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The Belmond Andean Explorer, launched in May 2017, is South America's first luxury sleeper train. [1] It replaces the eponymous Pullman day train, between Cusco and Puno , at Lake Titicaca . By the new train this trip is converted to a one-night journey, and extended from Puno for another overnight ride to Arequipa .
Gary Franklin, Belmond's senior vice president of trains and cruises, told BI that reservations for the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express spiked 10% from 2023 to 2024. The Grand Suites are often the ...
On the Andean Explorer, which travels through Peru, a stay in one of the train's suite cabins is a true first-class experience, complete with a robe and slippers, 24/7 assistance buttons, and a ...
The Belmond Hiram Bingham is a luxury train operating day return trips from Poroy station outside Cusco to Aguas Calientes, the station for Machu Picchu in Peru.. The train, named after Hiram Bingham, who publicized the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, [a] travels from the high Andes down the Sacred Valley, and for much of the journey it runs alongside the Urubamba River.
Since 1999 it has been operated by PeruRail, an affiliate of the Belmond Ltd. group, whose tourist trains form the only passenger services. [ 14 ] From Cuzco, the 3 ft ( 914 mm ) gauge Ferrocarril Santa Ana (Ferrocarril Cuzco á Santa Ana) (engineer: Mauro Valderrama) was authorised in 1907, originally at 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm ) gauge, but the ...
With service in Europe, Asia, and South America, Belmond is the only private luxury tour provider (with the exception of Russia's Golden Eagle Trans Siberian Express) to offer continental or intercontinental service. [6] The Venice-Simplon Orient Express, with service from London to Venice, was voted the top luxury train in the world in 2009. [7]
Belmond Ltd. (formerly Orient-Express Hotels Ltd) is a hospitality and leisure company that operates hotels, train services and river cruises and safaris worldwide. [3] In 2024, the company has 47 properties in 28 countries and territories, with 32 hotels, six tourist trains, seven river cruise boats and two safaris.
The train has no dedicated motive power, haulage is provided in every country by the respective state railways - except Belgium and Netherlands, where it's run by the company Train Charter, using the locomotives of the private freight operator Lineas - with conventional electric and diesel locomotives designated for express and InterCity trains.