The ICE International service from Belgium and the Netherlands to Germany (and limited extensions to Switzerland) is one of Europe’s most unreliable high speed train services… that is until the introduction of the brand new ICE 3neo (BR408), which have completely replaced the older trains that were plagued with technical issues. This week we’ll be checking out the new face of international train travel in Germany and seeing just how much of an improvement they’ll be bringing to these services. Enjoy the video!
Journey details:
Date of travel – June 2024
Operator – Deutsche Bahn
Origin – Brussels Midi/Zuid
Destination – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Class of travel – First class
Price – Second class – €39.99/£33.38/$44.64
First class – €65.99/£55.08/$73.66
Distance – 441km/274 miles
Journey time – 3 hours, 11 minutes
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Brussels Midi/Zuid
02:39 The ICE 3neo & ICE International Issues
04:40 Boarding First Class
05:49 Route
06:22 Departure & Route out of Brussels South
07:59 On to the HSL 2!
08:48 Know Your Seat
11:24 Liege
12:08 Bordrestaurant Time!
13:30 Crossing Borders
14:40 Walkthrough
16:04 Cologne
18:18 Loo Review
18:40 Frankfurt Airport & Journey Conclusions
19:59 Arrival into Frankfurt (Main) Hbf & Outro – Thanks for Watching!
21 Comments
At 9:10 in the video you say it's a 220 volt power socket. All of Europe has been standardized to 230 volts for a couple of decades already. Trains included.
Love the music!! Very 1960’s Euro.
Brilliant video! The ICE3 neo is the best train in Europe. On Brussels – Cologne, it is so much better than the outdated and narrow Thalys/EST trainsets. Hopefully, EST will buy some Velaro trains too, as they did on the Lonon-routes.
Trust me, you don't want random USB sockets everywhere. Want to get hacked? Plug your device into a random USB socket.
Croatians drinking beer for breakfast 14:17 🤣🤣🤣🤣
8:50 I could see the construction zone from the train window. Also saw them using a crane to remove massive objects from the North station. There, they needed to first tear down a wall to gain access. The biggest objects were put inside the new museum before its roof was finished.
Im literally riding an ICE 3neo right now (domestically, new design). I still prefer the ICE 1 trainsets with their compartment seating tho.
Ziffit??VERY particular about what they buy so seller beware!!
Brussels north or Brussel noord (dutch) but no Brussels Noord , but I prefer Bruxelles nord .
I did this rout last summer, and it's far far away from 300km 😅
on my last journey with ICE at 06:23 they announced that the restaurant is going to remain closed all the way to Frankfurt due to "the staff did not show for work this morning" (they really said it, yes). So no water for 4,5 hours… If you wonder why 4,5 hrs, yes, there was a 1 hour and 13 minutes delay. So no, the new Neo did not make the DB go Neo as well.
The problem with the ICE 3neo isn't the train itself. The unreliability is surrounded by the various ongoing projects that are rebuilding there Train Stations and railways. Riedbahn Corridor, Duisburg, Dresdin, and Munich Stations, Stuttgart 21,… and many more. People are losing trust in the trains right now. This will go until 2030, if we are lucky.
You are a total USELESS IDIOT
…….Your more interested in the toilets than showing scenes of the train traveling g at 300KMH!
This route is so nostagic for me. I remember when I was a child and we drove the A6 by car to my grandparents, while the Cologne-Frankfurt high speed track was under construction right next to it. Years later, I took the route from Brussel's Gare du Nord to Frankfurt Flughafen multiple times. One time (Deutsche Bahn was generally quite reliable at that time otherwise) I got stuck in a complete railway chaos and had to take a replacement train via the Ardeen mountens only to wait at every single one of the train stations mentioned in this video for another train to continue.
Belgium has 3 official languages
Rode this train domestically in the Netherlands between Utrecht en Den Bosch. I have no idea why they were running to Den Bosch instead of Arnhem, but that was too good of a ride to pass up. Lovely trains!
I had a cancellation and a delay of more than seven hours between Frankfurt Airport and Liège. We had to go to Dusseldorf with ICE, then a Regional train to Hertongsrath where a bus was supposed to bring us to Heerlen. Finally a regional train to Liège via Maastricht … But the train was delayed when it arrived at Dusseldorf … delayed train to Aachen and the a car to Liege
Arrived a 03:00am instead of 08:00pm.
I liked the ICE 3, only like an average delay of 30 minutes. But it had a head/aft quiet cabin with only 12 seats, in second class, well worth the seat reservation, a secret mini cabin, many won’t enter because they fear it is first class.
Now the replaced it on the AMS-FRA line. What a SHAME! They replaced my private premium economy cabin with f'in bike racks, what the hell?? 😡 Bikers, go take an IC/EC or regional train!!!!!
Now I have to book first class to get some quiet ambiance and privacy again.. 😤
Those red French 30 year old trains scare the shit out of me #monsters
Is the bus from Prague to London carried on a cargo train through the chunnel?
11:30 Yea, it was clear the architect came from a warmer climate. The station in Liege is just a giant wind tunnel, which is fine and somewhat refreshing in summer, but freezing cold at any other time of the year.