Train travel is having a cultural moment. It’s greener than flying, far more scenic, and this year Europe is expanding its ...

While trains may not be the fastest way to get from point A to point B, there is something timelessly romantic about traveling by rail. Today’s luxury trains transport guests back to the Golden Age of ...

Left: A coach of the Orient Express built between 1926 and 1928. Right: A Venice Simplon-Orient-Express car photographed in 2023.AP Photo/Heinz Ducklau, Joey Hadden/Business Insider The Orient Express ...

Today I’m taking the world’s best train, the Venice Simplon Orient Express for 32 hours from Prague all the way to London.

The famed luxury train will transport guests through some of the most idyllic European landscapes, with extravagant menus, a vintage bar car, and an onboard sommelier. Stacey Leasca is an ...

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Belmond is giving one of its iconic trains a luxurious upgrade in 2023. The luxury hospitality company is adding eight suites to the Venice Simplon-Orient Express next June. Two original 1920s and ...

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, A Belmond Train, Europe, has unveiled its December journeys. This festive season, the distinct midnight-blue carriages will glide through Europe’s winter-scapes on ...

The legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express stopped at the Bulgarian border near Svilengrad on its way back from Istanbul to Venice. (Photo by Hristo Rusev) The iconic European luxury train that ...

A playground for the slow travel elite, starting at $80,000 a night, the “L’Observatoire” suite aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is train travel, but not as you know it.

Ever since it pulled out of Paris’s Gare de Strasbourg on October 4th 1883, the name ‘Orient-Express’ has been a metaphor for travel with a certain amount of style. It conjures up particular images.

It was 7 p.m., and a pre-dinner crowd dressed in black tie had gathered in the bar car of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which was rattling through France on its way to Italy. My husband, Adam, ...