anonymous
Traveller
2467 comments
Posted 5 years ago
Hi,
Very soon I\'m going to travel a lot between the southern part of Denmark (2 h from Hamburg) and Paris. I have been searching the internet to find night trains so I can spare travelling during the day time. As far as I know the night train between Hamburg and Paris has been closed down since 2014. I\'ve seen some information about a night train between Mannheim and Paris, but when I enter the information in db\'s search engine I don\'t find any night trains. Can someone help me? Does there still exist a possibility to come from northern Germany to Paris and spend an uninterrupted night of sleep?
Flo
Traveller
10723 comments
Hi!
The option with the most sleep probably would be to take the Hamburg - Zürich night train: [ux]https://rail.cc/de/interrail-nachtzug/hamburg-zuerich-nj-401/501[/ux]
Depending on when you want/have to be in Paris you can stay on board until Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Basel or Zurich and then change to a TGV or ICE high speed train to Paris. It is a bit more comfortable in the opposite direction. ;)
The train you heard about probably is the weekly Moscow - Paris night train; this train has an overnight leg between Berlin and Paris, also calling at Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Strasbourg.
Schedule at [ux]https://rail.shop/rzd/[/ux] - the train departs Berlin for Paris on Wednesday evening, returning the following night.
There are also a couple of overnight IC/ICE trains available on the route between Hamburg, Frankfurt and Basel, but these only offer 2nd and 1st class seats and no couchette or sleeper accomodation.
Flo