Originally Posted by
nutttbar
Thanks to both of you. We are now considering the train but have a few questions and I'm hoping you can shed some light as we've never done this before.
1. On April 1st well be visiting northeastern Hungary. If I could get my tour guide to drop us off in Kosice would it be any easier to get to Krakow from there?
2. If we do take the sleeper from Budapest how do washroom/shower facilities work? We'd end up in Krakow at 6:35 am and then hit the road with another tour guide to central Poland an hour later so I'd like to be able to freshen up before we leave the train.
We had a "1st" class sleeper cabin from Budapest Keleti (sp ?) to Krakow in April 12. As I remember it had a small washbasin, no lav & definitely no shower facilities. They may have been available on the train, but I speak no Hungarian, Czech, Slovak (if thats a separate language) or Polish - some of the countries the train goes thru, as my iPhone kept reminding me during the night as we crossed from one mobile provider to another. And the guard didn't admit to any English, French or Italian.
TBH, it's something to be endured rather than enjoyed, but it will get you to KRK on the day you want. See it as a challenge.