It started with one impossible ticket.
In 2014, our founder spent six weeks trying to book a luxury sleeper on the Qinghai-Tibet railway from outside China. The permits were opaque, the booking systems were in Mandarin, and no operator could answer a simple question in English: what is actually included?
That frustration became a mission. We built China Expresses to be the company we wished had existed. One that curates China's finest tourist trains, sells them as genuinely all-inclusive experiences, and explains every detail in clear, honest English.
Today we curate eleven of China's luxury tourist trains for international travellers and have become a reference point for English-speaking luxury rail travel in China. But the principle hasn't changed: if we can't explain it clearly, we won't sell it.
