The train is set to launch next year (Image: Puy de Fou)
A French company famous for its theme park has announced a new luxury train tour around for 2025, that will offer its customers unique “immersive shows”.
Billed as the world’s longest show, Le Grand Tour will send guests on a six-day, five-night rail journey across in an authentic Belle Epoque train.
Designed as a moving theatre, the experience created by Le Puy du Fou will offer myriad stories and surprises.
Guests will explore how historical figures have shaped civilisation through culture and the arts.
A suite cabin on the train (Image: Puy de Fou)
will depart Paris Gare de L’Est and terminate in Pays de la Loire, western France.
En route, guests will visit some of France’s most iconic locations, famous around the world.
These include Champagne, Burgundy, Lake Annecy, the Arcachon Basin, the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, and the Palais des Papes in Avignon.
The train trip is the brainchild of the company Puy du Fou, which operates a popular theme park in Vendée region.
Clémence Germon, a press officer for the company, told French newspaper the Connexion: “We are working on the final details so that we can offer our travellers an unforgettable experience and will announce the opening of bookings at a later date.”
The dining car on the train (Image: Puy de Fou)
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Tickets cost an eye-watering €8,450 (£7k) per person and the train will be able to accommodate a maximum of 42 passengers.
Germon aded: “This number guarantees an optimum level of comfort and service for every passenger.
“The idea is to create an intimate and exclusive atmosphere, allowing passengers to enjoy a personalised, made-to-measure experience.”
features 21 elegant cabins and suites, as well as two gourmet dining cars and one luxury bar carriage.
The cabins are equipped with a private bathroom that has a shower and a toilet.
The company also announced plans to open a £300 million UK theme park near Bicester in Oxfordshire.
Puy du Fou’s international sales manager Gaëtan Favreau, said: “Our ambition is to develop two other theme parks by 2030, one of which would be in the UK.”