 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi,
Has anyone had any experience of the overnight sleeper train services (City Night Line) from Amsterdam to the Swiss Alps?
Is it worth the money to have a sleeper berth or are the couchettes OK?
How easy was it to buy a ticket?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Can't answer that, but I've found the website www.seat61.com a mine of information on the most obscure train-related info. Hopefully it has what you need.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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no specific experience of this particular service, but rail europe or Dbahn UK sales offices are both helpful when booking most different sorts of European rail travel and the tickets all arrive within a week of the call (often a day or two). If you are in London for work/pleasure the rail Europe offices on Piccadily (French tourist office) allow you to get the whole thing sorted without the 0800 telephone call.
Couchette vs sleeper is too personal to advise on. Depends on how you sleep, whether the other couchette users (if there are any) snore etc etc etc. My own experience is that you often meet really interesting people on Foreign sleeper services, but it's entirely down to chance.
Any particular reason why you are going from Amsterdam rather than Paris ? Another route which may be worthy of consideration is going Eurostar and then picking up a sleeper from either Brussels or Koln - from the latter, German sleeper services serve a number of Swiss destinations.
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Hi Pendodave,
I need to be in Amsterdam on the Sunday until about 5 - hence the odd starting point
Silly question: Do you get woken up at your stop?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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RandomSkier, I've not done the citynight line but on other couchettes and sleepers I've been woken by the attendant when I've not already been wide awake already with traditional couchettes and sleepers there is usually an attendant in each coach
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Unless you're the first stop in the morning I suspect the general noise as each station stop is made will wake you up.
I always set my mobile alarm - if I wasn't 100% certain of being woken my subconcious would stealthily ensure that I kept waking throughout the night to look at the time.
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Hurrah, ticket booked.
Skiing here I come
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