Kristina VankovaStarting in 2024, Prague and Brussels will be directly connected via a sleeper train, as announced by the start-up European Sleeper. This new route is an extension of the recently launched Brussels-Berlin night train, which has already sold over 10,000 tickets and runs thrice per week.
The Prague-Brussels journey is expected to take about 15 hours, with stops at Antwerp, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Dresden before reaching Prague. This connection also opens up the possibility for travelers to journey from London to Prague (and vice versa) using just two trains, thanks to the Eurostar connection at Brussels.
The route was initially announced in 2021 in cooperation with Czech carrier RegioJet. While no official schedule has been published yet, the plan was for the train from Prague to arrive in Brussels in the morning, in time for meetings of European institutions, and to leave Brussels in the evening, arriving in Prague the next morning.
This summer, travelers have various options for long-distance train travel, including a sleeper train from Prague to Zürich, and new services from Bohumín to Gdańsk, Poland. There are also summer night trains connecting Prague with Croatian destinations and Budapest, as well as a sleeper train to Košice, Slovakia.
The expansion of inter-European train travel, including sleeper services, reflects EU-wide aims to expand Europe’s cross-border transport system, the Trans-European Transport Network. The emergence of the Prague-Brussels route is welcome news for travelers in Europe.
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