DAY 12 18/1/15

Today was our departure day from sunny Perth. In the morning our trip on platinum service began with our Limo picking us up from our hotel in the morning. He was on time and polite. What really impressed me was that at the station he dropped us off to the side of the terminal and we were met by the porters who took our bags to the check-in area.

We didn't even have to line up, they took all our bags, even our cabin bags for us. We chose to not wait around there and went straight to the locomotives.

About 1 hour before the scheduled departure time we boarded our carriage! This was really exciting especially because our carriages were really gleaming.

Our cabin was in berth 9/10, which was a twin cabin at the very end of the carriage. As soon as we stepped into the cabin it was welcoming and warm, and we immediately fell in love with it. You can see that with our gleaming smiles!

Our Room Keys

As we left we were greeted by our cabin attendant, following this, she brought us some champagne and nuts from the swan valley. 

The bathroom ensuite was very large and similar to any cruise ship one. There is a separate shower also, which pretty much rounds the platinum room. I would say that the platinum rooms are zoo much better then the gold rooms. 

Public Platinum Amenities

All our dining room bookings had preferred bookings, i.e we never were told no. So we went for lunch and had continuing amazing service. We both really loved the Pannacotta which had a beautiful hint of lavender, which is a very unusual combination. 

Beef with redwine jus

Chicken with Cous Cous

Lavender Pannacotta

We then returned to our room, where our lovely attended offered us afternoon tea. We happily accepted, and what impressed us was the use of La Perruche sugar! We found the coffee to be really good, I'll actually say the best coffee on the train. I believe they had a proper pod machine in platinum. For afternoon tea we enjoyed a passionfruit cake, which was rather dry, and once again brought into the train and not made onboard. But we still enjoyed it.

To continue with the great service, our attended came to the room, at about 5pm offering us a pre-dinner drink. We had a choice of a red or a white, and we chose the white chardonnay. Once again we keep noticing all these little details that were never present in gold service.

Next was dinner, which was enjoyed in the Queen Adelaide Restaurant again. As you can see, we both ordered the crab starter again. The reason why we did was it tasted really nice, and it was cold and fresh, the perfect way to start a meal. This same evening we met a nice british couple, who made for great conversation. For main's we both ordered the kangaroo (Not shown). The apple dish for dessert was just ok, and uninspiring, but i enjoyed the ice-cream. 

Now we were impressed to notice that our room had been turned down for us while we were at dinner. Once again there was dim lighting and it made the room look amazing and inviting. Once again she had waiting for us our choice of nightcap, mine was port and Daniel's was Baileys, all served with some chocolates. We were really impressed with this.

We went to sleep before we arrived into Kalgoorlie. Many chose to go on tours in the early hours of the morning, but we already saw it on the westbound journey.