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Welcome to the world of sail and rail

Claire Webb - 25 January 2020
Combine easy days on board luxury liners with eye-opening trips by train with Imagine Cruising. The best of both worlds beckons, so what are you waiting for!

 

Luxury cruises and deluxe trains transport passengers back to the golden age of travel and a sail-rail holiday is a great way to combine adventure and total relaxation. Imagine Cruising’s rail packages pair spectacular train journeys with fabulous cruises, offering an unforgettable, stress-free way to discover far-flung destinations. And if you’re a cruise connoisseur and your other half is a rail aficionado, they’re the perfect solution to give you both the happy holidays you deserve.

 

If you’ve always wanted to venture Down Under, you could couple a cruise with Australia’s greatest rail trip: the Indian Pacific. This train journeys 2,700 miles from Perth to Sydney, travelling between two oceans. You’ll follow in the tracks of TV’s Michael Portillo as you traverse Australia’s wild interior in style, stopping in laid-back Adelaide and the Outback. Imagine’s Discoveries Down Under holiday package also includes a Princess cruise exploring the myriad delights of New Zealand's North and South Islands: the glacier-carved inlets of Fiordland National Park, the perfectly preserved Victorian and Edwardian architecture of Dunedin, vibrant Auckland and the turquoise waters of the Bay of Islands.

 

ASIAN ODYSSEY

Thinking about heading east? Imagine Cruising’s Exotic Eastern Escape begins with an opulent slow train and ends with a trip on one of Japan’s bullet trains. The holiday begins with three nights on board a hotel-on-wheels decked out with Thai silks and Malaysian embroidery: Belmond’s Eastern & Oriental Express. Its green and gold carriages carry travellers from Bangkok to Singapore, with time to enjoy the lush scenery of the Malay Peninsula and a tour of the Bridge on the River Kwai – immortalised by the classic war film.

 

The five-star treatment doesn’t end there. After exploring Singapore, set sail on Queen Elizabeth – Cunard’s art deco-inspired ocean liner – and visit Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Manila, Hiroshima and Tokyo. Before flying home, zoom from mystical Mount Fuji to Tokyo on a high-speed shinkansen.

 

THE MED AND THE ALPS

If you prefer to avoid planes, Imagine Cruising’s Italian Lakes and Venice Simplon-Orient-Express combo includes a Mediterranean cruise on Cunard’s Queen Victoria, two nights in Venice and a week exploring Italy’s great lakes: Como, Garda and Maggiore. Savour two slow rides through the Alps on the narrow-gauge Centovalli – the “100 Valleys” railway – and the panoramic Bernina Express. The grand finale is an overnight journey on the lavishly appointed Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.

 

So get booking for a trip of a lifetime!


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