Orient Express Hotel

... to Singapore by rail ! . Go to the train station and buy my ticket to the border of Thailand, this is not the luxury Orient Express in Asia, this is the regular railway. E-mail my friend Nazihah in Singapore and asked her if I could stay with her and ...

... this arrangement could've been awkward but we've managed to figure out a way around the issue. Did I mention that this hotel has free internet as well? Dinner accompanied a little explore of the station and surrounding area, which seems nice enough ...

... of tickets, then no one ever asked us for them.  A surly taxi driver from the middle east drove us to our very seedy hotel.  We dumped our stuff and walked up a couple of blocks to a street with every kind of cuisine known to man available in ...

... to have high heels on and be standing next to a Chinese girl in a miniskirt.  We've had access to a TV in our hotel room for several nights now (woohoo!) and while we don't always understand the language, some things we catch onto.  On the ...

... after joining our group in Bangkok on Boxing day. There are 15 of us including the guide and after 1 night in a bangkok hotel we embarked on our overland journey...1st stop the train station for the overnight sleeper to Phuket.We eagerly boarded the ...

... found some proper english tea! very excited about that one! Lots of amazing cakes. will be returning many times. Returned to hotel to shower. needed after previously mentioned train! then headed to the tailors. Hoi An was once a portugese port and the ...

... ... 2 nights in real comfort. The little extras. Service with a smile. The refurbishment by Orient-Express was beautifully done. This Portuguese colonial classic hotel is oozing with the atmosphere of lazy days lounging on a veranda or beneath ...

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... a shopping mecca - from the Quechua-speaking Indian peddlers on the streets to the jewelry and llama-fur stores at the Orient Express Hotel Monasterio shops. Unlike Lima, there was nary a chain store/restaurant to be found (and we can only hope that this ...

... by the hotel which was less than a ten-minute drive away.  I stayed at La Residence Phou Vao which is an Orient-Express hotel.  Service was impeccable.  It is a very romantic hotel.  My room had a four poster bed draped in mosquito ...

... us to the Lima airport a week ago. He and driver Walter shuffled us off through the city to the Miraflores Park Hotel. This Orient Express hotel is the city's most exclusive, perched high above the Pacific Ocean with a lush green park in front. Ulysses ...

... in the guesthouse but fall sleep trying. In the morning we decided to have another nice soup for breakfast before visiting the Orient Express hotel here. Our idea was to rent bicycles to visit the Kuang Si Water falls or since this place is about 35 ...

... dinner in Leura - a much more gracious and affluent town than Katoomba - tho we did check out the Lilianfels Hotel in Katoomba - an Orient Express Hotel that B&R has used in the past.  The guest house fireplace was a welcome retreat after ...

... will have to return for a longer stay in the city and South Africa. Our hotel was the swank Westcliff, an Orient-Express hotel that is also the company that organized the safari. They have 3 permanent camp destinations in the Okavango Delta, in Chobe ...

... internal organs suggested otherwise. Quick 40 minute flight to Yangon and a filthy cab ride to the Governor's Residence, an Orient Express hotel, that felt like (and was luxury). A 1920's colonial mansion were we sat in the garden surrounded by ...

... 20th August. Pre-tour: Hong Kong Victoria Harbour The weather was absolutely scorching when I ventured out into Hong Kong. I got the Airport Express to Kowloon Station and then a short taxi ride to the Evergreen Hotel, all in it came to about HK$120 ...

... of my trip.  On my second day in Istanbul, I transferred to the far nicer (and more expensive) accomodations at the Orient Express.  I had managed to book my trip at the highest season in Istanbul when all the hotels were booked.  After ...

... Kastenwagen. Dank Vater Binggelis Fixierriemen können wir die Schachteln sicher verstauen. Nach gut zwei Stunden erreichen wir das Hotel Orient Express, wo unsere Riesenschachteln nur kurz zu Erstaunen führen und sogleich in einem Büro abgelegt werden. ...

... a mosque and now a museum . Some scenes around the main sites . . . . . . . . . . . . Orient Express station in Istanbul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Taksim Square . . . . . . . . . . . . . Our hotel, the Point Hotel . . . . . . . . . . ...

... on the border of Asia. We were travelling as part of a group with Ramblers Worldwide on their Route of the Orient Express holiday so the train tickets and hotel bookings had been taken care of; all we had to do was turn up with our luggage. 6 am. ...