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Train Type: Luxury
The Tour
The Royal Canadian Pacific luxury train explores western Canada’s Rocky Mountains against the ever-changing backdrop of snow-capped peaks. This luxury rail service features impeccable on-board food and service as well as carefully crafted tours to special places such as the dazzling Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.
New! Royal Canadian Pacific will take a different route Sept. 1-7, 2010, this time from Calgary-Vancouver for a special tour. Note there are only four double-bedded cabins and one twin-bedded cabin left. For details, click here.
“...The RCP is a literally unique train, offering to the public the chance to travel like nabobs, in spaces once occupied by such luminaries as Winston Churchill, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...On the last night of the trip, when our band of travelers from the Society of IRT assembled for a farewell dinner...we all recounted our favorite aspects of the RCP. The lists were surprisingly various, testimony to what an expansive smorgasbord of experiences we’d enjoyed. Really, I guess, we just liked it all…‘The best trip yet,’ said one of our group, and that about summed it up.” — Karl Zimmermann, The International Railway Traveler®
The Itinerary
Day 1: Calgary
Private transfer from Calgary airport to five-star Fairmont Palliser Hotel. Check in to your Gold Level room and overnight.
Day 2: Depart Calgary
Board the luxurious Royal Canadian Pacific this afternoon. Cocktail reception and dinner on board as you head to the mountains.
Day 3: Waterton-Glacier
Visit Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park to enjoy park’s rare wildflowers, unusual geology and dazzling beauty. Then roundtrip cruise on Waterton Lakes from Waterton, Canada to Goat Haunt, Montana. Return to train for trip to Crowsnest Pass. Dinner, overnight on board.
Day 4: Cranbrook; Golden
Cross continental divide to Fort Steele, B.C. Visit Canadian Museum of Rail Travel at Cranbrook. Continue north through Columbia Valley. Arrive Golden for sunset dinner at 7,700 feet in Kicking Horse Resort’s Eagle Eye Restaurant, overlooking Rockies. Overnight on board.
Day 5: Lake Louise area
Enjoy views from open-air vestibule as RCP climbs through Kicking Horse Pass, whose 1909-vintage “Spiral Tunnels” are one of world’s most ingenious railway engineering feats. Arrive Lake Louise, disembark for sightseeing. Dinner, overnight on the train.
Day 6: Banff
Full train day through Bow Valley to Banff, with views of towering mountains: Victoria, Temple, Castle, Rundle. Free time at Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel, “Castle of the Rockies.” Dinner on board. Overnight Calgary five-star hotel.
Day 7: Calgary
Transfer to train station or airport.
2010 Dates:
July 21-27
August 5-11
The Prices
| 2010 |
| Accommodations |
Price
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Deposit
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| Double |
$8,000
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50%
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| Single |
$8,000
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50%
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| Prices are per person in Canadian dollars. Does not include 5% Canadian GST. |
Other:
For approximate exchange rates, visit http://www.xe.com
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The Royal Canadian Pacific passes through stunning scenery in western Canada.
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Chefs prepare gourmet meals aboard the Royal Canadian Pacific.
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Fresh flowers adorn the tables on the Royal Canadian Pacific. (Photo by Karl Zimmermann)
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Cocktail hour in the Royal Canadian Pacific
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