well this is going to be an experience this is going to be let's call it my first official
trip on the VIA Rail the Canadian Railway system because I slightly remember taking the train from
Toronto to Niagara Falls I'm pretty sure that was the Via Rail but to be honest that was so long ago
and I have really no memory of it so I'm going to treat this as my first time ever taking the train
in Canada I'm here in Quebec City and I'm going to be going to Montreal which is about a three and a
half hour ride away for reference I did look into what it would cost to fly and it wasn't too much
more like I paid about 50 Canadian dollars for this ride and to fly I think it was 80 to 100 but
the thing with flying is that if you have to check a bag it's going to be an extra thirty dollars so
in my case it would be like 140 altogether and then and you also need all the additional time
and money to get out to the airports which are usually just outside of the city whereas with
taking the train usually the stations are in the downtown Center so it's much easier to get to the
station you don't have to come so far ahead of time and also be easier for me to get to
my accommodation in Montreal when I arrive so for that reason I think it's actually more convenient
in this case to take the train so that is what I decided to do I don't really know what to expect
with the Canadian Railway system I think it would be much different if I was going for a very long
journey and maybe I will do that sometime but for a three hour trip you know I think it should be
fine I think it should be a positive experience so without any further Ado I have a train to
catch let's head to Montreal so welcome to the Via Rail station here in Quebec City VIA Rail
is a state-owned passenger Railway system here in Canada that was incorporated in 77 and now
has more than 500 trains per week from coast to coast while it is a fairly popular way to travel
for shorter Journeys like the one I'm taking today most Canadians tend to fly from City to City if
the journey is going to be over seven hours Canada is the second largest country in the world and we
aren't privy to bullet trains just yet so it would take about six days straight to Cross Canada by
train at this point in time to book a ticket on VIA Rail you can easily do so online which is
what I did but of course you can also come into the station and get a ticket there overall from
my experience of looking on their websites tickets don't tend to fully sell out for certain Journeys
but the more the tickets sell out the more expensive the tickets become I was able to get
my seat for the lowest price of fifty dollars for this journey because I booked two to three months
in advance so depending on how busy the train is you might be left with much more expensive
tickets if you leave it to the last minute as far as first and Impressions go I found the
cabin to be quite nice very spacious nice seats I was also impressed to see that they had an actual
menu of what they would be serving aboard and all the options that you had only thing I didn't
love is that I was moving backwards in this seat that I had but I think when I booked the ticket
I remember it saying that this is a seat that would be facing backwards I don't know how all
that stuff works of sometimes trains are moving forward sometimes they're moving backwards it's
a little bit confusing but at least they tell you ahead of time and that's probably why I got such a
cheap ticket but it was fine it was fun from what I saw online it looks like VIA Rail trains go at
a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour when they're outside of City centers so of course that
is pretty fast and much faster than a car Journey would be but if you compare it to well let's say
a shinkansen bullet train which goes an average of 320 kilometers per hour I believe it is top
speed outside of City centers you know that's more than double I know it's not really fair to make
that comparison because of course Japan is a much smaller country with a much larger population than
Canada has and plus a lot of people in Canada have cars for the three to five hours sort of Journeys
as well so we can't have the same nice things that Japan has but for what we do have it is actually
quite nice as always on my train review videos I gotta show you guys the bathroom so the one here
on VIA Rail actually quite nice very very spacious was the first thing I noticed where it is you know
handicap accessible a wheelchair could fit in here everything was very clean lots of safety bars very
nice but now let me share with you guys what I was most impressed with on this train journey which
was the selection of food and snacks that they had on board I got their vegetable box and I was just
so happy that they had hummus guacamole healthy crackers veggies even the hot coffee was actually
pretty good you guys know I've had lots of horror stories with other train Journeys where either
the food was terrible or there was no food so of course it is always better to pack some food with
you in case you don't like what is on board but as far as what VIA Rail had I was actually quite
impressed and that really was it guys that was the whole three and a half hour train journey it
went by really fast and before I knew it we were pulling into the main Central Station in Montreal
well that was great don't really know what to say it was even more comfortable than I anticipated
the seats were great I liked the really big Windows the speed definitely got us here a
lot faster than it would have been driving and for fifty dollars I mean that was probably the lowest
I could have gotten that ticket I feel that's an extremely reasonable price for Canada so a very
good first experience we'll see if I do any longer sort of Journeys in the future but as a start that
was very nice let me know your thoughts though let me know if you guys have ever traveled on
the Via Rail from where to where and what was it like for you I am very excited to be here
in Montreal now though this will be my second time visiting so I'm excited to explore some
parts that maybe I didn't get to last time so as always thank you guys so much for tuning in I hope
you're having a fantastic day and as always keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys [Music]