The service has definitely benefited from the change in ownership. Traveled on it to Venice last year. Far better than it was 2 years before and the staff was better too. they have definitely upgraded the quality of the cabins.
Paris - Venice is a 12 hours pleasant and unforgettable trip ! Thank You dear Mark for Your touching video and for Your necessary work ! Vl'ado. Jul 04,2018
I love these seat 61 travelogues; the text is minimal but they're still information-dense and capture the key features of the trip well. I'm at a loss to understand the downvotes unless they're coming from Michael O'Leary. (Which I wouldn't discount.) When I was last in Italy (Milano, specifically) two of us were heading north into Switzerland on the Bernina Express (another Seat 61 recommendation) and the other two were heading for Paris. I looked at booking Thello for them based on the then-current review on the Seat 61 site. Unfortunately it was a Friday and the prices skyrocket on Fridays. I stuck them on a daytime TGV instead. But next time I go I'm still looking at doing Thello from Venezia to Paris, and even more so after seeing this new video. Just not on a Friday is all.
Flown Paris to Venice, once. Hotel to hotel took approximately 10 hours. Train is a much more relaxing way, although train during the day means looking out the window to experience all of Europe’s wonder passing by
In a way your videos with no voice over are nice and simple and enjoyable to watch. On the other hand sometimes I wish there was narration in addition to the text to add more information
Could it have been the next day's train arriving? Cheating, I know, but easier than asking them to do it again, or getting out at Mestre and running across the causeway ahead of the train.
Kinda of a Darwin moment, hide yourself from a youtuber, but have your picture taken perhaps 1000 times as you wait for your train. Enough time for your picture to be run through interpol a couple of times. LMFAO !!
Per caso voi l'avete già preso? Com'è? Sto considerando l'idea di prendere o questo (siamo in quattro quindi prenderei una cambina intera) e viaggiare di notte o partire da Milano porta Garibaldi e prendere il TGV
@@jas_9358 Preso un sacco di volte. Viaggiare in 4 in una cuccetta di prima è un'ottima esperienza e fa risparmiare tempo e denaro. Portarsi tappi, ciabatte e paravista.
Ti ringrazio per la tua risposta ^^ alla fine ho optato per il tgv torino-chambery e poi arrivare a ValenCe con il ter dato che il giorno dopo andiamo a Barcellona (sempre con il tgv) grazie mille
Very interesting...I live in Brescia, near Milan and see The Thello train passing by in The morning while waiting for my train. Normally it is 60-120 minutes late.
Nice footage for the tour, reviews required for this particular train though: it is quite uncomfortable and has many negative reviews online. We reviewed it ourselves to see if it was really as bad as everyone says, the video is on our channel. Long story short: it is too expensive for it's negative traits but quite fun for someone willing to have an overnight adventure :)
The number of berths ( it used to be ) 4 for 1st Class 6 in Standard.When the French owned it it was a pretty hit & miss service , still comfortable though & very quiet for a train.Haven’t travelled on it since it was privatised. French Railways range between very good & a bit third world.
Just have a question to where the train crossed into Italy from France is it the French Riviera via Marseille & Genoa or the Alps via the Frejus Rail Tunnel and Turin due to Both routes merging at Milano Centrale.
Neither, the train usually crosses the Swiss border at Vallorbe and enters in Italy through the Simplon's tunnel. Sometimes, like two days ago, it crosses the border through the Fréjus' tunnel.
Does anyone know then this train will resume service? The Paris - Venice route has been temporarily suspended due to Covid-19, but since countries are reopening I am hoping service resumes soon.
Great video! Would love to travel in this train. Can you please tell me, whether the dining car of this train has some vegetarian options too? I am fine with milk and milk products but I cannot eat eggs and meat of any kind (all types of meat). If it does not have any veg items on the menu, can I bring some packed food onboard? Are there some good budget restaurants/take away stores having veg items on their menu near Paris Gare De Lyon and Venice terminal? Also, this question might seem strange but I have to ask this. In the country where I live, we use bidet/hand sprays or jet sprays/health faucets in toilets, do European train toilets as well as hotel toilets have this facility or only tissue papers are used? Thank you for your patient reading.
TheRenaissanceman65 Thank you for replying. I am a lacto - vegetarian (I cannot eat meat (any type - red, poultry, sea food) and eggs but dairy products are fine by me) and travelling becomes a bit difficult for me. But thanks anyways!
TheRenaissanceman65 Yup, and I really want to visit Europe's many great countries and observe their culture. It would be a pity if I could not do it just because of food! Thanks for giving your time.
TheRenaissanceman65 Thanks for your suggestion. Yes, Risotto sounds nice. Also, I know that there will be varying choices for veg food in different countries. You are a very reasonable person, I must say. If I do face further unsolved doubts, I might bother you again.
TheRenaissanceman65 Oh well, thank you for clearing all my doubts. Would to love to eat the risotto too! (I myself am very particular about what I eat so I can understand what Italians feel about an imperfect risotto!)
Hi Mark, its my first time to use train from Paris to Venice this coming April 2019. Any specific train or timing direct from Paris to Venice? Hoping for your reply. Thank You!
@@benjreganit You can buy it at Gare de Lyon station on the Thello automatic machine but you will have to pay the full price and maybe you will find the train full during high season.
The evening meal served in the restaurant car looked like dog food. Most unappealing. I would dine beforehand in Paris and bring onto the train with me some snacks and wine for later in the journey.
The video shows all three types of accommodation: Couchettes, regular sleeper, premium sleeper. I travelled premium single sleeper with toilet & shower (though on this occasion the shower didn't work!)
Great! Thank you so much for the information. I'm intending to travel from London to Austria (the Voralberg region) and instead of using the TGV from Paris to Zurich, I wanted to do an over night or much slower trip. I suppose I can do the over night to Milan again and then the 3 hours to Zurich and then Zurich to Dornbirn. If you have any suggestions I'd be very grateful.
Oh yes, the premium sleeper with bed, shower and toilet. If you're gonna do it, do it in comfort. Unless you like sharing a room on a bunk with strangers....non, merci!
Any accommodation that requires me to share an enclosed space with a stranger is not acceptable. I prefer the old style Pullman open section (still available on Via's Canadian)!
All of Europe’s a night-train/And all the men and women merely passengers/They have their Brexits and their Schengen Areas/And one man in his couchette smells many farts/His trips covering different gauges/At first the teenager/Hungover and puking in his best mate’s arms/And then the whining young man, with rucksack/And bleary morning face/And then the husband/Sighing with sternness/And a where’s my passport?/Made to his wife’s eyeball/The Spanish gauge shifts into green and considered Irun/The spectacle of those/With Euros well saved/Last train of all/That bookends this changing, scentful mystery/Is second-class and near-Bolivian/Sans tea, sans pies, sans haste, sans air spring.
Unfortunately i couldn't find any rails n trainz at the central station when i was in Milan. Milan is dusty and ugly! I only found buffets, atm automats and escalators at the statiin and the metrostop. I heard announcement, but as i mentioned, i couldnt find trains and railways at all. Perhaps milaneses have seen that i was sitting in a wheelchair. So disabled people can't use public transport nor in Hungaryy, nor in Italy and in the world. It is so sad. Disabled people r also people like any others! They have same rights with normal people!
If you're in a wheelchair, just contact Sala Blu, they help you onto the train, www.milanocentrale.it/en/service/detail/assistenza-trenitalia-disabili-sala-blu1
Mark Smith I wanna fly 2 Munich next year. I read that the sirport lies in Erding, in a village not far from Munich and it's very big. The problem: I can't waiting 4 my lugages a lot. So the question: Can workers at the munich airpirt do that passangers shouldn't wait a lot please? N how far is the runway, so the airport itself from da terminal building please? Is there a taxistop at the airport please?
Ákos Szűcs, the staff at München Flughafen/Munich Airport will be well versed in dealing with wheelchair bound passengers. Assistance will not be a problem. Your airline will arrange this with the airport if you give them advance notice.
Seat 61 is the kind of website you hope exists but usually doesn't. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The service has definitely benefited from the change in ownership. Traveled on it to Venice last year. Far better than it was 2 years before and the staff was better too. they have definitely upgraded the quality of the cabins.
Paris - Venice is a 12 hours pleasant and unforgettable trip !
Thank You dear Mark for Your touching video and for Your necessary work !
Vl'ado. Jul 04,2018
I love these seat 61 travelogues; the text is minimal but they're still information-dense and capture the key features of the trip well. I'm at a loss to understand the downvotes unless they're coming from Michael O'Leary. (Which I wouldn't discount.)
When I was last in Italy (Milano, specifically) two of us were heading north into Switzerland on the Bernina Express (another Seat 61 recommendation) and the other two were heading for Paris. I looked at booking Thello for them based on the then-current review on the Seat 61 site. Unfortunately it was a Friday and the prices skyrocket on Fridays. I stuck them on a daytime TGV instead. But next time I go I'm still looking at doing Thello from Venezia to Paris, and even more so after seeing this new video. Just not on a Friday is all.
Looks like a much improved interior from the days when I used the Artesia in the 90's. Thanks for posting.
Frftrteterrreejjyu iii
Flown Paris to Venice, once. Hotel to hotel took approximately 10 hours. Train is a much more relaxing way, although train during the day means looking out the window to experience all of Europe’s wonder passing by
Hello. We can see that Thello has made great progress in the comfort of its passengers. Nice video
Done many times, arriving in Stazione Santa Lucia in Venece around 9.30 in the morning in summer time... Priceless...
In a way your videos with no voice over are nice and simple and enjoyable to watch. On the other hand sometimes I wish there was narration in addition to the text to add more information
thanks for helping me to understand exactly what to expect!
Looks lovely Man in Seat 61. Your travels are inspiring and so helpful 🚂🚄🚅🚋
Very thorough. No idea how you filmed the train arriving. Thanks for this.
Could it have been the next day's train arriving? Cheating, I know, but easier than asking them to do it again, or getting out at Mestre and running across the causeway ahead of the train.
Fantastic train,lovely shooting,& great journey indeed.We have experienced it in 2017.!!!
shripad kulkarni sir is it better to travel solo to EU and then visit places by own or to visit with a guided tour like SOTC or club Mahindra.
+Abhishek Mukherjee If you speak English and a little French or German go by yourself...More Adventure...and you will meet more people!Good luck!
Magnificent...I love it ! magnifique!
the dude at 0:28 really didnt want to be on camera, only on the other 40 cameras hanging from the station around him
Kinda of a Darwin moment, hide yourself from a youtuber, but have your picture taken perhaps 1000 times as you wait for your train. Enough time for your picture to be run through interpol a couple of times. LMFAO !!
Illegal on the run!
FrankValchiria - Well spotted. You would make a good cop.
i wouldn't either
As "The TM1 Channel" said - Good video, good information delivery, silly downvoters. I wonder if they understand how you work?
Video molto bello e treno molto comodo...viene voglia di tornare a Parigi!
Non so se lo hai capito ma lui *NON PARLA ITALIANO*
Può tradurre il commento.
Per caso voi l'avete già preso? Com'è? Sto considerando l'idea di prendere o questo (siamo in quattro quindi prenderei una cambina intera) e viaggiare di notte o partire da Milano porta Garibaldi e prendere il TGV
@@jas_9358 Preso un sacco di volte. Viaggiare in 4 in una cuccetta di prima è un'ottima esperienza e fa risparmiare tempo e denaro. Portarsi tappi, ciabatte e paravista.
Ti ringrazio per la tua risposta ^^ alla fine ho optato per il tgv torino-chambery e poi arrivare a ValenCe con il ter dato che il giorno dopo andiamo a Barcellona (sempre con il tgv) grazie mille
THANK YOU MR MARK SMITH IT'S VERY HELPFUL.take care.
Very interesting...I live in Brescia, near Milan and see The Thello train passing by in The morning while waiting for my train. Normally it is 60-120 minutes late.
Nice footage for the tour, reviews required for this particular train though: it is quite uncomfortable and has many negative reviews online. We reviewed it ourselves to see if it was really as bad as everyone says, the video is on our channel. Long story short: it is too expensive for it's negative traits but quite fun for someone willing to have an overnight adventure :)
Alleyways it’s just OK. Perfectly fine for one night
another great video
is it only night this route??
Very nice tailwei station in Paris. Trein is good and confortable. 😀👍
Very nice video.
I really like this train.
Great video. Greetings from Turkey
THIS SERVICE IS DISCONTINUED. NEW SERVICE VIA BRUSSELS AND GERMANY.
I miss Paris. I used to use gare de Lyon 3/4 times a week back and forth to Lyon. Tgv service is perfect.
Europe is a great place.we should learn how to live with unity and peace from europe.
Tinku Asija - Dos you miss the 20th century?
Nice video thanks. I’ve taken the trans Siberian and many sleeper trains in China. This train is much nicer.
Great video, great website
Nice video!
00:28 man on the bench wasn't too happy to be filmed haha!
Illegal on the run!
Coaches are unique must say. With private washrooms unexpected for each coups
So professionally u make vlog..
I enjoyed a lot
Thanks Mr.Smith..
What about stairs in center.. did it remain like this for whole journey..
great review !!!👍👍
Thank you that was really helpful..just could not figure out the difference between standard and 1st class
The number of berths ( it used to be ) 4 for 1st Class 6 in Standard.When the French owned it it was a pretty hit & miss service , still comfortable though & very quiet for a train.Haven’t travelled on it since it was privatised. French Railways range between very good & a bit third world.
Superb ......thank sir
Hi. Can you tell me what is the cost of ticket and if this cabin is better or other 4/6 seat (If travelling 2 persons)
I suggest taking the vaporetto from St Lucia down Canal Grande
Woowww I love it...🇮🇳 Aamir..😗
Just have a question to where the train crossed into Italy from France is it the French Riviera via Marseille & Genoa or the Alps via the Frejus Rail Tunnel and Turin due to Both routes merging at Milano Centrale.
Neither, the train usually crosses the Swiss border at Vallorbe and enters in Italy through the Simplon's tunnel. Sometimes, like two days ago, it crosses the border through the Fréjus' tunnel.
Does anyone know then this train will resume service? The Paris - Venice route has been temporarily suspended due to Covid-19, but since countries are reopening I am hoping service resumes soon.
It’s discontinued. I’ve put that in the video description and on the info page linked from it.
It’s discontinued. I’ve put that in the video description and on the info page linked from it.
Maybe a 25 minute walk is nothing for you but you should have mentioned you can get a vaporetto for cheap from the train to San Marco or other points.
You can save more if you buy tickets from TrainPal. I like their discounts and train card sales.
Did you take the Ferricarossa from Milan to get ahead for the arrival shot?
Great video! Would love to travel in this train. Can you please tell me, whether the dining car of this train has some vegetarian options too? I am fine with milk and milk products but I cannot eat eggs and meat of any kind (all types of meat). If it does not have any veg items on the menu, can I bring some packed food onboard? Are there some good budget restaurants/take away stores having veg items on their menu near Paris Gare De Lyon and Venice terminal? Also, this question might seem strange but I have to ask this. In the country where I live, we use bidet/hand sprays or jet sprays/health faucets in toilets, do European train toilets as well as hotel toilets have this facility or only tissue papers are used?
Thank you for your patient reading.
TheRenaissanceman65
Thank you for replying. I am a lacto - vegetarian (I cannot eat meat (any type - red, poultry, sea food) and eggs but dairy products are fine by me) and travelling becomes a bit difficult for me. But thanks anyways!
TheRenaissanceman65
Yup, and I really want to visit Europe's many great countries and observe their culture. It would be a pity if I could not do it just because of food! Thanks for giving your time.
TheRenaissanceman65
Thanks for your suggestion. Yes, Risotto sounds nice. Also, I know that there will be varying choices for veg food in different countries. You are a very reasonable person, I must say. If I do face further unsolved doubts, I might bother you again.
TheRenaissanceman65
Oh well, thank you for clearing all my doubts. Would to love to eat the risotto too! (I myself am very particular about what I eat so I can understand what Italians feel about an imperfect risotto!)
what was the top speed of this service?
it is a very remarkable and joyfully journey if someone travel by train in and around Austin city us
Thank you!!!
thx for introduction of sleeper train.
Hi Mark, its my first time to use train from Paris to Venice this coming April 2019. Any specific train or timing direct from Paris to Venice? Hoping for your reply. Thank You!
I’m not sure what the question is! Yes you can take this train. Or a daytime train with change in Turin. Www.seat61.com
Can i buy the ticket for a night train Paris to Venice on the day itself? Where to buy in Gare De Lyon station? Thank You!
@@benjreganit You can buy it at Gare de Lyon station on the Thello automatic machine but you will have to pay the full price and maybe you will find the train full during high season.
The evening meal served in the restaurant car looked like dog food. Most unappealing. I would dine beforehand in Paris and bring onto the train with me some snacks and wine for later in the journey.
The food is not so bad but a picnic on the train is better.
i know.jealousy is hard to bear..But - im jealous !
When is the best time to visit Venice and avoid other tourists?
travelmentary TV
Avoid August.
Hi Mark, what class did you travel? I did the Thello Paris to Milan 2 summers ago and it certainly wasn't as fancy as that!
The video shows all three types of accommodation: Couchettes, regular sleeper, premium sleeper. I travelled premium single sleeper with toilet & shower (though on this occasion the shower didn't work!)
Great! Thank you so much for the information. I'm intending to travel from London to Austria (the Voralberg region) and instead of using the TGV from Paris to Zurich, I wanted to do an over night or much slower trip. I suppose I can do the over night to Milan again and then the 3 hours to Zurich and then Zurich to Dornbirn. If you have any suggestions I'd be very grateful.
Nestor Aamons wouldn’t the Nightjet sleeper from Cologne to Innsbruck be the better route?
Thanks, Mark, I don't know that route. Thank you for the tip! I'm going to look at it now. Do you have a video of that journey?
the sleepers are ok, but the restaurant is a cheap cafetaria with plastic cutlary, pity (no Orient Express)
The restaurant is nothing special, it's better to have a picnic on the train with Italian or French cold food.
and the Orient Express costs 1,000's more than Thello, so not really a good comparison.
For me it's normal. And also good for me too.
Reading the comments my fears are confirmed that strangers share those sleeper rooms. Blech.
Sleepers are separated by sex, so you will share it with a man only if you book together.
@@laurentfaurite8660 Not leaving Italy, all together.
Congratulation PARIS...I love you.
Nice 👍👌
Picture not crispy clear like your other videos. Was there a problem with the camera?
I think that might be your internet connection, Sam. It looks fine here.
Is it fast?
Want to do it!
Mi sai dire a che velocità viaggia di notte??
I miss italya
Oh yes, the premium sleeper with bed, shower and toilet. If you're gonna do it, do it in comfort. Unless you like sharing a room on a bunk with strangers....non, merci!
Couchettes are safe even for women.
Sharing a room with strangers sucks, no toilet , in the basic and you have to sleep with your clothes on.
@@josephforest7605 Not a big problem for me and plenty of other persons.
@@laurentfaurite8660 A problem for me and plenty of other people.
@@Jay-vr9ir Take a sleeping car.
If that's a first class breakfast at the end it's disappointing.
Is Thello the name of the train company?
Yes, it is.
PARIS TO VENICE BEACH BY TRAIN
Hahaha
Any accommodation that requires me to share an enclosed space with a stranger is not acceptable. I prefer the old style Pullman open section (still available on Via's Canadian)!
Jynx Jynx then pay for a single-bed sleeper! ;0) What’s really unacceptable is sleeping in a seat!
@@seat61 Absolutely!
Sorry to see you have NO VOICE!
vivement la privatisation de certaines lignes de la SNCF
How is Thello properly pronounced? Thanks
Fritz Steiner
T(h)ay-low?
Thèlló
火車比中國之火車，高級又舒適
Hi ...sir. I am Indian.
Etvabhiruchi meek0sam
All of Europe’s a night-train/And all the men and women merely passengers/They have their Brexits and their Schengen Areas/And one man in his couchette smells many farts/His trips covering different gauges/At first the teenager/Hungover and puking in his best mate’s arms/And then the whining young man, with rucksack/And bleary morning face/And then the husband/Sighing with sternness/And a where’s my passport?/Made to his wife’s eyeball/The Spanish gauge shifts into green and considered Irun/The spectacle of those/With Euros well saved/Last train of all/That bookends this changing, scentful mystery/Is second-class and near-Bolivian/Sans tea, sans pies, sans haste, sans air spring.
I think you can buy train cards to save more, I tried TrainPal and it is good.
Thanks, Jaques -- the 7 Ages of Train
@@Jonno-pv1nr 👍
The last time I took this journey was some delayed smelly italian train. But the food was delicious then.
this is a italian train
Sorry, but what a crappy train. No thanks, and I've been on a lot of trains in the "good old days". Shame they can't keep the old standards.
@TheRenaissanceman65 Nobody expects...The Ritz!
Unfortunately i couldn't find any rails n trainz at the central station when i was in Milan. Milan is dusty and ugly! I only found buffets, atm automats and escalators at the statiin and the metrostop. I heard announcement, but as i mentioned, i couldnt find trains and railways at all. Perhaps milaneses have seen that i was sitting in a wheelchair. So disabled people can't use public transport nor in Hungaryy, nor in Italy and in the world. It is so sad. Disabled people r also people like any others! They have same rights with normal people!
If you're in a wheelchair, just contact Sala Blu, they help you onto the train, www.milanocentrale.it/en/service/detail/assistenza-trenitalia-disabili-sala-blu1
Mark Smith I wanna fly 2 Munich next year. I read that the sirport lies in Erding, in a village not far from Munich and it's very big. The problem: I can't waiting 4 my lugages a lot. So the question: Can workers at the munich airpirt do that passangers shouldn't wait a lot please? N how far is the runway, so the airport itself from da terminal building please? Is there a taxistop at the airport please?
Ákos Szűcs, the staff at München Flughafen/Munich Airport will be well versed in dealing with wheelchair bound passengers. Assistance will not be a problem. Your airline will arrange this with the airport if you give them advance notice.
Ákos Szűcs fuck you Milan is beautiful city!
Screw coupling 😆😆
India is better than France
Yes....rajdhani , duranto,hamsafer,g
Screw couplings are standard in all of Europe.
Facility not good, indian premium train better than these.
Baloney Harush...show your video proof Sir!
You are an Indian and trains of India are shit...AF
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