not exactly thomas the tank engine
good morning everybody you're joining us bright and early here in jakarta today we are taking
the train from jakarta to jakarta it's an eight-hour journey so this is pasar sunan
station and it's actually this station that you get if you're taking the executive train and
it's a different station that you get if you're gonna take the economy train so like i say this
is an eight and a half hour journey we want to know what this is going to be like the standard
of the trains whether it's comfortable whether it's worth the extra money because it's like
twice the price to get the executive train so come with us on a journey guys we're going to take you
on a journey all across indonesia's main island of java today let's go okay it's time to board
yeah i think it's here okay so this is our seat for our journey
um it's really comfortable it's big um it's all you can also lay down
yeah i'm really excited about that actually
then it has a little cup holder over here and it has a table
it has a little pocket in here with a garbage can i don't know why i need it and then the plugs
two plugs we are really happy about that but the real highlight is the soft chairs
they are amazing obviously they are really really twitchy and yeah i feel really comfortable here
i can't wait to spend my eight hours here and we're off eight hours and counting
so because we're super clever we left it until this morning
to buy our ticket we wanted to get the economy ticket which is about 240 000 idr
but we were forced to upgrade and get the um executive so unfortunately unfortunately
us crazy but things
look at how much leg room we've got and we've also got these little like foot pedal things
which make you feel like you're driving a car but they're kind of comfortable i imagine if you're a
little smaller they'll be really comfortable how are yours mine are great yeah it always
look nice you can flip if you're really small you can flip it out and then have another little one
but unfortunately there's not another flip forward for the lanky people like me but great legroom
one of the most important things when you're on a journey that
is okay
okay not too bad not too bad we've got a nice clean toilet a flusher the famous asian bunker
we've got nice deodorant on the wall air conditioning even a nice window and a sink
and even a mirror oh gosh and then wow
oh my god
so
i'm super happy that we got some food it's messy grant rice with fried rice with chicken
and hot tea and hot chocolate so we're gonna have a little lunch time now
that's the food this is the rice just normal rice um
it's what is it like crisps crab crisps a little bit of chicken egg and some veggies
okay we are exactly halfway and our train is very kindly just taking a nice little
we've break 20 minutes at this station
okay
so let's talk about costs and your different trade options and things
so there are actually three different trades that you can catch to jakarta jakarta or drop
down depending on which way you go you've got the economy you've got the executive which we're
in now and there's actually a third one called the luxury luxury level and that's really nice
about it with really like flat reclining seats and free drinks and food snacks and things
if i'd known that was a thing i think i might have even looked into how much that was
nice
okay let's go on a little tour of the train follow me
it's really hard
look at this
so on most trains the cat the carriage between the two
has like a rubber seal like this doesn't this is just like two platforms that rubble on each other
so this is coming through you've got these nice little windows where you can
see outside toilet another toilet cleaning stuff sorry
this is another executive class
it's busy that's one thing i'm really surprised about i didn't think it was going to be this busy
the conductor
then as we come through again
again another little doorway little doorway another toilet
oh no this is a food cart wow they look sorry and then look so this here
is like a food carriage this is cool didn't even know this is here so you get food
hi captain
so
no no
okay here we are eight and a half hours later
half an hour later than we were expecting we were just like cruising uh up to our arrival time
yeah but you know what we were late and then the train were late it's kind of revamped karma it's
karma uh but yeah we are here in yom jakarta the first thing i'm going to tell you is the weather
is significantly cooler than jakarta i feel that i feel a little bit chilly i haven't felt
like this in years this feels lovely so yeah hope you enjoyed our little journey down here