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Are you looking forward to enjoying an adventurous travel alternative in India? Does embarking on a luxury train journey excite your very senses? If your answer to the above is yes, we suggest you opt for a Maharajas Express sojourn. There might have cropped up a thousand questions in your mind regarding the Maharajas Express sojourn. Do not you worry. For, we have for you all details revolving around this enchanting tour. Just read on
The Train
Maharajas Express is the brain child of Royale Indian Rail Tours Ltd, a joint venture of the Cox and Kings India Ltd and IRCTC. This is the most luxurious train in India equipped with 23 splendidly elegant cabins comprising of restaurants, bars, passenger carriages, boutiques, and even lounges that offer a relaxing ambience for the guests. The train started its operations from January 2010 and has so far already managed to cater to a wide clientele of guests from all over the world.
The best aspect of the Maharajas Express train is its dcor that seamlessly blend the antiquity and the modern. While the interior designs speak volumes of Indian regality and culture, the services that are set within the train reflect contemporary travel in a big way. Direct dial phones, individual climate control, en suite designer baths and LCD television; Maharajas Express is about these and much more.
The Tour
The train invites one to indulge in comfort, elegance and luxury like never before. Not just the amenities, even the tours of this train are amazing and plentiful. Yes, 4 royal itineraries wait to treat you onboard the Maharajas Express. Royal India, Princely India, Classical India and Celestial India these are the four itineraries of the train that promise a pan Indian trail across choicest destinations of the country. 3 out of the 4 itineraries start from Delhi, the national capital and the fourth one starts from Mumbai. Nonetheless, all the itineraries travel across Rajasthan (Bikaner, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Udaipur and Ranthambore etc), Uttar Pradesh (Agra and Lucknow), Gujarat (Vadodara) and Madhya Pradesh (Khajuraho, Bandhavgarh, and Gwalior). A complete north Indian exploration is what one can expect of any of the regal tours aboard the Maharajas Express. Other than the standard itineraries, one also has the opportunity to charter this luxury train for a real Maharaja-like experience. Be it for your business clients or your family and friends, Maharajas Express wait to treat you to an out of the world experience.
The Tariff
The most attractive part of this luxury train is its tariff. Every penny spent to avail of a Maharajas Express tour is simply worth it. More information on the tariff is available at maharajas-express.com.
The Experience
It would be an understatement to term a Maharajas Express tour as mind blowing! Yes, with personal attention by the staff of the train to classic amenities on board and from historical destinations to special guest speakers aboard, the Maharaja Express experience is to be lived through to be believed. In the end of the week-long journey aboard the tours, you indeed feel that good things surely come in small packets!