Vacations by Rails' New England Rails and Sail tour takes travelers on an eight-day excursion via three trains and three short cruises. Participants begin their journey in Boston, where they ride a motor coach through historic Boston sites, including the Freedom Trail, Paul Revere's house and Boston Common. Train tours include a ride through New Hampshire's White Mountains along the Hobo Railway, a foray into Vermont's restive villages, glimpses of Connecticut's pastoral countryside from aboard the Essex steam train, and an idyllic trek through Cape Cod's cranberry bogs, forests, salt marshes, sand dunes and seashores from the Cape Code Central Railroad. Travelers also explore Maine, boarding ship in Maine's Casco Bay, and cruise along the Connecticut River on a riverboat. The tour concludes in Hyannis with a cruise of the Cape Cod Harbor, a ride on the Cape Cod Central Railroad and a lobster dinner.
Rails NW offers vacationers a six-day, five-night Royal Canadian Rockies Experience sure to delight those with a yen for an extended study of the area's majestic mountains, welcoming valleys, roaring waterfalls and expansive forests. The trip includes three nights aboard the restored, vintage Royal Canadian Pacific and two nights in luxury hotels. Side trips include a lake cruise from Waterton, Canada, to Goat Haunt, Montana, an expedition to the Canadian Museum of Rail Travel at Cranbrook and dinner at the Kicking Horse Resort's Eagle Eye Restaurant, which overlooks the Rocky and Purcell mountain ranges. The trip begins and ends in Calgary.
Luxury Trains Online's Venice Simplon Orient Express is a luxury-imbued, two-day excursion from Paris to Venice. Passengers board the Orient Express in Paris and are shown to their compartments by a personal steward. The train boasts three dining cars, compartments with wood fixtures burnished to a bright luster, a bar car and lavish meals prepared by a French chef. The journey takes travelers from Paris through the Swiss Alps, the Italian Dolomites and Brenner Pass before crossing the Venetian Lagoon and pulling into Santa Lucia station.
