A focus on: The Blue Train
15/12/2017 · By Sukie Chapman
As luxury train rides go, it would be misguided to not consider South Africa's The Blue Train amongst the very best.
Read more2023 Tour code: AFJ23
About the tour
Fascinating wildlife is just waiting to be discovered on this South African rail adventure aboard the Pride of Africa - one of the world's great luxury trains. Our voyage of discovery takes us through South Africa's most well-known game parks and ends with four nights in the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town.
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We board our overnight flight to Johannesburg, South Africa's biggest city.
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4.4 / 5 · 8 reviews
Mrs M Templeton
Submitted 16 Nov 2022
We travelled with Rovos Rail. The train was superb but the travelling was severely curtailed by the state of the South African Railway system which is non existent but the tour manager Bob Whitworth could not have done more to make our holiday so enjoyable under somewhat trying circumstances at times
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Ian Barnicoat
Submitted 10 Jun 2022
A tour with quite a few surprises and opportunities to see the reality of South Africa regaining its tourism mojo. The introduction tour set the tone of living in South Africa. Johan Vos laid the foundation for the train tour. All the planned off train excursions took place but not always to the original programme. The train itself was very well appointed with nothing to much trouble. The Cape Town city personal experience was enlightening and complemented the pre-planned excursions. The hotel made an excellent base to explore the locale. A value for money experience.
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Mrs R Buckland
Submitted 08 Dec 2019
Great experience especially the train.spoiled only by BA.
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Mr P Edmond
Submitted 01 Dec 2018
Arrangements, organisation, accommodation, food, drink, train and excursions all excellent and up to expectation except see below
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Mr A Mosey
Submitted 15 Jun 2018
Took the Victoria falls extension. Badly researched. Customer services clueless about the extension. Wrong information given about Visas. The complete extension was done by another company but we were not told. The company knew nothing of Great Rail. Not met at the airport for transfer. Ten of us left to our own resources for an hour until helped by locals. 5 star hotel we were put in about a 3 star. Ran out of drink, linen, poor service at breakfast. Cold rooms no heating.
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Mrs L Last
Submitted 15 Jun 2018
We had a great time, Rovos was brilliant
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