Forget the hour-by-hour schedule — what guests remember is the rhythm. After years of arranging this journey, Palace Tours can sketch it for you in four beats.
Morning: coffee while the coast wakes up
Breakfast is served as the train makes its first miles of the day. You will learn quickly to sit facing the window; the route does its best work before ten o'clock.
Midday: boots on the ground
A coach and a local guide are waiting at the platform for the day's excursion — a basilica in the mountains, a fishing town, a cave older than history. Walking is mostly gentle; our accessibility guide flags the exceptions.
Afternoon: the long lunch
Many of the week's lunches happen ashore in restaurants the crew have worked with for years — fabada in Asturias, seafood in Galicia. The culinary map shows what belongs to which region, and yes, it is all included (details here).
Evening: window time, then the bar car
The prettiest running of the day tends to come late, with the sun low over the Cantabrian Sea. Then dinner, and the bar car finds its voice — see evenings aboard. When you want to trade the description for the real thing, live departure dates are here.
