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The Best Rail Holidays in Europe
Save 5% on all of the rail journey adventures offered by our partners, including our pick of the best trips !
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Experiencing the best of Europe on an organized rail holiday can be a fabulous and easy travel adventure:
- You don't need to look at a boring and confusing timetable to plan a route.
- Or seek out the optimum ticket
- Also no need to figure out if you need seat reservations, or how to get them.
- You don't need to work out where to stay, or track down a good room rate- all of the holidays include accommodation!
- No need to add up the budget, you can see the full cost.
- Plus you can access support in circumstances, such as a booked journey being disrupted.
- You can choose to travel solo, with friends or family -or join a group tour.
Hence ShowMeTheJourney has teamed up with multiple rail holiday specialists with excellent online reputations, who all offer a great alternative to crawling through (ahem) all of the info we have produced.
Collectively these partners offer 100s of rail based holidays, all of which can be accessed from this page.
Though to make things easier, ShowMeTheJourney has cherry-picked the 66 holidays which we would most like take, and presented them below - in the anticipation that you will agree that they have a wow factor!
Unless where stated the use of → indicates a journey by train.
Click on each description to see the minimum cost, details of what's included and the accommodation options.
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Save money with ShowMeTheJourney promotions
ShowMeTheJourney users can save money on all of the rail holiday packages put together by both the Switzerland Travel Centre and by flight-free travel specialist, Byway.
Save on Switzerland Travel Centre holidays
This is done by entering promo codes in the respective boxes which will be encountered along the respective booking paths - see above on how to enter the code of AFFSMTJSWISS to save 5% when booking the Switzerland Travel Centre Holidays.
Save on Byway holidays
See above on how to enter the code of JOURNEY50 to save £50 on first time bookings, when booking the selected, 'marked' holidays below, which are provided by Byway.
Terms and conditions:
- Valid for first time customers
- Discount code expires on 31/03/2025
Save on Euroventure holidays
Euroventure has emailed ShowMeTheJourney with this message;
A 5% discount will be given to ShowMeTheJourney's users if they quote ´SHOWMETHEJOURNEY´ in the comments box on any enquiry with us, either a custom quote request - or booking a set trip, including all of the Euroventure holidays that have been featured below.
Access the full range of Rail Holidays
Circular Tours from London
Experience multiple countries flight-free on amazing looping routes which leave from, and arrive in, London.
Scenic Journey Holidays
These holidays are based around a sequence of beautiful journeys of a lifetime by train.
Swiss Holidays arranged by the Switzerland Travel Centre
Simplify the glorious journeys by train and cable car to Swiss peaks, by booking holidays or mountain excursion packages.
To and from Switzerland
Yet more trips of a lifetime in the country with more scenic railways than any other! However, these holidays also include travel to and from Switzerland by train.
Guided Tours
For either all or most of these group tours, a guide will show the way and help make the most of these trips.
Around the UK and Ireland
Make the most of the the stunning locations in the UK and Ireland and the often beautiful railway routes which link them.
Across Europe By Train
These wonderful trips are end-to-end holidays which pass through multiple countries.
Italy By Train
Incredible cities, coastal locations, the railways by the sea and contenders for Europe's best high speed trains - what's not to like!
Scandinavia By Train
The easy options for taking a sequence of beautiful rail journeys across the epic landscapes of northern Europe!
Spain (and Portugal) by train
Europe's fastest trains across epic landscapes, which link chains of incredible cities - all made as easy as possinble
Eastern Europe by rail
Book Winter holidays focused on rail travel
ShowMeTheJourney is delighted to partner with flight-free travel specialists, Byway, to offer packages which include a choice of accommodation + all the required journeys by train!
Simon Harper
I wanted to share my passion for train travel and explain how anyone can take the fantastic journeys I have taken.
This is one of more than 100 train travel guides available on ShowMeTheJourney, which will make it easier to take the train journeys you want or need to make. As always, all images were captured on trips taken by ShowMeTheJourney.
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