Taking night trains out of their “nostalgic niche” and establishing them as an alternative for business trips, a new start-up is pushing into the night train market with this mission. Utopia.de shows when it will start, how much privacy the cabins will offer, and how much the train connections will cost. And these trains are the perfect place to try out the Betrolla login.
Board, fall asleep, and wake up the next morning at your destination: Night trains are a special travel experience – and have experienced a small boom in recent years. This is also since the night train network is finally being expanded again: DB and ÖBB, for example, launched new Nightjet connections from Berlin and Vienna to Paris and Brussels.
However, despite the expansion, tickets for night trains are often expensive, and comfort sometimes falls by the wayside. The Berlin start-up Nox wants to solve both problems. Nox aims to establish itself as “a real alternative to short-haul flights”. Utopia.de asked one of the two founders how he plans to implement the project.
Nox: affordable night trains with private sleeping compartments
The special thing about Nox’s night trains is, on the one hand, the low ticket prices, which should not be higher than comparable flight tickets. Secondly, the start-up wants to offer exclusively private rooms with beds on night trains.
Founders of Nox: Janek Smalla and Thibault Constant
The two founders have a wealth of experience in the mobility sector: Janek Smalla (founder) helped shape the opening of the German rail market at Flixtrain and, most recentl,y worked as General Manager at Bolt. Thibault Constant (co-founder) worked as an engineer at Alstom and SNCF and says he has already traveled on more than 400 night trains. He reports on this with Simply Railway – his platform for train travel – on YouTube and Instagram.
Now the two want to “reinvent night trains from scratch” and offer an attractive travel option for vacationers as well as for business trips.
What do the Nox cabins look like?
Instead of having to share sleeping compartments with strangers, Nox relies entirely on private sleeping cabins and aims to offer plenty of privacy. At the same time, the founders want their design to be able to transport more passengers than conventional night train providers. Three room categories should make this possible: Single Loft Rooms, Double Loft Rooms, and Double Vista Rooms.
The beds in the Double Loft Room
The double bed in the Double Loft Room looks comfortable.
Single and Double Loft Rooms are equipped with bunk beds and separate seating areas with a table. The beds in the two Loft Rooms are single beds or double beds and are designed at right angles to the direction of travel. All beds are two meters long.
The Double Vista Rooms offer a bed with level access and a second bed above it. The beds are positioned parallel to the direction of travel and offer a window view; the lower bed can be folded down to form two seats with a large table. There should be enough storage space for luggage in all sleeping cabins.
Private sleeping cabin on the night train with Nox
Even those traveling alone can sleep in a private sleeping cabin on a Nox night train. Nox is also developing wheelchair-accessible night trains. Wheelchair users will be able to book extra-large single and double rooms in direct proximity to large wheelchair-friendly toilets.
How much do the night train tickets cost?
According to the company website, single rooms cost from 79 euros per journey; double rooms from 149 euros or 75 euros per person for two people. The prices are dynamic, meaning that they can vary depending on demand – as with flight and other train bookings.
For comparison: according to a recent analysis by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the average price for a flight operated by the low-cost airline Ryanair was EUR 80 last spring. Although this is the average, while Nox prices start at 79 euros, additional baggage costs must also be taken into account for the flight. Depending on the weight, route and travel dates, an additional piece of luggage costs between 12 and 60 euros with Ryanair.