Do you take the train to travel to other countries? (By Night)

I did not try the night trains yet, but did use regular high-speed trains to go on vacations. I have good connections to Austria, Italy, France, Netherlands, Czechia and even Denmark from the middle of Germany that I have used for various vacations. But you waste two days of your vacation for traveling to your destination and back (which you usually also have to do if you go by car or fly).

I’m from Sweden, so if I’m traveling in Europe I’m mainly taking flight to the continent, and then travel by train between countries in the continent. Must be even worse to only rely on train for the Finnish.

Always taking train between cities within Sweden, unless I’m going to a northern city like Umeå for some reason (incredibly rare for me).

I wish we had accessible public transportation in America. Cool map!

Now that's a more useful map - trains you can really ride on now !
(cf previous map of TENs - about european project funding).
Indeed I have taken many of these routes.
It's great if you live near hubs like Praha, Wien, Stockholm or indeed Lviv.
However there are so many gaps which existed not so long ago. For example I remember the hotel-trains across Spain from Irun to Lisbon and Algeciras (for Maroc), nightly trains Bruxelles-Luxembourg-Basel-Milano and Bruxelles-Warszawa, also Villach-Belgrade. Going back even further I even recall (London-)-Ostend-Moscow and Thessaloniki-Istanbul.
So I hope some of these will come back again, and/or go longer distances in one night using high-speed lines (as in China).

Earlier this year, I did a last-minute trip to mainland Europe and I ended up using two sleeper trains: Rome-Vienna and Vienna-Amsterdam. I slept like a baby on both, and I can't being to explain the magic of lying in bed peeking through a blind at the countryside passing by outside, the strange shifts in gravity as the train rounds corners on mountain passes, and waking up in a new country, stepping out of your bedroom into the very centre of a thriving city. The costs were about €100 each, which isn't much more than a cheap hotel room.

I cannot recommend them enough.

We tried to take the night train twice this year. Both times were economically infeasible, the night train cost twice the price of a normal train ride AND an additional night in a hotel. Taking normal trains works well though 👌

Thank you for the post!

Not to Portugal unfortunately
Also, relevant link: https://www.seat61.com/european-train-travel.htm

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The channel tunnel needs to be open at night, night bus is already a great way to travel benelux/rheinland to london but imagine a Berlin/Barcelona/Milan to UK night train it'd be great

No - as I live in Norway and we have ahit train systems. If I go by car to Sweden and then it’s possible

@anzo This is the only possible/feasible way I could take an international train. Never did so far, because I would have to spare a couple of days for the train route, and it is also a bit pricey for me to travel abroad. I think I would start off with an internal route, from my corner of this country to a different one, just so I can get accustomed to sleeping in a night train.

I wish I had the ability to travel to other countries, it's all so expensive, and I can't travel by train because it's not even an option.

Being a Moroccan is not fun. Yes, we have trains, but you're limited to national travel with them.