After sipping a 3674 cocktail—a bracing concoction made with gin, Cointreau, lemon juice, sugar and Angostura bitters—in the moody blue bar car for which the drink was named, I take a seat in the ...

Left: A coach of the Orient Express built between 1926 and 1928. Right: A Venice Simplon-Orient-Express car photographed in 2023.AP Photo/Heinz Ducklau, Joey Hadden/Business Insider The Orient Express ...

In August, I travelled inside the Venice Simplon Orient Express, fulfilling a dream I have had since childhood. The first "Express d'Orient" left Paris for Vienna on June 5, 1883 and on June 1, 1889 ...

The famed luxury train will transport guests through some of the most idyllic European landscapes, with extravagant menus, a vintage bar car, and an onboard sommelier. Stacey Leasca is an ...

It was 7 p.m., and a pre-dinner crowd dressed in black tie had gathered in the bar car of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which was rattling through France on its way to Italy. My husband, Adam, ...

Today I’m taking the world’s best train, the Venice Simplon Orient Express for 32 hours from Prague all the way to London.

The legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express stopped at the Bulgarian border near Svilengrad on its way back from Istanbul to Venice. (Photo by Hristo Rusev) The iconic European luxury train that ...

If there’s one drawback to having an authentic 1920s train experience, it’s the way Golden Age passengers bathed on their journeys. They didn’t. Hence, there are no showers or baths aboard the Venice ...

Belmond is giving one of its iconic trains a luxurious upgrade in 2023. The luxury hospitality company is adding eight suites to the Venice Simplon-Orient Express next June. Two original 1920s and ...

MILAN — Fall asleep in Paris and wake up on Italy’s azure coast. The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, a Belmond Train, Europe, will connect the French capital with Italy’s Amalfi Coast for the first ...

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, A Belmond Train, Europe, has unveiled its December journeys. This festive season, the distinct midnight-blue carriages will glide through Europe’s winter-scapes on ...

A playground for the slow travel elite, starting at $80,000 a night, the “L’Observatoire” suite aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is train travel, but not as you know it.