Jaipur. Palace on Wheels (POW), the luxury train for tourists, today started out of Safdarjung station, New Delhi on its first journey of the season carrying 32 passengers.
A joint venture of Indian Railways and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC), the train with all modern facilities will travel to Jaipur, Sawaimadhopur, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bharatpur and Agra before returning to the capital. The total capacity of the trainis 82 pax and inthe first inaugural tour there are 32 pax travelling on board.
The train has 23 coaches comprising of 14 saloons, one spa coach, two restaurants–“Maharaja” & “Maharani”, one reception-cum-bar and Royal SPA with Gym car.The interior decor of POW is on the state theme.
The seven-day journey takes the tourists across mountains, rivers, forests and sand dunes in a luxurious air-conditioned comfort.
It will make a total of 34 trips from September 2018 to April 2019 and thousands of passengers are expected to travel in the train, said RTDC, MD Mr.H.Guite. He informed that the train has got 60% confirmed booking for this season.
General Manager of POW Mr. Pradeep Bohara Informed that looking towords the comfort of guests and continuous demand of the GSA, this year major refurbishment work has been done in the Palace on Wheels.
Mr Sanjeev Sharma,GM of RTDC in New Delhi state that the Tariff of POW per pax per night is 650 US Dollar (Rs.39,000/-) on Double Occupancy in the months of October 2018 to March,2019. For single Occupancy this is 865 US dollar (Rs.51900/-) and for Super Deluxe saloon it is 1800 US dollar (Rs.108000/-).
In the months September 2018 & April,2019 Tariff of Palace on Wheels is fixed as per pax per night 500 US Dollar (Rs.30,000/-) on Double Occupancy and 650 US Dollar (Rs.39,000/-) for single Occupancy and for Super Deluxe saloon it is 1350 US Dollar (Rs.81,000/-).
