České Dráhy EuroNight Sleeper Cabin Review (Bratislava to Prague)

Hello, and welcome back to another train trip report on my channel. For this week's video, I am taking a look at the handy EuroNight sleeper train service from Bratislava to Praha (Prague).
This service runs from Budapest, through Hungary to Bratislava, Slovakia. From there it continues onwards to Břeclav, just a short hop away from the Czech border. At this station, the train waits for six hours, to allow other portions to decouple, as well as give some time for people to sleep. After this wait, the carriages join the first morning express run towards the Czech capital of Praha (Prague), stopping off at major stations on the route.
There are day trains on this route, operated by České Dráhy/ZSSK/MÁV-START, which are much faster, but a lot less of an adventure in my opinion. Budapest to Praha is also served by budget RegioJet conncections, running instead via Wien, and avoiding Bratislava.
This service offered amazing standards with its ex-CityNightLine carriages (including a shower in the coach), an amenity kit, and even free breakfast. As well as this, it's certainly well priced as well. Watch the video to see why I love this useful sleeper connection.
#českédráhy #euronight #tripreport
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Journey Details:
Origin: Bratislava hl.st.
Destination: Praha hl.n.
Company: České Dráhy
Train: ČD 380 + ČD WLABmz826
Accommodation: Single Sleeper Room (T1)
Distance: 246 miles / 396 kilometres
Price: 1488 CZK (£51.80 / €56.70 / $69.30)
Time: 9h57m
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[@DutchSteamboat]

That's a rather well-equipped train for £50ish.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I was extremely surprised!

[@PeteBrandy]

Ohh, very nice, České dráhy! It's funny ride this route almost 10 hours, when daily train takes about 4 hours.. but when you calculate for a hotel stay + train ticket, night train is very good alternative! I never tried ČD's sleeper train, but I plan to travel to Zurich in summer. Posílám pozdrav z Prahy :-D

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Tried to do that route many times, hopefully one day it will be convenient to me. Thanks for watching. :)

[@dannyaraujo9515]

A few times I thought about taking a sleeper night train, but took a fast day train instead, because there was no sleeping time to justify the choice. If a trip is longer than 8 hours, the night trip becomes more attractive, as there is enough time to sleep.

[@Shthophyckq]

Škoda že už nejezdí ty dobré vozy WLABmee WSBA, byly hezký a moderní.

[@kolejowypodroznik]

In 2019, I had the pleasure to travel in the ZSSK sleeping car from Bratislava to Humenne in June and in November in the České Dráhy sleeping car from Budapest to Prague. I recommend! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@SuperalbsTravels]

That one's a good one as well! :)

[@CZpersi]

It is great to see that the service has improved so much. I remember travelling to Slovakia with an overnight train "Excelsior" back in the 1990s, when the sleepers were stinky, messy and some were even infested with bedbugs. Most people deliberately avoided them also because of security issues (drunks, thieves). The company had a very difficult time to restore confidence in this service. Night Sleepers are a great way of travelling around Europe after one understands that this is not an express train, but rather a moving one night hotel, where you check-in at one place and check-out on a new location. For 1500 CZK, you are lucky to get a decent hotel room in Prague during high-season.

[@jimholder6656]

Great trip & well-produced -- thank you!

[@AndrewG1989]

Very nice video. Happy New Year. Those intercity style trains are beautiful.

[@iancrawford1140]

i will have this on my list of trips to do when we get back to normal.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Definitely try it out.

[@richardsiebert7858]

Happy New Year all. Thanks for uploading this Superalbs - your videos are always good to watch. Best wishes all.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Thank you very much. :)

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video and a happy ans safe 2021 !!

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Thanks, you too my friend.

[@Desperoro]

Very nice review of that service. As local I can tell you that this line was established about 3 years ago. Historically it used to be EuroNight train Metropol from Budapest to Berlin (even in times of iron curtain). Train started around 20 from Budapest, 23h from Bratislava and in Břeclav there was just 40 minutes hodgepodge with EN Chopin going from Wien to Krakow. This train went without stops to Pardubice and then Prague and Berlin. Because ordinary stop of this train was in Prague (last 10s years when track is faster) at before 4AM, they left some sleepers in Pardubice from 3 to 5AM and those arrived to Prague on ordinary passenger train at around 7AM to Prague (still quite early). Anyway one day german operator said that part from Prague to Berlin is not profitable. So next year was train just cut in Prague and slighthly slowed down. 2h stop in Brno around 2AM, but no split in Pardubice. Arrive to Prague at 6Am. That was no success at all. Transit southeast-nordwest was interrupted and arrival to Prague very early. There were also more pushes to economy. So it came this solution you have experienced: "Old Metropol" went only from Budapest to Breclav as you have on video. Than there is big stopover in Breclav (easily last sleepers are left out of station) and sleepers are connected to first day train. But old EN Chopin was changed to new NightJet ÖBB train Wien-Břeclav-Bohumín(where is another split to Krakow and Warsaw)-Wroclaw (PL) - Berlin. And they change carriages each other. Arrivalt to Berlin is about 10AM. So Direct night connections between Bratislava, Budapest and Berlin is still not interrupted.As bonus there are new direct connections to Wroclaw in Poland. Yes quite cost efficient

[@hornyaksandorjanos9912]

The name of the train is Metropol. The name is comming from the route, the metropolitan centres of Central Europe: Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Brno, Budapest. The first Metropol night train started 1911 (!!!) on the Budapest-Berlin route. The current form was born by 2018 and contains four groups of coaches: EN 476 Budapest (HU) --> Breclav (CZ) EN 476 Budapest (HU) --> Breclav (CZ) --> IC 574 Brno (CZ) --> Prahue (CZ) EN 476 Budapest (HU) --> Breclav (CZ) --> EN 40476 Bohumín (CZ) --> Wrocław (PL) --> Berlin (DE) EN 476 Budapest (HU) --> Breclav (CZ) --> EN 40456 Bohumín (CZ) --> IC 406 Warszawa (PL)

[@hranolky2121]

If you ask the cabin crew, they will give you a large towel (used for "Deluxe" compartments with shower). And if you want, a large dinning table can be installed by crew to compartment (it is hidden on corridor). And why there are 4 reading lights? :) If you have "double" bed compartment, crew can move middle bed little bit up, so lower bed have more space than in "tripple" bed compartment.

[@honzaziktv3387]

Moc super video

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Thanks! :)

[@markskoda8862]

That looks really good value. I will try it when travel is back to normal.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Absolutely give it a try!

[@DanielsUKT]

great video on the euro night service great value of money for the 10 hour 250 mile international service with a shower and a breakfast package

[@alanrossiter6626]

Stumbled onto your channel today. I like the way you do it, well done! Do you do any of the travel for work/study or is it all just for fun so you can make the videos? Also would be really good if you put the date of the trip into the description .

[@johnmehaffey9953]

Very civilised way to travel

[@SuperalbsTravels]

It sure is John! :)

[@magpie1862]

This looks fun. Plan to do Zurich to Prague next year.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

That is a really cool sleeper route, I hope to try that one day too.

[@s_acostamuniz]

I already liked the video having watched only 15 second.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Yay, thanks! :)

[@heathertruskinger6214]

Great value, but I admit I would be worried if I forgot my towel, too 🤣

[@SuperalbsTravels]

A silly mistake! 😅

[@MrScoot27]

It's always pleasant to see a video from my hometown main station without the author completely tearing it to shreds (probably deservedly, although before 2011, it was A LOT worse than it is now). I also enjoyed the review itself, as I've recently considered doing a trip like this on one of ZSSK's night trains to the east of the country, so it's good to see that the quality matches what they're trying to sell and I'm quite a lot more inclined to try this out for myself sometime. That being said, there's no such thing as "Slovakian". The country's name is "Slovak Republic", therefore it's the Slovak capital, etc. You wouldn't say that you've arrived in the "Czechian capital" despite Czechia also being commonly used nowadays. Cheers.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Thanks for the tip!

[@janstefanik6310]

380 Is a solid locomotive

[@SuperalbsTravels]

When they work, I am a fan!

[@kpopaddict3771]

Right now there's an architectural competition about the renovation of Bratislava main station. I hope that when it's done you'll come to check it out

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I will be sure to. :)

[@kpopaddict3771]

@@SuperalbsTravelsHonestly, I hope that they won't cancel it because of the war.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

@@kpopaddict3771 I hope so too...

[@AnnabelSmyth]

That is good value for money to replace a night in a hotel. We went from Prague to Budapest by train once, many years ago - took about 6 hours, if I remember rightly. I imagine Bratislava to Vienna only takes about 20 minutes on any train.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Bratislava-Wien is a 1hr trip, due to the diesel power and many stops.

[@giveall9695]

Tatranky are supercool :) But I prefer slovak Horalky by Sedita. Czech Horalky by Opavia are not that good though.

[@jankucera8180]

Well, they used to be equally good, but then Mondelez Food changed the recipe, either in order to increase their profit or to kill the brand and/or replace it by other brands they own (e.g. Milka or Oreo). This happened to other traditional Czech products they now own as well , and e.g. to the Swiss Toblerone they also own. They also produce many of the "Czech" snacks in Poland.

[@georg101]

It is interesting, that your train arrived on time... ČD - waiting long

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Strange, I normally find Czech railways to be punctual and reliable, compared to elsewhere.

[@jmsmilfajt]

It's a common misconception of most Europeans that their state railway company is the worst. Believe it or not but I usually hear only hate comments from Germans on DB, Swedes on SJ etc... we are not an exception. 😅 Statistics wise, ČD are more punctual than DB but a bit less than.. let's say, ÖBB. I commute to Prague for 11 years and yes, there were dozens of trains cancelled or delayed but it was almost never ČD's fault, in most cases someone commited a suicide or a tree fell on the railways during a storm and since the density of the railway network is so high, most lines can be detoured... which obviously cause delays but people don't usually understand the context and just cuss and swear.😅

[@georg101]

Yeah, that's kind of true, but when I go to work, the train to Prague has 10 m delay 4/5 work days (from Prague only 5)

[@SternenruferinPatchouli1]

CD happy Hour! food is 50% off!

[@silenthunteruk]

When was this filmed?

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Over a year ago. 😥

[@jgsburnett9532]

Presumably even better value if shared with one other person eg couple?

[@CZpersi]

No, you pay for the bed, not for the room. Each traveller pays the same price (with discounts for kids etc.)

[@jgsburnett9532]

@@CZpersi Superalbs travel says he had a private room (what we call sole occupancy) for which he paid around £50. Surely it would not be £50 each for a couple to share the same room? I can understand the price per bed if sharing with up to 5 strangers but it would surely not be the same as on this trip.

[@sxflyer5410]

Where to buy the tickets for this train? On the website of ČD as well as ZSSK this train only appears for the Bratislava - Brečlav section.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Maybe it's presently suspended? :(

[@sxflyer5410]

@@SuperalbsTravels I guess so, but I can’t find that train even for March or April. How far in advance did you book it and on which website? Thanks for your input! :)

[@SuperalbsTravels]

@@sxflyer5410 Was booked cd.cz, will find date of booking now.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I booked it two days in advance. 😅

[@sxflyer5410]

@@SuperalbsTravels thank you so much! :)

[@Fipsos89]

What a class it is??

[@SternenruferinPatchouli1]

try the tasty food

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I've enjoyed the JLV services before, but didn't know there was a restaurant on this one until after I got off. Oh well!

[@ondrejsedlak4935]

The EU night trains are an absolute gem, even back in mid 2000s when I took one from Prague to Frankfurt a few months after they were put in service. The luxury compared to the old style vinyl bed sleepers was night and day (pun intended). The staff were also awesome as I used to smoke at the time and the nearest smoking carriage was a long hike to the other side of the train, so the train steward simply reached into the ceiling, disabled the smoke detector and just asked for me to open the window when smoking. He also came by with some beers later on (after he was off the clock of course) and several of us from another cabin had a small party.

[@philipphaberland4810]

Try Praha - Košice overnight

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I have done it before, a good trip. Will try and make a video one day soon. :)

[@philipphaberland4810]

@@SuperalbsTravels that's nice, some of my favorite childhood memories are from that line. Staying long up until 1am and waking up in Poprad to a landscape full of snow

[@askme5805]

Id would be there faster by a bicycle. It is insane compared with Slovenska Strela from mid 30'.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

But it's meant to be a slow service, otherwise you couldn't sleep.

[@kyriljordanov2086]

I remember taking a sleeper train from Praha to Presov in the 90's and the ticket taker telling us to tie the door shut with cloth or rope because there were Ukrainian mafia on the train who would break in and steal. Things seem to have changed for the better twenty five years later. Back then the Czech and Slovak trains were like something out of the 1940's, but I actually miss those days. The East, from Prague to Moscow is completely different now. Everything is so modern now compared to the 90's.

[@PtrkHrnk]

If you'd count _price for speed_ it would be horrible...

[@bertramnedbal8480]

Well, this train is intentionally much slower than EuroCity trains on this route to give people time to sleep.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

That's right. Also how do you do italics on KZbin!? 🤣

[@JeSuisRene]

to _italicate_ you use _s around your word and to *bold* you use *s.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

@@JeSuisRene _Thanks._

[@drdewott9154]

@@JeSuisRene _okie dokie_

[@lamborghinihexagons5502]

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