About SleeperRoutes

Why we exist

Book a European sleeper train and you hit the same wall every time: fares live on the operator’s own site, cabin layouts live somewhere else, rail-pass rules are buried in a PDF, and half the blog posts about a given route are years out of date and quietly wrong. Night trains are having a real comeback across Europe, but the information about them hasn’t kept pace.

SleeperRoutes is our answer to that: one structured database of night and sleeper train routes, operators, cabins, prices and pass rules, kept current and published at the same time in five languages.

What we do

We help you search, compare and plan. For each route we list who operates it, which cabin classes exist (seat, couchette, shared sleeper, private), what a ticket typically costs, how long the journey takes, how often it runs, and whether a Eurail or Interrail pass gets you on board. A live map ties it together, so you can see what connects to what instead of guessing across a dozen open browser tabs.

We’re not a booking engine, and we don’t pretend to be one. We tell you what exists and how the options compare, then point you to where you can actually book.

How we work

Three things shape everything we publish.

Independent. A route doesn’t climb our rankings because a booking partner pays a higher commission. Editorial decisions and affiliate relationships are handled separately, on purpose.

Honest about uncertainty. Night-train timetables shift with engineering works and seasonal schedules, and fares move the way airline fares do. Where we’re confident in a number, we say so. Where we’re estimating from partial information, we say that too, rather than dressing up a guess as fact.

Data-first, five languages from day one. We built a single dataset and translated the site around it, instead of writing five loosely related versions of the same content. An update in English is an update in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and French, published the same day.

Who it’s for

People planning a slow trip across Europe instead of flying it. Eurail and Interrail travellers trying to work out which routes their pass actually covers. Families and couples weighing a private cabin against a couchette. Solo travellers deciding whether a shared sleeper feels right. Anyone who’d rather wake up in a new city than spend a night in an airport lounge.

If that’s you, SleeperRoutes is built to save you the hour of tab-switching it usually takes just to work out whether an overnight train is even an option — and if it is, which one to take.