Vancouver

[AndrewPo, 03/19/2009] The Rocky Mountaineer runs from Vancouver and Jasper through the Rockies and was a train billed as being one of the best in the world, compared to The Orient Express both in terms of style, luxury and food. I have not been on The Orient Express, but I doubt this to be entirely true. There are two classes of travel: Red-Leaf and Gold-Leaf. We were advised, by the travel agent to take the lower class on the basis that the view is the same and the food still very good, and it is far less expensive. This proved to be false economy and requested an upgrade to Gold Leaf for the second day, where th [more]