Riding one of the world’s most luxurious and iconic train routes just got twice as easy. Starting next year, the famed Venice Simplon–Orient-Express will begin running its most celebrated route, ...

“So this is the great Orient Express,” says a character in Graham Greene’s 1969 novel Travels with My Aunt. “Maybe it’s real luxury travel…for people not in a hurry.” That novelised version of the ...

The last true Orient Express travelled from Paris to Istanbul in 1977, ending almost a century of taking travellers on their journeys. It is, however, ready to be launched again. It conjures up the ...

Golden Eagle Luxury Trains will soon welcome guests on their inaugural Paris to Istanbul voyage with four departure dates for 2025, in either direction. This magnificent eight-day odyssey traversing ...

The world-famous Orient Express luxury train is set to make a return to Istanbul, its original destination when the first trains left from Paris in 1883. The new service will launch in 2024, ...

A hostess poses in front of the Orient Express at Sirkeci main railway station in Istanbul September 5, 2012. The Venice Simplon-Orient Express train recreates the original Orient-Express route from ...

Ever since reading Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, I’ve dreamt of riding the iconic train from Paris to Istanbul. Better yet? Staying at the author’s favourite Turkish home from home ...