Via Rail Canada Ocean Sleeper

[33Hz]

Does anyone know if single passengers on the Ocean sleeper train have to share a double compartment with another traveller or by booking a double room do you get it to yourself?

 

[farci]

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How much does it cost?

• Fares vary depending on the season and how early you book. But as an example, Montreal to Halifax might cost:
  
  Can$210 in an Economy class reclining seat.
  
  Can$366 per person sharing a Sleeper Plus class 2-bed sleeper with or without shower, including all meals.
  
  Can$421 for sole occupancy of a Sleeper Plus class 2-berth sleeper with or without shower, including all meals.
  
  
• To check prices for your date of travel between any two stations, simply use www.viarail.ca.

 

[33Hz]

Thanks, but those prices are quite out of date it seems.

Firstly, I don't see anything that low.

Secondly, there is no option to select sharing or not. All the blurb seems to be deliberately vague as to whether it is sharing. It just says room for 2.

 

[grumbeast]

When I've taken the Ocean I didn't share.. that was a few years ago. I'm not sure if the Ocean uses the old Budd cars, but if it does you can get single person rooms where the seat converts into the bed. They are nice and comfy and even I can manage to (just) fit at 6'4"

In sleeper plus class you can select a Cabin for 1 (your meals are included in this too)

If you *want* to share, you can select the Berths, these are like bunk beds with curtains across.

My Advice, don't select any of the renaissance cars or rooms as they are no where near as comfortable as the old Budds

If you book a double to yourself I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure you're paying for the cabin not the bed

 

[MarcVD]

Not directly related to the OP's question, but I just saw today in a railways news magazine that money has been allocated to repair the tracks in the extreme east of Canada ("Gaspésie"). So may be in a few years we will see the VIA trains "Ocean" and "Chaleur" return to their original termini ?

 

[grumbeast]

I haven't seen the Article but the Gaspesie would affect the Chaleur but not the Ocean which goes South from Matapedia through New Brunswick and on to Halifax rather than east onto the Gaspe peninsula. The Via rail page doesn't have any travel advisories to that effect, just one about the renovations to Halifax station.

 

[WesternLancer]

When I've taken the Ocean I didn't share.. that was a few years ago. I'm not sure if the Ocean uses the old Budd cars, but if it does you can get single person rooms where the seat converts into the bed. They are nice and comfy and even I can manage to (just) fit at 6'4"

In sleeper plus class you can select a Cabin for 1 (your meals are included in this too)

If you *want* to share, you can select the Berths, these are like bunk beds with curtains across.

My Advice, don't select any of the renaissance cars or rooms as they are no where near as comfortable as the old Budds

If you book a double to yourself I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure you're paying for the cabin not the bed

I went on it about 10 years ago - and the only budd car in the consist was the dome car / bullet ended car. That had a bert in it, used the crew member who staffed it - she gave us a look at the room as we expressed interest in the car.

All of the rest of the train IIRC correctly was the ex UK channel tunnel stock.

Can't recall anything about single occupancy as we were a couple so would not have looked into that.