Luxurious holiday trains provide an exquisite travel experience. Enjoy gourmet dining, wine pairing, and impeccable service while aboard these lavish trains.
Experience luxury rail journey holidays across six continents by sitting aboard these railway holidays 2024 routes that span six continents – from Canada’s Rocky Mountaineer to India’s Maharajas Express!
Europe
Luxury train vacations feature luxurious cabins and observation cars, providing accommodations as grandiose as the scenery they travel past. One such railway holiday train, The Royal Scotsman, boasts carriages that showcase Scotland’s wild Highlands; lacquer-polished wooden panels and tufted leather furniture recall an earlier travel era when holiday rail travellers packed formal attire and hats for sightseeing trips.
Belmond’s Venice Simplon-Orient Express transports guests back to the golden age of holiday train travel with luxurious sleeping cars outfitted in vintage fabrics and antique fixtures, while recent additions such as Bamford Haybarn Spa car provide mid-journey facials, manicures and pedicures by this UK skincare brand.
Luxury trains can transport you to places many other tours overlook, like Poland’s captivating Krakow or Transylvania with tours stopping at Sighisoara and Bran – Bram Stoker was inspired to write Dracula by these incredible destinations!
Asia
Asia offers many luxurious train holiday packages that travellers can experience like those portrayed by Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot’s Orient Express, such as Belmond Eastern & Oriental Express which offer both luxury and adventure with various excursions. It features a deep bottle green exterior with cherrywood panelling, Jim Thompson Thai silks and Malaysian embroidery, as well as many dining cars serving local food and cocktails from each region it passes through.
Africa
A train holiday in Africa adds a fresh element to safari excursions. Instead of being jammed into soulless airplanes and racing from point A to B, now there’s the civilised journey of discovery gliding peacefully along its tracks while offering top service, delicious cuisine and comfortable accommodations – perfect for safari adventures!
Rovos Rail and The Blue Train are South Africa’s two best-known luxury trains, instantly recognisable with their deep blue liveries, respectively. The latter boasts the world’s most luxurious train, boasting stunning wood-panelled suites that easily convert from daytime sitting areas into spacious bedrooms complete with fine bed linen and bathrooms featuring marble tiles and gold fittings – a feat no other train can claim to have achieved!
Book one of the rail holidays 2024 tours and travel on one or both trains of Southern Africa’s two trains. Experience the abundant mountain ranges, sprawling savannah grasslands and Cape Winelands with all their breathtaking flora and fauna. Choose between 2-night trips between Pretoria and Cape Town or 10-day journeys that span Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia for your ultimate Southern African experience!
South America
Latin America is home to incredible city attractions, breathtaking natural landscapes and diverse cultures – train holidays 2024 tours are an excellent way to experience this diverse continent.
Following months of suspension during the COVID-19 pandemic, many iconic tourist trains have recently resumed running again, drawing new passengers eager to rediscover South America via rail travel. One such luxury train vacation in South America is the Belmond Hiram Bingham Train which transports travellers between Poroy and Aguas Calientes – near Machu Picchu – along the Amazonian coastline.
Train travellers can experience some of the world’s most breathtaking railway engineering on this journey, including a steep 450-meter mountain descent along Devil’s Nose track and across a stunning canyon ridge viaduct. Also featured on this journey are traversing Andean plains en route to Cusco; visiting Uros Islands constructed from manmade reeds on Lake Titicaca, witnessing condor flight at Colca Canyon; and experiencing Arequipa as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.