martinquested
Traveller
3 comments
Posted 12 years ago
Hello,
I've just discovered that the Budpaest - Munich night train (EN 462) for which I have already booked 6 couchette tickets does not have cycle spaces (it did four years ago; I was foolish to think that it might not have changed). The DB salesperson I just spoke to suggested that we take them as hand luggage.
We will have three bike bags into which we could fit two frames each, wrapping the wheels then separately in black bin bags or similar. Looking at www.vagonweb.cz/fotogalerie/H/MAV_Bcmz.php it looks like there is a small chance we could fit one pair of frames under each of the lower bunks (do they lift up at all, does anyone know?).
If we bought a seventh ticket, which would be in a separate compartment, we could put the third pair of frames under that bed. Or one of us could sleep in the separate compartment and then we could put all of the frames on the sixth bed in our compartment. I think it would fit.
The only question is, does anyone know if the rail staff in either Hungary or Germany would have a problem with doing this? We would have paid for seven tickets, but the seventh place would be taken up with our luggage rather than a person.
Any tips, anyone?
Thanks,
Martin
nltrainer
Traveller
1416 comments
dont know this particular train-plus that it may have more coaches that are different-but MOST times the lower bed also can be lifted up in couchette. Space available under it varies-sometimes there are holders for machinery or so.
Off-season couchettes are hardly ever 100% full-put the last bike in the corridor.
The OFFICAL rules say that an empty bed (that means noone is lying on it) CAN=MAY always be (re)sold by the car-condcutor if someone happens to turn up at the lastminute. More often these are ''friends''; or so of that conductor. Wise people know that they should not fret and fear so much about every possibility and all rules-a solution can always be found.