Luxury Train Tours
Train travel may take a while but “humming the sound of the choo-choo” seems more pleasant than anything else, especially when on luxury train tours. Most passengers on board the supposedly fastest travel means – the airplane, usually plug on their earphones and bore themselves to sleep while humming the in-flight movie theme song or the jazz music played on the channel with best reception. Experiences aboard luxury trains vary depending on the train operator and the itinerary. One thing is very consistent about luxury train tours though – comfort and pampering at its peak.
Luxury train tours allow travelers to experience cross-country not just through a time-zone transfer, but also a cultural and scenic experience available everyday through the view by the window. Add to the fact that luxury train tours offer gourmet cuisine fit even for the most discriminating of palates. Of course, what is guaranteed across the various luxury train tours is that guests are treated not as plain train riders, but as guests of a five-star luxury hotel.
Some of the major luxury rail companies are Orient-Express Trains and Cruises, The Rovos Rail, The Royal Canadian Pacific, The American Orient Express, The Al Andalus Express, The Trans-Siberian Express, The Royal Scotsman, and The Blue Train.
Enjoying a trip through luxury train tours can go as short as a one-night trip to about 25 days depending on the route. The shortest routes available to experience luxury train tour rides are those of The Blue Train, which explores the beauty of the richly majestic landscapes of South Africa. The longest routes are those which are inter-country trips within Europe aboard the Orient-Express or one of those routes of the Trans-Siberian Express.
All luxury train tours aim to provide convenience and comfort to all its guests. Hence, plush beds are usually available to get a good night’s sleep. Meaning a first-time rider need not think that a ten-day or beyond ride is congruent to a sore bum from a daily affair of butt cheeks kissing leather couches.
While most people aspire to travel via luxury ships, one ought not to experience sea-sickness or a battle with open water adventure via luxury train tours. After all, beyond the almost-automatic gastronomic feast through meticulously prepared dishes, one may even experience wine-tasting and cheese buffets using exquisite silverware and fine crystal glassware. Finally, a spectacular sight-seeing is also available while aboard the train. The luxurious treatment provided by the well-mannered stewards even allows a female guest to imagine that she is a Kate Winslet aboard the prestigious Titanic. Only that instead of the sound of sea breeze, she gets to be lullabied by the rhythmic sound of the train. Even the obsessive compulsive cleaner types of people would definitely be satisfied given the presence of comfortable and clean bathrooms.
Most of all, apart from the everyday exposure to nature’s beauty or man’s majestic creations, one may also get to experience culture and history in and out of the train through the trains interior design and set-up, and of course, the careful selection of locations to visit.
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