Jeri Clausing
As travelers make their way back out into the world, luxury hotels are increasingly blurring the lines between lodging companies and tour operators with new packages that bundle their five-star accommodations with exclusive off-property experiences.
It’s a trend that has been growing for years with the rise of so-called experiential travel. And that appears to be accelerating as luxury properties seek to tap travelers desire to make up for a year lost to the pandemic.
This week, Marriott International’s portfolio of luxury brands announced it was expanding its partnership with the luxury concierge company Quintessentially beyond Europe and the U.S. to include adventures in Africa and the Middle East.
Thursday 13 May 2021
Have you found yourself frantically researching UK staycations for a special occasion or long-awaited escape? Or perhaps you’ve postponed your big overseas summer trip for a little while longer and now you’re looking for something truly once-in-a-lifetime and unforgettable to do in the UK instead, to fill that holiday void. Alternatively, maybe you’ve just realised that you and your crew deserve something extra-special after a year of repeated lockdowns and mounting, unpredictable challenges. A mix of country and city, grandeur and eccentricity, history and cutting-edge – a stay at The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, in London’s Chelsea, with an outing on a classic, vintage train, the British Pullman, A Belmond Train, would satisfy all these criteria. Here’s how.
LuxuryTrainTickets.com announce new luxury train journeys onboard the Northern Belle, British Pullman and Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
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LuxuryTrainTickets.com announces a range of new luxury train journeys across the UK and Europe includes dining journeys, day trips and return travel sleeper journeys. LONDON (PRWEB) April 30, 2021 LuxuryTrainTickets.com has announced a number of new luxury train journeys across the UK-based Northern Belle and British Pullman as well as the famous Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, with dates available this year all the way until the end of next.
Offering an even greater choice of luxury train journeys amongst their already extensive list of trips, LuxuryTrainTickets.com are adding 27 new Northern Belle journeys, eight new British Pullman journeys and four new Venice Simplon-Orient-Express journeys.
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9 April 2021 • 4:00pm
Luxury train specialist Belmond is staging a series of summer outings from London Victoria southern England’s loveliest seaside resorts on board the British Pullman
Now where were we before life took such an unexpected turn? Ah yes, trains. In those innocent pre-Covid days, trains were all the rage. Greta Thunberg had made us all more aware of our carbon footprint, and increasingly it was being said that travel was about more than simply getting from A to B as quickly as possible: that there was a lot to be said for enjoying the journey itself. Trains were clearly moving into a new age prior to the pandemic, but the events of the past 12 months and more have accelerated that process. A new age for rail travel indeed dawns.