Overnight on Arctic Circle Sleeper Train - The Lapland Express
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- Опубліковано 10 чер 2024
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Join me today on the Arctic Sleeper train to Lapland where i'll be trying out the best First Class, ensuite bedroom for a 13 hour trip to the furthest North i've ever ventured. This will be quite the experience travelling from Helsinki central station all the way to the Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle. I'll not only show my ensuite bedroom but also show you what Coach is like and my thoughts on whether I could do an overnight train in a recliner! I'll explore all elements of the onboard service, from dinner in the dining car, to breakfast and what the different carriages are like (such as bikes & pets!).
0:00 - Starting our Journey
1:28 - Getting onboard
3:00 - The Dining Car
5:25 - Bedroom Tour
9:07 - Day 2 Lapland
10:44 - Breakfast
12:04 - Coach Tour
15:19 - Welcome to Arctic Circle
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Cool
nice
@@bobbyfairways490 this is my job Robert
Amazing train report! Keep it up! 😀
@@Andrew-Wong thanks 🙏🏼
Long train rides and winter is a perfect match.
Verified give me some clout
Winter in general is perfect
Polar Express intensifies
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Unless nuclear winter 💀
I've been in a deep depression and your videos have helped me escape through this difficult period. Thank you
I’m so glad that my videos can help you. Much love, you’ve got this 👊🏼
@@Trektrendy I really appreciate it thanks. I used to travel a lot before the pandemic so these videos remind me of better times. I'm getting there one day at a time and one upload at a time 🤗
Better times will come... I've been through it and I can guarantee that... greetings from Brazil...
@Neville Townsend
How you doing?
@@UBZUKki doing much much better now thanks
I live in Rovaniemi and take this exact train from Helsinki to Rovaniemi a few times a year (traveling for work). I couldn't help but smile when you said something about a person having to be hardcore to sleep on the economy class seats, because that's what I do every time. :D It was so fascinating to see the journey through your eyes!
Came this way on the last day of 1990 from Jyväskylä via Seinäjoki, using only a seat both ways. Walked on the frozen Kemijoki up to the Napaapiiri (Arctic Circle) past amazing Finnish granite glowing pink through the ice and snow blanketing the landscape. Suomi on kaunis, maaginen maa.
Loving the train rides! May not be as luxurious and sensational as first class flying, but the scenes are beyond anything money can buy. Really makes you appreciate the terrain, nature, diversity, and culture of places around the world.
Does anybody always forget about the real world when their watching this? Like they feel like they actually went in a trip with him!
Agree
Well, it is the real world, travelling the world. It gives out great information too. Love it and never realized the privacy that can be had in a sleeper car on the train. Always learn something new alright.
Beats a plane trip honestly, being perched into small seats like sardines and not seeing much of the countries or states one travels through.
Yeah... I feel we all did
Finland is real world, i live here. But thanks! ;
As a Finn, it's interesting to see your perspective on our trains :) Glad you enjoyed!
Very expensive, prison space & food, so often empty night trains. We did better decades ago, the speed excluded. I am ashamed. Sad.
I'd enjoy do this trip
What can one explore in the Arctic Circle?
@@girishsavant2302 the most popular thing is probably the house of Santa Claus
@@ollipaukola8541 No natural wonders?
During my Army years, I was stationed in Germany in the early 90s. I did security missions on trains. There was usually a "guard car" where we lived for the duration. We had to bring everything we needed to survive for lengthy trips. Still, it was some of the best sleep I've ever had. Loved watching Europe go past my window. Except France.....had some issues with the French.
@@r6vinaros556 :)
Where are you from?
@@mxmln.hrtnnn usa probs
Whats wrong with French my brother? 😀 I went to Marseille once, its a beautiful city. Except for the language barrier, no one that I met in the streets understand english 🤣
@@haninditabudhi6574 I visited Paris and Normandy. The people were very nice. When people of Normandy learned I had been in the 82nd Airborne Division....almost 50 years after D-Day...the people were very kind to me. On the train missions, we would get good treatment for other European countries. But in the dead of winter, the French refused to heat our guard car. "Our system cannot work on your car." But when we would get to the Italian border, their train-yard people would shake their heads and tell us that the "system" works on all European trains, and they have had the same problem with the French.
The wait outside Helsinki is usually to add cartrain, you can actually bring your car on the train.
We did this trip a few years back and it was awesome. They used to do a free breakfast box for all sleeper passengers. You were stopped a while outside of Helsinki because they were attaching a carriage containing cars other passengers were taking up North. We got on at a station just outside Helsinki after loading our car on to a separate carriage which was attached to the end of the train. ( Made visiting Santa and other Artic circle sights much easier as Uber doesn’t have the best coverage up there!!!)
These train videos are so cool!!! I’d love to ride in a sleeper like that! Keep up the dope videos bro!! I’ll always be a happy subscriber!!
Hmm
Same
I know, I would jump into that one in a heartbeat. Geez, it is a nice relaxing way to travel.
We were there last Christmas. It was absolutely great experience from Helsinki to Rovaniemi especially if you are in the room with bed and bath. You also got a chance to see the northern light along the route. Thanks for reviewing this trip!
That was a lot of fun to watch. Train looked very clean and spacious
I’m Swedish so taking this trip in Finland is on my list of things to do! I live alongside the railroad between Gothenburg and Stockholm so my idea is to take the express train (MTR Express or SJ X200) up to Stockholm and then take the ferry, preferably Silja Line over to Helsinki and then the sleeper train up in Finland before somehow going over to the Swedish north, rent a car in Kiruna to drive out to the Kiruna mountains and over to Narvik in Norway and maybe some more places in Norway like Senja and Tromsø that aren’t too far away, and then take the SJ sleeper train home from Kiruna or Luleå. I spent time in the far north every summer of my childhood, road tripping with car and caravan, usually about 5000-6000km in a 4-5 week period, for me to take this trip I’m planning on my mind, it would be both to see new things (haven’t really been to Finland other than passing through a part of the far north on the way to Norway) and experience new ways of traveling as I (still) haven’t taken the ferry to Finland (or spent much time on a ferry at all, only a mini cruise from Gothenburg to Newcastle and back once, and some shorter trips) and the only time I’ve been on sleeper train was in China when going to and from Beijing from a city near Shanghai. The trip would also mean visiting places I remember from my childhood and that means a lot to me. Tromsø is a really beautiful city, as is the surrounding area, Senja may well be the most beautiful island of Norway, Narvik is really nice as well as is the road from the Swedish border in Riksgränsen. And the E10 from Kiruna over to Norway just has a special place in my heart with going alongside Torne Träsk, seeing the mountains towering around you with Malmbanan on the side of the road. Then in Abisko... Take the ski lift up on the mountain and just sit there and be astounded by the view with the lake on the left, Lapporten on the right and just Swedish mountain nature when it’s at its best! When I just relax, my mind travels to that mountain in Abisko...
I’m an ambulatory wheelchair user with severe chronic pain though, so a trip like this would be very demanding, but I will do it, one day, and very likely document it as well and probably upload on UA-cam if UA-cam still exists by that time (there’s no knowing when I’ll take this trip and what the world looks like then)
Wow...that was some amazing description...it was like....i was there.
Hope you make that trip soon.
Cheers and good health.
the day ship from Stockholm to Turku/ÅBO is amazingly beautiful. From there one can proceed onward
That sounds an awesome travel plan!
Wow. Sounds like a wonderful trip. I travelled through Norway, Sweden and Finland (and Estonia and Russia) 30 years ago (from US). Scandinavia was so beautiful. Reading your plans makes me want to redo the trip! Hope you do it.
@@johnl5316 Yes it is, and sleepers also depart from Turku!
Man this has quickly become one of my favorite channels on youtube
Thanks so much Drew
Pretty cool how those cabins are designed: Compact and sparse, but comfortable and fully functional, with food always just down the corridor. They have similar service in Japan, as I imagine is the case in numerous other countries. Would love to go on such a journey someday.
I absolutely loved Snowpiercer the series, nice to see refernces. Greetings from a Finn!
I really appreciate that you included the door card footage. These things are extremely helpful yet so often overlooked in reviews. Loving the content mate!
Hi Will. It's so great to see another train adventure. I am a plane and train enthusiast and feel like I've hit the jackpot with your channel. One of my all time favorite overnight sleeper car trips was taking the train from Oslo to Bergen in the winter. I didn't get much sleep as I couldn't stop looking out the window as the train wound its way through the mountains. It was snowing and the the scenery was incredibly beautiful. Can't wait to see more of your trip up north. Take care and have a great week. 👍🏻 💯
I did that trip during a summer day. . well was summer in oslo, spring as you headed west, winter at the highest points then autumn in Bergen. . . was my best day ever
Good to see a combination of freezing cold and a train journey. Really excited to be there once in a lifetime.
I love Finland...so beautiful!!🥰❤️
honestly these train videos are much more cozy and fun to watch compared to flights
Does ANYBODY out there actually enjoy plane travel? Heck usually the BUS is more enjoyable.
@@mikearchibald744 Yes I enjoy flying-but I would love to go on a train ride....it seems luxurious & fun.
@@robertdefrank2550 It is, maybe you have more money that me, becuase for most of us plane travel is less roomy than the bus, and if you crash there's a much higher chance you aren't walking out of it. Plus for the most part they are crappy views, although I must admit they can be pretty awesome. Like when you descend through the clouds and see the cities, or go above the clouds and can see a night sky like never before. But after ten minutes I'm always "wow, if something happened to the engines now, we'd be toast".
But here in canada our trains are pretty crappy as well. Switzlerland on a train was pretty awesome.
That intro was absolutely brilliant! Huge fan of snowpiercer the show!
Absolutely love this narrator. He’s unassuming and he doesn’t make the content about him but rather the travel is first.
Great channel, soothing and entertaining content.
Thanks for watching my friend :)
@@Trektrendy you’ve got a new fan from Atlanta, Georgia and I’m very picky about the UA-cam content I really enjoy.
I’ve been binging on your videos, awesome stuff. Keep creating great stuff and stay safe in your travels!
I lived in Lapland for 10 years and when it comes to biking in wintertime, using a simple bicycle to get around was the norm. The plow trucks clear everywhere around the clock. I was so used to biking around in wintertime, no special winter tires, either or mountain- or fat bikes, just a basic, simple bike. ❄🚲❄
I enjoy your air travel vids, but the train travel is absolutely fascinating to me. Thank you for doing the trains!
I've made this overnight journey myself, but on the Swedish side of the Baltic sea.
I'm 6'8, so I guess my experience was from quite a unique perspective. The shower certainly is an awesome feature! The shower in the SJ sleeper train was however in a separate room, looked like a mini spa with wooden details, plants, benches and piles of folded towels
I spent 3 weeks in Helsinki in 1993. Really great train station. Also some of the bluest skies at noon Inhad ever seen. Never took a train ride though. So I really enjoyed this.
I know airplane videos are your bread and butter but these train videos are magical.
Relatively new to your channel, but I really appreciate how concise, and yet still thorough, your travel vlogs are. Enough content to give us a sense of things, and not overly long as some can be. Thank you!
Hear hear!
So cool that you made your way from America to Finland, when I never thought you would come to Finland, when I thought you more intrested in the American trains. I myself live pretty close to the Helsinki Railway station and month ago I went in holiday to lapland with night train that looks exactly like yours and then came back, so this video just looks so familiar to me.
Have actually been to Lapland to see Santa and it was an amazing experience I recommend to all families to go there ♥️
I would definitely take the bottom bunk as I tend to have to get up to use the boys' room once or twice an evening. And I know if I were to try to do this from the top bunk, I would likely be seriously injured along with probably stepping onto whoever was in the bottom bunk.
Keep up the interesting videos!
Love seeing all the cool places you go and how u get there!! I am disabled and poor lol so living my travel Fantasy’s through you
Keep up the great work have fun stay safe
Loving more of these train vids!
Um, I can't stop watching your videos. Don't think I'd want to take all of these trips but good on you to make these happen and record your adventures. All very well done and thank you for sharing. Enjoy all of it.
I absolutely love these videos! I feel like I'm actually doing something productive on UA-cam ... because I'm learning just by watching 🙂
I have no idea why this is so entertaining. Thank you!
The 1/2 hr wait close to Central Station might have been because they add the car carriage to your train. Some of us travel with car on-board
Very detailed and witty as well. Loved the coverage.
I love this. Fresh perspective on what is a normal work trip for many Fins. 😅
Loving these Train journeys 👍🏻 so relaxing 🤌🏼
Hi! I’ve binge watched the whole channel and now this pops up. Hope you had a good time and maybe show some Rovaniemi experiece too 👍
And to add, there’s also usually a nightless night train trip during midsummer fest when the sun doesn’t set at all. Maybe more of a crowded train then also with more Jaeger 😄Just a hint if you wanna visit again 👍
Trains are becoming extremely popular! I can see why
First time watching , not a bad train ride
I did not travel as far when I traveled to mid Finland, but was sitting in coach. No the seats do not recline much, nor do they in Denmark. The night train has returned from Copenhagen to Berlin after many years absence, was absent before COVID. Thanks for sharing!
i just love these train vids. i think i've already said this but it just gets you the feeling that your also in the train and enjoying the experiences. Good job Will!
Man, that IS way up there. By the publication date of March, evidently you said this trip was taken in Winter? I can't believe that! In winter on the Circle, you should be in perpetual darkness. Greetings from LA.
Thank you so much @Trek Trendy for yet another awesome video! When they come to the end I am so enjoying them that I don’t want them to end and can’t believe it’s time for the video to end… Lol… Thank you for taking us on another awesome train adventure! And thank you @Square Space for sponsoring this video…! Wonderful, peaceful, joyful, fun blessings to all! 🙏🤠🪶🙃🦉☮️🤪🍀😇🫶🏼💐🌞🥳💗🥰✌🏽🍶🤟🏽
Absolutely enjoy your travel videos. Not only is the info useful, but your videography and editing skill is really top notch too.
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I wish Amtrak had a way of letting the rider lock the cabin door when leaving it unattended.
We have been snowed in in Japan for a few days, and have watched and enjoyed your vids. Thank you. Liked and subbed!
I made that journey nearly 35 years ago.. It was a lot different then. The trains were a lot more rattly and I remember waking up in the middle of the night and deciding to stretch my legs only to forget when compartment I was in.. It took an hour of trying doors and getting shouted at before I found it. I don't know if it is still a thing, but you used to pass a big sign and a line of borders that announced: "Welcome to the Artic Circle".
I remember when you were on 70k subs and I started following you! Your progress since then has been awesome!
Loving the train reviews btw
I'd love to see you do more trains! This and your last train one was awesome to watch!
I work as a conductor on these night trains to Lapland! :D Unfortunately I wasn't on duty the day you travelled to Rovaniemi. Cheers from Finland!
If luxury train cruises interest you, I can recommend the Ghan or the Indian Pacific down in Australia. It's basically like a guided tour on a luxury train with all the good things you would expect from that, through some of the most beautiful country in the world.
Thanks for taking us along on this very interesting journey !
Wow how I wish to visit arctic circle taking the night time train heading to Lapland.🙏❤️
The Snowpierecer line was so under appreciated!
I love to see more train reviews! Keep up the awesome content!
That looked like what Amtrak "should" aspire to be, and maybe it will with the replacement of the 50+ year old rolling stock soon. Impressed you were able to get any kind of dinner when you boarded, just because of the hour...meaning Amtrak would not have offered anything but snacks. Cool frozen ride! Haha. As I do my best to avoid snow/ice, and have no interest in anything above the Arctic Circle...I'll live though others travels. At least until the summer arrives. haha. Look forward to next week!
summer in the Arctic is 24x7 SUN & fun
Train view is always mesmerizing
How exciting to travel to the artic circle. The train has all the necessary comforts, food looks delicious, and the landscape is beautiful. Thanks for giving us a train ride to such an interesting destination.
You have to do the overnight train from Hanoi to Hue in Vietnam. I did it. it 4 to a room, with bunks on both sides. My tour group was 16, with 6 men and 8 women. At the time I was 49, with bad knees. Father an son- obviously they got one side. I was paired with 40 year man who popped 240. I ended up on the top bunk. It's not terrible.
These trains are really cool!! Looking forward to more!! And I also love the winter travel views as well! 🙂
Thankyou for sharing your experience, love these train journeys
Thank you so much taking us to a journey in Lapland.
You always drop videos right when it’s my lunch break at work. Really enjoying your train series. Killed me with the Snowpiercer joke I just got into the television version. You should have worn teal! Lol
Yes! Another train video! I love these types of videos keep up the amazing work!
Hi skittle
I wish the snowpiercer series explained and showed how the traincars work and depends on each other because of its sections and classes
That room is much bigger than an Amtrak sleeper room with a bathroom. When the bottom bed was down from it's seat position there was 2 inches of clearance between the bed and wall. Nice video. Beautiful scenery. We took our first Amtrak train in June 2021 from Chicago to LA (Southwest Chief) and loved it. We watch lots of train videos now on UA-cam. Safe travels everyone.
Amtrak is OK, but their restrooms are filthy.
Either the people were just pigs or the restrooms were not being cleaned on schedule. I'm an old Marine, have seen/used out of need, filthy restrooms.
But amtraks are the worse. You complain, and they wanna throw you out the window.
Not kidding.
I've watch a few videos of the Lapland train tour (including their 24 hr live cam here on UA-cam) but yours is definitely the best. Appreciate the detailed journey and more so, the food. #StaySafe
Where can that live cam be found? With what search word?
Absolutely fantastic! You're such a great guide!
I just found your channel today and binged your videos. I don’t know why, but watching them is so comforting!
BRO! PLEASE POST MORE, I've gone through almost all of your aviation travel vids. All of them are a blast to watch, you're awesome!
Godbless
I wish to travel on this route
Lies again? Not much space to move? Considering plane instead
Are There Trains In The US Like This x
Life is a bunch of wishes that never get met
I went from Stockholm to Kiruna overnight in a second class seat, and it was the most comfortable train ride ever.
I enjoy watching your and Solo Travel Japan videos I’m hopeful I can do a trip like this one day
So as an American you went from west to east on Amtrak in your new video, but for me that just normal as waking up. This seems exotic as hell.
Another really cool video - pun intended. Greetings from Australia - hoping you can do some flight and rail reviews down under one day!
Me too just did my first trip brissie to Bundy on tilt train via business class
I seriously don’t understand how this guy with the content he creates does not have millions of subscribers
Brilliant absolutely brilliant, and so neat and tidy on that train, and the scenery is beautiful 😍
Addicted to these videos, So happy I accidentally stumbled across them, Keep the traveling coming Bro.
I would prefer the bottom bunk!! 🥰 As always, another GREAT video here!! ❤️
Yes! More trains!
I actually also took a night train to the arctic last month, Stockholm to Abisko in Swedish Lapland, journey was amazing 😁
Been binging all his videos...he seems like such a humble guy😊 thx for all the great videos
Thanks so much for watching
5:23 Actually I think you were stopped because they attached car carriages to the back of the train, nice to see you in Finland!
Yes, that was the Pasila station or Tikkurila station, where people can load cars into train and get them to Lapland while you sleep in the train. They do not do that in Helsinki main railway station because of limited space. You drive to Pasila or Tikkurila, drive your car on special traincar, then all the readily loaded traincars get attached to the train.
@@RoyalMela Yep, I think the main one is the Pasila car station
I love these train videos. Please consider more!
Lots more coming :)
@@Trektrendy :) 👍
I’m going on this train this Christmas, thank you for educating me on what to do while I’m on it!😊
Great Upload.. There's something about train travel but you take it to another level indeed. Thanks for this.
Man oh man I sure find your journeys fascinating Will, easily earned my subscription good sir. Thank you for the in depth tours and exploration, so fun to be taken along 🌲☀️🌲
this makes me want to take a train trip lol
What a treat. Thank you so much.
Wow!! I didnt know you have visited finland! This was so interesting to see
Really loving the train videos, a couple of bucket list train trips for me my bucket list train is the Indian Pacific across Australia and I would have loved to do the Trans Siberian but that one is unfortunately a no go now with the Russia/Ukraine situation. But it would be really cool to see you do some videos on the Australian and South African trains. Thanks for the content!
What a really cool trip! I've got to know, how do you find such unique rail routes to travel on? I wouldn't have ever known this existed if not for this video.
i will say im not much of a train person, with that being said, i find these videos amazing to watch. keep it up!
Greetings from finland and love your amazing videos thank you for that🙏🏻