Ok. Opinions.
The bad:
All the other toilets. They're small and not friendly to tall people / people with kids / people with humps etc. This is a downgrade compared to ICE trains. Especially as when you cannot pick your own seat you might have to cross half the train to get to the accessible one.
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The good:
-childrens area. It's part of a normal corridor wagon so no special cabins. Still. It's friendly, has a large capacity and there's a little cinema. At both ends the doors only open with a little button (note: children love to press little buttons..). Lots of stroller storage. It's good.
No photo of the cinema due to it being full of kids.
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The good:
-restaurant wagon. Friendly staff, decent offers (we only got a coffee due to sick child), nice seating.
-handicapped and children toilet. It does what it should do. Surprisingly for a train running in this region there's no paper beyond that on the toilet rolls. Nice wide changing table. Could do with a soft cover (as there's no paper).
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The amazing: the door sensors are absolutely perfect. Like, the innovation of this is something that should be replicated in all trains. Basically you walk towards a door, trigger a sensor, and the door opens!
No more awkwardly waving your hands or waiting for someone else to pass.
Truly innovative. Basically Star Trek.
We had a walk through the train, checked toilets and the restaurant. Have opinions.
First of all: both the German train staff from DB and the Czech restaurant staff seems to dislike DSB. And they didn't need me to prompt it but started all by themselves when asked "cool train, love the route, do you think it'll go well in the future?"
I won't repeat the reasons here (DB staff asked me not to, restaurant staff is as much non-DSB related as DSB-related) but: seriously wow.
Ride out of Hamburg is pretty comfy (tracks are decent here as well). It's no high-speed ICE but definitely no Talgo 230 either. Noise levels are fine*.
Info system is super nice. Instead of dumb games or ads it is simply explaining all features of the train.
*most noise is from Swedish people being much louder than needed to operate as a human being. It seems to be cultural
Pepijn