In 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt and Canadian PM William Mackenzie King travelled in the historic carriages that this train still uses. Queen Elizabeth II has also been aboard. So you are in exalted company when you book to travel in these oak and maple-lined carriages. Churchill must have been at home in the clubby-feel of these carriages. The Royal Fly fishing Tour takes in some of the best fishing Canada's rivers have to offer - and that's very good.

The Luxury Travel Bible also likes to travel aboard the Rocky Mountaineer through, you guessed it, the Rocky Mountains. We'd book in the Gold Leaf glassed-domed observation car on the trip that passes through Kicking Horse Gorge - LOVE that name.