Just wanted to warn anyone wishing to take the night train from Belgrade to Budapest to be extremely careful. We are experienced travelers but were a little worried about a night train and if it would be safe. We were pleasantly surprised upon boarding to find a helpful guard who showed us to our sleeper cabin and brought us sheets and pillows. He took our tickets off us which we thought a little odd, but when i questioned him he said he needed to keep them and would give them back before we got to Budapest so not to worry. There were only myself and my boyfriend in one cabin, 2 elderly hungarian women next door, 2 young chinese lads on the other side of us and 1 chinese man next to them. Our door had a lock which appeared very secure and a curtain to pull over that so no one could see into your cabin. We felt very happy about going to sleep there and felt safe.
Our door was locked tight and we fell asleep once our passports had been checked entering Hungary.
Imagine our horror to awaken almost at Budapest to find our cabin door open and money missing from my handbag which had been on the floor but right next to our heads. We were very distressed and my boyfriend went to find the 'guard'. He just shrugged his shoulders and then couldn't speak any english at all!!! The 2 young chinese lads had their room broken into too, and their mobile phones and passports stolen. The guard was equally unhelpful to them.
After thinking about this non stop over several days, we are convinced it was the guard who stole the items. We think he must be able to open the cabin doors from the outside whilst people are sleeping. He also returned our train tickets to us before we left the train, but they weren't the tickets i had given him and were infact out of date hand written ones!
I have put this post, not to scare people, but to make you aware that if you are taking the night train please take extra precautions to secure your cabin door so that this will hopefully not happen to anyone else.







