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GRANDLUXE EXPRESS TOURS TOTHE ROCKIES, THE NATIONAL PARKS AND MEXICO’S COPPER CANYON Featured Tour: THE ROCKIES, SIERRAS AND NAPA All-inclusive private land cruise train from $4320.00
See below for new 2008 GRANDLUXE EXPRESS tours. The former “American Orient Express” land-cruise train has a new name and wonderful new ownership. Hereafter the train will ply the rails as the aptly named GRANDLUXE EXPRESS. The service is now a subsidiary of Colorado Railcar, the builder of the new full-length dome cars used in the Canadian Rockies and Alaska. Already, extensive renovations have been made to the train’s equipment and on-board amenities have been upgraded. Itineraries have been redesigned to maximize daylight running over the most scenic lines, reducing time spent on buses. The GRANDLUXE EXPRESS is comprised of lovingly restored cars from the great streamliners of the 1940s and 50s. Cars include equipment from legendary trains such as the Union Pacific’s “City of Los Angeles” and “Challenger” and the Chesapeake and Ohio’s “George Washington”. The showcase cars are a full-length vista-dome lounge car from the Great Northern’s “Empire Builder” and the “New York” observation-lounge car with its stunning big-windowed Lookout Lounge. The latter car was built for the 1948 edition of the “world’s greatest train”, the New York Central’s “20th Century Limited”!
Each journey on this wonderful train is a true land-cruise. The price includes all train travel; all meals; non-alcoholic beverages; wine with dinner; escort services; luggage handling; off-train sightseeing and informative lectures on the scenery and history en route. For the value received, the GRANDLUXE EXPRESS is very fairly priced, as your cost is virtually all-inclusive. As on a cruise ship, several types of accommodations are offered. Prices vary by the category chosen on the train. .
We have a beautiful full-color catalog for these GRANDLUXE EXPRESS tours. Call us if you’d like a copy and remember to confirm at least 180 days before departure to save up to $300 per person!
2008 ROCKIES, THE SIERRAS AND NAPA ON THE GRANDLUXE EXPRESS All-inclusive private land cruise train from $4320.00 October 1-7 Eastbound October 8-14 Westbound October 15-21 Eastbound October 22-28 Westbound October 29-November 4 Eastbound November 5-11 Westbound November 12-18 Eastbound November 19-25 Westbound
Rail Travel Center® is again highlighting a wonderful series of departures across the Rockies and high Sierras in 2008. Many of these dates travel at the peak of fall color, which typically comes in the last two weeks of September in the Rockies and in October in the canyons of western Colorado and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This program follows the route of the “California Zephyr”, traveling by daylight over the Rockies on the rails of the former Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, accurately advertised as “The Mainline Thru the Rockies—Not Around”. It continues on the former Central Pacific line, which was the first transcontinental railway. We ride the “Overland Route” by day over Donner Pass atop the high Sierras. A unique highlight is a journey on the normally freight-only Napa Valley Railroad from Suisan Fairfield, California to Napa and St. Helena. Regular passenger service ended on most of this line over 50 years ago! Complete details follow. All aboard! Day 1 – Denver, Colorado (D) Day 2 –
Rail through the Colorado Rockies (B,L,D) Day 3-
Arches and Canyonlands National Parks (B,L,D) Day 4- Salt Lake City, Utah (B,L,D) Day 5- Lake Tahoe, Nevada and the Sierra
Nevada Mountains (B,L,D) Day 6- Napa Valley, California (B,L,D) Day 7- Oakland, California (B) Eastbound tours follow the same itinerary in the reverse direction.
TOUR PRICES include all rail travel in your choice of Pullman sleepers, all sightseeing, meals, wine with dinner, luggage handling, and escort services. Rates vary by the type of sleeper used on the train. *Discounted price if booked at least six months prior to departure. Vintage Pullman: Upper/lower berth in a traditional Pullman bedroom with in-room toilet. Private showers are in the end of each car. $4570.00 per person, double occupancy * $4320.00 per person, double occupancy Single Sleeper: Lower berth in a room with private toilet. Private showers are in the end of each car. $5650.00 single occupancy * $5400.00 single occupancy Single Sleeper Grand Class: Lower berth in room with private en-suite toilet and shower. $5950.00 single occupancy * $5700.00 single occupancy Triple Suite: A Parlor Suite and adjacent Single Sleeper with connecting door $5940.00 per person, triple occupancy * $5690.00 per person triple occupancy Parlor Suite: Twin lower berths with private en-suite toilet and shower. $6080.00 per person, double occupancy * $5830.00 per person, double occupancy Classic Presidential Suite: Large room with twin lower berths, en-suite private toilet and shower. $6410.00 per person, double occupancy * $6160.00 per person, double occupancy Grand Suite: New large rooms with twin lower berths, en-suite private toilet and shower. $6730.00 per person, double occupancy * $6480.00 per person, double occupancy Gold Suite: Newest and most spacious accommodation. Twin lower berths side by side, two sinks, and private toilet with shower. $7030.00 per person, double occupancy * $6780.00 per person, double occupancy
The Elegant "New York" Observation-lounge Car was built for the legendary 20th Century Limited Other tours on the GRANDLUXE EXPRESS from only $2240.00 The GRANDLUXE EXPRESS offers five additional programs focused on the National Parks of the West. We have a beautiful full-color catalog for these GRANDLUXE EXPRESS tours. Call us if you’d like a copy. In May and June, 2008 there are 10-day “National Parks of the West Tours” from Jackson, Wyoming to Albuquerque, New Mexico. This program has been lengthened by one day for 2008 to add a visit to the Utah Parks. The tour visits Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Bryce Canyon (or Zion, at your choice) and Grand Canyon National Parks; and Santa Fe, New Mexico, with hundreds of miles of “rare mileage” rides on normally freight-only lines of the Union Pacific Railroad. Prices begin at $5250 per person, double occupancy, if booked at least 6 months prior to departure. In July, August and September, 2008 there are 9-Day “Great Northwestern National Parks Tours” from Jackson, Wyoming to Seattle, Washington. These visit Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Glacier and Mount Rainier National Parks with hundreds of miles of “rare mileage” rides on normally freight-only lines of the Union Pacific Railroad and Montana Railink. Montana Railink operates the very scenic former Northern Pacific Ry. through the Montana Rockies. Prices begin at $4710 per person, double occupancy if booked at least 6 months prior to departure. The GRANDLUXE EXPRESS also offers an exciting late winter/early spring tour, “The Antebellum South”. These are 7-Day departures traveling from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans (or return) and featuring touring at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, in historic Savannah, Georgia, at the Vicksburg National Military Park or Natchez, Mississippi. These trips are priced from $4320 per person, double occupancy if booked at least 4 months prior to departure and operate on 6 dates beginning with a northbound itinerary March 9-15, 2008 and ending with a southbound trip April 13-19, 2008. There is one departure per month in April, and July, 2008 of a wonderful new 7-day tour program, “Western and Pacific Coast Treasures”, which travels from Santa Fe/Albuquerque to Seattle (or visa versa). This remarkable tour visits Grand Canyon National Park, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, the Napa Valley, Sacramento (with a visit to the California State RR Museum) and Seattle and includes daylight running on the renowned former Southern Pacific “Coast Daylight” route directly along the bluffs above the Pacific, and on the “Cascade” line over the Cascade Range and along the shores of the Columbia River and Puget Sound to Seattle. Prices begin at only $4520 per person, double occupancy if booked at least 6 months prior to departure. There is one departure of a shortened version of this tour, the “Pacific Coast Favorites”, southbound from Seattle to Sacramento and the Napa Valley, ending in San Francisco, September 27-30, 2008. This is the least expensive GLE tour, with prices beginning at only $2240 per person, double occupancy if booked at least 6 months prior to departure. From December, 2008 to February, 2009 the GRANDLUXE EXPRESS explores Mexico’s remarkable “Copper Canyon” on a unique new tour from Chihuahua to Mazatlan. This is the only land-cruise train tour to cover the full-length of the Copper Canyon railway all the way from Chihuahua to Los Mochis and to offer a trip by train to Mazatlan. The tour includes touring in the canyon region at Creel and Divisadero. All travel over the Copper Canyon line is by day. Additional features exclusive to this tour are visits to Los Mochis to cruise Topolobompo Bay, to the colonial town of Alamos and to the lovely seaside village of San Carlos. Extensions can be easily arranged to enjoy the beaches at Mazatlan as well. Southbound departures from Chihuahua to Mazatlan operate December 14 and 28, 2007; and in 2009 on January 11 and 25 and on February 8. Northbound trips from Mazatlan to Chihuahua run December 20, 2008 and in 2009 on January 3, 17 and 31 and on February 14. All trips are 6 nights/7days and all overnights are enjoyed on the train. Copper Canyon prices begin at only $4820 per person if booked at least 6 months prior to departure.
We have a beautiful full-color catalog for these 2008 GRANDLUXE EXPRESS tours. Call us if you’d like a copy and remember to confirm at least 180 days before departure to save up to $250 per person!
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interiors are upgraded with elegant woods and luxurious furnishings. Many
sleepers offer newly-built accommodations with en-suite showers, and the
two diners offer true gourmet cuisine with complimentary fine California
wines included at dinner. There are three lounge cars on each train,
including a piano lounge (with live cocktail piano each evening), a
mid-train dome-lounge car, and the observation-lounge on the rear of the
train, so there is always plenty of space to relax and socialize. The
atmosphere is unstuffy and casual. You never need to dress up on the
GRANDLUXE EXPRESS.
