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Re:Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours by martijnarts on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @05:53AM (#42501108)
The night trains are great. It's quite comfortable, you get there in the morning allowing for a full day (after dropping off your bags at the hotel) of work/tourism, and I especially hope Nightjet and other night train companies converts all of their trains to the modern mini cabins[0].

They're incredible.

[0]: https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/nightjet-new-genera...

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Re:Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours by usr1106 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:26AM (#42501224)
Comfortable and comfortable. It's certainly much better than spending a night on a seat. But most people won't sleep well. It's noisy and either too hot or too cold. The bed is hard, narrow and often too short for tall people.

I have spent many nights on trains in various countries, seats, floor and berth. I will prefer a couchette or sleeper if the price is somewhat reasonable. But I won't live in the expectation to get something comfortable. Just less uncomfortable.

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Re:Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours by hyhconito on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:06AM (#42501391)
Doesn't work for all of us. I can peacefully fall asleep from the noise of a CFM on an Airbus. On a train, rickety being chucked around all the time and always too hot, nope.

I can do 10h on a plane fine. 3h on a train does me in every time.

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Re:Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours by Symbiote on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:48PM (#42506066)
I can't sleep in a seat, which rules out aircraft for any reasonable carbon or dollar price.

At least on trains I have a chance. Googling how the climate controlled worked before my previous trip helped, but that followed a hot journey.

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Re:Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours by orwin on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:24AM (#42501218)
Night ferrys and night trains are my favourite way of travelling when on vacation.
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