Pricing
Departures: Throughout the year. The reverse journey is also available.
Price:
Per person sharing cabin from $3,560
Special Offers: Please call R. Crusoe & Son for our current special pricing.
For more information, to book, or to speak to an R. Crusoe & Son tour specialist, please call us at 800-585-8555.
Local Flavor
Some people know instinctively how to live the colorful life. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, who founded Singapore in 1819, was one of them. Fascinated by the natural history of his adopted home, he surrounded himself with zoologists, botanists, and specimen collectors. Not to mention the bear cub that he raised alongside his children. The bear regularly joined the family for dinner, devouring platefuls of mangoes and downing champagne.
We're certain Sir Raffles would have loved a run aboard the Eastern & Oriental Express train. Too bad he missed the opportunity by two centuries.
You, on the other hand, are in luck.
Southeast Asia in Panorama. Aboard the Eastern & Oriental Express. Bangkok to Singapore. 4 Days.
Taking a page from its classical Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, the Orient-Express company has created an equally remarkable train that winds through Southeast Asia. We don't know of a better way to get from Bangkok to Singapore (or vice versa) than aboard the magnificent Eastern & Oriental Express. Rare is her luxury, her elegance, finesse, and style.
Come see for yourself.
Begin your luxury vacation as you catch the Eastern & Oriental in Bangkok, itself a magical city with endless possibilities. (Consider allowing R. Crusoe & Son to create a Thailand tour just for you before you board the train.)
On the E&O, your personal steward shows you to your reserved compartment, home for the next few days. Settle in, poke around the train, meet your fellow travelers. Beyond your picture window, the scenery changes from urban to rural—rice fields, grazing water buffalo, velvety green slopes.
The following day, tour the River Kwai, its famed bridge and all. An historian recounts the days of the second world war and how it played out in this part of the world. (We suggest you rent David Lean's film, "Bridge on the River Kwai," before leaving for Thailand.) Visit a temple, the Thai-Burma railway center, the war cemetery.
Back on the train, head for the open-sided observation car for another perspective. Dinner is served in one of two restaurant cars, followed by time, if you choose, mingling in the bar car.
Then into Malaysia, where there's time in colonial Georgetown on the island of Penang. Our guide shows you the mosques, temples, churches, and bazaars that lend the town its unique character.
Finally, we pull into Singapore, the tiny island republic. Here, ancient Chinese, Malay, and Indian traditions meet modern Western standards. Allow R. Crusoe & Son to create a Singapore experience just for you.
Since last year, the E&O has also followed other unusual routes through Southeast Asia. Call us for details about the seven-day Epic Thailand. Bangkok to Bangkok; the seven-day Fables of the Hills. Singapore to Bangkok; and the seven-day Legends of the Peninsula. Bangkok to Singapore journeys.
Please note: On these journeys, R. Crusoe & Son partners with Orient-Express, and Crusoe travelers share E&O train with other, non-Crusoe travelers.
To request a detailed itinerary for this journey (and others), click here.