2026 Brochure - Fly & Rail

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G REAT C ANADIAN R AIL A DVENTURE We invite you to join us on our exciting tour of Western Canada and Vancouver Island including the spectacular Canadian Rockies. This tour will present to you a taste of riding classic passenger cars between Vancouver, Kamloops, and Jasper, plus Jasper to Prince Rupert. Additionally, we will cruise through the spectacular inside passageway from the mainland to Vancouver Island and we will travel over the famous Icefield Parkway plus much, much more!

DAY 0 Flights from UK to Seattle for pre-tour night in Seattle and stay at the Embassy Suites by Hilton at King’s Street Amtrak station. Alternatively fly into Vancouver tomorrow. DAY 1 Ride Amtrak’s Cascade train number 516 to Vancouver in business class and, on arrival, we visit the Vancouver downtown area where you can get lunch or explore. We then visit the old Canadian Pacific Railroad Station. Here, you will have two options to choose from; ride the West Coast Express train out to Mission City and return on our bus to North Vancouver for hotel check-in OR go directly to the hotel in North Vancouver and check-in. You can enjoy many shops, restaurants and open market with dinner at leisure from the many restaurants to choose from. (B) DAY 2 Departing the hotel, we will go north of Vancouver to the town of Squamish to visit the Railway

DAY 4 Today, we board our charter motorcoach for the journey over the 1937 built Lions Gate Bridge spanning over the Vancouver Harbour. Our motorcoach will take us on a circle tour of Stanley Park continuing through downtown Vancouver along Beach Avenue with a stop at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center to view Canada’s acclaimed Canadian Pacific Railway 4-4-0 locomotive No. 374 inside the Roundhouse. After an early lunch, we take a walking tour of the ex-Volcano and it’s Queen Elizabeth “Quarry Garden” within the Volcano interior with a stop at the Bloedel ‘Domed’ Conservatory. Afterwards, a very special transcontinental passenger train is waiting for us called “The Canadian” operated by Via Rail Canada. Join your tour guide in the Dome car for “Appies and a Mimosa Cocktail” as we roll Eastbound towards the Fraser and Thompson River Canyons. With June being the longest days of sunlight we will enjoy the scenic views of both canyons since sunset is roughly 9:00pm and darkness at 9:30pm. (L,D)

Museum of British Columbia, home to the famous Royal Hudson steam locomotive and housing the largest collection of railway rolling stock and engines in Western Canada. After our museum visit, we will head back south towards North Vancouver first making a stop to view Shannon Falls then near-by is the Britannia Mine Museum where we enjoy a tour. Returning to North Vancouver, we enjoy a luxurious dinner cruise this evening through Vancouver’s scenic harbour. (L,D) DAY 3 This morning, we board the SeaBus across Vancouver Bay to Vancouver connecting to the Sky Train where we ride on the Expo Line through downtown Vancouver to Surrey. Here, we transfer by highway to the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway for a visit where we enjoy a guided shop tour and a ride down the track. Next, we go by highway to the near-by Burnaby Central Railway, a unique miniature railway, for a ride through the woods, with bridges, tunnels, crossovers, and spirals. Afterwards, we return to our hotel for an evening at leisure. (L)

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