Venice Simplon-Orient-Express through the Alps in restored 1920s marquetry cabins. The Royal Scotsman across the Highlands. Britannic Explorer into Cornwall and Wales. Eastern & Oriental Express through the Malay Peninsula. Every Belmond journey below is quoted, tailored, and booked by a dedicated rail specialist at no cost to you.
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Prices shown are Belmond's official "from" guide prices per person, based on two guests sharing the lowest available cabin grade. European and UK journeys are published by Belmond in British pounds and converted here to US dollars at a fixed indicative rate; Eastern & Oriental Express prices are published in US dollars. Final pricing depends on date, cabin grade, and availability at time of booking.
Belmond does not build trains that look old. It buys the originals and spends years returning them to the standard they were built to — then staffs them like a grand hotel that happens to be moving.
Original 1920s and 1930s sleeping cars with inlaid marquetry, Lalique glass panels, and fittings restored rather than reproduced. Several of these carriages carried royalty and heads of state before they carried you.
Kitchens the size of a galley turning out multi-course dinners for a full train, with guest chefs on the Royal Scotsman's culinary departures and a table reserved for you at every service.
Meals, wines, spirits, steward service, and the scheduled off-train excursions are inside the fare on every Belmond train. You are not handed a bill at the end of the trip.
Europe, Scotland, England and Wales, and the Malay Peninsula. Prices are Belmond's own published "from" guide prices per person — the same figure you would pay booking direct.
Train One · The Flagship
The train that defined an era, running between Europe's grand capitals from spring to autumn. Restored 1920s and 1930s sleeping cars, three restaurant cars, a bar car with a pianist, and cabins from Historic Twin up to the Grand Suites. Most routes are a single night onboard; a handful run three to five nights across the continent.
The Flagship
Venice → Verona → The Alps → Paris
The single most requested night in luxury rail. Board in Venice, cross the Dolomites and the Alps in daylight, dine formally under Lalique glass, and wake to the run into Paris. If you only ever take one legendary train, this is the one.
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
Paris → The Alps → Verona → Venice
The same legendary night run westbound to eastbound, ending at Santa Lucia with the Grand Canal waiting outside the station steps. Popular as the outbound half of a longer Italy trip.
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
Paris → Vienna
An overnight into the imperial capital on one of the train's original Central European alignments. A handful of departures each season, and the cabins on them are spoken for early.
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
Budapest → Vienna → Paris
Westbound out of Budapest along the classic Central European corridor, through Austria overnight and into Paris the following day. A quieter, more romantic alternative to the Venice run.
Most Requested
Paris → Vienna → Budapest → Paris
Four nights that take in both imperial capitals and return you to where you started, with hotel stays folded into the middle of the itinerary. The fullest way to travel the Central European route without committing to Istanbul.
Seasonal
Paris → The Alps → Italian Riviera
Three nights ending on the Ligurian coast, where the train swaps Alpine passes for cliffside Mediterranean track. One of the rarest routes Belmond runs, sold on a small number of summer dates.
Once a Year
Istanbul → Bucharest → Budapest → Vienna → Paris
The original Orient Express run, west from the Bosphorus across the Balkans and Central Europe to Paris, with hotel nights and private excursions built in along the way. One departure a season, and it books out a year ahead.
The Ultimate
Paris → Vienna → Budapest → Bucharest → Istanbul
The ultimate journey in the Belmond catalog and the most exclusive rail itinerary sold anywhere: eastbound to Istanbul across five nights, offered in Grand Suite accommodation only, with a private butler, free-flowing champagne, and a handful of cabins on the entire train.
Train Two · The Highlands
A rolling country house through Scotland, all tartan wool, single-malt trolleys, and observation-car windows framing lochs the roads never reach. Every itinerary begins and ends at Edinburgh Waverley, runs two to seven nights between April and October, and includes castle visits, distillery tours, and a dedicated whisky programme on select departures.
The shortest way onto the train and still a full Highland experience: two nights north through Perthshire and the Cairngorms, with a castle visit and a distillery stop before Edinburgh again.
Two nights with one of Scotland's most decorated chefs cooking onboard, built around Scottish produce sourced along the route. A dining departure first and a rail journey second.
The second of the chef-led departures, this one led by Lorna McNee, cooking a Scottish tasting menu onboard across two nights in the Highlands.
Three nights along the West Highland Line to the Atlantic coast, past Rannoch Moor and the viaducts, with the scenery most people picture when they picture Scotland by rail.
Three nights weighted toward the wilder country and the whisky, with time in the glens, a private tasting, and long slow evenings in the observation car as the light goes.
Three nights into the remote north and west, on lines built for landscape rather than speed. For travelers who want the emptier half of the country rather than the postcard half.
Four nights built around private access to Scottish country houses and their gardens, several of them still lived in by the families that built them.
Four nights of distilleries, cask tastings, and guided nosings run with the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. The most specialised itinerary on the train, and the one whisky people book first.
Four nights combining the Highland main line with the west coast, taking in castles, coastline, and country estates without doubling back on itself.
Five nights of clan country and island crossings, with the Kyle line to the west coast and enough time ashore to make the castles more than a photo stop.
The extended northbound run through the Highlands over five nights, with a longer, slower excursion programme than the two-night version of the same route.
A full week aboard, running the western routes northbound with the pace of a long stay rather than a tour. Seven nights is where the train stops feeling like transport altogether.
The same seven-night western itinerary run in the opposite direction, which changes both the light and the order the landscape arrives in.
The flagship of the Scottish fleet: seven nights covering the Highlands, the west coast, and the whisky country in a single anniversary itinerary. The most complete Royal Scotsman journey sold.
Train Three · England and Wales
Belmond's newest train and the first luxury sleeper of its kind in England and Wales. Departing London Victoria, it runs three-night arcs into Cornwall, the Lake District, and Wales — or six-night journeys that pair two regions — with a contemporary, craft-led interior rather than a period one, plus a wellness suite and a guest-chef kitchen.
West to the Cornish coast for three nights of cliff paths, harbour towns, and a private gallery visit inland. The most popular of the three signature routes and the easiest first Britannic journey.
Three nights into Welsh mountain country, with a guided walk at Llandrindod Wells, a day in Eryri National Park, and a Cotswolds stop on the way home.
The Welsh route on autumn dates, when the national park turns and the hills are almost empty. Same itinerary, quieter season, lower fare.
North along the coast to Cumbria for three nights of fells and open water, with a lakeside estate visit and a gala dinner in a fifteenth-century manor on the return.
Six nights pairing the Cornish coast with the Welsh mountains in one continuous journey, so you see two very different halves of the country without repacking.
The combined Cornwall and Wales journey on autumn dates. The best value in the Britannic catalog if your travel window is flexible into the shoulder season.
Six nights across the two great walking landscapes of England and Wales, with the train handling every mile between them and a wellness suite waiting after each day out.
The Lake District and Wales pairing on autumn dates, when the fells hold the light longer and the walking is at its best.
Train Four · Southeast Asia
Teak, brass, and rattan through the Malay Peninsula. Every 2026 itinerary departs from and returns to Singapore, running two to six nights into Malaysia's rainforest interior and coastal states, with a spa car, an open-air observation deck, and prices published in US dollars.
Three nights into the rainforest interior, with guided time in the national parks and long stretches of jungle running past the observation deck. The entry point to the E&O and the most-booked route.
Three nights weighted toward heritage and food rather than jungle, taking in the colonial-era towns and the peninsula's culinary crossroads on the way north and back.
The festive-season departure, with a celebration dinner, seasonal programming onboard, and the train dressed for the occasion. Three nights out of Singapore.
See in the new year onboard, somewhere in the Malaysian interior, with a black-tie dinner and a party that runs late in the bar car. The single most requested date of the E&O year.
Six nights, the longest E&O itinerary, run in support of tiger conservation in Malaysia with field visits and conservationists travelling onboard. A genuinely different trip from the standard routes.
The Wild Malaysia route on the guest-chef series dates, with a visiting kitchen cooking a menu built around Southeast Asian produce sourced along the line.
The Essence of Malaysia itinerary on the guest-chef series dates, pairing the heritage route with a visiting chef's tasting menu across three nights.
Every journey is customizable — dates, direction of travel, cabin grade, hotels, and extensions tailored to you.
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Every figure on this page comes from Belmond's own published guide prices. We do not mark journeys up and we do not charge a planning fee. Compare us to the operator's site line for line.
One person who knows which cabin grade is worth the jump on which train, which direction of travel gets the better light through the Alps, and which Royal Scotsman departure suits a first-timer. That expertise is included.
A missed connection into Venice, a changed cabin, a dietary request the day before departure. You call one number and it gets handled — not a queue, not a chatbot, not a form.
Travel advisors are paid a commission by the rail operator out of the fare you were already going to pay. That is why the price is identical whether you book direct or book with us — the only difference is whether you have someone in your corner when something changes.
Belmond journeys are sold as complete experiences rather than train tickets. Accommodation onboard, dining, drinks, service, and the scheduled excursions are all inside the fare quoted below.
You won't be passed between agents, talked over by a call center, or asked to fill out a 40-field intake. One specialist. One conversation. One trip you'll talk about for the rest of your life.
Tell us which Belmond train and route caught your eye and roughly when you'd like to travel. A short form, then a 20-minute call.
An all-in price at Belmond's published rate, plus a specialist's notes on cabin grade, direction of travel, and which dates hold the best value.
Add nights in Venice, move up to a Suite, reverse the direction, extend into a second Belmond train. Adjust freely — we don't move on until you say yes.
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Every Belmond train is small by design. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express runs a limited European season and its Grand Suites are counted on one hand; the Royal Scotsman carries about forty guests; Britannic Explorer and the Eastern & Oriental Express are smaller still. Marquee dates — the Istanbul run, New Year in Malaysia, the anniversary Grand Tour — are typically gone a year ahead. If you have a date in mind, ask early rather than next quarter.
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