We (2 adults, a 5 year old and a 3 year old) are thinking of taking the Caledonian Sleeper from London to Inverness. We thought we might be able to get a single cabin with 2 berths, and share them (1 adult and 1 child in each berth). We're fairly used to sharing with the kids, but: (a) is this allowed? and (b) are the berths big enough? We've shared berths on ferries before without any trouble, but if the sleeper berths are really tiny we might struggle.
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Berths on Caledonian Sleeper
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When my daughter was only a couple of months old she shared a berth with my wife, but when she was six months old she was already getting too big to share with my wife. So unless your 3 year old and one of the adults are both particularly small, I think you'll find it too tight. One child could physically sleep on the floor, although I don't know whether that would be allowed or not. I hope I'm right in saying that a 5 year old would need a child ticket, so Scotrail could question having three ticket holders in one cabin.
Sleepy
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Did Cornish Sleeper many years ago with 4 year old - my wife did not get much sleep !! Would recommend seperate berths if possible.
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Madness! Those berths are tiny and it won't be too clever if anyone falls out the top one onto their head. Go for connected cabins.
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The beds themselves are not tiny but 4 in a cabin will be very tight. As suggested get 2 interconnected.
Peter Mugridge
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Agree; the connected cabins are the only way to go for this trip.
For travelling with one baby / toddler you would be able to set up a pushchair in the cabin* to do 2+1, but certainly not anything involving two much bigger kids!
*We did this a couple of times when our daughter was a toddler, once on the Glasgow and once on the Penzance.
For travelling with one baby / toddler you would be able to set up a pushchair in the cabin* to do 2+1, but certainly not anything involving two much bigger kids!
*We did this a couple of times when our daughter was a toddler, once on the Glasgow and once on the Penzance.
When my brother and I were that sort of age (1970s, so in the old Mk 1 sleeping cars, which I think didn't have interconnecting doors) we used to go one at each end of a lower berth, with our mother in the upper one and our father sharing the neighbouring compartment with someone else.
CallySleeper
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Book through ScotRail telesales & request two interconnected cabins; or you can book online and the interconnected cabins are berths 1-4/5-8/9-12/13-16/17-20/21-24.
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