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The renaissance of night trains continues apace. As announced last year, a brand new rail route will open on February 5, running from Brussels to Venice. The route will include stops in Eindhoven, Cologne, Munich, Innsbruck and Verona. The operator is European Sleeper, a Belgian-Dutch company that already operates several night train connections in Europe.
The aim is to enable skiers to travel to the Tyrolean ski resorts in an environmentally friendly way. Co-founder Elmer van Buuren told Travel Weekly back in 2024 that the “Good Night Train” would depart from Belgium on Wednesdays and return from Venice on Sundays. This would make it possible to plan a long ski weekend. Each train would have a capacity of 750 passengers in sleeper compartments, with an estimated journey time of 15 hours to Innsbruck and 20 hours to Venice, according to the company.
The first journey is now scheduled to take place on February 5, 2025. “Passengers can board our train in Belgium and the Netherlands and relax in the comfortable dining car while the train takes them through Germany and Austria and across the Alps, ending the next day in the historic cities of Verona and Venice,” says Chris Engelsmen, co-founder of European Sleeper.
In the direction of Venice, trains leave the Belgian capital at 6 pm and arrive at 3 pm the next day. In the opposite direction, departure from Venice is at 4 pm with arrival in Brussels between 11 am and 12 noon, and both connections are scheduled to run once a week until the end of March. Prices start at 119 euros for seats and berths and go up to 239 euros for more comfortable beds.
The private company already launched night trains between the Belgian capital and Berlin in May 2023 and extended the route to Dresden and Prague last year. Fares between Brussels and Prague start at 49 euros for a seat and 79 euros for a couchette in a shared compartment.
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