50 year old Couchette! Budapest to Bucharest Night Train Review.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

What a lovely relaxing start to your video - couldn't be further removed from the loud 'Hey Guys What's Up' school of youtube!

[@seekingtravel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Skibidigokyllyourself]

whats wrong with that?

[@DamirUlovec]

20:43 Ah, Đerdap (Djerdap) powerplant near Drobeta-Turnu severin (Romania) and Kladovo (Serbia).

[@groundrush04]

Its a nice document, in July 2024 i will travel the same train

[@ArturKolejarz]

Yes, I like such long videos.

[@seekingtravel]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@lif6634]

Woah! The sunset phase was inspired!🎉

[@DarkNazgul]

Fantastic journey! I loved it and this trip is on my wishlist. Thank you for the video.

[@seekingtravel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@trainsandmodelshungary]

Really enjoyed this video too!

[@CalinFR]

I think these are the most spacious couchettes in the whole of Europe

[@seekingtravel]

They really are something special! Very comfy!

[@slavakaza]

Nice video! I had to take this line and also this train so many times in the last 2 years. Seeing your video makes me nostalgic. 21:20 It's the Astra Trans Carpatic train to Arad btw, not Muntenia to Budapest. Muntenia comes a little later ;)

[@seekingtravel]

Could be. I remember waking up for about 5 min during that time and filmed it and quickly looked at the board and wrote it down. Didn’t bother to check again lol

[@podolski7777]

@@seekingtravel @slavakaza Is it possible to buy a ticket for couchette online for any of these trains. In Hungarian Railways (MAV) app i can only i buy a ticket for 2nd class seats.

[@terryross1754]

These train lines have a future. If they can be converted to electric/hydrogen high-speed lines (both rails and rolling stock require major upgrades) with less friction, vibration and noise, they would replace the polluting airliners that now dominate such short intra-European travel. And intercity centre-to-centre travel will also be faster in many cases than air travel. Oslo/Lisbon/London to Bucharest/Sofia/Athens/Ankara.

[@gabrier165]

5:33 you state you filmed this in September then at 14:35 you mention the winter hour change... which occurred in October 🙂...I think you got your timelines mixed up... unless you actually spent a month on that train which is probable knowing the Romanian railway 😅

[@seekingtravel]

It's the time zone change. From Central European Time (+1 from UK) to Eastern European Time (+1). Eastern European Time is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

[@johnmehaffey9953]

Is it possible to book the entire couchette with only 2 occupancy, my wife wouldn’t fancy sharing it with strangers although in my opinion once you’re in the compartment nobody is a stranger anymore 😊don’t mind the longer videos gives the impression that you are on the train travelling with you

[@seekingtravel]

You can book 6 beds if you want from MAV Website. You can also take a later train which has a sleeping car. If you look, there are about 5 night trains each day that leave Budapest for Bucharest.

[@peterpan85bp]

There is also a sleeping car on the train which includes cabins for 2 persons, so if you choose that one, you wont have to share your cabin with foreigners.

[@TamasKiss-bv9hz]

Very like Hungary and Budapest ❤🤍💚💯💯💯

[@leonidasse]

45 km/h… in 2023/2024. European Union. By all means move at a glacial pace, you know how it thrills me.

[@seekingtravel]

Sad, I know, but it's better than nothing.

[@alokbhattacharya6523]

Don't miss Dracula castle

[@seekingtravel]

Haha don't worry, I am originally from Romania :D Visited plenty of times. Thanks though.

[@DateTwoRelate]

Yes, go to bed in Hungary, but not go to bed hungry!

[@seekingtravel]

haha