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The Orient Express is preparing for its first launch in decades — a luxury sleeper train in Italy. Dubbed La Dolce Vita, the new Orient Express trains will start operating in Spring 2025.
In our travel roundup this week: the burning mountain whose flames never go out, how Antarctica became a hot vacation spot and what to expect from Italy’s first luxury sleeper train.
1888 poster for the Orient Express. A luxury train is a premium passenger rail service. Some luxury trains promote tourism in destinations across a region, while others (such as the Maharajas' Express) take passengers on a ride through a single country. Luxury trains include restaurants, bars, bathrooms, and sleeping and seating areas.
Georges Nagelmackers was the founder of Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL), which expanded its luxury trains, travel agencies and hotels all over Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Its most famous train remains the Orient Express. The train was composed of: Baggage car; Sleeping coach with 16 beds (with bogies)
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express (VSOE) is a private luxury train service from London to Venice and other European cities. It is currently owned by Belmond . These VSOE services are not to be confused with a regularly scheduled train called the Orient Express , which ran nightly between Paris and Bucharest – in the last years of operation ...
Orient Express is also bringing its luxury travel experience to the sea, with the launch of two Orient Express Silenseas ships: La Dolce Vita in 2025 and Corinthian, the world’s largest sailing ...
Matt Hind/Orient Express Train travel is not as glamorous as it used to be. In the States, riding the rails means crowded coach cars, cramped sleepers and quick-serve food. But, look beyond our ...
The Orient Express is a private luxury train service and luxury hospitality company operated by Accor. It will carry passengers between Paris and Istanbul, like the original Orient Express, beginning in 2025. [2] It will also offer journeys around Italy. [3]