Sleeping train trip to Prague with Greencitytrip

Traveling with the sleeper train is an adventure! The moment you sit in your compartment, it gets dark outside and the lights go on, you are actually already on holiday. Everyone has their own mini-house for 14 hours and after the night you are at the destination to celebrate the next party. We went with the premiere trip of Greencitytrip to Prague and in this post I will tell you about it. I will also give you practical sleeper train tips if you want to make a sleeper train trip yourself. Another blog post about Prague will follow. Because this was certainly not the first time we visited this beautiful city.

Sleeper train

The sleeper train is back. When we went on our honeymoon to Prague 15 years ago, we also did so by sleeper train. It was just a lot harder than last weekend. After transferring several times, we were able to go to sleep somewhere in Germany around midnight, only to be woken up in the middle of the night by the Czech border guard with an (aggressive) dog. Although it was not ideal, when we heard about the Greencitytrip sleeper train, we immediately wanted to go. We booked the trip to Prague, not knowing that it would be the very first train journey of the organization. Double celebration. By the way, this post is not sponsored.

The nice thing about the Greencitytrip sleeper train is that you can board at various locations in the Netherlands (Breda, Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Arnhem) and then often continue to your destination in one go.

The sleeper train is cozy, noisy, a bit spartan, but above all an experience. Young and old rode along and were rocked to sleep at night. Every now and then we stood still, waiting for the right track, and the return journey was delayed by three hours due to a technical defect, an international train in front of us with a breakdown and a power failure in Haarlem. That can happen and did not spoil our fun. In fact, we are already planning the next trip.

Practical sleeper train tips

Traveling on a sleeper train? Here are some practical tips that will make your trip a lot more pleasant:

1. Don't take too much stuff with you , because you'll be dragging yourself around like crazy. But that goes for every trip of course.
2. Install the Uber app . Your hotel is not always near the train station. Often it is easy to reach by public transport. But if you do not know how that works, then in many cities it is very pleasant to travel with a one-way Uber ticket.
3. Bring a deck of cards . Or another game. We also played 'What am I?'. Isn't that fun? There's no wifi anyway 🎉
4. Wet wipes such as snootpoetsers are not an unnecessary luxury. They allow you to freshen up easily and keep everything somewhat clean.
5. Drinking water . The water on the train is not drinkable, so taking a liter of water for everyone is a very good idea!
6. Earplugs . Even though the atmosphere is friendly and everyone was really quiet after 12 o'clock, the sleeper train is noisy. A child who wakes up briefly during the night, you can hear that. Earplugs make the chance of a better night's sleep a lot greater.

Prague city trip

I would like to write a completely different blog about Prague. Because Prague has shown us so much new. First of all, it is a beautiful city with almost only breathtaking old buildings in different styles. It is also very cozy and you can shop very well. We doubted for a moment whether our son (11) would like it, but that doubt was really not necessary. He enjoyed it immensely, ate deliciously and was amazed by everything.

Planning a trip to Prague?

Then watch a few videos of Janec aka Hounest guide . He gives you all kinds of fun tips such as hidden places and what you should pay attention to as a tourist. After watching one of his videos about the infamous candy stores in the city, we (and especially our son) had a nice treasure hunt, walking through the streets. The amount of candy stores of the same kind as discussed below is... almost uncountable.

In short, it was a very successful long weekend that we all look back on with great pleasure. As I also wrote in my book : traveling shakes up your spirit and makes memories for life.

More information about the Greencitytrip trips

As I mentioned above, this post is in no way sponsored. I simply (like so many happy stuff) heartily recommend Greencitytrip . They offer train trips to the cities of Prague, Venice, Verona, Milan, Innsbruck and Vienna - with and now also without hotel stays. You can see more about the first Greencitytrip trip we traveled with in this video .

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Author - Mariko Naber

Mariko is the happy brain behind Happlify. Together with her partner Mark she runs Sell your stuff online, branding agency Loaded ink BNO and Atelier Naber . She loves feel good, random acts of kindness, meatballs, chocolate mousse, family time, sea, piña colada, sugar & spice and everything nice 💛