Own cabin?!?
Oh dear Darrenb, this may not be as you expect. After YOU have finished chocking your vehicle you need to take your bedding or sleeping bag with you together with ANY food or drink which you may need on your trip, probably best to attend to any personnel hygiene matters before the train since unless it has improved greatly in recent times, well we’ll leave it there. Cabins are not allocated so it’s the luck of the draw, the only single occupancy are the German drivers who use it regularly and have cabin keys cut, they find an empty one and lock themselves in so that could leave some sharing 3 or 4, this doesn’t really matter since I have never actually gone to sleep, start, stop, backup, change engine, shunt about, it’s definitely an experience. The best advice is to get there as soon as you can and get on a day or evening service, enjoy the scenery it is stunning and sleep when you get to Novara.
It is a few years since I’ve been on it so hopefully it has become more civilised. On the other hand it is quick and cost effective compared to the Blanc.