Only cheaper if you take the seat option. The couchinette of sleeping car are usually as expensive or even more so.
Still like them (in at least a couchinette) cause I hate early morning flights and arriving well rested in a city is quite nice
They very very rarely are. I am actively trying my best to get around with rail more but flights are so much quicker and cheaper most of the time that it isn’t competitive
No. Just no.
What flights? Ryanair is like €10-€20 per flight
I wish this headline would be true some day.
In their example, they show the train ticket for 2 adults at £490 and for a flight, the cost is £488. For that £2 saving, you’ll spend 7 hours 30 minutes on the train whereas the plane will get you there in 1hr 10 mins.
I found cheap ass plane tickets to london from brussels. Train tickets cost me approx the double.
I know it all depends on various factors to get it cheap. But this is just plain stupid.
It’s a scam. Quite expensive and sometimes the train does not stop at the scheduled station (avoid OBB Nightjet at all cost)
2 adults and 4 children? What fantasy is this?
I actually like sleeper trains quite a bit. Took one to Venice a couple of years back and waking up an hour before arriving in the morning, feeling rested and being able to wash up was a great start to the vacation. They can be quite expensive though…
We really need more sleeper trains, especially now that the Schengen area can make cross-border travel wake-up-free. The problem is the EU is really keener on investing in highways than railways, unfortunately. And rail travel is despite what the title would have you believe, still quite expensive.
If you ask me the first step should be to tax airline fuel, and perhaps use the tac directly to lower rail ticket prices.
We also need faster trains, 200kh/h and up, not something that barely waddles along at 60km/h. And we need to keep trains hassle free, non of that useless security theatre or buying tickets months in advance or the extremely annoying adjustable ticket prices we see percolating from the aviation industry to the railway in western Europe.
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Only cheaper if you take the seat option. The couchinette of sleeping car are usually as expensive or even more so.
Still like them (in at least a couchinette) cause I hate early morning flights and arriving well rested in a city is quite nice
They very very rarely are. I am actively trying my best to get around with rail more but flights are so much quicker and cheaper most of the time that it isn’t competitive
No. Just no.
What flights? Ryanair is like €10-€20 per flight
I wish this headline would be true some day.
In their example, they show the train ticket for 2 adults at £490 and for a flight, the cost is £488. For that £2 saving, you’ll spend 7 hours 30 minutes on the train whereas the plane will get you there in 1hr 10 mins.
I found cheap ass plane tickets to london from brussels. Train tickets cost me approx the double.
I know it all depends on various factors to get it cheap. But this is just plain stupid.
It’s a scam. Quite expensive and sometimes the train does not stop at the scheduled station (avoid OBB Nightjet at all cost)
2 adults and 4 children? What fantasy is this?
I actually like sleeper trains quite a bit. Took one to Venice a couple of years back and waking up an hour before arriving in the morning, feeling rested and being able to wash up was a great start to the vacation. They can be quite expensive though…
We really need more sleeper trains, especially now that the Schengen area can make cross-border travel wake-up-free. The problem is the EU is really keener on investing in highways than railways, unfortunately. And rail travel is despite what the title would have you believe, still quite expensive.
If you ask me the first step should be to tax airline fuel, and perhaps use the tac directly to lower rail ticket prices.
We also need faster trains, 200kh/h and up, not something that barely waddles along at 60km/h. And we need to keep trains hassle free, non of that useless security theatre or buying tickets months in advance or the extremely annoying adjustable ticket prices we see percolating from the aviation industry to the railway in western Europe.
Fucking bullshit.