Hello and welcome to this new video!
On February 5th, European Sleeper—a promising private night train operator—launched its second night train route from Brussels, Belgium, to Venice, Italy. While it sounds like a revolution, I’ve always been skeptical about this new route for several reasons. Then came the inaugural run… with its many issues…
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Date: FEBRUARY 2025
Railway company: @europeansleeper1156
Route : Brussels South to Venezia Santa Lucia
Time: Around 22h
Price: 159€ for a couchette
Map realized with Viaduct, more at https://viaduct.world/
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00:00 : Intro
00:40 : Inaugural ride
01:53 : First issues and arrival
04:28 : Departure and route overview
05:48 : Room tour
07:51 : Toilets Time
08:18 : Dining car
09:09 : Sleeping car
09:52 : Eindhoven
10:24 : Night time
10:51 : Mid roll ads
11:31 : Morning from Munich
12:25 : Walkthrough and thoughts
16:16 : Breakfast
17:18 : Sunny Alps
18:31 : What’s next ?
19:55 : Innsbruck – Venice
20:53 : Venice
21:30 : Outro
23 Comments
RFI has forbidden European Sleeper to enter in Italy. You can travel only to Innsbruck…
Night trains should allow passengers to "skip" the night and arrive by noon in the destination city. This train would arrive in Venice too late, 16:50 basically means you "skip" half of the day. They could have chosen Vienna od Budapest, not Venice.
First, I'd give'em another chance. I am convinced, European Sleepet will ride over the Brenner Pass. What I really don't like in the video is that yout comments only are written and not spoken. Half of the screen Is füll of text. I also would appreciate to know if the train stops at Mönchengladbach and Cologne.
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Greetings Lou Ann 🙂 I think it is great to put well functioning rolling stock to use. I do agree that they should not have hyped up a service they weren't going to be able to provide. But other than that, still should be interesting ride for enthusiasts.
I think that uneducated tourists would fall for these “special trains”.
I was in that train and tbh the experience was pretty good even tho we had to change trains at Innsbruck everything went pretty smoothly. They instantly found replacement trains for us and we arrived in Venezia Mestre only 8 minutes later than we should've I think
Merci Lou -Ann pour cette vidéo…..J' étais dans le train inaugural du mercredi 5 février avec retour le dimanche 09 février… Fervent promoteur des trains de nuit, je ne vais pas accabler European Sleeper pour les déboires vécus mais entre 5 changements de places en trois jours, les non réponses du service Clients malgré les promesses par mails, les changements de programmes successifs, tout a été très compliqué et stressant …. Il faut cependant rendre hommage au personnel de bord qui fait de son mieux avec le sourire ….. Si ES a eu le mérite de tenter l' expérience jusque Venise, je pense pas qu'avec une telle qualité de service, cela ne va motiver les gens à reprendre les trains de nuit et c 'est bien dommage !!! … Cette histoire de non accès au réseau italien à la dernière minute est en effet nébuleuse, problèmes de sécurité ?, pratiques anti-concurrentielles ? En tout cas, dans les années 70, les trains de nuit , c' était quand même autre chose ….
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Cab View, cross the mountain
https://youtu.be/PMQq9JaCMdk?si=FexKD2–5VJ7c_qL
17:00 who had the ingenious idea of hanging glasses in the dining car of a train? That ringing is sooo annoying 😅😅
Italians are a disaster my friend 😂
Beautiful video and even if the experience was not satisfactory, as incomplete, the night trains must return everywhere for our dear Europe. You will see that the errors will be solved; just have a little patience.
So unfortunately looks to me as another money burning start-up.
Nice video,miss!
Did I miss the "thoughts" part of "Walkthrough and thoughts"? No one spoke and there were no words on the screne. I get that you thought the trip was bad, but I have no idea why.
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What's interesting: The booking system says that there are no sleepers available on the way to Italy. To Innsbruck? Yes, they are bookable. So it seems like they are leaving them behind in Innsbruck and only the couchettes are planned to continue on to Italy?
22 óra? Jesszus az nagyon sok idő. Brüsszel és Velence nem nagy távolság még vonattal se.
Bruxelles – Frankfurt – Basel – Milano – Venezia (12 -13 utazási óra)
Thanks for the video and the reflections on European Sleeper’s offering! What bothers me the most is that northern Italy is already rather well connected to Austria and Bavaria via ÖBB services, Railjet and Nightjet. Given its limitations, this journey just feels short-sighted — a more frequent service (potentially branching off ES’ Brussels–Prague train?) combined with tighter integration with ÖBB’s timetable would have done much more to promote rail travel as a viable alternative along this route.
Are there private compartments or only couchette? How much does it cost if you want to sleep alone?
As you correctly note in this excellent video, European Sleeper's staff are a delight and one of the things they have in their favour.
One observation – you suggest passengers will be disappointed, while showing footage of the train speeding through the sunny Alps in winter. OK, so it's not running through to Venice, but there is a sight to stir the soul of train enthusiasts (and anyone with a soul) if ever there was one!
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