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October 23, 2026 passed 1M views First Class Train in Italy 🚆🇮🇹 The video passed 1,000,000 views.

This week on the channel +4.8M views this week

Louisiana grits keep Simon Wilson's travel menu interesting

A ketchup question accompanies the food clip, while budget hotels and sleeper trains round out his busiest uploads.

Channel: Simon Wilson · Story of October 18, 2026

This week on the channel 2 videos this week

Three continents, three meals: Simon Wilson's one-day food dash

His other new upload, a £27 sleeper train across Kazakhstan, has passed a million and a half views in a week.

Channel: Simon Wilson · Story of September 30, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

I Tried The World's Largest Hotel

Video published

October 19, 2026

Video views so far

1,925,540

Video views, pace per day

197,418

Views on its first day

834,293

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

4.1% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.9% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Checking-in to World's Largest Hotel 🏨🇲🇾	October 22, 2026	3:00 short	46,367	31,984	26,911	1,887	38
I Tried The World's Largest Hotel	October 19, 2026	57:38	1,925,540	197,418	834,293	29,237	2,399
I Ate Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner on 3 Continents in 1 Day	September 29, 2026	55:13	2,045,699	10,023	704,467	32,454	2,415
£27 Sleeper Train in Kazakhstan 🚆🇰🇿	September 23, 2026	2:38 short	2,814,660	20,934	-	54,768	945
First Class Train in Italy 🚆🇮🇹	September 21, 2026	2:59 short	1,023,290	14,108	-	19,567	551
I Tried The Best Hotel in the World 🥂🇭🇰	September 16, 2026	2:56 short	563,755	3,655	-	12,624	216
$8 Midnight Breakfast in Louisiana 🍳🇺🇸	September 9, 2026	3:00 short	973,108	1,860	-	21,770	682
Trying Grits in Louisiana 🌽🇺🇸	September 4, 2026	2:59 short	3,113,451	51,577	-	133,927	8,493
£10 Hostel with My Mum 😂🏨	September 2, 2026	3:00 short	623,688	1,133	-	14,566	429
2am Pancakes in Texas 🥞🇺🇸	August 28, 2026	2:51 short	930,960	2,211	-	33,033	1,992
I Tried American Diners After Midnight	August 25, 2026	51:00	3,690,514	10,437	-	51,218	6,964
£13 Sleeper Train in Vietnam 🚆🇻🇳	August 19, 2026	2:57 short	1,862,669	5,500	-	32,538	323
I Bought the Cheapest Flight in the UK ✈️🇬🇧	August 17, 2026	2:35 short	1,012,887	2,681	-	22,426	792
$1,000 Train To Miami 🚆🇺🇸	August 14, 2026	2:54 short	494,741	750	-	10,970	201
1-Star Hotel in Miami⭐🇺🇸	August 12, 2026	2:59 short	1,915,382	15,881	-	41,119	2,402

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

22.2 in the category: 23.9

comments per 1,000 views

1.3 in the category: 1.3

short vs long

12 short (up to 3 minutes), 3 long
average views per short video: 1,281,246
average views per long video: 2,553,917

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
First Class On Pakistan's Most Dangerous Sleeper Train	February 12, 2024	31:22	7,102,734
I Tried a 1-Star Cruise	October 21, 2024	27:41	7,053,130
First Class on Luxury Arctic Cruise	January 16, 2025	35:04	6,719,754
I Tried America's Secret Billionaire Hotel	November 10, 2025	45:14	6,034,701
Overnight on World's Most Expensive First Class Flight	January 27, 2026	49:41	5,469,507

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Most Dangerous Job in South Africa 🦁🇿🇦	July 24, 2026	2:53	16,695,981
World's Most Expensive First Class Flight 🥂🇦🇪	July 17, 2026	2:58	7,439,544
£400 Sleeper Train Breakfast in Scotland 🚆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿	August 3, 2026	2:58	5,308,623
3-Star Hotel In Georgia ⭐🇬🇪	June 11, 2026	2:56	5,150,093
5-Star Hotel in Las Vegas ⭐🇺🇸	July 13, 2026	2:57	3,132,755

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 23, 2026MilestoneFirst Class Train in Italy 🚆🇮🇹 The video passed 1,000,000 views.
2. October 22, 2026MilestoneI Bought the Cheapest Flight in the UK ✈️🇬🇧 The video passed 1,000,000 views.
3. October 22, 2026Video surgingTrying Grits in Louisiana 🌽🇺🇸 The video ran that day at 93,695 views a day, 2.7 times its usual pace (34,933).
4. October 22, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 2,920,608 views a day, 3.8 times a normal day (771,201).
5. October 21, 2026MilestoneI Tried The World's Largest Hotel The video passed 1,000,000 views.
6. October 21, 2026Video surgingTrying Grits in Louisiana 🌽🇺🇸 The video ran that day at 69,338 views a day, 2.2 times its usual pace (31,110).
7. October 18, 2026Video surgingTrying Grits in Louisiana 🌽🇺🇸 The video ran that day at 72,534 views a day, 3 times its usual pace (24,106).
8. October 8, 2026Video surging1-Star Hotel in Miami⭐🇺🇸 The video ran that day at 30,927 views a day, 2.2 times its usual pace (14,339).
9. October 5, 2026Video surgingTrying Grits in Louisiana 🌽🇺🇸 The video ran that day at 56,563 views a day, 4 times its usual pace (14,291).
10. October 4, 2026Video surgingTrying Grits in Louisiana 🌽🇺🇸 The video ran that day at 34,606 views a day, 2.9 times its usual pace (12,034).
11. October 3, 2026Video surgingTrying Grits in Louisiana 🌽🇺🇸 The video ran that day at 26,403 views a day, 2.5 times its usual pace (10,437).
12. October 2, 2026MilestoneI Ate Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner on 3 Continents i… The video passed 1,000,000 views.