Romance on Rails

For the first time ever the celebrated Orient-Express has included Stockholm in one of its glamorous journeys. And as the legendary train glided out of the Swedish capital yesterday bound for Copenhagen and beyond, I was onboard for a lavish overnight experience.

Welcoming us at Stockholm station Platform 10
yesterday were Giulio Stix and Lucy Clark

Welcome

We were in for a journey of exquisite pampering

In art deco carriages that take you back in time
to the 20s and 30s

And now for a welcome drink in vintage milieu...

Enjoying the ambience of the piano bar

Discreet style

Harmonious surroundings

And then for a four course repast in the antique dining car, glassware and silverware glittering

All dressed up and ready for a beautiful dinner

Fillet of veal was the main

Attentive service

White chocolate mousse

Afterwards more time for passengers to socialize in the bar car, where many of the world's rich and famous swapped stories and sipped G&Ts in the 1920s.

Then a night to enjoy our vintage sleeping cars as we glided through the Swedish countryside

Breakfast in our beautiful cabin

The original Orient Express dates back to 1883. The Venice Simplon Orient-Express has carried on the legend in sumptuous style offering a luxury hotel on rails.
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Our train had three restaurants - this one is called the Lalique:

You can see one of the famous Lalique
glass sculptures in the background

L'Oriental restaurant.

After Copenhagen the train will head for Venice. This fabulous trip between Venice and Stockholm can include 2 nights in an Orient-Express hotel in Venice, making a 7 night journey.

The Venice Simplon Orient-Express is one of 6 luxury tourist trains owned by Orient-Express Hotels, Trains & Cruises taking you to dozens of magical cities and sights, and the classiest of adventures...

Journeys of distinction

At the Grand Hotel Stockholm a Gastronomic Journey brought to us the world of flavours and colours of Orient-Express hotels, trains and cruises. We got a chance to mingle with the General Managers and Sales Directors, taste exotic morsels, and take home some fabulous recipes from their famed restaurants.

 

Here with Lucy Clark Director of
Leisure Sales  (in red) and Christina Deeny
Regional Director of Sales Europe

Orient-Express is of course "totally Select" - and it embraces the values we stand for.

In their hands are some amazing cultural treasures – including the famed and glittering train.
"Murder on the Orient Express" is far from what happens these days. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express  is the ultimate rebirth of the glamour of a century ago, together with tender pampering.

Just dripping with style, tradition and grace…

This famous train will come to Stockholm all the way from Venice for the first time this April. Distinction from start to finish.

In Venice you extend your journey just off the Grand Canal …

At Cipriani,  a treasure amid treasures

In Italy we can offer more Orient-Express wonders…

Floating between sea and sky – Hotel Caruso, Amalfi Coast
to name just one of the cliff-hanging wonders

All around the world, the Orient-Express wraps you in the luxuries of a more discerning era…

Brazil:

Copacabana Palace – Rio’s most
famous hotel on the famous beach

Peru:

Monasterio – a 16th Century Monastery, now
a luxury hotel in the heart of Cuzco

 ...and up at Inca citadel which was hidden for centuries...

Inkaterra - the only hotel right up at Machu Picchu

South Africa:

From the days of Winston Churchill to Nelson Mandela,
Mount Nelson has been home to famous people

I could go on and on…. hotels, trains and cruises - but everywhere the Orient-Express means distinction…