The Orient Express, Europe

Overview

The Orient Express voyages are artful reconnections across Europe’s golden era of romance. Routes might thread from Istanbul to Paris through Danube plains or Vienna’s gilded facades, each curve scripted for scenery and soft-lit ceremony. Cabins glimmer in Art Deco lacquer, crimson velour, polished brass – and even a fold-out writing desk to pen postcards in the continental tradition.

Lunch is Imperial Russian-style soup aboard borderland plains; dinner is Parisian duck à l’orange or foie gras as European landscapes shift outside candle-lit windows. At certain stations, guests unload for winemaker conversations in Burgundy estates or palace visits guided by local historians behind curtained carriage doors.

Each night the train floats into new landscapes beneath silent orange lantern glow – ferries in Venice, old districts of Istanbul, towering cathedrals framed in moonlight. Traveling on the Orient Express is a conscious act of romance: where every station is a vignette, every corridor recalls old intrigues, and every reflection in lacquered panels carries a moment suspended in time.