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What's stopping this being my 49 euro bnb?

by swarnie 3y ago

anamexis 3y ago
Attempting to live on regional trains would be pretty unpleasant
polycaster 3y ago
Nothing, enjoy.
estebank 3y ago
The lack of a shower and having to carry all your luggage when you leave the train. I have in the past ridden overnight trains and slept in them, reducing the need for accommodation by one night. I think if you pack lightly, you can certainly do this alternating "traveling" and "staying" every couple of days for a while, but you will quickly cover a lot of ground that way. There will be times you want to hop on a shorter train for a couple of hours and no more, because a place you want to see is close-by.
dathinab 3y ago
Everything. Like e.g. TOS of public transportation providers only allowing usage for transit (and having some other restrictions). It's loud. It's bright. No showers. No easy way to store food clothes or similar. The risk of being stolen from. Generally there are most times better options even if you don't have much money. And I mean so what if some people try to use it like that it's in practice a combo of inconvenient enough and restricted enough to not be widely abused and in turn to not lead to much cost for the train provider or inconvenience for other passengers to matter much. (Assuming you mean something like looping round and round in some public transportation network.) Also if you mean you take a extra long one direction trip and sleep during that time then there isn't even abuse involved, you just basically used a regional train like a night train. Nothing bad. I mean why not.
partiallypro 3y ago
I took an overnight train from Munich to Essen (~8hrs), and it was not fun at all. No beds, full on bright lights, people are noisy, they constantly check your ticket after staff changes, and that was an ICE which is much nicer. With the 49 Euro, you're going to have to transfer more, so you have all that working against you. You would not get much sleep, even if it were legal to use it like a hotel. They were pretty good about kicking off shady people that were clearly high or something, had no ticket, and were using it as a shelter.

What's stopping this being my 49 euro bnb?

anamexis 3y ago

Attempting to live on regional trains would be pretty unpleasant

polycaster 3y ago

Nothing, enjoy.

estebank 3y ago

The lack of a shower and having to carry all your luggage when you leave the train. I have in the past ridden overnight trains and slept in them, reducing the need for accommodation by one night. I think if you pack lightly, you can certainly do this alternating "traveling" and "staying" every couple of days for a while, but you will quickly cover a lot of ground that way. There will be times you want to hop on a shorter train for a couple of hours and no more, because a place you want to see is close-by.

dathinab 3y ago

Everything. Like e.g. TOS of public transportation providers only allowing usage for transit (and having some other restrictions). It's loud. It's bright. No showers. No easy way to store food clothes or similar. The risk of being stolen from. Generally there are most times better options even if you don't have much money. And I mean so what if some people try to use it like that it's in practice a combo of inconvenient enough and restricted enough to not be widely abused and in turn to not lead to much cost for the train provider or inconvenience for other passengers to matter much. (Assuming you mean something like looping round and round in some public transportation network.) Also if you mean you take a extra long one direction trip and sleep during that time then there isn't even abuse involved, you just basically used a regional train like a night train. Nothing bad. I mean why not.

partiallypro 3y ago

I took an overnight train from Munich to Essen (~8hrs), and it was not fun at all. No beds, full on bright lights, people are noisy, they constantly check your ticket after staff changes, and that was an ICE which is much nicer. With the 49 Euro, you're going to have to transfer more, so you have all that working against you. You would not get much sleep, even if it were legal to use it like a hotel. They were pretty good about kicking off shady people that were clearly high or something, had no ticket, and were using it as a shelter.