Dutch company GreenCityTrip already organised charter night train voyages to Venice, Prague, Milan, Vienna, Verona and Innsbruck. It now adds Copenhagen in Denmark; Gothenburg and Malmö in Sweden; Bologna, Florence, Bolzano and Como in Italy and Salzburg and Linz in Austria.
These new destinations will be reachable from 25 May.
GreenCityTrip is a company based in Breda in the Netherlands. The company is targeting extra destinations in 2023 with the purchase of more rolling stock. It currently uses German, former Deutsche Bahn UIC-X, coaches which stat on-site during the the city trip.
City trips
GreenCitryTrip is more a tour operator than a rail company. Its packages consists of travels of five days, hich means two nights in a hotel on site, while the nights travelling to and from a destination are spent on board. Travellers can opt for economie class, premium class and luxury class. There are no dining cars.
Sources
- ‘Slaaptrein van GreenCityTrip naar 9 extra bestemmingen vanaf mei’, Hendriëlle de Groot, Spoorpro.nl, 16.03.2022.
- ‘New destinations for GreenCityTrip sleeper trains’, Nick Augusteijn, RailTech.com, 17.03.2022.
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