If you're looking to travel between London and any of the sleeper train destinations available, I hope you'll find this a useful video to research your trip! Tonight I'm travelling Edinburgh Waverley to London Euston and you're coming with me!
Right, let's talk about price, because it's a big part of the decision to use this service. I paid £150 for a Club Room for this journey. A Classic Room (without en suite) would have cost £130, so basically I paid £20 to have private toilet/shower facilities. There are also seats available (£70) and the double bed 'Caledonian Double' which was something crazy like £345! The prices are for the cabin, so if there are 2 of you travelling you can make a real saving, or like me, pay an absolute premium for single occupancy. Just so you know, there are no 'sharing with stranger' arrangements available on the Caledonian Sleeper anymore. To some this is a shame, but to me, I couldn't contemplate sharing such a small enclosed place with a stranger!!!
IMPORTANT: When you are booking online, keep checking the prices, don't just book what you see straight away. For the night I was booking, my price was varying wildly, sometimes well over £200. I think the website must 'hold' fares for a set time or something for people searching, because a refresh of the website and my fare was back down to £150 - so a single click saved me £70! The pricing structure can be really weird - sometimes I was finding the inferior Classic Room more expensive than the Club Room - surely this should never happen regardless of demand.
Personally, I would never book the traditional seats for this service. One, because I can never sleep properly in a regular seat. And two, because this train crawls along, adding up to 3 hours onto the normal time taken to travel between Edinburgh and London, so it really doesn't make sense to me (although might be good for a future video just as a challenge!)
I've added a bonus feature on this video. My channel is predominantly about Scotland, so the feature looks at Scottish places in London, just for a wee bit of fun while I was in the capital.
I hope you enjoy the video, please remember to subscribe if you haven't done so already, and be sure to ask me any sleeper questions in the comments below. Many thanks for watching!
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