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Overnight trains are awesome. Yes, they move slowly compared to planes, but you may actually waste less time using them, think of them as moving hotels. You don
by GuB-42 1y ago
Overnight trains are awesome. Yes, they move slowly compared to planes, but you may actually waste less time using them, think of them as moving hotels. You don't travel to the hotel, the hotel travels for you!
The idea is that you get to the station in the evening, board the train, then on the train, you eat, relax or do some work depending on how busy you are, take a shower, and sleep and in the morning, you are at your destination. Train stations are usually closer to downtown than airports and you spend less time with security, check-in, etc... another advantage. If you account for the hotel stay you saved, net travel time can be effectively zero.
And that's just the "transportation" aspect. In addition, train cruises are a thing. Not as big as cruise ships, but that's the same idea.
If I had first-class air travel money, which is probably their target demographic, I would definitely ride such a train.
- toast0 1y ago> Train stations are usually closer to downtown than airports This is handy if your destination is in downtown (and your origin is convenient to downtown as well), but if not, you'll need to find other ground transportation. If a rental car makes sense, they're typically easy to find near airports, but a lot of train stations don't offer them. Long term parking is hit or miss, too.
- ghaff 1y agoLocally, going from where I live in Massachusetts to Manhattan only makes sense because I'm going to Manhattan where I don't need/want a car and Amtrak has a south suburban station I can go to. (And even then it's marginal because it's basically an hour in the wrong direction but I hate driving into Manhattan.) Downtown to downtown is great if you live and want to go to downtown which is sometimes true but not always.