Night trains are only cool and romantic if you can afford a decent spot. Otherwise it's a long literal nightmare of being woken up constantly through the night

Night trains are only cool and romantic if you can afford a decent spot. Otherwise it's a long literal nightmare of being woken up constantly through the night as people get on and off, rattling or opening your cabin's door, border checks, waking up with a start to see if someone is picking your pocket or wandering off with your backpack, watching as guard shakes down one of the other people in your room in another language and you having no idea what's going on until money changes hands, loud noises from weird places, horrible bathrooms, cramped space, and more. Much rather just get on a plane.