Beginning this autumn, a brand new sleeper practice will hyperlink northern Italy’s Milan to Brussels, with tickets beginning at €50.
The Dutch-Belgian night time practice operator European Sleeper introduced on Tuesday that the extremely anticipated new Milan–Brussels night time practice will make its first departure from Milan on Wednesday, September ninth 2026.
The scenic 18-hour route passes via Como, Zurich and Cologne because it travels between Milan and the Belgium capital.
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The service is about to function 3 times per week, leaving Brussels on Monday, Thursday and Saturday round 6pm and arriving in Switzerland and Italy the next morning. It should run in the wrong way from Milan on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, departing at 5.30pm.
In each instructions, the trains arrive at their closing vacation spot between 11am and 11.30am.
Tickets go on sale beginning March seventeenth, and a variety of value factors is on provide.
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One-way tickets begin at €50 for a shared ‘Traditional’ compartment. Some shared carriages will likely be women-only. Personal cabins begin at €180.
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The corporate additionally notes that there’s a extra inexpensive ‘Funds’ class or the likelihood to improve to ‘Consolation’, although particulars on these two choices usually are not but accessible.
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A deliberate extension for subsequent yr, 2027, will hyperlink Amsterdam to this route as properly, forking off from Cologne and heading north to the Dutch capital.
The practice was initially scheduled to start working in June 2026, a timeline that has been pushed again by three months to this autumn. The corporate cited intensive observe works in Germany and lengthy certification processes in Switzerland as the explanations for the delayed begin.
