marko18
Traveller
7 comments
Posted 15 years ago
I'm looking to book a few night trains to use with my Interrail 1 country pass. On the Tren Italia site, If i choose global pass and just the 'mandatory reservation', it comes up at €3 as oppose to the €30+ it is for a couchette. My question is, does this €3 supplement get me a seat which I can sleep in? It seems I can get these on all the night train routes I'm using so this would cut costs down considerably. Thanks, Mark.
Peter
Traveller
9336 comments
Hi Mark ...
The seats offered for night trains are just normal seats like in day trains. My personal opinion: you can do it for 1-2 nights, but then you need a real bed (or couchette in a train) again - otherwise you are tired during the day and it is just to hard to visit cities and so on - you have to find you best personal mix.
Peter :)
marko18
Traveller
7 comments
Thanks Peter, I think we may do it where only 4 berth couchettes are available, but itd be worth paying the extra €10 for a bunk in the 6 berth couchette as you say. I was concerned that some trains may not have regular 2nd class seating coaches and this wasnt represented on the ternitalia site, is this the case for a number of overnight trains or is there generally normal seating available (to sleep in!). Thanks.
SiDUDe
Traveller
752 comments
some trains dont have seats, these tend to be named hotel trains like paris rome, paris barcelona. It varies though
marko18
Traveller
7 comments
Cheers guys, these seem to be internal trains (one called 1925 something) so I think we'll be alright.