It’s sooo worth it!

So there still is no direct train service from Madrid to Lisbon?

I am waiting for the promised return of trenhotel here in Portugal too, it was a awesome way to go up to upper europe for us too, very missed here too!

See www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/munich-to-budapest-by-sleeper-train.htm#sleeper-tickets

No.

Thank you for that. I must say l must thank you for all the insight and details, you have given us.

Unlike Nightjet, there's no room service menu, a missed opportunity. But since my last trip in a MAV sleeper, they've adopted several Nightjet services including the choice of breakfast items and complimentary sparkling wine. And the sleepers are replaced or refurbished. I like MAV's new service!

@@seat61 So you must go to the conductor and ask for your breakfast?

@@lucaspublictransport995 No, he just brings it.

No, there's a washbasin. You can shower when you reach your hotel.

Just travelled overnight from Keleti to Munich. Aircon was good but like you said, there's no shower though there's a sink in the couchette. Train stopped fir a while just before the German border and just after crossing the border, it stopped to allow German police to look into and check every couchette

@@readyshoot yeah there’s much tighter police scrutiny these days due to increased immigration pressure.

Not usually, as DE, AT and HU are all in Schengen.

But recently there are a lot more immigrants trying to slip through so Budapest main stations, the Austrian border n the German border all get close police attention with international trains. Went to Vienna two weeks ago with a morning train from Budapest, saw Hungarian police remove 4 pax in BUD just from my carriage cos allegedly they didn’t have passports n couldn’t speak a word of English or Hungarian. A day before, Austrian police closed the border n stopped train traffic for abt 4 hours cos immigrants were running around the rails near the border. If you’re traveling nowadays, expect delays and police checks.

​@@trainsandmodelshungary I can choose a sleeping car by train. Or should I use an Uber taxi

It was a result of an accident. One of the carriages broke down that had to be removed from the train. Passengers remain inside the carriage with doors locked shut, no air-con and no openable windows, so they decided to break the window. Last week it was extremely hot in Hungary. The matter was investigated by the police that held the entire train.

@@budapestkeletistationvoices Thanks for sharing horror story that happens much to often on Amtrak.

​@@budapestkeletistationvoices also ÖBB's engine was broken, we got an another (MÁV) train engine and pulled it until Hegyeshalom. And please don't forget the fact that the austrian train driver who had to replace the hungarian one didn't waited the train (probably his shift has been ended) and we had to switch to a small regional train to Vienna, and also switch to an another train until München (or Zürich for other people who went there). I think you can expect how that regional train (and later the Railjet from Vienna) looked with extra 200 people. TBH that 7,5 hour long late is just one thing. I can understand that the police investigation and replacing the car with broken window took time. (Also I understand that MÁV wanted to spare some time with the replacement of the original car and this is why they started to replace it with the passengers on the train instead of asking them to get out until that). But for us the worse was that we had to leave the sleeping carriage after two hours and we had to suffer with transfers. It was like the two railway companies want to kick us one more time.

@@saxus unfortunately, MÁV Start realllocates better coaches to Lake Balaton in summers. In domestic InterCities missing coaches are replaced with regional coaches and intetnational trains are run with short formations. As you may know Hungary's not the best example of democracy. PM's family owns large areas of Balaton in form of hotel and everything is subordinated to his political and personal goals.

@@budapestkeletistationvoices I'm not sure that it have any relationship with democracy (and probably even with MÁV) if the Austrian train driver didn't waited our train and they didn't provide a 2nd driver to ride the train on the full line. Somebody simply cancelled our ride from Hegyeshalom. That was the worst part.

Not in Hungary, only in Germany. But not on your own in a private sleeper!

Thankfully the mask terror has ended now.

Just wait until you travel on a plane for the first time: You're expected to sit, eat, sleep, in a tiny economy airline seat with no legroom for up to 24 hours straight. You'll be desperate for a spacious private compartment with a proper bed you can lie down in, like this! ;0)

Where’s you’re videos??

What information were you expecting? Prices, times, how to buy tickets are NOT placed in a video, but on the linked website as these may change.

@@seat61 Ride quality? E-Z sleep?