The British paper compiled the best sleeper trains in Europe and yes, the one running between Budapest and Bucharest is on their list, too.
If you don’t want to fly or you simply prefer a new travel experience, what about a journey on a night train? By choosing Budapest as the place of departure, you can reach a couple of destinations so, and some super good news: the Budapest-Bucharest sleeper train even happens to be on The Guardian’s top 10 list of European sleeper trains.
‘Budapest’s Keleti station, where this sleeper originates, leaves the utilitarian terminus crowd behind with its grand facade, high ceilings and sense of space and light. At the other end of this journey, spend the morning gazing at the Carpathian Mountains – as the early evening departure from Keleti doesn’t arrive in Bucharest’s Gara de Nord until lunchtime. The sleeper arrangements are pretty standard and note there may be no restaurant car until you reach Romania. Berths from £45, mavcsoport.hu (use Bucuresti for timetable search)’ – they write.
If you have two more minutes, you can also check out the full list:
Stockholm to Narvik
Milan to Palermo
Paris to Rome
Nice to Moscow
Brussels to Vienna
Madrid to Lisbon
Zurich to Hamburg
Helsinki to Rovaniemi
Budapest to Bucharest
London Paddington to Penzance
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/feb/06/10-best-sleeper-trains-in-europe-night-trains