside though these make great stories to tell when you get older. Our world is not perfect and although we wish it to be, SH is always around the corner. (SH = shit happens). The important thing is, stay calm and laugh about it.😂😂😂
8:10 I'm from India and 37°C Temperature is very normal for us. Even in winter season, daytime Temperature cross 35°C and in summer 47°C +. You already have experienced Temperature in india 😅.
@abgeorgeful i don't understand what you write but i think you are asking whether I'm truth or lie, right?? So I'm from Surat and currently there is winter season in india still in Surat daytime temperature is 35°C and in summer it's upto 47°C and if you are in rajasthan, Delhi, UP, Bihar, South India and some part of Kashmir and Ladakh; temperature cross 49°C. Sometimes 50.
@VishalVarma_14 is that recently, I mean sice the last 10 years or so? It's getting warmer here as well. Wondering is the case surat as well. We are getting some days above 30 when it's not monsoon season
@abgeorgeful summer is always hot. But winter is hot which I'm seeing for the first time. Global warming. In monsoon, temperature around 25-30 in Surat.
I hope you have reported this matter to ÖBB. My experience with Austrian authorities has been pleasant and they are very considerate. They cannot give you your night back but they will definitely compensate. I am sorry that you had such a horrible experience with ÖBB which has never been with me. Throughout my stay in Austria I used ÖBB a lot. I find them better than SNCF and DB.
They were very pleasant on my next train with them, for what it's worth lol
1:42 “This is what they’ve been doing here in the Netherlands for centuries”. Kevin delivered straight-up truth!
Half of the country wouldn’t be there without that fact! Haha
That kind of heat could cause a medical emergency for some people. Surely they could have found a cooler place where you could sit. I'd consider using the lifeless pillow as a cushion and sitting in the narrow hallway.
Yeah which makes the cabin attendant’s response all the more outrageous.
Quite unbelievable heating failure. Trying to sleep under such conditions is not for the faint of heart
When I saw your use of a Nightjet bag to block the vent, I laughed: upside down it seemed to spell BBQ. And your compartment surely was.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thank u for the laugh!!
I took a train from Prague to Berlin. No windows opened. AC broke on entire train. It was 38c outside. My Twix bar emergency rations MELTED. Like soup. Last nail in the take a train coffin.
Thanks for the info + video!
When you discribed the pillow i was like. That sound bad. Then you lifted the pillow with two fingers and the way the pillow folded was the saddest thing ever. Im sorry but I laught my ass off.
Luckily, these trains will be phased out on this route soon. The mentioned new-generations nightjet trains will start running from this April: also on this Amsterdam Vienna / Innsbruck routes. I do think (/hope) that these will make a great improvement. For those who prefer, these also still feature the traditional 4-berth couchettes.
with control cab or not?
@@luka2595Not in NL anyways, because the control cabs don’t feature ATB, the Dutch security system. Maybe across the border when swiched to ERTMS?
They literally need to learn from Japan how it’s done. I had the worst experience on OBB from Munich to Wien .. Thanks a bunch, Kevin .. never ever miss my Thursday & Saturday evenings!
Japan only runs 1 regular night train, there isn't much to learn from them.
Squishy rooms shared with strangers and scarce but conveniently placed power outlets - have to admit I laughed way too heartily. Then the temperature gauge came out. Two things: I’d have made it their problem. Stand in that narrow space called a hallway to cool off? Hell no. I’d drag a (flaccid) pillow and blanket out there and take up aaall the space. It would be pure pleasure debating the merits of returning to a room with dangerously high temps. Second, maybe Camus didn’t need to choose between other people and fire and brimstone to describe hell, maybe he just needed to make this train trip.
At that temperature, old people in Europe actually die. This is shocking.
Wow! What a nightmare of an experience. We took a train from Amsterdam to Hamburg (albeit not sleeper) but can’t imagine the whole trip in 38 degree heat. Might as well take a flight and call it a day.
Forced Scandinavian sauna experience 🥵
Find the breaker panel, pull the breaker. Or simply beat the heater until it stops working.
I took the nightjet with my wife and two kids from Arnhem to Sankt Pölten. It was a disaster both ways. Old train, noisy, hard beds. Train was parked without electricity and heat after we passed Cologne for 2,5 hours. Never again.
38C isn't even a safe temperature, let alone a comfortable one. I probably would have gotten off.
Yeah if it hadn’t be for the “it’ll get better in Germany” spiel, I may have… but then by the time we crossed the border, standing in the hallway became a better option than a potential snowball effect on my itinerary.
@@tfft while there is diffrent voltage in overhead wires, the voltage to wagons is the same as is converted in locomotive
Middle of summer in Australia. Living in Sydney NSW ,at last all our public transport is air-conditioning. Last few days been 42c. Like a blast furnace out side
Whilst I'm a rail enthusiast, and always try to get somewhere in Europe by train first, all I can say is that going with a night train is a challenge to say the least. You have to book months in advance to get a spot, the private compartments are hard to come by, prices are a high, sharing with people is a hit and miss, delay prone, problems with rolling stock etc. The last time I was in a train full of boozed up people, and all the toilets were broken bar one. It was a battle and felt unsafe. I arrived in Switzerland a few hours late after problems with the rolling stock. I was completely tired out. I had a day of sightseeing planned , but had zero energy. So lost a full vacation day, and even the days after I still felt the backlash of that sleepless night. Whilst in theory you can save a travel day, in practice for me this was never achieved. And for the money you save when flying you can upgrade yourself to a better hotel (or take a really early flight and sleep at an airport hotel).
Yeah, I have always loved high speed rail and kinda just assumed I’d enjoy overnight trains but 4 outta 4 overnight experiences I’ve had in the past couple years have not been things I’d do again each for different reasons.
@tfft yes the high speed trains are different, and I can travel quite the distance with them from the Netherlands if I start really early. Or drive up to a station in Germany etc . Curious to see your other train trip reports. Thanks !
Since I freeze to death on what is considered normal temperature in most sleeper trains, I can only hope that one day I get to book the cabin u were assigned.
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience, the old trains certainly have a lot of problems and the price usually is quite high for what you get. However, I love travelling by sleeper trains, and have used the öbb nightjet a lot. It's just somewhat magical to fall asleep in one place and wake up to a completely new landscape, and a bit of an adventure, too. I normally use them, when I get a good deal though (which is possible, even only a couple of days before the trip sometimes) and find travelling by nighttrain a lot more relaxing than by plane. I have yet to try the mini cabins, but am looking forward to it!
13:22 Told my dog to stop barking - you got me.
I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. I lived in Amsterdam for nearly six years in the 90s, and often travelled by train to other parts of Europe, including by night train; Amsterdam CS was a five minute walk from my home, so it was dead easy to catch a train, any train. My favourite trip was on Swiss 1st class (ie, Swiss rail cars) to Zuerich, featuring 2 + 1 seats that were effectively large armchairs, and huge panorama windows stretching from quite low to up and over. There's a new and faster track in use today, but at the time it was a gorgeous full day journey starting at 8 am, meandering through beautiful landscapes and along the Rhine, while the windows made you feel you were gliding through the landscape on a magic carpet. You can still travel that route, but you have to do something to not get the faster route. And shame on me (having lived there for so long), I always thought the train station was designed by the same architect (Berlage) who designed the old stock exchange just down the road. In my defence, the styles look very similar, but I'm puzzled why I thought so. Much kudos. :-)
I would have considered inserting a slice of breakfast cheese in to the vent before leaving the train.
First, they introduced the uncomfortable hour hotel cabines. Then they cook their passengers at the OBB. Their Day service was decent though at few years ago….
Nothing changed in Amsterdam.
When was this recorded? Doesn't look cold a I have experienced the last couple of months.
Ohhhh train review! Love it
Used the Nightjet sleeper from Amsterdam to Zürich 2 years ago. Most uncomfortable travel experience I ever had.. The bed was rock hard, the pillow was the size of a 13" laptop and of equal thickness, the sheet was 30cm short and I couldn't even stretch my legs. On top of that the windows wouldn't open, it was 30 degrees in the cabin, the door wouln't lock, 3 toilets were broken, electricity was down for 80% of the journey and no staff to be found at all. These trains are the new "must do" low cost (for the ones operating them) travel method of Europe. I might have been happy with this if I had lived in the stoneages, but not in the 21st century. Never again, I rather pay 4x the amount and fly than taking a night train.
Sounds like a case for a refund as your room was uninhabitable and changing to another was refused.
Quite possibly so.
For 200 euro you can get a business class one way perhaps? Even economy is better then that sauna!
Great review as always!
11:38 This is plain torture to watch! You should get more than a refund. Any chance of that happening?
I like about 21 degrees. Also, I enjoyed your review.
Thank you for an honest report. Bureaucrats simply don't care. Apply for a refund and see if that gets any attention.
It usually doesn’t until you threaten with legal action.
Yes, yes, it was all probably just a bit of Dutch humor that an iced Americano could not quite extinguish 🤣
Thank You ✈️
Damn, that was a wild ride!
Hope you were or will be compensated by ÖBB for that!
That response from the train attendant is unacceptable...no no negligent! Did he expect you to boil to death in the room?!
Nightjet crew are infamous for being rude n indifferent unfortunately. I don’t know why Nightjet and ÖBB don’t address any of the issues that are rampant there
37c 🥵, 30c is my night time limit.
I hope they at bare minimum took that room out of service until it was fixed, so unsafe.
Ugh. Sorry that you had to experience that, Kevin. Personally, I can't stand excessive heat in any situation. I can't imagine trying to actually get some sleep in that oven on rails.
Steam valve failed? They fail in the open position and just keep cooking 🧑🍳 until replaced.
No idea tbh, but I'd be surprised if something like that could effect just one cabin.
Are you sure you didn’t click the optional sauna in carriage box by mistake? 😂 Sorry you had a bad experience but statistically it’s going happen from time to time.
EUR 200 for a night of extreme heat. It's an overwhelming no from me! I'd rather take an easyJet flight across Europe during the day and spend the money on a decent hotel room with functioning air conditioning.
Ah German pillows! Whenever I stay anywhere I bring my own. (and l live in Germany)
i hope you claimed compensation??
08:07 HOLY MOLY 😳
That sounds absolutely horrible - as well as the experience itself, the lack of sleep must have made it so much harder for your brain to function the following day too.
That said, I wouldn't mind trying out one of the capsule pods - I 100% agree on the not wanting to share with strangers thing, plus with them being newer, hopefully their aircon works how it should.
I'm quite sure you had this report some time ago. I remind well the reaction of the dutch employee.
Or did you ride a second time me that nightjet with same problem? I doubt.
Anyway, I normally watch any of your videos and enjoy them being thankful about the content. That's why I remind....
This was my first ever ride on Nightjet and last week was my first ever video of any train in Europe…
😂I should look for a dream recorder as I was absolutely sure to see a similar report a year ago. Hope I forecast next time the Powerball combination for a high jackpot and can remind as well 😁😁
Thanks for your inspiring videos.
I watch every one!
Yeah actually I have a big trip coming up soon, if you could just let me know if any of my flights will be cancelled, I'd be very thankful 😅
I assume The Heat Is On by Glenn Frey is playing on a loop on your Spotify …..
09:23 🤦♂ what a brilliantly stupid excuse
😱 so sorry, what a drag of a trip!!
UA-cam recommended your video and I’m so happy it has!!! Loved your trip report n loved that I didn’t have to read the narrating 😍 as for ÖBB NightJet - so far I’ve only heard negatives mostly. On the new trains pax r complaining about super low temps and that they freeze through the night, recommending others to bring an extra blanket 😂 But 200 for this sh*tshow and staff attitude is criminal (but not unheard of). European leaders are known to talk about the importance of train travel and saving the planet, yet our national operators are often criminal at providing any kind of service. Train travel should be affordable, comfortable and pleasant enough to convince us to leave air travel - THIS is not it. Especially if what I hear is true that ÖBB really don’t like to refund anyone for anything when it comes to NightJet services. Dear European leaders - leave your fancy cars, your private jets, and travel by train yourselves, see whether you like what you’ve COOKed (pun intended).
you got a lovely encounter with the NS staff i assume, that's when you gotta bring in your inner Karen
I’m from sunny Singapore and I can tell u nobody enjoys 30+C heat
You are another. I watched yesterday the film about the same.
My apologies for the way you were treated by my countrymen….you deserved way better 🥵🤬 🙏🏼
He was so unbothered by it you would have thought I just asked a random passenger to fix the train haha!
@ 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Curious if you asked for compensation (you should) and the outcome
It depends on the situation, but generally I do not ask. If offered compensation proactively I’ll sometimes take it and consider it part of their service recovery. But, me chasing them for a refund and then getting one makes me feel I’d need to temper a video about an experience like that, something I don’t want to do.
Based on online reviews OBB take the piss with displeased n disappointed passengers and only offer anything once you threaten with legal action.
Do the right thing and make a complain . Your AC was obviously broken . Bad Luck . But your cabin
looked good . The ride was good . The pillow ... well , there are ways to make a pillow better , by your own . Or like they say : a sailor prepares himself in land . 🤔
I had a heat stroke just watching your video! 🤯 They better do something extra nice to you, it’s so unacceptable!
I won't hold my breath lol
Did you book a sauna?
I was on a Ukrainian Railways overnite a couple years ago, same problem.
Just fly 😂
09:10 What the hell? I'm usually very sympathetic and patient, but that sort of attitude from anyone would result in a broken nose at a minimum.
38 DEGREES C??? That's the average mid day temperature here in Indonesia, A TROPICAL COUNTRY. Also, you didn't get any compensations?? Here you can get some of your money back if your seat can't recline!
Personally, I would have given the on board experience a - 57/20 for an even 0 overall
Had an opposite experience in Niagara on the Lake, Canada. Stayed for two nights. Temp in room and max temp available from heating unit was 55 F/13.7C. The teenager at the desk had no solution. Entire motel had been winterized. Of course , no discount.
I am not and never have been a fan of the inside of Amsterdam Centraal (I am a fan of the front facade though) but "poor signage"?? ... how? Signage is not a complaint I hae ever heard before regarding any Dutch station.
And I agree.. nowhere in Europe is 38c a "normal sleeping temperature", that would be horrible. You should have gotten a replacement cabin or, if not availabe, at least a big discount.
Most signage in the station centers around small icons which if you aren’t familiar with the system are not easily identifiable. It’s clear they’re trying to make a universal system not reliant on language, but it could have been done much better to help tourists.
@@tfft If that is your experience fair enough mate. It is just something I have never heard before and I have done customer surveys for NS/ProRail (ProRail being the organisation responsible for the rail infra and stations). Heard enough complaints about maintenance or cleanlyness but never about confusing signage.
You have my sympathies my friend. We sleep at around 68. That’s probably on the cool side, yours was just nasty. In fact a pretty dangerous environment for some. All the best with your dealings with OBB
09:48 🤦♂What The Hell?!
Solved in Germany sure! .... Crew change in Bad Bentheim. This is not acceptable. Did you contact NS International and)or ÖBB about their "service" and get a refund?
11:14 😲 This is gotta be a extremely tasteless joke
Very odd there was some switchboard somewhere in the carriage that they couldn't turn off the power in your cabin.
OBB should at least give a refund and should look if there was a simple remedy they can put in there internal documentation, so if problems do arise again they have a solution, because I doubt issues like this won't happen again.
I’d definitely agree with the documentation and training. Surely this isn’t the first time it’s ever happened.
OBB is unwilling to compensate even if your carriage is missing n u have to stand the whole way or are downgraded to a seater cabin. Their Nightjet management is downright criminal.
Unfortunately, 1 can of the French Gnome would be insufficient. I gurantee you after 4 pints of Chouffe, you would have slept like a rock. That's what I'd recommend next time around.
Sorry, Kevin, I know you had a Hangry time, but I just had to laugh, sorry!
with all your luxury comfortable experience in Asia, Europe seems like a third world country
I assure you it's not all roses and tulips in Asia lol
@@loudspkr56789 well sorry to say, but you are right. I live in the Netherlands and the service level is just not there (on many levels ). So basically pay up and shut up (with a few exceptions). I always get a major culture shock when traveling to the middle east etc. A pleasant culture shock at that.
72 degrees if my favorite temp to get a good rest. As much as I love trains I do not think overnight trains are for me. Too noisy and the inconsiderate other folks slamming doors or deciding to have a discussion at 3am so eveybody in the carraige can hear. I have tried it and not something I would do again unfortunately.
Oh yeah, honestly this looks horrible, so sry :( I believe that we should rake a moment to appreciate your videos. Regarding Lufthansa, I believe that you should try their new allegris and their new "tasting heimat" menu on their business short haul flights. It truly is a game changer and the food form the new menu is impeccable. Thanks so much for your videos!
When (and IF) they get Allegris across a decent portion of their fleet I'd love to try, but it's far too much of a gamble at the moment booking just to fly it.
trains are alas no alternative! prefer a plane and you're within 2 hours in Vienna!
Still have 57 points? that's too nice lol, no refund?
Credit where it's due, even if the overall experience was... hell lol
I hope you got at least 80% of the ticket reimbursed, since the cabin you booked was essentially unusable.
Too bad there are only Thumb Up and Thumb Down choices and not a third: That Sucks (as in "Talking to Ralph on the Big White Phone (or Stainless Steel in your case)). You have my sympathy.
38 c is hot,too hot,although i have slept in such heat on my travels in various tropical nations.
Ohh, dear
I would have thought they could at least tape over the vent...
They didn’t have any…
Was there no bar car or dining car on your train? At least that would’ve been a place to go to escape the sauna in your room.
No, Nightjet trains don’t have a dining car- food is brought directly from the kitchen to your cabin.
sounds like broken AC
Lol! I live 1 degree north of the equator and I don't t think 37 degrees is sleepable... Let alone any Europeans....
That looks like a horrible experience. 🖐🏼🖐🏼
A great review as always. You should have demanded a FULL refund from those bastards!!!. Piss poor european customer service!!!!!!
LITERALLY HELL ON EARTH. Urgh
Welp, I guess it can’t always be champagne wishes and caviar dreams 😂😅😅🎉
Uhm you can fly really cheap......
You can walk even cheaper……
What a shame! We live in a real world and things break or malfunction. There is an upside though these make great stories to tell when you get older. Our world is not perfect and although we wish it to be, SH is always around the corner. (SH = shit happens). The important thing is, stay calm and laugh about it.😂😂😂
8:10 I'm from India and 37°C Temperature is very normal for us. Even in winter season, daytime Temperature cross 35°C and in summer 47°C +. You already have experienced Temperature in india 😅.
Normal? Where I india are you from,?.... where am from in india that's waaaaaaayyy too hot
@abgeorgeful i don't understand what you write but i think you are asking whether I'm truth or lie, right?? So I'm from Surat and currently there is winter season in india still in Surat daytime temperature is 35°C and in summer it's upto 47°C and if you are in rajasthan, Delhi, UP, Bihar, South India and some part of Kashmir and Ladakh; temperature cross 49°C. Sometimes 50.
@VishalVarma_14 is that recently, I mean sice the last 10 years or so? It's getting warmer here as well. Wondering is the case surat as well. We are getting some days above 30 when it's not monsoon season
@abgeorgeful summer is always hot. But winter is hot which I'm seeing for the first time. Global warming. In monsoon, temperature around 25-30 in Surat.
When it’s 37C in India people try to avoid going out and use either coolers or ACs indoors.
In Austria we say ... "riding on an öbb train"
It is always shit
ÖBB is still better than our neighboring state railways (Switzerland may be an exception).
Europe: land of graffiti, used cigarette butts and chewing gum.
He seems like a guy that would complain just about anything. Imagine having to listen to that every day.
Lay off the drugs bud.
Yikes. The start and the title sounds like a disaster of a ride already. Hope you hydrated yourself after the ride!
I don’t think there was enough water in Amsterdam… 😅
FYI I watched this video for your wonderful humour.😂 Europe is so over-rated..
how do you feel about josh Cahill being subscribed to you lmfao
…eh?
Who tf cares?
@danjomanjo2941 I mean it's something
not tryna say it's a good or bad thing tho
Oh the hysterical adolescent who loooooves to create drama n being fake with other UA-camrs? Ehh.