Rail & cruise

Longer journeys where the transport is part of the trip rather than the gap between the parts of it. River ships, rail legs and coastal sailings, with time ashore built into the route.

They run longer than anything else here — a week and a half upwards — and they are the easiest trips on the catalogue physically. Days are paced around embarkation and shore time rather than around trailheads.

Because the vessels and the departure dates belong to the operating line, these are dated and sold against its calendar. That is the constraint worth planning around: the route does not move.