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Iconic Rail and Cruise Holidays

Extend your holiday with one of our most popular tours to enjoy the full Great Rail Journeys experience. Pairing your cruise begins with a journey on the Eurostar to a fascinating and enticing European city followed by a tour where you can either explore Imperial Cities, ride on the iconic Glacier Express and Jungfrau Express, or explore the castles of German Bavaria. Each of these itineraries has been hand-crafted especially with cruise in mind, they are completely unique, and are unavailable to book as a stand-alone tour. Escorted transfers from the station to your ship and back to the station at the end of your cruise, as well as escorted rail travel are included in the price.

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11 days from
£3,395
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  • DestinationGermany, Switzerland
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
  • AccommodationCruise, Hotel
  • TransportRail, Cruise
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Glacier Express
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4.3 stars(21 reviews)
2023MayJunJulAugSep
2024MayJunJulAugSepOct
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  • DestinationGermany, Switzerland
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
  • AccommodationCruise, Hotel
  • TransportRail, Cruise
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Budapest Parliament Building
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4.2 stars(12 reviews)
2023JunJulAugSep
2024JunJulAug
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  • DestinationAustria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
  • AccommodationCruise, Hotel
  • TransportRail, Cruise
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4.5 stars(11 reviews)
2023Sep
2024MaySep
16 days from
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  • DestinationCanada
  • Starts / EndsLondon Heathrow
  • AccommodationCruise, Hotel
  • TransportFlight, Rail, Cruise, Coach
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  • DestinationFrance
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
  • AccommodationCruise
  • TransportRail, Cruise
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Neuschwanstein Castle
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3.8 stars(16 reviews)
2023JunJulAugSep
2024JunJulAug
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  • DestinationAustria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
  • AccommodationCruise, Hotel
  • TransportRail, Cruise
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Jungfrau Express
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3.8 stars(6 reviews)
2023MayJunJulAugSep
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  • DestinationGermany, Switzerland, The Netherlands
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
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  • TransportRail, Cruise
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Lisbon
4.5 stars(12 reviews)
2023JunSep
2024JunSep
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  • DestinationPortugal, Spain
  • Starts / EndsLondon Gatwick
  • AccommodationCruise, Hotel
  • TransportFlight, Cruise
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Chateau De Chillon
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2023JunJulAug
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  • DestinationFrance
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
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  • TransportRail, Cruise
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The Waterways of Alsace and Lorraine
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4.6 stars(28 reviews)
2023MayJunJulAugSep
7 days from
£2,395 pp £1,995 pp
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  • DestinationFrance
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
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Garonne & the Dordogne Cruise
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2023Sep
2024Sep
10 days from
£2,675 pp
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  • DestinationFrance
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
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10 days from
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  • DestinationGermany, Switzerland, The Netherlands
  • Starts / EndsSt Pancras International
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Our customers love our Iconic Rail and Cruise Holidays tours
Fairytale Bavaria and Danube Cruise
17 Oct 2022
N Packer
5 stars
“Wonderful holiday, lots of train travel mixed with beautiful villages and towns and excellent cuisine on the cruise ship.
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The Rocky Mountaineer and Alaska Cruise
11 Oct 2022
A Shephard
5 stars
“Brilliant well woth the wait.
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Imperial Cities and Danube Cruise
02 Oct 2022
J Davies
5 stars
“It was a wonderful experience. The tour managers were excellent - very knowledgeable and organised. The Amadeus Star is a beautiful and comfortable cruise ship with extremely helpful and friendly crew. The food was excellent - and plenty of it. The train journeys were comfortable and the city tours were most informative. For improvement it would be nice to have some more time to discover the cities on our own and do some shopping. One criticism (which I am aware that GRJ probably can do nothing about) is the cramped Eurostar lounge at Brussels station.
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France's Waterways from Paris to Champagne by Barge
14 Oct 2022
Sue Hill
4 stars
“Stress free journey to Paris and back thanks to Great Rail Journeys. Good atmosphere in canal boat thanks to fellow travellers and crew.
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Jungfrau Express and Rhine Cruise (Basel-Amsterdam)
12 Oct 2022
Mr David Dewdney
4 stars
“We both really enjoyed our first cruise of any type. Our tour guide for the Jungfrau Express part of the trip, Ian Boyle, was the best we have experienced whilst travelling with your company. Organised and adaptable, he provided all the information we required and more; for example, we would have been unlikely to discover the boat tour of Strasbourg which we greatly enjoyed. We enjoyed our hotel in Strasbourg, being pleasingly large and situated near the station. Whilst we found some of the fittings in the hotel in Interlaken a little tired, we enjoyed the experience of eating on the 14th floor with its stunning views. The cruise ship was excellent and we can't speak too highly of the staff. The cabin was excellent and spacious and we enjoyed being able to unpack the suitcase, but being able to visit different places and will go on another river cruise in the future. The only negative was on the last day when we had to get up very early to travel on a coach to Brussels rather than a train from Amsterdam. Whilst we fully understand the problems of obtaining the train tickets, we were first told that this issue was a one-off, but later discovered it had been a problem all summer. Yet, this was not mentioned at all in the information pack received a fortnight before the trip.
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Glacier Express and Rhine Cruise (Basel-Amsterdam)
12 Oct 2022
Ronald Lunt
4 stars
“Great holiday and Switzerland breathtaking. Cruise was relaxing with great food and scenery and lovely staff. On the go on and off trains first few days but scenery worth it and glacier express wonderful.
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Lisbon and Douro Cruise
29 Sep 2022
David Luckett
4 stars
“Excellent, centrally placed hotel in Lisbon. VG, interesting and informative 3 hr tour of Lisbon, including tram ride.. good train excursion to Sintra and Cascais, but would have liked a little more detailed information. Efficient, interesting train transfer from Lisbon to Porto. River Douro cruise: disappointing not to stop at any villages along the route but very relaxing cruising and interesting transiting the numerous locks. .Interesting excursions but often spoilt by guides who talked nonstop with often irrelevant and unnecessary historical dates and facts without giving information about the places we were passing, especially going in to Salamanca. However the city guide there was excellent. The ship, Douro Serenity. was excellent but the cabin 314 was very small, considering this was an upgrade this was very expensive and not worth the expense, the only benefit being an upper deck.. All the staff were excellent and helpful. The food was varied and with good choices. Full of praise to staff who were happy to arrange a table together with friends we had made on the tour. Interesting visit to the Sandman’s for Port tasting in Porto. Tour manager was not as good as those we had on previous Great Rail holidays. Although an enjoyable river cruise and city visit, this was not as good as the River Danube or the Adriatic cruises.
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All-inclusive Waterways of Alsace and Lorraine
15 Sep 2022
Mr richard garrard
4 stars
“Actual cruising was brilliant - excellent food, first class & personal service. Very relaxing pace, interesting towns & countryside plus the amazing inclined plane. Highly recommended. Journey from Paris to Strasbourg & return left a lot to be desired. One coach did not turn up, waited for almost an hour in the wrong place for another coach & had reserved tickets on a rail coach that did not run! Took almost 7 hours to get from Paris North to our boat, most of the time hanging around waiting.
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French Riviera and Rhône Cruise
13 Sep 2022
Antoni Janik
4 stars
“The Rhone cruise was excellent, the Amadeus Provence immaculate with great cabins and an amazing friendly and helpful crew. The off ship excursions were well organised and of just about the right duration. I would give 5 stars to this part of the tour The journey to the French Riviera by train and then back to Lyons was spoilt by the commuter train we took from Nice to Marseille which was very crowded, otherwise the trains were comfortable and we had allocated seating. The Aston Scala hotel in Nice was disappointing, room was average, food just adequate and it is the first hotel I have ever stayed in where we were refused a drink with our meal even when we went to the bar to request one! Not sure what was going on at the hotel but the manager needs to get his act together. Despite that we had a great holiday and will definitely travel with GRJ again.
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