Travel & Culture
Heritage rail travel across Europe, 3 to 6 days, hosted end to end.
All Travel & Culture Experiences
Luxe
16–19 Dec 2026
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express in Vienna
2 nights in Vienna, then the Orient-Express to Paris
1920s Art Deco trainCabin suitesOn-board dining
Luxe
17–24 Apr 2027
Wild Malaysia: Eastern & Oriental Express
The Jungle Railway to Taman Negara, then George Town, from Singapore
Sleeper trainTaman NegaraGeorge Town, Penang
18 May 2027
Chelsea Flower Show
Spring Garden hospitality, 18 to 22 May 2027
Four-course diningChampagne barShow admission
The Imperial promise
Why book with Imperial
Completely hands-off from start to finish
Tell us what you're after and we'll plan the rest. All you have to do is show up.
Everything you need at your fingertips
Keep your itinerary, entry details and our team's contact numbers in one place
Late checkout
Tasting menu
Restaurant reservation
Birthday surprise
Flight upgrades
Trip extension
Champagne on arrival
Spa treatment
Private chef
Anniversary cake
Helicopter transfer
Private tour
Add personal touches to your trip
Make a request and our team will do everything they can to make it happen
On-site team
Our hosts are with you from arrival to checkout. There is always someone on the ground.
ATOL protected
Bookings that include flights are financially protected under our ATOL licence.
Ready to experience the world's greatest travel & culture?
The seats, the dining, the transfers and a named host, arranged in one call.
From the editorial
Field guides, dress codes, and insider notes from our hosts on the ground.
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Multi-day travel hospitality is the longest format we run. Three to six days, multiple cities, hotels, transfers, dining, sometimes a private gallery walk-through after closing. The work is the choreography that makes a complicated itinerary feel like a held door.
Why choose multi-day travel hospitality?
A self-built multi-day trip is a stack of brochures and the wrong room on the wrong night. Hospitality gives you hotels chosen for proximity not just brand, dining booked at the rooms worth the booking, transfers between cities timed to the rail schedule, and private access at galleries and cellars where it’s possible.
Every travel booking carries a hosted itinerary end to end, hotel and dining matched to the brief, transfers between every point, and a named host through the trip.
The difference we make
Curating European travel since 2002. We know the head guard on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, the cellar masters in Bordeaux, and how the Italian rail timetable actually behaves when the booking moves to a late train. Every itinerary is built once, briefed once, and run by a named host who knows the trip from the platform at Victoria to the door of the suite in Vienna.
Every booking carries a named host through the trip, transfers between every leg, and a pre-departure briefing on the bookings, the dress codes, and the local etiquette where it matters.