Luxury Trains Around The World

If your looking for a cheap travel but want it to be luxuous, check it out this luxury train travels.

Palace on Wheels, Rajasthan, India

Desert fortresses and palaces at the edge of lakes can be admired in a trip of a week in the luxury train called Palace on Wheels, equipped with 56 luxury double cabins (with air conditioning, television and bathroom), wood panelling, two luxury restaurants and an opulent lounge, where food and drinks are served, this time, by waiters with coloured turban. The luxury train travels only at night, to leave enough time to visit historical targets during the day.

Price: 295 – $ 385 per night

Luxury Golden Eagle Trans-Siberia Express, Russia, and China

Several operators offer travel by the luxury train on the Trans-Siberian, the legendary railroad, nearly 10,000 kilometres long, but only GW Travel can be proud of the Trans-Siberian Express, a luxury train that treat its passenger as oligarchs. Of the 21 coaches, the latest 12 have cost 25 million dollars.

Gold and Silver Class luxury cabins have double beds, with floor heating, air conditioning systems, DVD / CD and LCD televisions. In the luxury bar wagon, with long red seats cocktails are served with vodka, similar to those offered by the New York Club SoHo. Great academics and media personalities are often invited to hold speeches in the reading room of the train.

Price: 6995 – $ 11,995 – the journey of 15 days between Moscow and Vladivostok

13,995 – $ 24,995 – the journey of 21 nights between Beijing and Moscow

Royal Canadian Pacific, the Rockies, Canada

This luxury intimate train, of only 7 coaches and 32 seats, offers themed itineraries for 6 days in the Rockies of Canada. Themes are ranging from golf, fishing, and food art. In such a luxury trip titled cookery, wine, and music, the chefs offer cooking lessons, professional tasters teach you how to enjoy a glass of wine, brandy or whiskey, artists of classical music offer concerts in a wagon built in 1926.

Price: $ 6600 – itinerary 6 days

Oriental Express, South-East Asia

Launched in 1993, this luxury train is 400 m long, and it is a faithful copy of the famous Shangai Express, which travelled with Marlene Dietrich in a film in 1932. Oriental Express links Bangkok to Singapore, in a route of 2 nights, through an area that reminds of the colonial era of the Orient. The luxury observer wagon with glass walls and rattan furniture is the ideal place to admire temples loaded with history, famous jungles, or rice crops.

Chinese food is served in a luxury restaurant dressed in wood panelling, and among the 66 compartments fitted with air-conditioning devices are several presidential suites of 12 sqm.

Price: $ 1860 – 4 days of travel between Bangkok and Singapore

Blue Train, South Africa

The fabulous five-star luxury hotel on wheels was so named after the colour of sapphire-blue cars, which traverse the African savannah since 1940. The route of 27 hours between Pretoria and Cape Town evokes the colonial era of minerals searchers. The train has 74 apartments equipped with marble bathrooms, telephones, and direct satellite television.

An evening dress is compulsory to have dinner in an accessorized restaurant wagon with silverware. One of the cars was turned into a sophisticated jewellery boutique, and one of the stops is the famous diamond mine in the town of Kimberly.

Price: 1125 – $ 1800 trip