Welcome to Edinburgh Waverley Station, I'm here quite late at night because I'm
just about to travel down to London on the Caledonian sleeper train. I'm quite
excited because this is the first time I've tried out their brand new carriages,
and I've upgraded myself to a room with a toilet and a shower so it's gonna
be a really comfortable journey, but first I think I'll visit the first-class
lounge, fancy joining me welcome to RogVLOG.
Oh well it turns out that the first-class lounge closes at 9:00 pm
which is a little bit early for those of us going on the sleeper, so I guess I'm
gonna have to get a drink on the train in the lounge car, I decided to check
into my room first so walked past the lounge car and along the train to coach
F, these corridors are so narrow so if you've got a backpack or a case take
care, here we are Club room 6, well I'm really impressed
with these rooms, they're not that much bigger than the old style trains, but of
course you've got your ensuite toilet and shower which is fantastic, and
another plus is a proper hotel style keycard which means you don't have to
worry about getting the guard to come and unlock the door after you come back
from the restaurant car, talking of which before I show you around the room, how
about we go and grab ourselves a glass of wine?
Id boarded quite early so there was very few people in the lounge car and I
could take my pick as to where I wanted to sit, either in one of these booths
surrounding a table or along this long bar with individual stools, there's an
extensive food menu and a massive drinks menu, and as you would expect for a Scottish
service, lots and lots of malt whisky.
Bang on time at 10 to midnight we began our journey to London leaving
Waverley station behind, first stop Carstairs
where we would join up with the Glasgow portion of the train and continue on to
London Euston.
I didn't fancy any food so I just settled for a really nice glass of
Cabernet Sauvignon red wine.
Now I'll show you around the room, a decent sized bed with two plump
fluffy pillows and a nice quilt, amenity kit, more on that later, wash basin and a
convenient pullout table, this was actually quite sturdy, a control panel
with USB sockets, heating controls, a switch to dim the main lights in the
cabin, and a rather bright reading light, here's the toilet and shower cubicle
actually a lot bigger than I was expecting, to get to the toilet you pull
up this lid and obviously put it down again if you want to have a shower, once
the door to the shower room is closed you do have a surprising amount of space.
And as always one of my favourite bits is looking at the amenity kit, so what have
you got inside, bottle of water, that'll come in handy and oh what's this
eye mask, earplugs very useful if it's a noisy train, lots of smelly stuff that's
some body lotion, more body lotion, shampoo don't really need much shampoo do I,
and my favorite this is my favourite pillow spray. And that's the amenity kit.
It's time to get some sleep, I've ordered breakfast in the morning in
the lounge car looking forward to that but in the meantime good night and I'll
see you tomorrow in London, we arrived very early into London Houston it was
about 6:30 a.m.
Welcome good morning, well we're here in London and I'm a bit bleary eyed, I slept
really well so I'm going to take a quick shower and then we're gonna head back to
the restaurant car for breakfast. I can't believe it showering on a train,
that was quite warm and I feel really refreshed energized and ready to go
unfortunately the host has just told me that they're not serving breakfast in
the lounge car this morning, some problem with the air-conditioning or the heating,
so I've just been delivered my breakfast here in the cabin so I guess I'll have
to eat in here.
mmm coffee's not bad although, I think I might stop off at an independent coffee
shop and get one on my way to my meetings. Well that has to be a big
thumbs up for me it's such a great way to travel, have a
nightcap slide off to sleep wake up in the morning have breakfast and have a
shower and be refreshed and arrive at your destination ready for work,
no waiting around in security queues queuing up to board the plane,
being crammed into tiny seats, I could really get used to this, it's not cheap
though, that ensuite room was about £200
one way, now the classic rooms the ones that don't have the shower and toilet
they started about £140, so it's quite expensive the sort of price you would
expect to pay for a hotel in London but then if you factor in the cost of the
airfare on top of the hotel it's probably pretty reasonable actually, well
I better get on with my day if you enjoyed this episode of RogVLOG,
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