The Orient Express offers luxury rail tours throughout Europe's major cities. Travel runs annually from March to November and include all table d'hote meals, service and private accommodation. The London to Venice route is one of the most popular and oldest trips, lasting for four days. The journey embarks at London Victoria Station on the British Pullman bound for Folkestone. Lunch is served on the first leg of the journey, accompanied by a glass of champagne and fine wines. A Eurotunnel shuttle coach to Calais completes the second leg. The train stops in Paris around 10:00 p.m. for other passengers to embark. The train arrives the following day in Venice around 6:00 p.m. for a two-night stay in a selected hotel.
Orient-Express Centre, Europe
20 Upper Ground
London, SE1 9PF
United Kingdom
800-780-700
orient-express.com
Great Rail Journeys offers a seven-night stay in the heart of the Austrian Alps, traveling by rail. Excursions to the Grossglockner Hohe Tauern National Park, The Eagle's Nest and Salzburg are included in the itinerary. The tour embarks from St. Pancras International Station, London to Brussels by Eurostar and on to Stuttgart by rail for an overnight stay. The train arrives at Zell am See the following afternoon, for a seven-night stay at the Grand Hotel, situated on the shores of Lake Zell. A coach trip north on day six travels into Germany for a visit to Adolf Hitler's mountain retreat, the Eagle's Nest, on top of a 6,000-foot mountain above the town of Berchtesgaden. The journey departs Zell am See to Cologne on day nine and leaves for London the following day.
Great Rail Journeys
Saviour House
9 St. Saviourgate
York, YO1 8NL
011-44-019-0452-1936
greatrail.com
Dertour offers a seven-day tour of Germany with return rail travel to London via Hanover, Wernigerode and Cologne and through the Harz mountains. The first two days are spent in Hanover, the state capital of Lower Saxony. The city offers a range of attractions and places of interest such as the Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen. The next stop is a three-night stay in Wernigerode, in the Harz mountain region. An excursion on the Brockenbahn steam locomotive travels the 19 kilometer route to the summit of the Brocken Mountain, the highest peak in northern Germany. From Wernigerode the train continues to Cologne where you will have an opportunity to view the Gothic Cologne Cathedral before departing for the return journey to London.
Dertour Travel Service Ltd.
18 Conduit St.
London W1S 2XN
011-44-020-7290-1111
dertour.co.uk
