From my heart, I wish you a happy life. I am Mahdi, who used to work on the train and provided service to you. I was surprised when he saw your video here. I was very happy and I hope that you were really satisfied with the service that we provided to you on the train on the journey. Greetings to you, Mahdi🙏🙏❤❤
Mahdi! So glad you found this. You were a huge part of what made the journey so special. Our apologies for spilling the coffee. All the best to you! ♥️
Please be advised that your schedule was a special one due to detour caused by engineering works on the line. Normal arrival in Vienna is shortly after 9 am .
Let us know what you think! And thanks for the coffee comment- I assure you we were not worried about a minuscule accident that we handled entirely appropriately off camera. ☺️ UA-cam, eh?
From my heart, I wish you a happy life. I am Mahdi, who used to work on the train and provided service to you. I was surprised when he saw your video here. I was very happy and I hope that you were really satisfied with the service that we provided to you on the train on the journey. Greetings to you, Mahdi🙏🙏❤❤
Since they seem to have taken all the fun out of airports and planes these days, that's a great way to travel. Your vids are such good fun. Love it. Gute reise 😛
Glad you enjoyed your ride. Maybe next time I should also take the night train to Hamburg instead of a plane. 😊 Hope you had a nice stay in Vienna too. I'll watch that video now after this 😅❤
So awesome! We planned on taking the night jet from Italy to Munich last year but we extended our stay in one place and it pushed us into July. And just so happened they weren’t running any night jet routes on that line for the entire month of July! Probably gonna have to try it again though.
Love the video. We just got home from Austria(Graz, Salzburg, Leoben and Munich. Well a month ago) we lived it. We didn’t get to see Vienna… Maybe next time?
Hey! Nice Video! Hope you had a fun time in our beautiful capital city! This is making memories for your son the better way!!! You’re great parents :) Have you heard about the new nightjet generation? It had just had its inauguration trip through all of austria. And it will be exactly on that route - Vienna to Hamburg / Innsbruck to Hamburg (vice versa) Please test it out (especially the Schlafwagen / Schlafwagen Comfort (with a nice shower) or the Mini Cabin after it comes out! :) Its out on the 10. of December 2023 so in a few days! :))
Wien Meidling is the station immediately before the Hauptbahnhof (transit time about 5 minutes). All long distrance trains stop there and during the construction of the Hauptbahnhof Wien Meidling served as the temporary main station for Vienna.
16:40 its not only the cost of the flight that you're comparing with, but the cost of another night in a hotel too! €300 in that case is a bit of a bargain tbh
I made a calculation for our journey to Rome in March 2024. Flight: Day flight by Austrian Airlines cheapest 220,- (All in Euros and both directions), 69 x 4 = 276 (1 suitcase is 69), Taxi x 2 to the airport and home in Vienna = 100, Leonardo Express/train airport to hotel and back 17 x 4 = 68 (taxi in Rome would be about 100 or more)..... all together 664 Euros (696 with taxi)......that is nearly 700 Euros by airplane. You can not say flying is cheaper.... there are so many costs more, not only the tickets for the plane. Train/nightjet: We had good luck, because we bought our tickets in November 2023 for March 2024 nightjet luxury cabin to Rome with shower and toilet inside the cabin for two persons for 720 Euros. In advance it is cheaper, now it is more expensive. When you go by airplane.... travelling time about 7 hours. By train 12,5 to 15 hours. That is an argument FOR the airplane. BUT: I enter the train 15 minutes from my home, I have a comfy cabin for only two of us (nobody is sitting 2 centimeters on my side). I am reading, playing, watching films on my computer. Sleeping in my bed made by the conductor, taking a shower, waiting for my breakfast, that the conductor brings in the morning to my bed (I can chose what I want from the menu). When I leave the train I have 10 minutes to my hotel. No stress, no dragging of suitcases, no running, no walking, only comfy waiting till I am in Rome. Airplane: leaving home three hours before my flight, go by taxi to the airport, waiting there two hours (with my train first class ticket for the luxury cabin I can go to the lounge at the trainstation in Vienna. For the Airport first class lounge I must pay extra), then walking to the plane, sitting with a lot of people (not comfy at all, and we have still the corona problem), in Rome/airport waiting for the suitcases, again walking and dragging the suitcases (Rome's taxi drivers are famous for cheating), and looking for a taxi or searching the Leonardo train for going to Roma termini. So I prefer the quality of the journey. My journey starts, when I leave my home. And by train, it has more quality. And as I calculated above, when you buy tickets for the train early .... flying is not cheaper at all. Greetings from Vienna Austria Ulli
I'm looking at the website, utterly confused. do I have to pay reservation + ticket price combined? I thought reservation is like a free to reserve, ticket is a ticket. thanks if you could help and clarify
Good Video but a few additions 😊 Your train had much older cars. Your car was built around 1990 and had a refurbishment a few years ago. The former DB sleeping cars were built between 2003 and 2005. The oldest couchette cars were built in 1980. The former German couchette cars are even older, but there aren't many of them left. Well, being around 20 years old is not enoug 😊 It is precisely these cars from the 80s and older that will be replaced first by the new trains.
Do you know where u can see if i book the ''new'' night jet or an old one? Or are there only new ones? We are planning the trip from the Netherlands in May or June
There is one higher class more than yours for sleeping, it is with a bassin to wash the hands in the cabin for two people (perhaps three, I am not sure?). You can also book it for one, two or, I think, three persons. It is clear, that the price is more expensive for one person than for more. And one much more higher class with a shower and a toilet inside for up to three people. The shower is with towels, soap, etc. everything you need. You can book it also for one or two persons if you want. In this luxury class you can chose the breakfast from a menu card (6 items are included, if you take more you pay for it) and the beds are done for you by the conductor. And you get a bag, a kind of amenity bag, with towel, slippers, sweets, water, a pen, sleeping mask, ear plugs. We plan to go by this train/cabin to Rome in March 2024. That are older waggons, not so modern as you had it. Greetings from Vienna Austria Ulli
Well, thanks for putting your shoe on to the table. 😞 The train is brand new, you really should not risk any traces of the rubber. Besides, other people put their food there.
And kudos for spilling the coffee onto the matress. The next guests will prefer the atmosphere of a used and run down compartment a lot over a brand new one. I am sure of it :-((
Yeah some people already called it out in the comments and these people are defending their actions viciously and acting like it is no big deal. If they had a good attitude it would be different but it's like what we don't care attitude that pisses people off.
I travelled quite a bit in Europe and I always made sure that I take care of public premises and not be a bad representative of my country. You dropped the coffee, it's completely fine. Accidents happens. But the fact that you're saying that it's not a big deal is really annoying. Learn from train UA-camrs like simply railways who always take such good care of the railways property. Also, it highlights the racism in Europe too. If a person from a so called "poor" country did that, these OBB Austrians would fine the hell out of them. But when you guys do it, it's all good. But honestly, this is a typical American tourist behaviour I've seen in Europe. Surprisingly, in their own country they are very nice with tourists but the American tourists that come to EU are super entitled.
I know it’s not a big deal because I was there, I’m the one who took the time to know all three of our train attendants by name before the- in your own words- accident; I am not the one judging from a computer screen a 3 second clip and generalizing entire swaths of people. Thanks for watching!
I kinda agree with the other guy about the coffee thing. These workers who work on these trains aren't rich and it's unfair to expect them to clean up the coffee spill that your kid caused. Even if you cleaned it the smell and the stains will remain. And if you're not paying for the damages you cause, it's the other passengers who will suffer. If you were holding the breakfast tray with two hands, it wouldn't have happened but you guys were careless about it. One of the main difference between public transport in America and Europe is that people here care take care of the public services they receive.
This is so absurd. Those sheets get bleached every ride and it was an honest mistake, moreover, that guy kissed our son on the head upon our leaving and regularly hung out near our cabin- it’s clear he wasn’t even remotely perturbed, but sure, your expertise on the situation based on a 2 second clip is accurate.
@@StephandPete Yeah I'm sure you work for the train company to know that it gets bleached lol. Also the smell mattress will remain. This is why people in the states can't have good things. And when they come to Europe, they often lack respect for the facilities for the local public too. And you're not even one bit sorry. Not good!
Why do you have to give them such a hard time? It wasn't intentional! I’m sure it wasn’t intentional. And the worker was super chill and wasn't annoyed at all and I'm also sure that the entire mattress was washed, which happens very often. This basic cleaning is very, very often done on trains in Austria.
Americans.....I hope you at least apologized for dropping the coffee all over the train sheets. And offered to pay for the mess you caused too. I would be slightly ashamed if I was in your place.
You’re right, I’ve lost so much sleep over that incident (one where a four year old accidentally knocked a tray.) The shame! 😉 Of course we apologized, and we hoped it was obvious that the staff weren’t too bothered. Thanks for watching!
@@StephandPete You're hiding behind your kid for the mistake you made? It's clear in the video that you dropped it! You shouldn't be holding your tray with one hand just so you can get a nice angle for your UA-cam video. Also, the staff will have to prepare the train for other passengers. It's one thing if Americans do not understand the sophisticated culture of Europe, but not taking responsibility and being sarcastic is just outright shameful.
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From my heart, I wish you a happy life. I am Mahdi, who used to work on the train and provided service to you. I was surprised when he saw your video here. I was very happy and I hope that you were really satisfied with the service that we provided to you on the train on the journey. Greetings to you, Mahdi🙏🙏❤❤
Mahdi! So glad you found this. You were a huge part of what made the journey so special. Our apologies for spilling the coffee. All the best to you! ♥️
@@StephandPete 😘😘🙏🙏
Please be advised that your schedule was a special one due to detour caused by engineering works on the line. Normal arrival in Vienna is shortly after 9 am .
Ah, really?? Good to know…thanks!!
Love the idea of an overnight train 🤩
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Shades up! Great video! I need to get that anchor charging device! Happy travels 😊
Thank you for watching!
Amazing guys, thanks for the video! I think I'm gonna switch to Nightjet my Budapest - Berlin trip next march hahaha
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I live in Hamburg, and I will try the train too, maybe with the new single capsule. Don't worry about the coffee 😜
Let us know what you think! And thanks for the coffee comment- I assure you we were not worried about a minuscule accident that we handled entirely appropriately off camera. ☺️ UA-cam, eh?
U r welcome ❤❤
From my heart, I wish you a happy life. I am Mahdi, who used to work on the train and provided service to you. I was surprised when he saw your video here. I was very happy and I hope that you were really satisfied with the service that we provided to you on the train on the journey. Greetings to you, Mahdi🙏🙏❤❤
Since they seem to have taken all the fun out of airports and planes these days, that's a great way to travel. Your vids are such good fun. Love it. Gute reise 😛
That’s the truth! Love having you follow along. 😊
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Just loved your informal way of "reviewing" this trip. The new couchette coach is a splendor! Think I'll follow your travels up yo Tblisi.
Aw! Thanks so much! That means a lot. ☺️
Incredible train!! Looks better than a Business class seat of an airplane
Totally!
Glad you enjoyed your ride. Maybe next time I should also take the night train to Hamburg instead of a plane. 😊
Hope you had a nice stay in Vienna too. I'll watch that video now after this 😅❤
So awesome! We planned on taking the night jet from Italy to Munich last year but we extended our stay in one place and it pushed us into July. And just so happened they weren’t running any night jet routes on that line for the entire month of July! Probably gonna have to try it again though.
It was seriously worth it. So nice. And when you consider it’s a night accommodation, too, it’s easier to rationalize.
Love the video. We just got home from Austria(Graz, Salzburg, Leoben and Munich. Well a month ago) we lived it. We didn’t get to see Vienna… Maybe next time?
tbh Vienna has never been my fav but we had a great time (and amazing weather) this trip (coming soon)
Lovely and funny video!
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Hey! Nice Video! Hope you had a fun time in our beautiful capital city! This is making memories for your son the better way!!! You’re great parents :)
Have you heard about the new nightjet generation? It had just had its inauguration trip through all of austria. And it will be exactly on that route - Vienna to Hamburg / Innsbruck to Hamburg (vice versa)
Please test it out (especially the Schlafwagen / Schlafwagen Comfort (with a nice shower) or the Mini Cabin after it comes out! :) Its out on the 10. of December 2023 so in a few days! :))
Wien Meidling is the station immediately before the Hauptbahnhof (transit time about 5 minutes). All long distrance trains stop there and during the construction of the Hauptbahnhof Wien Meidling served as the temporary main station for Vienna.
Good info! Thanks! It worked out so nicely for us.
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16:40 its not only the cost of the flight that you're comparing with, but the cost of another night in a hotel too! €300 in that case is a bit of a bargain tbh
Exactly! Train travel >>>>>
I made a calculation for our journey to Rome in March 2024.
Flight:
Day flight by Austrian Airlines cheapest 220,- (All in Euros and both directions), 69 x 4 = 276 (1 suitcase is 69), Taxi x 2 to the airport and home in Vienna = 100, Leonardo Express/train airport to hotel and back 17 x 4 = 68 (taxi in Rome would be about 100 or more)..... all together 664 Euros (696 with taxi)......that is nearly 700 Euros by airplane. You can not say flying is cheaper.... there are so many costs more, not only the tickets for the plane.
Train/nightjet:
We had good luck, because we bought our tickets in November 2023 for March 2024 nightjet luxury cabin to Rome with shower and toilet inside the cabin for two persons for 720 Euros. In advance it is cheaper, now it is more expensive.
When you go by airplane.... travelling time about 7 hours. By train 12,5 to 15 hours. That is an argument FOR the airplane.
BUT:
I enter the train 15 minutes from my home, I have a comfy cabin for only two of us (nobody is sitting 2 centimeters on my side). I am reading, playing, watching films on my computer. Sleeping in my bed made by the conductor, taking a shower, waiting for my breakfast, that the conductor brings in the morning to my bed (I can chose what I want from the menu). When I leave the train I have 10 minutes to my hotel. No stress, no dragging of suitcases, no running, no walking, only comfy waiting till I am in Rome.
Airplane: leaving home three hours before my flight, go by taxi to the airport, waiting there two hours (with my train first class ticket for the luxury cabin I can go to the lounge at the trainstation in Vienna. For the Airport first class lounge I must pay extra), then walking to the plane, sitting with a lot of people (not comfy at all, and we have still the corona problem), in Rome/airport waiting for the suitcases, again walking and dragging the suitcases (Rome's taxi drivers are famous for cheating), and looking for a taxi or searching the Leonardo train for going to Roma termini.
So I prefer the quality of the journey. My journey starts, when I leave my home. And by train, it has more quality. And as I calculated above, when you buy tickets for the train early .... flying is not cheaper at all.
Greetings from Vienna Austria
Ulli
My mom used to tell me that limerick!
I think mine too! Hadn’t heard it in a long time.
The new ÖBB Nightjet will be from the 10th December, what you've taken is the refurbished.
As noted in the video! Thanks for watching!
such a cool train. i'm not surprised that deutsche bahn wudnt take the risk of something actually nice 😂😂😂
hehehe that’s what we’ve heard
@Steph and Pete -- I just got back from at 6 week trip and had the wrong luggage. What kind of luggage are using. It looks like the right size. TY.
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@@StephandPete I thought I recognized that! I've had that Away trolley myself for the past 5 years. But they no longer deliver to Germany. 😞
I'm looking at the website, utterly confused. do I have to pay reservation + ticket price combined? I thought reservation is like a free to reserve, ticket is a ticket. thanks if you could help and clarify
Hmm I'm not too sure. I remember being a little confused too! Sorry I'm not more help.
Good Video but a few additions 😊 Your train had much older cars. Your car was built around 1990 and had a refurbishment a few years ago. The former DB sleeping cars were built between 2003 and 2005. The oldest couchette cars were built in 1980.
The former German couchette cars are even older, but there aren't many of them left.
Well, being around 20 years old is not enoug 😊
It is precisely these cars from the 80s and older that will be replaced first by the new trains.
Appreciate the corrections! Thanks for watching!
@@StephandPete your welcome 😊 hope you had a great time in Vienna and wish you a good journey 😊
Wait until you see the very latest NightJet trains which I think begin next year.If you like this one, you will love the newest ones.
I’ve watched the videos! Added to the train bucket list for sure.
Do you know where u can see if i book the ''new'' night jet or an old one? Or are there only new ones? We are planning the trip from the Netherlands in May or June
Is the overnight train service called NJ491?
I love the train content!! Was the bed long enough for Pete? 😵
We just got off the most amazing journey across Turkey! Pete said the bed was mostly fine.
Observations:
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SUPER-64 WE HAVE A COFFEE DOWN, WE HAVE A COFFEE DOWN
Haribo Goldbears period!
This is an appropriate reaction to the coffee spill. 😂😂
Future India trip?
We’ll visit India regularly for our whole lives.
There is one higher class more than yours for sleeping, it is with a bassin to wash the hands in the cabin for two people (perhaps three, I am not sure?). You can also book it for one, two or, I think, three persons. It is clear, that the price is more expensive for one person than for more.
And one much more higher class with a shower and a toilet inside for up to three people. The shower is with towels, soap, etc. everything you need. You can book it also for one or two persons if you want. In this luxury class you can chose the breakfast from a menu card (6 items are included, if you take more you pay for it) and the beds are done for you by the conductor. And you get a bag, a kind of amenity bag, with towel, slippers, sweets, water, a pen, sleeping mask, ear plugs. We plan to go by this train/cabin to Rome in March 2024. That are older waggons, not so modern as you had it.
Greetings from Vienna Austria
Ulli
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Well, thanks for putting your shoe on to the table. 😞
The train is brand new, you really should not risk any traces of the rubber.
Besides, other people put their food there.
And kudos for spilling the coffee onto the matress.
The next guests will prefer the atmosphere of a used and run down compartment a lot over a brand new one. I am sure of it :-((
Yeah some people already called it out in the comments and these people are defending their actions viciously and acting like it is no big deal. If they had a good attitude it would be different but it's like what we don't care attitude that pisses people off.
We care. Which is why you only saw a half a second clip as we stopped filming (duh!) to help with the mistake and thank the attendants profusely, etc.
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Nice, but pricey imo
Definitely but so much better than flying.
I travelled quite a bit in Europe and I always made sure that I take care of public premises and not be a bad representative of my country. You dropped the coffee, it's completely fine. Accidents happens. But the fact that you're saying that it's not a big deal is really annoying. Learn from train UA-camrs like simply railways who always take such good care of the railways property. Also, it highlights the racism in Europe too. If a person from a so called "poor" country did that, these OBB Austrians would fine the hell out of them. But when you guys do it, it's all good.
But honestly, this is a typical American tourist behaviour I've seen in Europe. Surprisingly, in their own country they are very nice with tourists but the American tourists that come to EU are super entitled.
I know it’s not a big deal because I was there, I’m the one who took the time to know all three of our train attendants by name before the- in your own words- accident; I am not the one judging from a computer screen a 3 second clip and generalizing entire swaths of people. Thanks for watching!
You spilled the coffee to soil a brand new train... Oh even the Train warden was a brown immigrant !
I kinda agree with the other guy about the coffee thing. These workers who work on these trains aren't rich and it's unfair to expect them to clean up the coffee spill that your kid caused. Even if you cleaned it the smell and the stains will remain. And if you're not paying for the damages you cause, it's the other passengers who will suffer. If you were holding the breakfast tray with two hands, it wouldn't have happened but you guys were careless about it. One of the main difference between public transport in America and Europe is that people here care take care of the public services they receive.
This is so absurd. Those sheets get bleached every ride and it was an honest mistake, moreover, that guy kissed our son on the head upon our leaving and regularly hung out near our cabin- it’s clear he wasn’t even remotely perturbed, but sure, your expertise on the situation based on a 2 second clip is accurate.
@@StephandPete Yeah I'm sure you work for the train company to know that it gets bleached lol. Also the smell mattress will remain. This is why people in the states can't have good things. And when they come to Europe, they often lack respect for the facilities for the local public too. And you're not even one bit sorry. Not good!
Why do you have to give them such a hard time? It wasn't intentional! I’m sure it wasn’t intentional. And the worker was super chill and wasn't annoyed at all and I'm also sure that the entire mattress was washed, which happens very often. This basic cleaning is very, very often done on trains in Austria.
Americans.....I hope you at least apologized for dropping the coffee all over the train sheets. And offered to pay for the mess you caused too. I would be slightly ashamed if I was in your place.
You’re right, I’ve lost so much sleep over that incident (one where a four year old accidentally knocked a tray.) The shame! 😉 Of course we apologized, and we hoped it was obvious that the staff weren’t too bothered. Thanks for watching!
@@StephandPete You're hiding behind your kid for the mistake you made? It's clear in the video that you dropped it! You shouldn't be holding your tray with one hand just so you can get a nice angle for your UA-cam video. Also, the staff will have to prepare the train for other passengers. It's one thing if Americans do not understand the sophisticated culture of Europe, but not taking responsibility and being sarcastic is just outright shameful.
Our son tossed his stuffed animal and it hit it, and also Pete’s not even American. ✌️
@@StephandPete Thanks for proving my point. Au revoir!
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