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36. The sleeper is sort of a "premium" class of travel, but service is absolutely bare bones. Best to think of it as buying a bed to sleep on the train rather than a special experience, such as Amtrak. You really do not get anything. We got a wet towel 37. A disinfectant gel 38. And a snack...

31. Our Train UZNAM to Świnoujście is rather short this year. Partially due to COVID, partially due to smaller amount of people taking night trains in favor of day trains, as the rail network in Poland gets better and more faster connections are available. 32. The train arrives, here is our...

26. The busy city of Warsaw. 27. The station hall is nice and modern. 28. You can head upstairs to find a McDonald's a supermarket and some other amenities as well. 29. A big arrivals and departures board is hard to miss. 30. We head down to the platform to await the train.

21. We are approaching Warsaw East station. 22. At Warsaw East station, we have to get off and catch a local train to Warsaw Central (Warszawa Centralna). The reason for this is the big construction around the Warsaw Railway Junction, which causes a lot of detours, capacity issues etc. Some...

16. We take a walk to the bar car. 17. The bar car is small, but serves its purpose. 18. We can enjoy a traditional Polish meal (I chose Pierogi), a Polish beer. 19. And then coffee and dessert. All is very good and not too expensive, especially for western standards. 20. As we continue...

11. The trains hold bikes as well, which is a big plus. 12. View onto the rest of the train. 13. There are monitors above, however, they only display commercials, speed and the route. 14. And we are now off, looking at the modernized road network of Lublin. 15. At one of the stops, we...

6. The goofy thing about Lublin train station is the track numbers.. they use the full station technical numbers to announce trains, which is totally passenger unfriendly.. Hence, the train departs from track 55 on platform 3. 7. A more traditional loco+cars train pulls in from Kraków on the...

Hello all! It's been a long while since I've done an "exotic" trip report and since I was able to travel back home to Poland this summer, I did a little one day excursion to the Baltic with a little cross over into Germany. I went with a friend and we travelled on a very old Polish sleeper...

Which is pretty fascinating that I can take a train from Lancaster to New York for $19 BUT if I book just to Philly on that same ticket, it costs $21.

The two new lines in Pennsylvania are interesting. There has been a lot of talk lately about having SEPTA go back to Reading; issue is NS. However, if Amtrak got involved and NS was "forced" to cooperate, maybe things would be more streamlined.

Well, this is just the whole situation we've been discussing here isn't it. For a 450 mile, one night segment, Amtrak's pricing is just way too expensive for most people. If they want to decide that Amtrak's sleeper categories are premium only, that's fine, but we're not going to get more people...

Lots of talk about European service comparison, but one thing many people are missing is the cost. The cost of a sleeper ride here is exorbitant compared to European service. Partly of course because there is no shared compartments. But this could also be taken care of. OBB, the pioneer of the...

Well I've been trying to use this but this is the message I've been getting... :rolleyes:

It says rooms are refundable -25% fee - does that still apply with COVID fee waiver? Reason is I am not 100% sure when I want to do the trip, it may have to be moved by a day or two. In which case, sure, no change fees, BUT no more promo, if I find out in April that my June trip has to be moved...

I just received an email about it this morning. It must be part of the changes announced this week - or rather not announced. This is what my reservation looks like now. Which incidentally makes no sense because I'm arriving in Philly after the Star leaves.

I had a reservation for the meteor on December 27 going southbound from the northeast. It has now been turned into a reservation on a silver Star. I guess that answers the question on whether they'll go back to higher frequencies through the winter period.

It's very possible that I am wrong. When I take a sleeper, I just think of it as a "sleeper" rather than "first class". This might be me coming from a European background of being used to shared sleepers etc. Maybe just my expectations are much lower and I underestimate the price difference...

I think some people overestimate the food as part of the experience, especially for a new rider. The occasional rider who has never taken the train will only have a comparison to airline food service and not comparing it to the older train. People who have taken a sleeper trip in Europe before...

Thank you for the information, guys. So despite the info that they are supposed to be deployed early this year and should be all done by the end of the year, there is really no way of telling how likely it is that I will be on the new one in December. Thanks!

Hello I booked a trip for the 97 at the end of December. Since I already have an assignment in car 9712, my question is if there is any indication (any way to know?) whether the car will be a Viewliner I or II? Could that also change in the year etc.? Will there be any way to know what car I am...