I splurged on a first-class couchette – so I had a compartment to myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in the Fifth] Reference
Guided by a friendly guard, she opened the door to her com-partment and found Franz sitting on a couchette. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
Prices should be around £120-£165pp return for daytime travel, and £165-£200 return for overnight in a six-berth couchette. From Wordnik.com. [Pre-season ski news] Reference
Of course there was the dreaded train ride back despite getting a couchette, I was starting to get sick and threw up twice on the ride but I think I covered almost everything. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
You can purchase a return train ticket from London to Madrid through Rail Europe (0844 848 4070), travelling on the Elipsos Train Hotel from £202 return per person with accommodation in a four-berth couchette. From Wordnik.com. [Cycling Spain's ancient Via de la Plata] Reference
According to Ukraine's Channel 5, the gas cylinder exploded in a conductor's couchette. From Wordnik.com. [RIA Novosti] Reference
A single ticket from Paris to Kitzbühel, in a six-berth couchette on the City Night Line sector, costs from €78. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Night services from Munich to Vienna will cost £19 extra, including a berth in a couchette, or £47 for a double sleeper. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
As you basically need an entire couchette, I would definitely reserve this in advance, especially if travelling at the weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Toytown Germany - Germany feed] Reference
We're hoping that as we trundle through the night in a French couchette it will finally sinking in that we're off travelling for so long. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Return rail fares from London to Venice start at £119, with accomodation in a four-berth couchette on the overnight part of the journey. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
After a short Channel crossing, they could put their cars on a train at Calais, take their places in a couchette compartment, and sleep all the way to the Mediterranean. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to British swine flu kids were 'scared witless' when French police turned up in masks] Reference
Carriage numbers are bizarrely high - mine is 83 - as if the train is dragging 100 carriages of students and monks and grannies across the Alps. There are four other people in my couchette, including a jolly Tuscan farmer. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
The Istanbul travel agency I booked the tickets through - the Turkish State Railway's online booking system is hopeless - promised that by buying a fourth ticket we'd be getting a private compartment all to ourselves with couchette beds, bedding and pillows. From Wordnik.com. [BC Bloggers] Reference
And there are benefits to travelling on it, too, says Mr Sixty-One, like the fact that you don't have to pay out big bucks - you can even use an InterRail pass - and you can get your head down on a couchette if your budget can't quite stretch to a sleeping car. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The doctor himself, who was the only person present, whose organs were not discomposed, pointing to a couple of couches placed on each side of the table, told his guests that he was sorry he could not procure the exact triclinia of the ancients, which were somewhat different from these conveniences, and desired they would have the goodness to repose themselves without ceremony, each in his respective couchette, while he and his friend Mr. Pallet would place themselves upright at the ends, that they might have the pleasure of serving those that lay along. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
Anyone that’s ever had one before will tell you that a couchette, or a sleeper car, is the way to go. From Wordnik.com. [The North, Part I - Adamaoua] Reference
Then I took off my clothes and got into the couchette and slept soundly for the next eight hours, by which time we were somewhere near Stuttgart—’. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in the Fifth] Reference
Even if you show up first thing the morning of to buy tickets, you shouldn’t be very surprised to find that there is only first class left despite having already made reservations for a couchette. From Wordnik.com. [The North, Part I - Adamaoua] Reference
Un peu de paille est sa couchette. From Wordnik.com. [Il est né le divin enfant] Reference
Sa robe aussi va parer ma couchette; Respecte. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
Sa robe aussi va parer ma couchette. From Wordnik.com. [The Paris Sketch Book] Reference
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