I have only travelled the route in the "other" direction, but always a pleasure! Pleased my daughter is now living "nearer", but also missing my weekend trips to Cornwall to see her!

Great video it’s on my to do list of trips

Great video, this one is on my list!

It is a wonderful video. I very much appreciate the detail you provided. And I'm even more enthusiastic about taking a sleeper train.

Excellent thank you. Your voice reminds me of the late great Terry Jones, and that makes me like your videos even more.

It's the best experience I ever had. Paddington to Truro and the reverse journey. Brilliant service!

Really comprehensive review as usual Mark, I really enjoyed it! Ashamed to say I've never done the Night Riviera, yet... You really didn't look very awake in th morning section of the video 😂 Good job 👍🏻

Cracking review as always. Top stuff!

Very interesting video. Sleeper trains are a great way to travel i must admit 😊

Has been on my bucket list for ages and finally did the round trip (down & back) only last week (May 2023). Had a day in Penzance area & went on local bus to St.Ives. Found it difficult to sleep on train due to width of bed. Cramp forced me to wake up at 5ish so sat in lounge car into London. Wouldn’t necessarily do it again & would probably do the day train to see more on journey next week. Great video 👍

Great Train Report. Definitely a lovely route to travel along and a route that I would like to do in the future.

Great vid. Very useful 👍😎

Absolutely brilliant thanks mate I’m now going to do this trip so than🙏❤️

Superb footage 😇😇😇😇👍👍👊👊👊

Great video. I might just have to travel on the riviera myself.

I agree that the GWR Night Riviera might have been on a par with the Caledonian sleeper BUT only when both operators had MK3 stock... Now that Caledonian sleeper has its MK5 stock they are miles ahead in my opinion... I have used the Caledonian sleeper 6 times now, the first wasn't perhaps the best introduction as it was in the seated coach and didn't enjoy the experience at all.... then all of that changed when I booked a club solo en suite room from Inverness to London Euston.... the only down side to the experience was that the club lounge car was out of action due to covid but i still gave the experience a 8/10 .

Gracias por los subtítulos en español 🎉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Excelentes tus videos, información valiosa y completa

Brilliant video this makes me want to do the sleeper myself.

Hey Mark - good video. I guess you are saving the cost of a night's accommodation too which makes it even better value, even if you might need to check straight into another hotel to catch up on your sleep after a 5am arrival! FYI - when I watched this video, KZfaq served me an ad first... You're not getting any of that action but I think its a compliment as KZfaq has obviously judged your content appropriate to associate with its advertisers. Tui Holidays, in case you were wondering. Some don't like KZfaq taking advantage of their content for it's profit, but I think there's a compliment hidden away in their decision! Cheers

The lounge used to be a lovely little cafe with a steam train model railway going around the top of the walls and some of the best bacon and cheese turn overs.

Good video, Mark! I was surprised to see such a narrow aisle on the sleeping coach, but probably it's due to the smaller cross section on British train lines, compared to Continental lines. The train looks very comfortable, with compartments and bar. Best regards, Dirk

Living in Cornwall it’s nice to see the journey to London , usually it’s covered from London down.

Lovely journey it looked Great western look an good outfit you certainly get around.😂

It is SUCH A SHAME that the UK railways are SO INSANELY EXPENSIVE to use - any class anywhere. My full family just loves trains, but we are only using buses OR OUR OWN CARS! Such a shame. 😒 But thank you for the excellent video! 😃 Appreciated. 🙂🙂🙂

Nice video keep them coming

Great video! Have always loved the cabins on this train! Did the seats the other night from Exeter. Tbh, they're quite firm. Also, had some woman gobbing off half the night about god knows what 😂 Must have been alright though as I overslept and missed my connection 😂

well done for passing 700 subs your catching me up lol im on 749, sleeper looks nice tho

Thank you for the tour. The current timetable says: Arrive in London at 5:03, very early in the morning. Do all have to leave the train so early or how long does it stop if you want to sleep longer? When do you have to get off because the train is going to the depot?

For the price the breakfast is very lean. That plus some pastries a carton of fruit juice and some fresh fruit wouldn’t break the bank

GWR's Night Riviera is far better as far as I'm concerned. The staff are great, its quieter - you can actually get to sleep - smoother ride, temperature is more comfortable, and the lounge at Paddington is just incredible.

Great video. The narrator even sounds like Terry Jones from Monty Python.

Totally, plastic glass was a bummer 😁

Do you know if the loco heading your train was a thunderbird/ex-thunderbird loco?

Do you tip the stewards etc? Just wondered if it was a thing on those trains. Thank you.

Excellent video, I'm hoping to try and his later in the year. Did the bar car serve any food or is it drinks only?

That station lounge was quite nice, I've never been offered drinks and snacks, is that a first class lounge, or just standard there?

Brill video once again mark… never taken a sleeper train before so looking forward to taking one in the near future… all very clean and organised by the looks of it… though presumably in normal circumstances a full breakfast and maybe even dinner would’ve been provided so for the price you payed which was £84, I don’t think is entirely worth it atm, though it’s still not overpriced which is good… Also I bet when you stepped off at Paddington I bet it was like you just came off a red eye flight from New York or something 🤣, bet you were shattered!

How long is it when you arrive at Paddington until you have to disembark the train

Lovely review, but v important! Show us the bacon sandwich! Was it a nice one or a ryanair one?

They used to be aplymouth to glasgow sleeper servce in the 80s

I, don't know why there isn't a sleeper service from Cornwall to Scotland.

I'll leave the video th sho wyou how comfortable it really is.

How much did you pay, don't think you said. 😉 Oh , yes you did at the end, I'd do the trip, & then go shopping, & then take it back. But I live up North.

I wouldn't have been able to sleep unless I could down a bottle of whisky lol

I have a question Do you have to wear FFP2 mask if you travel with the train and public transport? Here in Germany you must unfortunately do this.

Sleeper trains in UK are too short. They should zig-zag around to make journey last longer. Always arrive about 11 AM so you can enjoy a leisurely breakfast.

How can you book a trip?

I am always shocked to see how narrow British sleeper trains corridors are !!! 😱 And very steep British house's stairs !! Lol. 😅 The most Americans will have very hard times to walk through those trains !! LOLLOLLOL 🤣😅😆💜🥁🐉🎤💞

Nice as usual. I'm still yet to take either sleeper as an adult (went to Penzance as a kid with the family - in the seats!) But the big question - how is the height of the sink for, err, night time emergencies? 🤣

Where is the toilet

Shock horror! Vicki Marshall moonlights on the GWR sleeper service…..

No, we don't have a "sink" with hot and cold running water in our sleeping compartment. What we do have is a wash basin! Sinks belong in kitchens, not bedrooms, where they are used for washing clothes and crockery. Great Western Railway has done a good job of refurbishing its forty year-old, ex-British Rail Mark 3 Sleeper carriages to a high standard, but at the expense of reduced storage space for hand luggage. There used to be two, sturdy, full-width shelves across the width of the cabin, with the hinged lid of the wash basin forming half of the lower one, which could be used to store laptops or holdalls. If the upper berth is not in use, the lovely thick duvet usually ends up being bundled under the lower bunk - as the Stewardess said to me, "There's nowhere else for it to go". It's interesting to compare and to contrast the two, very different approaches taken by GWR and Serco Group plc to their respective Sleeper services, the former being an exclusively Standard Class product whilst with Caledonian Sleepers you need a First Class ticket to travel in an en suite cabin. On the "Night Riviera" Sleeper passengers travelling on cheap Super Off Peak Standard tickets still get a complimentary light hot breakfast served to their cabin, whilst on the Caledonian Sleeper a hot breakfast - such as it is - is only complimentary in First Class. Full marks to GWR for allowing Sleeper customers to access Queen Victoria's private waiting room at Paddington Station, with its complimentary refreshments, and for providing Sleeper Lounges (with scrupulously clean hot showers) at Truro and Penzance. All GWR needs to do now is to provide a hot meals option in the Lounge Car - anyone fancy the Cornish signature dish of Starrey Gazey Pie? - and sort out those dreadful bar stools!

A million miles better than the Mk5 (so called) "Sleeping Car" on Anglo-Scottish. Shame about the Penzance lounge.

I think GWR have done a better job of this refurbishment than the brand new Cally Sleeper trains - yes they have ensuite toilet and shower - but I wasn’t massively impressed. This looks much more classy.

Cornish translations? Increasing the sense of separateness which started with Wales. Now even their road signs are in Welsh. Not good for a supposedly United Kingdom.

I couldn't understand her very well. It's really better to speak without the mask. And I can understand the British better than the Americans.

So pleased the mask nonsense is over

I thought you was normal till u sat proudly wearing your conformity mask