With excellent networks and breathtaking scenery, a rail holiday is a convenient, smart and relaxing way to explore Europe.
Our Eastern Europe rail tour starts in the UK with Eurostar, taking you direct to some of the greatest, most glamorous capitals in Europe. You'll visit Berlin, Vienna and Prague, with stopovers in Munich and Cologne.
There's a rail holiday for everyone. If you love nature, take our Harz Mountains trip. If you're a culture lover, our Cultural Heart of Germany tours amazing towns like Leipzig and Dresden, steeped in history. You can explore so many beautiful regions and exciting cities with us.
Discover Switzerland with exhilarating rail holiday packages like the Glacier Express, Bernina Express and the Golden Pass Line from Lucerne to Montreux. These are some of the most panoramic and spectacular train journeys in Europe, and they're not to be missed.
This attractive route takes you through the 'Cultural Heart of Germany', combining the three federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, the centrepieces of German history and culture. Your journey starts in Eisenach, from where you will travel to the magnificent cities of Leipzig, Dresden and Weimar. On your return journey you will have the chance to discover the city of Cologne.
This attractive route takes you through the Harz Mountains which rise picturesquely above the North German Plain, covering a 100km long and 300km wide area at the junction of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. Your rail holiday starts in the garden city of Hanover, where you will spend two nights. Travel on to the charming medieval town of Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains, and enjoy a three day stay to explore the wonderful Harz region. The last stop on your journey will be in the Rhine city of Cologne.
This trip brings you the best of three of the most important cities of modern times. Berlin is at the centre of modern Europe, a city radiating history and crucial to most of the major social, economical and political changes of the last one hundred years. Your three night stay enables you to discover the many wonderful things on offer from architectural highlights like the modern glass-domed Reichstag, historical highlights such as the Brandenburg Gate and cultural highlights with a selection of grand opera, musical recitals and cabarets.
From the towering glaciers of the mountains down to the palm-shaded towns of sunny Italy, the highest mountain railway of the Alps, the Bernina Express, connects the Swiss region of Graubünden with Tirano in the Italian Veltlin. This spectacular railway line co-exists in perfect harmony with its majestic mountain setting. The wonders of nature and the cultural achievement of mankind are combined in one of the best ways to experience the Alps. It is little wonder that its unity with the surrounding landscape was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008.
Experience the unique landscape of the Swiss Alps on this spectacular train journey between elegant St. Moritz or Europe's highest town Davos to 'the Matterhorn village' of Zermatt. During seven hours, the Glacier Express offers you unforgettable vistas from gentle valleys and snow-capped mountains, thundering mountain rivers and rugged cliffs to charming villages. The panoramic coaches of the train are winding their way across high mountain passes and breathtaking viaducts, through deep tunnels and narrow gorges, passing over 291 bridges.
This attractive route with breathtaking panoramic views takes
you from Central Switzerland to Lake Geneva. Your journey starts in
the historic Lucerne region on to the beautiful Alpine Scenery of
the Bernese Oberland.
Past green meadows, crystal-clear lakes and typical chalet-style
mountain villages you will reach the famous holiday resort of
Gstaad. From here, you travel over the 'Golden Pass' before the
journey takes you down to the idyllic shores of Lake Geneva with
its beautiful terraced vineyards.