European train to launch business class style plane seats and tickets start from £55
FANCY travelling through Europe in the comfort of your own private cabin rather than a cramped plane? This new sleeper train might be the answer.
Nox Mobility is launching next year as an alternative to short-haul flights – and they’re pretty cheap too.
The sleeper train will launch in March next year with its first journey between Hamburg and Munich with stops in Bremen and Augsburg.
The inaugural run will leave Hamburg at 9.22pm and arrive at 8.14am – there will go in each direction three times per week.
Tickets are affordable too with one-way fares starting from €65 (£55).
Rather than regular train carriages, inside will be Nox Suites – a private area for each passenger with a seat that opens into a lounge to work or unwind.
Inside is also a two-metre-long bed, storage, charging ports and a window to gaze out of.
There’s also no restaurant carriage on Nox Mobility, however you can pre-order meals to be served in your cabin and breakfast is available as an optional add-on.
On Nox, children under the age of four are allowed to travel for free with an adult passenger.
It also teased future rooms which are actually private cabins.
The Single Loft has a seat and desk for the day with a bed for during the night.
The Double Loft is the most spacious room with a 170cm wide bed, two seats and a panoramic window to take in the views.
The Double Vista has ‘two seats by day and two beds by night’ in a private room with a full window.
It also hopes to launch more journeys later on to cities like Stockholm, Vienna, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Barcelona all the way to Reggio di Calabria in Italy.
In fact by 2035 it aims to connect 100 European cities.
Thibault Constant, co-founder of Nox said: “Sleeping while a train gets you across Europe is a great concept. But today people have to share their cabins with strangers, beds are tight, and it’s often more expensive than air travel.
“We want to change that and make night trains an essential part of European travel.”