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5 Orient Express-Inspired Luxury Train Journeys — Your One-Way Ticket to Design Escapism in 2025

Whether whizzing through the Andes on toward the former Inca Empire or unveiling the hidden gems of the Silk Road's trade routes, no second is wasted aboard these luxury train rides

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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: meet the travel winners transcending destinations

Discover the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 travel winners: the year’s places to stay, dine, drink and join

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Inside the Britannic Explorer: This new luxury sleeper train is coming to England and Wales

Explore the British countryside next summer in style on this luxury sleeper train – starting from £11,000

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Belmond’s Venice Simplon-Orient-Express wins Wallpaper* Design Award 2025

L’Observatoire, a new carriage-sized suite by JR, wins our Best Slow Journey award for inspiring curiosity and adventure in passengers

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Villa Sant'Andrea, Sicily: an elegant and intimate slice of White Lotus-style luxury

Looking for A-list luxury without the drama? This glorious hotel in the bay of Mazzaro offers stunning views, glorious fine dining and still has a relaxed vibe, says Nick Clark

Evening Standard

Romazzino, A Belmond Hotel: Sardinia's chic new hotspot for living the dolce far niente

This stylishly renovated Belmond hotel is leading the renaissance of Costa Smeralda, where Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly used to holiday. It’s going to be the place to be in 2025, says Mary Lussiana

Evening Standard

Find stillness at the new Dior Spa on board Belmond’s Eastern & Oriental Express

The Eastern & Oriental Express, A Belmond Train, welcomes a Dior Spa, combining the brand’s Prestige skincare line with traditional Asian techniques

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LVMH, Accor Team Up To Develop Orient Express Brand

French hotel group Accor and luxury goods giant LVMH said Thursday they had entered into a "strategic partnership" to develop the fabled Orient Express brand.

International Business Times

Belmond Andean Explorer train review: What it's like to live the Peruvian high life

Elevate your travels on Belmond’s spectacularly scenic Peruvian Andean Explorer, says Ellie Davis

Evening Standard

The chilled way to do the Yucatan Peninsula (without an influencer in sight)

The ‘Tuluminati’ have ruined beautiful Tulum with their ring lights and Burning Man ‘fits, so head to the tranquil Riviera Maya instead, says Luciana Bellini

Evening Standard

Photo London's star for 2024: Meet Coco Capitan

Photographer, illustrator (and occasional poet), Coco Capitan turns her lens towards the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

Evening Standard

Get your head around contemporary art at a Belmond hotel in Tuscany

Belmond’s Mitico project with Galleria Continua brings contemporary art to historic settings in Tuscany and beyond

Wallpaper

MP adds to tributes to newlyweds killed by suspected ‘terrorists’ in Uganda

Newbury MP Laura Farris described David Barlow and his South African-born wife Celia Geyer as a ‘much-loved couple’.

The Independent UK

Orient Express set to scrap plans for UK line because of Brexit delays

The Orient Express has dropped the London-to-Folkestone leg of the route because it has become too difficult to cross the Channel after the UK's departure from the European Union

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Evening Standard

Orient Express to scrap UK section after 41 years due to Brexit

The UK leg of the Orient Express has been scrapped due to Brexit border controls, according to a report.

Wales Online

Orient Express scraps UK service because of Brexit

Delays crossing the Channel mean it is now no longer viable to run the service

The Guardian - UK

Orient Express to axe UK section after 41 years due to Brexit

Luxury train operator cuts service ahead of biometric passport checks so passengers will have to join train in Paris

Evening Standard

Belmond’s Royal Scotsman is launching an onboard Dior spa

It’s the UK’s first train spa carriage

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Bangkok Post

Laidback relaxation in Luang Prabang

Remember what the slow pace of life was like? I don’t. But this is exactly why places like Luang Prabang in Laos exist. It is to remind us that once in a while we have to take time to enjoy life at a pace slower than what we are used…

Evening Standard

The Cadogan: A luxurious London bolthole with charm and history

Oscar Wilde’s favourite hotel scores highly on location, moreish cocktails and impeccable service, says Lizzie Edmonds

The Independent UK

Iconic Orient Express train to Istanbul will return in 2024

New version of the legendary cross-continental train is being launched by Accor hotel group

The Independent UK

‘Orient Express’ experience ends with a bus from Calais to Lille and Eurostar to London

Train Talk: One plus point of the new arrangement is that passengers arrive at the most majestic terminus in Britain, London St Pancras

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