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Comment by sschueller

Don't take the ÖBB night-train from Zürich HB to Amsterdam and back. They sell you the premium package online with fancy pictures of their new trains but the train that shows up is an old 1970 rail car with both toilets locked (broken for weeks I found out), broken doors, broken heater, missing ladders, broken window blinds etc.

At this time if they can't even clean the toilets then it is not worth the steep price.

Here is a video of the squeaking noise we had all night (sounds like the rail car is about to break in half): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GLNqpCfIawc

The toilets: https://imgur.com/gZqhDvz , even better was that the toilets in the other attached rail carriages had no toilet paper (Amsterdam -> Zürich)...

Additionally from Amsterdam to Zürich 3 people got robbed while still in the Netherlands. This train is reservation only, they could at least lock the doors or something to prevent criminals from boarding.

I would have been more comfortable with a seat in the 1st class SBB carriage that rides along than a private cabin and it would have cost a lot less.

parent sschueller 3 years ago

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