Watch this video to see what it’s like to take one of only two luxury overnight sleeper trains in the United Kingdom, the Caledonian Sleeper!
The Caledonian Sleeper may just be the best way to travel from London to Scotland. In this video, you’ll see the most deluxe room – a Caledonian Double Bed – on this luxury overnight sleeper train. I took advantage of everything it had to offer during my stay onboard.
We left London at 9:15 at night to travel around 500 miles northward for just over 10 hours, following the East Coast of Scotland before pulling into Aberdeen at about 7:30 in the morning.
From the tastes of Scotland’s world-famous cuisine to the incredible Scottish Scenery, the solid night’s sleep was the icing on the cake of this luxury sleeper train experience. And all that meant I arrived in Aberdeen ready for the day ahead. Another trip onboard the Caledonian Sleeper is certainly in my future!
0:00 Introduction
1:08 London Euston Station
2:50 Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper Train
4:49 Caledonian Double Room Tour
6:04 Morning on the Caledonian Sleeper
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43 Comments
I heard about the old train a few years ago and checked out the prices. The headline price was £60 or so and when I checked I found it really was possible to book a cabin a few weeks in advance for around that price with more immediate cabins going up to £120. That's not a bad deal given that it's a car and a hotel room and you arrive in Scotland ready to explore. OK so you would have to hire a car to do that and those prices are only one way.
Then they got their new trains. Now the headline price is about £300 and even if I scroll to the point just before the sun becomes a super nova the thing's fully booked and the real price is off the scale. It'd be cheaper to build your own train.
Then there's the term luxury. It's not meant to be a luxury trsin. It's meant to offer public transport and the decor didn't look remotely luxury to me. Utiliarian I would say, like a budget hotel.
Whatever I wouldn't go on the thing now as I'd always think I was being ripped off.
You saw my city Aberdeen!
Love the VT, I'm sure Dennis would love it. Shame you both can't do a rail trip together
Hey Jeb- wouldn’t Chicago have two stations? We have olgilvie and union but union is more famous. Btw I love your content, keep it up!
2:00, Chicago has multiple stations, of course Union, but also Lasalle, Ogilvie, and the Millenium Park station.
Great vid, Jeb! Love looking at Scotland, especially after watching Outlander. But I did not see a link to the menu in the description, as I believe you said would be there. Maybe I'm dumb and missed it. Often, other travel channels just focus their camera on the menu pages, then viewers can stop the vid to peruse the menu and fantasize at their leisure.
We have that dish in the Philippines called bopis
Great vid, I live in the middle of the UK so there’s no point in me getting this train. I’ve just come back from Switzerland and I highly recommend you see the trains there
Very nice but I wouldn’t have been able to eat that dinner! Love the sleeper room!❤️
Did your room have a big window?
Lner Azuma first class is really good but this is also a really good train.
Don't know where that is at 5.54 but it aint Glasgow.
Hi! Nice video, I saw you went in the Avanti West Coast Lounge and even saw the famous Avanti West Coast Pendolino, maybe you could take a ride on a Pendolino? Thanks!
That black patty I'm fairly certain is blood patty. Sounds disgusting, but very nutritious, hearty, and with a bit of salt becomes absolutely delicious!
thanks for a very enjoyable video. I haven't been on this sleeper since around 2008, before they were refurbished. £400 is a bit steep though, I must say!
I'm a pretty picky eater but I fell in love with Haggis. I couldn't get enough when I was in Scotland.
What you said was St Pancras station is not the station, it is the Renaisance Hotel. The station building is behind the hotel
I could see Euston and Kings Cross St. Pancras merging at some point in the future to become a giant transport hub.
This is cool and all but 9x the travel time and over 5x the price compared to air makes this a hard nope for me.
Hey Jeb that looked awesome!
I rarely think all the train trips look that fun to try versus flying, but from what I can see I’d certainly try The Caledonian Sleeper! It looks AWESOME what a fun way to get from London 🏴 up to Aberdeen 🏴 😊
Hey Jeb, nice to see you did this route.
This route got off to a rocky start with the train having a few issues and then Covid. See Paul Lucas winging it back in the day.
Noel Phillips had a later crack at it and then you
I took my wife up to Fort William and the scenery over breakfast is fantastic !
You need to do the “Gerald of Wales” and fly back from Angelsey !
Mmmm…Black Pudding. When perfectly crispy on the outside and melt in your mouth on the inside, it's the hallmark of a great British breakfast
It's funny how at a brief glance out the dining car windows, the Caledonian livery looks like airplane winglets!
Wow! That looks quite amazing! That bed looks incredibly comfortable and surprisingly roomy and most importantly it looks very clean. The food looks delicious and I would love to try haggis it sounds delicious. The scenery is so beautiful too! This really made me want to take a similar kind of trip, but until then I can live vicariously through your videos 😊
Wow Tnx bro good
What horrible food!
I just can't wait to take this one day!! Great review and wonderful videography!!
Brilliant video. Are you tempted to do the Night Riviera also?
I found your channel a few weeks ago and have enjoyed it. I signed up and was hoping to your new trips. But have not gotten any notices. I know some people , only put out a video once a week. Others every day. Please let me know how you do it.
Grand Seiko GMT. Nice
Did anyone else notice the clip of Glasgow wasn’t actually Glasgow
If you thought the ingredients in Haggis is gross, and it is, don't google BlackPudding that flat'ish black disk thing you ate for breakfast! You start with slaughtering a pig, and collect its blood in a large vet or container then go from there… UCK !!
This guy is so Sweety Sweety. and. Sugary. I'm sure he must work for the railway company
My fiance lives right outside Carlisle up north and I've looked at this train several times because I usually fly into London from the US. Since it does stop off at Carlisle (if we wanted) and we have to go to Euston station anyways to go home. (like if we wanted maybe an extra day out or something we'd take it for the full trip once)
See u in the skies
I'm doing this soon, in a smaller room, can't wait. I hear service is great, scenery spectacular.
the club en-suit room window position not good
Wow just love trains 🚂🚃 safe travels 😃
a neep is a swede not a turnip, yes the swede is a tight of turnip, but is known as a swede, turnips are smaller and normally white, the swede is orange colour, you might know the swede as rutabaga.
Love your videos. Makes me want to travel. Nice down to earth guy.
neeps = turnips, tatties = potatoes.
Caledonian Sleeper being nationlised in June. Serco (current operator) says the service has lost GBP69 million over past seven years. So there changes can be expected when the Scottish Govt takes over.
A wee clip of the platform of my home town of Kirkcaldy at 6:02! I've always wanted to do the Caledonian Sleeper, after watching your video it's gotten higher up in my list!