{"id":15451,"date":"2022-11-22T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/?p=15451"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:23:15","slug":"the-points-guy-professor-leora-lanz-on-why-luxury-trains-are-the-next-stop-for-some-luxury-hotel-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/2022\/11\/22\/the-points-guy-professor-leora-lanz-on-why-luxury-trains-are-the-next-stop-for-some-luxury-hotel-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"[The Points Guy] Professor Leora Lanz on Why Luxury Trains are the Next Stop for some Luxury Hotel Brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You have more than Agatha Christie to thank if you immediately think \u201cOrient Express\u201d when someone brings up the notion of luxury train travel (preferably <a href=\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.com\/news\/murder-mystery-orient-express\/\">sans murder<\/a>).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express still runs today thanks to travel company <a href=\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.com\/reviews\/belmond-mount-nelson-cape-town\/\">Belmond<\/a> (formerly known as Orient Express Hotels). The luxury train operates between a variety of cities, including Paris and Istanbul, and will set passengers back a hefty penny: A five-night voyage between the two cities next August costs over $36,000 for a double occupancy historic cabin, Belmond\u2019s entry-level offering aboard the VSOE.<\/p>\n<p>Want a nicer suite? That\u2019ll run more than $86,000.<\/p>\n<p>Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/thepointsguy.com\/news\/orient-express-inspires-hotels\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have more than Agatha Christie to thank if you immediately think \u201cOrient Express\u201d when someone brings up the notion of luxury train travel (preferably sans murder). The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express still runs today thanks to travel company Belmond (formerly known as Orient Express Hotels). The luxury train operates between a variety of cities, including Paris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[340,67,348,8],"tags":[428,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15452,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15451\/revisions\/15452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hospitality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}