Welcome Bespoke rail holidays around Europe with handpicked hotel accommodation. Travel around Europe flight-free with civilised rail travel through the most scenic and recommended routes. Bespoke Tailor Made Rail – the clue is in the name! All of our itineraries are tailor made to suit your requirements. If you would like an extra night here, a side-trip there, tickets to an event, champagne in your room on arrival or a different route on the return journey, we would be more than happy to assist. Expertise our travel experts are experienced in building itineraries for customers just like you. They have stayed in many of our featured hotels and travelled on many key rail routes around Europe. This first-hand experience is invaluable when assisting you in planning your trip. Under your own steam see Europe at your own pace, travel like a local and gain a greater destination immersion into countries you are visiting. Europe's rail network is easy to navigate unescorted, especially with our supporting documentation and tips ensuring you get the most out of the travel experience. Value for money all of our itineraries have been put together in the most cost-effective way possible. Thanks to the excellent partnerships we have with Europe's various rail companies as well as our featured hotels, we are able to offer you an excellent package price. This price not only covers the travel and hotel arrangements, but it also includes city maps, tips, ticket explanations and other inserts to your package to ensure you are well set for your holiday. To top it all off, we do not believe in credit card surcharges, so there is no annoying 2% or 3% charge on your holiday when you come to pay. Destinations a variety of the most relaxing, happening, culturally rich destinations around Europe are featured in our range of suggested itineraries. Handpicked hotels all of our hotels have been personally inspected by the team and are chosen to complement each other and the rail travel. We keep a close eye on the standards of our featured hotels and we make honest recommendations as appropriate. For example, it is not always beneficial to stay near the station if you are going to be in a city for 3 nights, however, your requirements are different if you are only stopping overnight in a city. Peace of mind we are proud to be bonded with the Travel Trust Association, bond no. Q2542. We believe that the TTA provides the best all-round client protection in the marketplace and provides reassurance to thousands of consumers just like you each year. Why travel by rail? “The next three years could potentially alter the way UK travellers approach holidays to Europe, with rail becoming a much more viable way to explore the Continent". National Geographic Traveller, January 2014
Rail travel is the future direction of travel. It is becoming much easier and quicker with ongoing construction of high-speed lines worldwide, with more routes and operators than ever before.
Civilised, easy and quick. No airport hassle. Quick and easy boarding process. As you are travelling with your bags, they are guaranteed to be with you on arrival!
Spacious and enhanced travelling environment – move around the train freely at all times. Take a meal in the restaurant car or go and retrieve something out of your suitcase.
Travel from city centre to city centre, without the need for long, pricey and slow airport transfers.
Many of Europe's lines are now high-speed, reducing journey times dramatically and providing a thrilling experience, racing along at speeds of nearly 200mph. For instance, you can cover the 480-mile journey from Paris to Marseille in 3 hours (the equivalent of London to the Highlands of Scotland!). The romance of rail travel Your holiday begins the moment you board your first train. Arrive and depart from grand, evocative stations that hark back to a bygone era of steam.
Observe the scenery change as you travel through the cities and countryside. Nothing quite beats watching the snow-capped Alps getting closer before travelling through cutting valleys and picturesque lakes.
The feeling of having covered all that ground in one day is a great accomplishment. From London, it is possible to reach Berlin, Barcelona and Milan comfortably by train in one day. Travel like a local As well as watching the scenery morph as you travel along, listen out for different local languages and dialects as you pass seamlessly often across international boundaries without necessarily realising it. Eco-Friendly Travelling by train expends seventeen times less energy than flying, on top of all the other benefits mentioned here.