Night train to Amsterdam

Waiting in Hamburg Hbf (central train station) at midnight…
30min free Wi-Fi (in theory, it didn’t work and it would have required giving up my mobile#) but I have to pay €1 for the toilet. Really? Am I paying for cleanliness or for the automated gate they installed?

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Can’t say I slept that well as the (top) couchette’s cushion was a little thin and 2 inches too short. But way more comfortable than a plane seat! You do get a pillow, sheet and blanket.

Although there were 6 couchettes but only 4 people (I paid €10 extra for a max 4 cabin)

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The middle couchette flips down during the day, becoming the backrest for the seats.

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1st class sleeper for2 people, which also has its own washbasin.

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One thought on “Night train to Amsterdam”

  1. A lot different than travelling fourth-class unreserved in a compartment in India. I would ‘buy’ a luggage rack from some entrepreneur who put a cloth on it before the cars pulled into the station. It’s virtue was that I could sleep horizontal on an overnight train from Bombay to Hyderabad. One morning, I woke up to seeing 16 bodies crammed into the compartment below me, with their agricultural products heading to market. But the views of the Deccan Plateau were breathtaking.

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