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The Transcantabrico Golf is a slow-moving luxury train for sight-seeing and playing golf during seven days and six nights along northern Spain.
Services:
 * Accommodations in a suite compartment on board the train.
* Dinners and lunches featuring typical regional cuisine (including wines, coffee and liqueurs). These meals will be in restaurants selected in advance for their time-tested quality.
 * Breakfast buffet.
 * Music and parties in the Nightclub Car
 * Programmed trips, including admission to museums, cathedrals, cloisters, and other sights
 * Green fees in Bilbao, Santander and Gijón
 * Luxury tour bus that accompanies the train.
 * Daily newspapers and magazines.
 * Security service.
 * Multilingual guide for the entire trip.
 * Top-notch staff at your disposal..
 * Transportation and cleaning for your golf clubs.
The four club cars are the train’s most amazing—and most beautiful—feature. They are genuine gems of railway craftsmanship whose outer design, quality of finish and interior decoration are truly admirable.
One of the four club cars has a bar and dance floor. That’s the nightclub car, decorated and lit like a mini-bistro, where there is entertainment every night.
There is a second bar in another of the club cars, where you can nurse a quiet drink.
The other two club cars are for different types of leisure activities, like reading, sharing a board game with fellow travelers, enjoying a chat and gazing at the passing scenery through the huge windows.
Travelers have at their disposal the daily papers, magazines, a fine selection of books from the library, television, a video library—in short, everything they need to make their trip a real pleasure.
In each suite on the Transcantábrico, passengers have an especially designed hideaway for their rest and privacy. Travelers can sleep in perfect comfort with the train standing still at the station.
Suites have double beds. Some also have the option of a separate upper bunk. All suits come equipped with a suitcase rack, minibar, safe, closet, desk and telephone with an outside line. They have private bathrooms with hydrosauna, turbomassage and steam-bath facilities, plus a hairdryer. The air conditioning, heating, in-suite music and lights all have individual regulators.
In 2007 the journey's schedule was:
 DAY 1 - SATURDAY.
 San Sebastián, the old section of town, the Playa de la Concha. Lunch in San Sebastián. In the afternoon we will take our tour bus to Bilbao, where the train is waiting. Time to settle into the train. Dinner in Bilbao.
 DAY 2 - SUNDAY.
 After breakfast our tour bus will take us to the Real Sociedad de Golf de Neguri. Those who do not wish to play can visit the old section of Bilbao and the Guggenheim Museum. Lunch at the golf course. Afterwards the train will take us to Santander. Panoramic view. Dinner in Santander, where we will spend the night, with a visit to the casino for those who wish.
 DAY 3 - MONDAY.
 We will ride in our tour bus to Santillana del Mar, a handsome medieval village and World Heritage site. Lunch. In the afternoon, we will visit the Altamira Museum, which has a celebrated replica of the famous Altamira Cave. Then we will visit Santillana on foot. Return to the train in Santander. Free time and dinner.
 DAY 4 - TUESDAY.
 After breakfast the tour bus will take us to the Real Golf de Pedreña. While players enjoy the course, those who wish to will visit Cabárceno Nature Park. Lunch at the golf course. In the afternoon, we arrive in Asturias. Llanes, the première tourism and fishing village of all eastern Asturias. Dinner in Llanes, where we will spend the night.
 DAY 5 - WEDNESDAY.
 We leave Llanes behind and reach the heart of the Principality of Asturias. Our first stop will be Arriondas, the gateway to the Picos de Europa National Park. Covadonga Sanctuary, Lake Enol and Lake Ercina. Lunch will be in Cangas de Onís. In the afternoon, the train will eat up the miles to Gijón, Playa de San Lorenzo, Cimadevilla and other points west. Dinner in Gijón, where we will spend the night
 DAY 6 - THURSDAY.
 In the morning, the Real Club de Golf de Castiello awaits us, while those who wish to can visit the Roman baths. Lunch at the golf course. In the afternoon the train will bear us to Oviedo, capital of Asturias. Dinner in Oviedo.
 DAY 7 - FRIDAY.
 Oviedo, a surprising city that has a unique array of pre-Romanesque monuments. A walk around the old section of the city and a visit to the cathedral will be a magnificent way to wind up our trip. Lunch in Oviedo.
             
2007 departures were on March 24 and October 13.