Each carriage has its own marquetry design, upholstery and fittings and finishings — many modelled on original vintage designs. Perhaps the most luxurious today is carriage , which houses the three stunning new grand suites , which entered service in March ; these exclusive suites each come complete with their own en-suite shower room.
Carriage '' — the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express bar car. There are four cabin types on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, namely twin cabins, single cabins, cabin suites and of course the newest and the most luxurious of all — the grand suites. The popular cabin choice is the twin cabin.
When you board the train your twin cabin will be set as a daytime lounge, with a comfy banquette seat running the full length of your cabin with plenty of space for two with a small table and lamp next to the window.
Both travellers can relax and enjoy the many and varied views whizzing by as the train wends its way across Europe. Every cabin comes with a complimentary leather amenity kit, packed full of Temple Spa goodies and this is yours to take away with you when your journey on board comes to an end as well as an endless supply of complimentary bottled water.
With a twin cabin when you return after dinner and perhaps a night-cap in the Bar Car, your cabin will have been turned into upper and lower berth bunk beds, with a nifty wooden ladder for the upper berth occupant. Bedding is soft and luxurious, though with the cabins being heated by coal-fired radiators you may find little need for the VSOE monogrammed fluffy blanket.
That said we do advise clients pack pyjamas for the modesty of your fellow travellers. Like a twin cabin but for indulgent single use.
As you board the train your cabin is made up into a daytime sitting room, with a velvet banquette running down one side of the carriage and no arguments about who gets the window seat. A vanity unit complete with sink, plug socket and razor points and all the amenities kimono, slippers, amenity kit and bottled water as twin cabin.
The " Orient Express " was a long-distance passenger train service created in by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The carriages which now make up the world renowned, luxury train - the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, have each acquired their own history and special character developed over years of travelling the original Orient Express route, which was simply a normal international railway service across Europe.
In , George Mortimer Pullman, a creative railway constructor, built a train in Great Britain that featured all the up-to-date technology of the time. His train employed more advanced technology and was far more luxurious than anything else that existed in Europe at the time. From the 's parlour cars and sleeping carriages were put in service in Britain and passengers of those trains were the first to enjoy the novelty of having their meals served on board a train.
In the Pullman Limited Express began operating an all Pullman service between London and Brighton and George Mortimer Pullman progressed by connecting train services to ferry services to offer luxury train travel between London and Paris.
Around the same time, a Belgian railway entrepreneur named George Nagelmackers started building luxury rail carriages and in started the first Orient-Express service from Paris to Giurgi in Romania. His train featured sleeping carriages and the first restaurant cars to be offered on a continental train.
The route and rolling stock of the Orient Express changed many times. Several routes in the past concurrently used the Orient Express name, or slight variants thereof. Although the original Orient Express was simply a normal international railway service, the name has become synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel.
The two city names most prominently associated with the Orient Express are Paris and Istanbul, the original endpoints of the timetabled service. In , the Orient Express stopped serving Istanbul. Its immediate successor, a through overnight service from Paris to Vienna, ran for the last time from Paris on Friday, June 8, After this, the route, still called the "Orient Express", was shortened to start from Strasbourg instead, occasioned by the inauguration of the LGV Est which affords much shorter travel times from Paris to Strasbourg.
The new curtailed service left Strasbourg at On 14 December , the Orient Express ceased to operate and the route disappeared from European railway timetables, reportedly a "victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines". The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train, a private venture by Orient-Express Hotels using original carriages from the s and 30s, continues to run from London to Venice and to other destinations in Europe, including the original route from Paris to Istanbul.
Georges Nagelmackers invited guests to a railway trip of on his 'Train Eclair de luxe' lightning luxury train. The train left Paris Gare de l'Est on Tuesday, October 10, , just after and arrived in Vienna the next day at The return trip left Vienna on Friday, October 13, , at and, as planned, re-entered the Gare de Strasbourg at on Saturday October 14, Vienna remained the terminus until October 4, The train was officially renamed Orient Express in At Giurgiu, passengers were ferried across the Danube to Ruse, Bulgaria to pick up another train to Varna, from where they completed their journey to Istanbul then called Constantinople by ferry.
In , the train's eastern terminus became Varna in Bulgaria, where passengers could take a ship to Istanbul. Istanbul remained its easternmost stop until May 19, The eastern terminus was the Sirkeci Terminal by the Golden Horn.
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