TRAINS & TRAVEL
P.O. BOX 312
PORTOLA, CALIFORNIA 96122
Chris@traintrips.biz Rail Tours Manager. For questions regarding tour itineraries and details.
1-800 359-4870 USA
1-800 752-1836 CANADA
1-800 266-8751 FAX
(530) 836-1944
OFFICE HOURS 10AM TO 3PM MONDAY-THURSDAY
PACIFIC WEST COAST TIME
CLOSED FRIDAY-SUNDAY






***********2012 RAILROAD TOURS***********


COSTA RICA AND PANAMA ADVENTURE
February 7-20, 2012-Tourist/Railfan

CHINA-STEAM IN THE WEST
February 22-March 4, 2012 -Railfan

CUBAN EDUCATIONAL RAIL HISTORIAN TOUR
March 3-17, 2012-Educational Tour For Rail Historians

BEST OF SOUTH CHINA TRAINS
March 14-31, 2012 -Railfan/Tourist

CUBAN EDUCATIONAL RAIL & TRANSPORTATION EXPLORER
March 17-31, 2012-Educational Tour

CHINA-FULL STEAM IN THE NORTHEAST
March 21-30, 2012 -Railfan

CHINA-NARROW GAUGE PARADISE
March 29-April 9, 2012 -Railfan

BEST OF STEAM AROUND CHINA
April 1-17, 2012 -Railfan

AUSTRALIAN STEAM EXPLORER
April 20-May 3, 2012 -Railfan

CHILE-SPECTACULAR TRAINS IN THE NORTH
April 20-May 6, 2012 -Railfan

SOUTHERN AFRICA STEAM ADVENTURE
May 30 -June 11, 2012 -Railfan
Botswana-Zimbabwe-Zambia


THE GRAND CANYON LIMITED
May 14-19,2012 -Tourist/Railfan

GOLDEN EAGLE TRANS-SIBERIAN EXPRESS
6 departures between May & September -Tourist

INDONESIA-DIESELS IN PARADISE
June 23-July 7, 2012 -Railfan

GOLDEN EAGLE TRANS MONGOLIAN EXPRESS
Tourist
June 9-22 2012 Eastbound
June 16-29, 2012 Westbound


PRIVATE RAIL CAR POSITIONING MOVES
Tourist
4 Dates in 2012


THE NAADAM FESTIVAL
Tourist
July 1-13, 2012 Eastbound
July 10-22, 2012 Westbound


BY WAYS OF CALIFORNIA AND OREGON
July 30-August 4, 2012-Tourist
POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2013

BEST OF IRELAND, ENGLAND, WALES, AND SCOTLAND
August 4-28, 2012 -Tourist

NATIONAL PARKS OF THE WEST
August 10-19, 2012 -Tourist
POSTPONED UNTIL 2013

THE SILK ROAD
Tourist
4 departures in 2012


NEW ENGLAND FALL COLORS RAIL SPECTACULAR
October 6-15, 2012-Tourist

NEW ZEALAND MAINLINE STEAM ADVENTURE
October 11-30, 2012-Railfan/Tourist

DINNER AT HEARST CASTLE
October 11-12, 2012-Tourist

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF RHODES
Tourist
October 13-28, 2012


CASPIAN ODYSSEY
Tourist
October 27-November 8, 2012




***********2011 RAILROAD TOURS***********

United States

Snowflake Express

  • February 19-21, 2011

Virginia & Truckee Railfan Day

Northern California Explorer

  • June 3-5, 2011

Dunsmuir Shasta Daylight

  • June 10-12, 2011

Train Festival 2011 Steam Spectacular

  • July 9-17, 2011 EASTBOUND
  • July 26-August 3, 2011 WESTBOUND

Domes To Railroad Days Feather River Express III

  • August 19-21, 2011

Ultimate Western Steam Spectacular

  • September 18-October 7, 2011

Virginia & Truckee Railfan Adventure

  • September 19-20, 2011

Nevada Northern Railfan Adventure

  • September 22-23, 2011

Durango & Silverton Railfan Adventure

  • September 26-27, 2011

Cumbres Railfan Adventure

  • September 30-October 1, 2011

La Veta Pass Railfan Adventure

  • October 3-4, 2011

New England Fall Colors Rail Spectacular

  • October 1-9, 2011

Rockies-Great Southwest Rail And National Park Spectacular

  • September 30-Octcober 19, 2011

Oktoberfest Express

  • October 8-10, 2011

Central America

Panama And Costa Rica Rail Adventure

  • January 12-23, 2011

Asia

Java By Luxury Private Rail Car

  • August 7-20, 2011

Darjeeling Mail

  • September 18-26, 2011 Eastbound
  • September 16-30, 2011 Westbound

Hong Kong-3 Gorges & Tibet

  • October 17-November 2, 2011

Russia

Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express Charters

  • 6 departures between May & September

The Naadam Festival

  • July 1-13, 2011 Eastbound
  • July 10-22, 2011 Westbound

The Silk Road

  • September 18-October 8, 2011

United Kingdom

Wales And England Trains And Treasures

  • July 5-20, 2011

British Statesman

  • August 9-22, 2011

Europe

European Rheingold Express Rail Cruise

  • July 16-27, 2011

Australia and New Zealand

Australian Maximum Steam

  • March 31-April 21, 2011

New Zealand Mainline Steam Adventure

  • November 2-11, 2011

South America

Great Argentine Rail Adventure

  • November 5-19, 2011

Africa

Sandstone Narrow Gauge Steam Festival Gala

  • April 8-17, 2011

African Steam & Rail Spectacular

  • May 18-June 9, 2011

South Africa Trains And Treasures

  • September 20-October 7, 2011

Moroccan Rail Adventure

  • October 8-19, 2011

***********2010 RAILROAD TOURS***********

United States

Heber Valley Winter Photo Freight

  • February 15-16, 2010

Virginia & Truckee Railfan Day

  • March 15, 2010

Springtime in San Antonio

  • May 15 - 22, 2010

Pacific Coast Domes South

  • May 29, 2010

Domes To San Diego

  • May 30, 2010

Pacific Coast Domes North

  • May 31, 2010

Dome Thru The Wasatch & Rockies

  • June 25-27, 2010

Santa Fe And Taos Express

  • AUGUST 8-14, 2010

Moonlight Express Westbound

  • AUGUST 17-18, 2010

Domes To Railroad Days

  • August 20-22, 2010

Moonlight Express Eastbound

  • AUGUST 23-45, 2010

Swiss Rail Adventure

  • September 18-October 2, 2010

Rockies - Great Southwest Rail And National Park Spectacular

  • October 1-17, 2010

New England Fall Colors Rail Spectacular

  • October 1-11, 2010

Oktoberfest Express

  • October 8-11, 2010

Coast to Coast Express Eastbound

  • October 19-24, 2010

Georgetown Loop Railfan Spectacular

  • October 21 OR 22, 2010

Rio Grande Silverton Photo Adventure

  • October 24-26, 2010

Cumbres Railfan Spectacular

  • October 27-30, 2010

Coast to Coast Express Westbound

  • October 29-November 4, 2010

Cuba

Cuban Railfan Adventure

  • April 17-May 1, 2010

Cuban Rail Explorer

  • May 1-15, 2010

Asia

Hong Kong and High Speed Rail

  • September 20-27, 2010

Japanese Railway Explorer

  • October 16-31, 2010

Hong Kong - 3 Gorges - Lhasa

  • October 18-November 3, 2010

Darjeeling Mail

  • September 13-27, 2010
  • September 17-October 1, 2010

Africa

South African Trains and Treasures

  • August 29-September 13, 2010

Zimbabwe Steam - Garratts To Victoria Falls

  • July 24-August 2, 2010

Australia / New Zealand

Australia Maximum Steam

  • April 8-20, 2010

New Zealand Mainline Steam

  • October 8-27, 2010

Central America

Panama & Costa Rica Rail Tour

  • February 19-March 1, 2010

Russia

The Silk Road

  • September 18-October 8, 2010

The Crimean Express

  • April 24-May 7, 2010

Golden Eagle Trans - Siberian Express Charters

  • 8 departures between May & September

The Naadam Festival

  • July 1-13, 2010
  • July 10-22, 2010

***********2009 RAILROAD TOURS***********

United States

Valentine Snowflake Express

  • TOUR 1
  • February 14-16, 2009

Arizona Explorer

  • TOUR 3
  • MARCH 9-10, 2009

Central Coast Wine Express

  • TOUR 5
  • March 28-29, 2009

New Orleans And Cajuns Express

  • TOUR 9
  • April 15-24, 2009

Domes To San Diego

  • TOUR 10
  • April 25, 2009

Seattle, Victoria & Northwest Express

  • TOUR 14
  • May 8-14, 2009

Domes Over Donner Pass

  • TOUR 17
  • MAY 23-25, 2009

Coast To Coast Express Eastbound

  • TOUR 24
  • July 2-9, 2009

Across The Great Northern By Steam

  • July 3-9, 2009

Coast To Coast Express Westbound

  • TOUR 24
  • July 10-18, 2009

Santa Fe And Taos Express

  • TOUR 26
  • August 9-15, 2009

Domes To Railroad Days

  • TOUR 28
  • August 21-23, 2009

Portland-Seattle Glacier Express

  • TOUR 31
  • September 1-11, 2009

Fall Colors Express To Denver

  • TOUR 35
  • September 26 - October 2, 2009

Rio Grande Silverton Mixed Express

  • TOUR 39
  • October 19-20, 2009

Rio Grande Cumbres Mixed Express

  • TOUR 40
  • October 21-24, 2009

FEATHER RIVER EXPRESS

  • SPECIAL TOUR
  • October 30-November 1, 2009

Christmastime Express To Santa Fe

  • TOUR 45
  • December 13-18, 2009


Europe

Swiss Rail Adventure

  • TOUR 34
  • September 19-October 4, 2009


Asia

Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express

  • August 23-September 6, 2009
  • Eastbound

Final China Industrial Steam Adventure

  • September 1-18, 2009

Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express

  • September 4-18, 2009
  • Westbound

China Orient Express

  • November 15-29, 2009

South America

Steam In The Andes

  • TOUR 33
  • September 5-17, 2009





TOUR BOOKING CONDITIONS

TOUR PRICE: All tour prices are corrected to November 1, 2012 and are subject to change without notice, at any time. All prices based on double room occupancy. We reserve the right to change tour prices if necessary.

PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE: Personal items, meals not listed in the itinerary, laundry, phone calls, excess baggage charges, rental cars, side tours, insurance, passport fees including visas, vaccinations, gratuities, medical costs, tips to train or motor coach staff, extra tour costs due to unanticipated changes in the itinerary for reasons beyond our control, including weather, travel conditions, or cancellations, government intervention, sickness, political disputes, and failure of transportation or other causes beyond our control.

TRAVEL AND HEALTH DOCUMENTS: A valid passport is required for our international tours. In some cases a visa is also needed. Consult your health professional for the recommended immunizations and documents. Trains and Travel International , here on referred to as TTI, assumes no other responsibility if a client is refused entry into a country. Cost and cancellation fees will be paid by the client in the event they do not have valid documents.

CHANGE OF ITINERARY: We reserve the right to substitute, alter or modify the tour if any unexpected and unforeseen conditions beyond our control preventing the completion of such. Conditions can include weather, train schedules, equipment, motive power, revision of train consist, train delays, labor strikes, political disputes, derailments, closure of a rail line, break down of railroad or motive power equipment, railroads not honoring contracts and bus equipment problems. We will always endeavor, in each case, to provide substitutes, if any changes take place. TTI is not responsible for canceled trains, delays, hotel rooms, route changes or missed connections, for any reason whatsoever. We will not give refunds if such conditions or cancellations take place.

TRAVEL INSURANCE: TRAVEL INSURANCE: Travel insurance is mandatory and is required, but you can opt out. The Decision to Opt-Out or Decline is Mandatory. Insurance will cover and give tour members many benefits and protection. Benefits include baggage loss, accident, life, trip cancellation, sickness, bankruptcy, strike, weather conditions, employer termination or layoff effecting you or a person sharing the room with you, terrorist incident in your departure city or city of destination, jury duty, you are subpoenaed, hijacked, or quarantined, your residence or traveling companion residence is rendered uninhabitable, emergency military duty, traffic accident, single supplement upgrade when your traveling companion cancels their trip, trip interruption, trip delay, missed connections, itinerary change,emergency medical benefits, medical evacuation, pre-existing medical conditions if enrollment is within 21days of your invoice date, assault of you or your traveling companion before departure, burglary of you or your companion before departure 24 hour hotline emergency assistance, emergency cash transfer and more. We will supply you with a travel insurance brochure with rates and application when we mail you the invoice after your bookings. Travel insurance protects your vacation investments. US law allows us to offer this insurance to all persons worldwide. We will accept a "refusal of travel insurance wavier" if you do not wish to purchase any travel insurance.

RESPONSIBILITY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: Accepting your payment represents an agreement that you understand all the conditions, to be a member of our tours. TTI gives notice that they are acting agents for the owners, contractors and suppliers, providing the transportation and all related travel services and assume no responsibility for injury, sickness, damage, loss, additional expenses accidental delay or irregularities which may be caused through willful or negligent acts or omissions on the part of the companies providing or engage in transportation, accommodations or services related to the accomplishment of the tour. Nor do we assume responsibility for natural disasters, social or political upheaval, acts of terrorism or acts of nature. TTI reserves the right to substitute hotels, tour leaders, equipment, motive power, trains, onboard accommodations, routes and to alter the itinerary when deemed necessary without notice. The right is also reserved to cancel any trip or train prior to departure for any reason . TTI is not responsible for expenses incurred by tour members in preparing for the tour, including non-refundable airline tickets, visa fees, planning, phone calls, or any other expenses. TTI reserves the right to decline to accept, or ask to leave a tour, any person whose actions impede the daily operations of a tour, welfare or enjoyment of other tour members. TTI cannot give any refunds for any unused services. The terms contained herein shall serve as a waiver of liability to TTI. Assumption of risk on behalf of the client, their heirs, executor, administrators, successors, and assigns for any and all known persons injuries

RESERVATIONS: A deposit is due in our office within 14 days after you make your bookings. Full payment is due 90 days before departure. You will receive an invoice, reservation form and current tour bulletins with your confirmation and travel insurance forms. No notice for final payment will be sent to you. It is your responsible to make the final payment on-time.

CANCELLATIONS: TTI does not accept cancellations on the phone. Cancellations must be received by postal mail, email or fax before any refunds will be considered. Allow enough time if sending your written notice by US mail postal system. When a written cancellation is received in the Trains and Travel office this will be the effective date of the cancellation. Please take note that it can take up to 60 days to to process some refunds. Cancellation refund rules: 100 days prior to the start of any tour you will receive a full refund less a $100 per person administration fee. 99 to 61 days before the departure of any tour there will be a 80% cancellation penalty based on the full cost of the tour. Cancellations received 60 or less days before the start of any tour will not receive any refund. GW Travel Ltd has their own cancellation rules and these will apply. If booking on GW Travel Ltd ask for cancellation rules.

PRE-DEPARTURE TOUR BULLETINS: Tour bulletins will be sent to clients that have booked on tours operated by TTI. Bulletins include travel info related to the tour. Final documents will be sent out about two to three weeks before a tour begins. We offer tours operated by other companies and they may or may not send out tour bulletins and updates and most send out final documents only one to two weeks prior to the start of their tours.

PAYMENTS: Payments can be made with personal check drawn on a U.S. Dollar account, money order for U.S. Dollars, bank wire transfer, or credit card. We accept Visa, Master Card or Discover. Final payment for all tours is due 90 days prior to departure. If final payment has not been received 7 days after the due date, a late fee of $50 per week will apply.

SINGLE SUPPLEMENT: All prices are based on double room occupancy. We will try and match you with a roommate if one is available. If not, you may be charged the single room supplement listed for the tour you are booked on. Single rooms may not be available in some remote locations and on some trains.

TOUR REFUNDS: If for any reason tour members amend or delete any arrangements during travel, and leave the tour on their own, we cannot give any refunds on unused portions of the tour. If buses and trains are cancelled by the carrier or there is a labor strike or they go out of business, we cannot be held responsible and we cannot give refunds. Travel insurance will protect you for any of these reasons. If TTI needs to cancel any tour everyone will receive a full refund. Please take note that in some cases refunds can take up to 60 days to process.

PARTIAL TOURS: We will allow passengers to join or leave a tour at certain points. It will all depend on the tour and the conditions. Give us a call and we will try and work up a custom option for you.

MILEAGE COLLECTORS: Mileage collectors please take note that TTI does not cater just to mileage collectors. We cater to all folks that enjoy trains and Rail journeys. We give strong warning that itinerary and route changes do happen and this is totally beyond our control when it does. If the only reason that you would want to book a tour is to collect the rare mileage, you need to understand that possible route changes do happen.


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