Rail Cruising Australia

"Rail Cruising" - The Smart Way to Tour Australia

Experience a unique journey. Travel Australia on board a fully serviced hotel train, on an adventure that has been in the making for over one hundred years. Explore the best Australia has to offer, and celebrate the opening of the final leg of the new railway line from Alice Springs to Darwin, the longest rail journey in Australia.

Socialise, tour and relax as much as you want to. Be rocked gently through the night to the rhythm of the tracks as you effortlessly cover more of Australia than you ever imagined possible. Ozback Explorer saves you precious holiday time by travelling at night. This means that you avoid long daylight hours relocating, and that you awake each dawn, fresh and ready to enjoy a full day at a different destination.

Australia is a vast continent and our outback topography can be monotonous. Consider bus touring. Statistics show that approximately forty percent of bus touring time is spent in relocating from hotel to hotel. Your level of mobility and comfort is limited. There is no better way to cover the 5 000 km from Sydney to Darwin and see iconic highlights of our country than in the comfort of your travelling hotel. The sights that you will enjoy on our 19-day rail cruise would take approximately 25 days to see via any other travel mode. Ozback Explorer offers the ultimate first time visitor package, seeing all of Australia’s icons, highlights, visiting 6 distinct tourist regions.

1) Sydney and Blue Mountains.
2) Melbourne and the 12 Apostles
3) Adelaide and Kangaroo Island
4) Red Centre and Ayers Rock
5) Top End and Kakadu
6) Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef.

Due to the great distance away from the US and European markets, Australia is not an easy “return and see the rest” destination. Ideally, first time visitors would prefer to see all icons in the traditional 2/3 week period allocated to long haul travel. This is possible and it is fun with the Ozback Explorer, which saves you precious vacation time, by travelling at night while guests sleep. Time restrictions result in bus tours either by passing Melbourne or using Adelaide as an overnight stop without touring before heading north. Others will fly out of Alice to the reef skipping the top end in order to keep to the 16 day limit. On the other hand, few visitors have the luxury of 28 days required to experience and visit all the 6 regions of our 19 day package.

From the moment you awake, the Ozback Explorer gives you unbeatable value for money. You have a full day to tour, making more stops, seeing more places, spending more time than you’d otherwise be able to do, but at a leisurely rate, and not being rushed around as in most other touring options. Without any doubt the best selling point of the rail cruise is that there is no packing and unpacking, day after day, as you relocate from hotel to hotel. You unpack once and your hotel travels with you! You will soon appreciate, an added bonus, that no hotel window in the world can present you, daily, with such a continuously changing variety of scenery.

Each day you will experience the exhilaration of moving from exciting sightseeing tours to the challenges of our murder mystery game, treasure hunt and Australian trivia competition, on to the thrills of evening outings and late night social opportunities. It all makes for an unforgettable adventure without stress.