Greetings and Happy New Year.
I would like to get any/all feedback on your experience using the overnight train from Lisbon to Madrid (or reverse). If any of you all have done this within the past 3 years, i would like to hear about it.
Im pondering taking the train but with my first time doing an overnight was the Budapest > Krakow im once burned, twice shy now.
thanks alot and happy trails.
It is a bad train, woefully snow. Nothing like the modern high-speed trains that zoom around Spain.
Avoid it and take a flight.
If you didn't like the first night train experience, then don't do this one. I would not expect it to be especially different in the level of comfort or service. There is no border control check.
I took it about 5 years ago (both ways). It was fine/average as far as overnight train experiences go (I've taken A LOT). I had a shared couchette and the people were nice but not overly friendly. It was clean and relatively quiet. In general, you should note expect to get much rest.
I would strongly consider flying.
