We took an overnight TRAIN to the ARCTIC CIRCLE in Finland! (Helsinki to Rovaniemi)

tonight we're going on an overnight train to the Arctic Circle we're currently in Helsinki where we just spent the last two days exploring and tonight we're going to be boarding a 12-hour overnight train that will take us to ranmi right on the Arctic Circle in Northern Finland we took our first ever overnight train in Vietnam last year and it was very memorable both good and bad tiny little cockroach and we are so excited to see what the overnight train experience is like here in Finland it was really cool to get to shower in the train especially when it would stop and you would kind of start to like fly into the [Music] [Music] wall all right I think we're looking for car 28 this is a massive [Music] drain all right cool tight please oh my gosh this is so cute and [Music] tiny Welcome to our tiny home on train tracks on this train they have a couple different seating options they have either regular seats or you can get a private C cabin which is what we did and this thing may be tiny but it sure is mighty when you first walk in you'll instantly notice we have two beds it's bunk bed style so that's going to be awesome it's going to be like a old school style sleepover and this top bunk which is what I'm going to take has a funny feature here not totally sure how it works it looks like seat belts I guess they just so you don't fall off yeah so you don't fall out so I guess you just keep those closed and you just move them here so if the train really gets a rocking or and you start rolling in your sleep you don't roll right off there's also a fun little ladder to climb up to the top my seat Bel all right ooh pretty comfortable the sheets look pretty clean let's give it a smell test I don't smell anything so that's a good sign doesn't smell bad but doesn't smell too doesn't smell anything really but as long as it doesn't smell bad that's okay yeah I'm barely just big enough my feet are hitting the wall down there my head is just about to fit here it's per it's probably like an inch or two on each side but it's it's actually pretty comfortable all right now to get out of this thing oh all right yeah not too [Music] bad besides the actual beds one nice feature of the bunk beds is that there's a storage area right here that can fit both a suitcase and a backpack you also have this little netted area where you can put a book or your phone and then there's also a control panel right here which it looks like this is for reading light and then here is a clock and it looks like you can maybe set an alarm which is pretty nice then they also give you a water bottle because the bathroom water isn't good to drink so they provide water so you can brush your teeth and then drink while on the train and quite possibly most importantly there's an outlet by both of the beds and an outlet by the door and we also have climate control in here but we haven't tested that out yet because we're still defrosting from the very cold walk out to the train check out this little Nook over here so they got a chair here just discovered this is a table ises this folded up or get way no the tiniest little like I don't know work Nook breakfast nook any kind of Nook you want with the perfect view right out the window and speaking of the window there is a Blackout Shade here which might come in handy in the summer when it's pretty much daylight the entire day but we're going to have lots of Darkness so I don't think we're going to need that so also looking at the sign here this little area here can be for your skis and your ski pole and I guess this strap here looks like it's seen better days but I think this straps in your your skis and stuff there we go cool and now for what I think is the most exciting part of our cabin we have our own private bathroom wow look at at this in the bathroom we have a sink which has an automatic saucet and a flushing toilet toilet paper of course there's a couple different hooks here there's a mirror there's a soap dispenser but the coolest part of this bathroom is that we have our own private shower in this tiny little bathroom so apparently I can move this wall and then the shower will be there it's like a hidden shower let's try [Music] I don't know how to do push it down push it down oh down okay just pushing it in I guess I have to come out here who let me get it it's like Jinga in your what is it Tetris there you go nice a shower on a train how cool is this so have a shower head right here they even have a shampoo and conditioner and shower gel this is so neat and this helps keep the toilet area from getting wet from the shower this is amazing this is a actually I think bigger than the shower in our van this is like two or three times as a van dweller in a tiny house of fish andado I can really appreciate the smart use of a tiny space what's funny is as I was freaking out about the bathroom I could hear our neighbors cuz the walls are kind of thin freaking out about their bathroom too it's just hard not to get excited about having your own private bathroom on a train so there are two types of cabins on this train the one upstairs where you have your bunk beds and a private bathroom and then the one downstairs just have the beds and no private bathroom we paid € 239 for the both of us and we booked that directly on the Train website about 3 months ago so we could get this specific cabin also they just announced that at this stop they are hooking up to the train cars that carry regular driving cars I didn't even know that was a thing so the car drives onto the train car and then they hook it up here and then we just roll on down the [Music] track so if you stay in one of the downstairs cabins that doesn't have a private bathroom this is what the shared bathroom looks like and it's really nice it has a nice forest scene on the wall I'm a little jealous I wish ours had a for scene there's also a shared shower on the lower floor for the people who don't have a a shower in their own cabin which is so neat I'd show you but I think you need a special key to get in and we don't have the key we also just discovered these vestibule type seats where you kind of have your own enclosed room with like these glass doors so people can see in so it's not fully private but it's more private than having just an open [Music] seat there's a restaurant car on the train that has breakfast dinner grab and go items and alcohol and we had planned to bring our own food onto the train but we kind of got hungry today and ate it all plus we wanted The Full Experience here so we got their most popular item they sell 880,000 of these a year meatballs and mashed potatoes and it also comes with like a little Berry Jam that you kind of maybe mix all in together and a salad keeping my expectations low on a train meal but it does smell pretty good and they sell 80,000 of them a year for a reason a lot of people said it looks like an Ikea meal those Swedish meatballs you can get in it kind of this except it was like what except it was way more expensive five times the price yeah this was like we got the bigger size so this is $15.90 year old it's actually pretty good that's like really good I like that a lot meatballs are very very very tender and moist the mashed potatoes are nice and creamy the berry Jam as a burst of sweetness it is almost 1 p.m. and we're just now eating dinner and we are so hungry and this is 1,000% hitting the [Music] spot I intentionally did not shower today that way I could shower on this train I've showered on a ferry before but I've never showered on a train before so let's see how this [Music] goes [Music] cold oh it's cold I could not get the water to get hot I tried to the left I tried to the right I let it sit there for a bit I waited and waited and it was ice cold and I know that fins are hardcore and love cold water and we are going to try it at some point on this trip but I just don't think tonight's that night I don't know Adam Maybe you can maybe you can find out figure out how to turn it on hotter cuz that was so cold no I turned the knob to the right and it's definitely warmer but I would not call it hot that's for sure this might be doable I'm going to go for it round two here I go wish me luck success I did it it uh never got hot I would say it was warm it was bearable but not this not the hot shower that you dream of on a cold Finland day but it did the job and it was really cool to get to shower in the train especially when it would stop and you would kind of start to like fly into the wall Adam are you going to do it she didn't exactly sell me on that experience so I think I'm just going to pass I can go one more day I just showered last night we've gone much longer for sure all right we should get to Roan around 7 7:30 so it's time to get some sleep make sure your seat belted in that's right there we go I'm interested to see how I sleep on this train the last overnight train we were on I did not sleep very well but at least there's no cockroaches this time at least that I found yet night night don't fall off I'll try not [Music] sleep honestly not very good um when I was asleep you know I think I was asleep but I would get woken up often from all the movement you would think that um or you would hope that the rocking would you know rock you to sleep but it would just wake me up but the bed was really comfortable and the sheets and everything are really soft so I think when I was asleep I was asleep yeah I slept about the same sometimes the train is really quiet and other times it makes like a very just loud screeching noise and it sounds like it's going off the tracks or something so every time I heard that I kind of just woke up in a slight panic but other than that yeah this bed B's comfy the room's comfy so when I was sleeping I was sleep pretty good I'm so tired [Music] though we just headed down to the restaurant car to get some coffee and pro tip for riding this train make sure to download their app because when you have the app you get discounts on food in the restaurant I think last night we saved around €1 per meal and then this morning we saved 50 cents per coffee and then a little bit on water bottles too so it's not much but it helps it's better than saving no money cheers oh no oh no oh no cheers to our second overnight train in the Arctic Circle oh we should have kep the lid on the lips were leaking too so there was really no good option here that's all right I like smelling that coffee it's a little hard packing up in such a small space it's going to be an extra extra cold one today got to get these bad boys heating up we are rocking all of the layers today just like that we're in Roan [Music] Yami one thing I never knew is that when it's this cold the inside of your nose basically freezes any liquid that's in there just turns into one icicle our second ever overnight train was a success and I would say it went much smoother than the first time you can obviously get to roony much quicker by flying from Helsinki but we just love the train experience train travel is not very common in the United States and it's just so much more comfortable than a plane especially this train because we had our own bed and our own bathroom and just not a ton of space to move around but much more than we would have had on a plane and I was honestly kind of sad when it was over I could have stayed on there for many more hours it was just so nice but we are excited to be here and explore the area plus even further north over the next week and we're getting started right now we just dropped our bags off in a locker in the train station because our Airbnb isn't quite ready yet and we're off to meet a very famous resident here in Roan Yami ho ho [Music] ho