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Eurorail -- sleeping on train and A/C?

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How is it to try to sleep on the trains? Also, do the sleeping rooms have A/C? How about the other ones? How standard are the trains between countries?
 
I took a night train from Nice to Barcelona and had no problem sleeping. Funny story about that, I was in high school at the time and was with a tour group. Some of the guys from one of the other schools on the tour were in our cabin. I woke up the next morning to find that they had shredded my pant legs with knives. The pants I was wearing. So apparantly I must have been sleeping pretty soundly.
 
I know that in almost all the slavik countries if your on a train at night your just setting yourself up to be robbed by hoodelums!
 
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
I know that in almost all the slavik countries if your on a train at night your just setting yourself up to be robbed by hoodelums!
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Wow...just wow.


/note to self

"When in a Slavic country, if taking a train, at night, do not sleep."
 
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
I know that in almost all the slavik countries if your on a train at night your just setting yourself up to be robbed by hoodelums!
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I have ridden many trains in Russia and never had a hint of problem. Well except when they got drunk...

which is often....

Anyways sleeping on trains is pretty easy. I am a really light sleeper and would sometimes wake up when the train stopped at a station.
 
Originally posted by: BeeVo
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
I know that in almost all the slavik countries if your on a train at night your just setting yourself up to be robbed by hoodelums!
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I have ridden many trains in Russia and never had a hint of problem. Well except when they got drunk...

which is often....

Anyways sleeping on trains is pretty easy. I am a really light sleeper and would sometimes wake up when the train stopped at a station.
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When I am in Poland or Czech or Ukraine or even Russia, I never ever travel by train at night or shall we say over night.

Sure people do it but not as often as you would think.
I have always went by the addage better safe than sorry.
 
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
Originally posted by: BeeVo
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda
I know that in almost all the slavik countries if your on a train at night your just setting yourself up to be robbed by hoodelums!
Click to expand...

I have ridden many trains in Russia and never had a hint of problem. Well except when they got drunk...

which is often....

Anyways sleeping on trains is pretty easy. I am a really light sleeper and would sometimes wake up when the train stopped at a station.
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When I am in Poland or Czech or Ukraine or even Russia, I never ever travel by train at night or shall we say over night.

Sure people do it but not as often as you would think.
I have always went by the addage better safe than sorry.
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Well I can't really say how common it is in Russia since there were very few Americans where I was. I almost always rode over night and have been at the train stations in Russia many times at 12-3 AM. I never had a problem in all the years I had been there.
 
Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

When I am in Poland or Czech or Ukraine or even Russia, I never ever travel by train at night or shall we say over night.

Sure people do it but not as often as you would think.
I have always went by the addage better safe than sorry.
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Whatever; I actually preferred the trains in the east, because they were dirt cheap and almost empty, so you could actually stretch out over a bench seat. More comfortable than the overpriced couchettes in Western Europe...
 
Sleeping in trains generally isn't a problem. The trains in most European countries have A/C now. Sleeping cabins either have six beds like this one, or provide a bit more space for only 2-3 persons like that one.

Some night trains don't have beds at all, just seats with adustable backrests. Temperature isn't a problem there either, but the risk to have a snoring passenger in the same room is higher, obviously.

You can find more information about travelling Europe by train here.
 
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