Luxury Train Rail Service by GrandLuxe - Amtrak
Amtrak announced in June of 2007 that they were going to start offering luxury rail service on some of their train routes. This service is a partnership with luxury rail GrandLuxe Rail Journeys. Here’s a quick glimpse at luxury train traveling.
Amtrak’s new luxury train service is called GrandLuxe Limited. This luxury train service is offered on a completely separate, seven car luxurty train attached to normal Amtrak trains on regular Amtrak train routes. So between November and January, there will be about 90 luxury GrandLuxe Limited routes offered by Amtrak.
Luxury Train features
The GrandLuxe experience offers travelers private cabins, exquisite meals in dining cabins, comfortable lounge cabins, and a romantic and beautiful view of the landscape as you travel across the nation. These modern luxury trains are attempting to offer the vintage and romantic feeling of upscale rail travel that our nation use to love.
Prices and Itineraries
GrandLuxe Limited routes have itineraries that are two to three days long, and cost between $790 and $2,500. If you want longer rail trips, GrandLuxe Rail Journeys offer passengers trips up to ten days long in an even more luxurious 21 car train.
The destinations offered include a Washington DC - Chicago route, Chicago - Albuquerque route, and a Denver - San Francisco. In addition to these shorter routes, there are many journeys that are more sight seeing vacations. Here is a map of these rail journeys, which zig zag across the parks of the Western US.
So if you’re interested in experiencing luxury travel in a way that is vintage and historical, Luxury rail travel may be of interest to you.
Luxury Amtrak Official Announcement - GrandLuxe Rail Official site
Posted on July 14, 2007
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If you are looking for luxury train travel the Grandluxe is NOT the trip that I can recommend. We took one of the trips on this train and it was awful. It was dirty and very hot. Anyone with asthma or any breathing problems would certainly have serious problems. I did not think that the trip was worth the very expensive cost because it did not deliver what it promised.
Hm..interesting comment. What route did you happen to go on? I have a hard time believing that all of the grandluxe train tours are as you described. Could it be possible that your trip was just a fluke? I may look for other reviews to see if other customers have similar views as you.
If you check out trip advisor you will see several that had similar problems on other trips. After the trip we contacted Grandluxe and they did not give us the courtesy of a reply nor did they reply to the Denver Area Business Bureau.
I am sorry; I should have mentioned we were on the National Parks of the West tour for a cost of more than $12,000.