The Rocky Mountaineer is a Canadian train that has no sleeping quarters onboard. It is a long-range train with only an all-daylight service, meaning that passengers are transferred to partner hotels for overnight accommodations to ensure that they do not miss any scenery. They have an amazing luggage transport service with mind boggling options.
We left our Banff hotel at 7:15AM when the temperature was 42F. The train departed at around 8AM, went west, and arrived in Kamloops at 7:15PM We exited the train with heavy overcoats, and were shocked to find that the temperature was just around 80F. I provide these details because, we have been freezing from a month ago when our Viking cruise from Manhattan to Toronto experienced sub-zero temperatures. We have seen snow during this whole period and just about all day today. Until we got off the train to be stunned by the warmth. We leave around 7AM tomorrow morning when the temperature will be just under 50F, which will later in the day rise to 80 F.
As too early as the Rocky Mountaineer is to depars, I probably had the best train ride ever in my life, Why?
- They served a welcome Mimosa not long after the train left Banff in the morning.
- Followed by breakfast.
- Then lunch with whatever alcoholic drink you wished.
- Then, all afternoon we had an assortment of scotch, wine, beer, you name it, they had. All for free, except, of course, the price of this train trip was kind of expensive.
- Our seats were on the second level of a domed car. The first floor is where meals are served, and they were excellent.
- We were in the midst of snow all around us from Banff until we just about reached Kamloops.
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