Vic, get in touch with Cliff. I believe he’s looking at setting a pyramid scheme to make this trip quite affordable. 
Well I guess its that or knocking over a Vegas casino
Well, now that you’ve spill the beans I’ll have to start all over with a pitch on MLS.
Wait a minute, It’s a bucket list Cliff, not a Photobucket list.
I guess, with you picking up Rooster, Stormy, and Vic there no more room in your car for the trip to the station?
Edit: there are a few of us down south that might want a lift.
Kruger Shalati — The Train on the Bridge
One for the bucket list — sleeping on a train above the Sabie River in Kruger. Some friends are staying here right now and have been sending us photographs. They’re doing two safaris a day and, judging by the pictures, having an absolute blast.
It’s Kruger Shalati – The Train on the Bridge, at Skukuza in South Africa’s Kruger National Park.
The hotel consists of 24 refurbished railway carriages permanently positioned on the old Selati railway bridge, high above the Sabie River, with another seven rooms in the adjacent Bridge House.
There’s even a swimming pool extending out over the river. You can sit several metres above the Sabie watching the wildlife below — hippos, crocodiles, elephants and buffalo.
Reportedly the Selati line opened in the early 1900s, and the bridge opened to railway traffic in 1910. The railway eventually stopped operating through the park in 1973, and the bridge stood unused for decades before the Kruger Shalati project brought it back to life.
No timetable. No locomotive. No departure. Our friends report they just wake up above the Sabie, go on safari, come back, and do it all again at dusk.
Definitely one for the bucket list.
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Wow! Go, dude!!
Cool, parking the hotel on a bridge also help keep away the bitey animals 
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Very cool.
Only $6k for international visitors! Looking forward to the vicarious trip, Bill. When do you and Herself leave?
Ok who has added this to their list (or who’s waiting for a report for LSC’s most reluctant traveller*)?
* Cliff Jennings
That’s a spin-off of the Rocky Mountaineer, which we took in Canada a year or so ago. It looks to have a good route.
BUT do read the reviews. It isn’t a ‘normal’ train - you can’t stretch your legs by walking between cars to the other end. Your coach is self-contained.
It was enjoyable, once we figured it out. The upper deck is your daytime lounge, with comfortable chairs and a bartender at the back. The lower deck between trucks is a dining room, and there’s a small outdoor area where you can breathe the air. The utility coach next to you is the kitchen, I think. You dine in 2 sittings.
We were also surprised that they didn’t stop at intermediate stations to let us stretch our legs. The RM was a non-stop, except for the overnight.
Our luggage wasn’t on the train. They put it in a truck and took it to the overnight hotel, and then to the final destination.
Pete, the Canyon Spirit is related to the RM’eer, but maybe a little different than what you took?
Either way, Bill, it looks to be an awesome trip. But… at almost $3k/day/person, a leeetle pricey for us.
https://www.canyonspirit.com/packages
Thanks for posting though, drooling is free!
Bill, you made me look at Amtrak, stopping at Las Vegas (Linda’s bucket list includes show there, and a night in a fancy hotel) before renting a car and driving north for our annual V&T conference. Just looking for grins; maybe two years from now.
A trip for both of us, in a “private room,” from Washington DC to Vegas, 2.5-day trip, would total about $4,500. Nothing like the opulence of the Canyon Spirit, but it would be fun.
Why not save yourself $2000 and just get a “public room”. Ya’ ain’t getting any younger and you could go at it like a couple of monkeys in a mango tree in turn having that opulence of the Canyon Spirit!
You suggesting we use the coach recliners to best advantage? Naah… I’m sure security would put a stop to that…