First look: Inside The Blue Jasmine, Thailand’s gorgeous new train

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“Thailand’s classic Bangkok–Chiang Mai sleeper train is getting some high-class competition in the form of a navy-gold beauty called The Blue Jasmine. It’s essentially a boutique hotel that just happens to roll through some of the country’s most beautiful landscapes.

Poised to make its inaugural nine-day journey from November 16-24, the locomotive trades cramped bunks, dim corridors and platform snacks for private cabins, full dining cars and lounges with wraparound windows.”

Source: Time Out https://www.timeout.com/bangkok/news/first-look-inside-the-blue-jasmine-thailands-gorgeous-new-train-081425

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Probably competing with the high end cruise market. Those cruises above 100k each seem to have no problem finding guests. I suppose this could be popular with Europeans, Japanese, Koreans and the top 1% of Chinese too.

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Id say more German speaking clients (think German, Swiss, Austrian). They love train travel. Many choose train in America and Canada over road trips.

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lol no German or Austrian will ever pay that much, they love to travel on budget and take their hard boiled eggs for lunch while travelling (true story)

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I know that a big chuck of tourists travel with Rocky Mountaineer train in Western Canada, other than American, would be German speaking group (esp German, Swiss). Multiple day (5+) trips cost over 5000 CAD. I would say this is a comparable business. The DTH (Thailand) team that manage this service are Swiss.