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Originally Posted by Easy 6
I’ve wondered what the sleeper cars are like, sounds like not worth the money... I was surprised how big the regular seats were, and how far they leaned back
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They were admittedly more comfortable than sleeping in the seats just because you could take your clothes off and slide between sheets. The sleeper car was basically two seats facing each other with walls and a locking door that created a room. You could then pull the seats together to make a lie-flat bed or you could pull down a murphy bed that was up high. I did the murphy bed.
It was a bit challenging in that once you closed the door you basically only had a foot or so of room outside the seats. So it would've been very hard for a larger person to use the murphy bed because it was like climbing into a bunk on a submarine. I was on the train for probably four nights or so, so it was worth doing. The bigger challenge for me was more that the movement of the train made it hard to sleep, which is an issue whether you're in a seat or in a sleeper car.
Now, I did see the "bedroom suites" when I was in the sleeper car, and those looked really nice. They had a lot of room and even a private bathroom. Looking at this video, apparently they even have a private shower. (I got use of a public shower with the sleeper, by the way, and it was quite serviceable.)
We're talking a lot more money for a bedroom, though, more than I'd probably pay.