THE GHAN Gold Service REVIEW, Adelaide to Darwin | Cabin & Excursions | What To Expect
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Let's ride the mighty Ghan! This iconic outback passenger rail service has been traversing the Red Centre for close to a century, and embodies the pioneering spirit of the colonial Afghan cameleers who opened up central Australia. It's an experience that has found its way into Australian folklore, and rightly so.
Are you thinking about booking a journey on the Ghan? In this episode of our RUclips travel series, we take you on board the Ghan's 2,979-kilometre trip from Adelaide to Darwin. This video is a guide to what you can expect in Gold Service - including the standard of guest cabins, meals, and off-train excursions (which are all included in the cost of your fare).
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
2:31 Gold Service cabins, Queen Adelaide Restaurant, and Outback Explorer Lounge
4:10 Marla off train experience
4:33 Alice Springs off train experiences
6:20 Katherine/Nitmiluk Gorge off train experience
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Hi guys. Read more about this trip on The Ghan here: topoztours.com.au/the-ghan-gold-service-review/. If you have any questions about the experience, please drop a comment below. Adam @ TOT
Panda is gorgeous, wombat is wonderful, nature🔥
I traveled all around Australia as a kid. My fiancé never traveled so I’m considering the Ghan for our honeymoon. I took him to cairns and Gold Coast last year which is where he proposed 😅 thank you for this review
Hey Hayley! Thanks for the feedback and congrats! You will love the Ghan. I think you can do it in the opposite direction from Darwin to Adelaide and it takes an extra night. Anyway, enjoy! Adam
Been to Adelaide and Darwin, but not much in between. Love to go one day. Thanks for an other great video Adam.
Thanks Jim. Love getting your feedback! Regards Adam 👍
We travelled on the Ghan in 2013. We stayed in a gold superior cabin which is priced between gold twin and platinum. We did not want bunks and the gold superior has a double bed and also a fold down one above it. They are small but sufficient. There is only a couple of these cabins available. Back then the Ghan did not stop at Marla. The first stop was Alice Springs. Our tour included the telegraph station, old gaol and Anzac hill where you can look over the whole of Alice Springs. At Katherine we also did the gorge cruise which as you said is fantastic. After arriving at Darwin we spent 10 days there. We did several tours including the bombing of Darwin, Kakadu and Litchfield. We could not see the point of going all that way and getting straight on a plane back home. The next year we did the Indian Pacific and flew from Perth to Broome for a week.
Brian
Hi Brian. Thanks for that. 👍 All good to know. We are hoping to do the Indian Pacific at some stage too. Did you do the full trip? Regards Adam @ TOT
Hi Adam,
We did do the full trip from Sydney to Perth. I have a family connection with Broken Hill. In 1921 my mother migrated from England at the age of 11 and they went to Broken Hill where her father worked in the mine. Unfortunately he died in 1927 but it was a medical problem, not a mine accident. I was also fascinated with the town of Cook on the Nullarbor Plain. It has a population of 2 and it is where the trains refuel and take on water. Crews also change there. When the railroad was being built it was where the workers stayed. It also had a school and a hospital. It does however still have a souvenir shop.
Brian
Wow, what a story. We made a video in Broken Hill recently. I loved it. Might be of interest to you. ruclips.net/video/RkcRDSzcLYg/видео.html Adam 👍
Hi Adam,
I have already watched that video. It was great and I have visited most of the places in it. We went to Broken Hill for a holiday and to find family connections.
Brian
Hoping to do this next year. I notced dining is 4 per table. Can you sit as a couple or are you put with others? Also, do suitcases fit in cabin or s it best with a small bag?
Hey Tim. No worries. There’s not a huge amount of space in the cabins, but I think from memory there was storage for luggage under the couch seat/lower bunk. They do try and seat you with others for dinner as tables of four, but if you go a bit later you can usually get a table to yourselves. Adam 👍
I would have watched it but for the irritating accompanying music.
I did this years ago. I encountered the rudest, most un-cooperative Steward I have ever had to suffer. He was that bad I put a complaint about him. Never again.
So year's ago & one person! Maybe he had a reason!
What a dreadfully superficial review. A waste of eight minutes.