Paris – Istanbul
Paris to Istanbul by the Compagnie Européenne des Trains de Luxe: 2 days at sea in 1925, first class from 2 400 fr., sailing Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Paris, weekly.
Passage computes it for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: pick two places and a date, and print the ticket the purser's clerk would have written.
Trains de Luxe · European expresses
Itinerary
- Paris → Lausanne · 500 km · via Dijon
- Lausanne → Milan · 330 km · via the Simplon tunnel
- Milan → Venice · 270 km
- Venice → Belgrade · 830 km · via Trieste and Zagreb
- Belgrade → Sofia · 390 km
- Sofia → Istanbul · 560 km
Sailings
Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Paris, weekly; homeward Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday from Istanbul.
Trains
Classes sold
- 1920 to 1939: First Class, Second Class
The whole route in 1925
- Distance
- 1,555 nautical miles
- Duration
- 2 days on Simplon-Levant Express
- Fare · First Class
- 2 400 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 1 590 fr.
The whole route in 1933
- Distance
- 1,555 nautical miles
- Duration
- 2 days on Simplon-Levant Express
- Fare · First Class
- 1 970 fr.
- Fare · Second Class
- 1 310 fr.
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