Renfe Luxury Tourist Trains has launched a new website where you can browse and purchase all journeys.
Renfe Luxury Tourist Trains has launched a new website you can browse and purchase all journeys in different languages: www.spanishluxurytrain.com. As part of its plan to improve the marketing of these trains, the company aims to increase the number of customers and the range of countries they come from.
“These are hotels on the move that travel through extraordinary landscapes, where travellers can enjoy days in which rest, leisure, culture and exquisite gastronomy are combined both on board and in the most renowned restaurants along the way. A different way of travelling through various areas of the country with maximum comfort on board a luxury train that is a benchmark for rail tourism in Spain”, Renfe says.
The catalogue of these luxury tourist trains that go into service at the beginning of each spring comprises the Tren Al Ándalus, Transcantábrico Gran Lujo and El Costa Verde Express services. In the luxury tourist train segment, seen by travellers as an exclusive product, Renfe is running 81 trains, a 3.8% increase on last season, when 2,718 customers, the great majority of them international, travelled on them. The forecast for this year rises to 3,549 passengers, 30.5% more than last year.
Travel proposals on any of the departures and itineraries of the luxury tourist trains include accommodation on the train. Also included are journeys in luxury buses, accompanying the train throughout the journey to take passengers to the places to be visited off the rail route, multilingual guides to help with recreational activities at the destinations visited, and a gastronomic offer worthy of the most demanding of gourmets, both on board the trains, which serve their own cuisine, and at restaurants in some of the cities visited.
El Transcantábrico Gran Lujo
The Transcantábrico Gran Lujo train travels through the wonderful landscapes of the Cantabrian coast. It was the first tourist train launched in Spain and the first in the world to run on metric gauge tracks, which represented a challenge for the Spanish railway industry and a daring and innovative commitment to recreate the atmosphere of rail travel in the Belle Époque.
The complete offer of this tourist proposal intersperses regular train trips of eight days / seven nights between San Sebastian and Santiago de Compostela, and shorter routes of four days / three nights, which start in Oviedo and end in San Sebastian, or between Santiago de Compostela and Gijón, during the scheduled dates.
Tren Al Ándalus
The Al Ándalus Train is one of the emblematic luxury tourist trains managed by Renfe. The tones used in the train’s livery, such as reddish garnet, are intended as a reference to emblematic monuments in the cities the train passes through, such as the Alhambra of Granada and the Mosque of Cordoba.
Journeys on the Tren Al Ándalus through Andalusia last seven days/six nights, running between Seville and Málaga, both ways, and through the provinces of Cádiz, Granada, Jaén and Córdoba. Travelling on the Al Andalus train is like being transported back in time, to enjoy a train composed of carriages with a glamorous past, preserving their original charm while being equipped with today’s most advanced features for passenger comfort.
Costa Verde Express
The Costa Verde Express luxury tourist train runs through the green Spain that gives it its name (due to the metric gauge network). A train that takes customers back to the golden age of great rail journeys.
It offers six day/five night schedules between Bilbao and Santiago de Compostela, both ways. Short three-day/two-night routes are also available, running both ways between Bilbao and Oviedo and between León and Bilbao, taking in the most characteristic sites of Palencia Romanesque architecture on the way.
El Expreso de La Robla
Finally, within the offer of tourist trains we have El Expresso de la Robla, whose origin is related to that of the line itself, of metric gauge, which dates back to the end of the nineteenth century, when it was built to transport the production of coal from the mining basins of León and Palencia to Vizcaya, where it was used for the consumption of the steel industry.
Currently, the trips of the Expreso de la Robla along the old route of the coal train, between León and Bilbao, last three days (two nights). Travellers are offered tours of the most spectacular landscapes of Castile-Leon and Vizcaya, in the greatest of comfort provided by a classic train, combined with the safety of the modern technology used in the vehicle.
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