anonymous
Traveller
2469 comments
Posted 12 years ago
Hi,
I booked a double sleeper yesterday through DB Bahn for the Salzburg - Venice night train.
My tickets arrived today and are in German. I just wanted to check this is actually a double compartment, all to ourselves, with no other people, and that we'd be together.
The ticket says:
2 Double, 2 Aufpreis
Tug 237 EN Wagen 404 Bettplatze 61 65
Why are the bed numbers 5 numbers different to each other if this is the same compartment? Help! I paid around £56 / 70 euro for the reservations, per person. We have global interrail passes.
Flo
Traveller
10724 comments
Hi,
here are the night train details with reservation costs plus timings - you can already enter the night train before midnight in Salzburg! :)
[u]https://rail.cc/en/night-train/vienna-venice-en-237/96[/u]
Seat numbers are usually not given continuously but follow a certain scheme. In the case of compartments with six seats, numbers x1 and x2 are seats on the aisle, x3 and x4 in the middle, x5 and x6 on the window.
For sleeper/couchette compartments the numbering is similar:
x1 lower bed left
x2 lower bed right
x3 middle bed left
x4 middle bed right
x5 upper bed left
x6 upper bed right
Couchette compartments are availble with either 6 or 4 beds, in case of a 4 bed compartment the two middle beds are not allocated.
On sleepers the same numeration is used, however instead of one compartment with 6 beds the numbers are used for two compartments with 3 beds each: x1 x3 x5 for the left compartment, x2 x 4 x6 for the left comparment. If you book a double sleeper, only x1 and x5 or x2 and x6 are allocated.
Hope all is clear now. ;)
Flo 8)