The structural case that Rail Europe makes is worth sitting with: Europe has more than 200 airports, but more than 40,000 railway stations. Trains arrive at city centers — not peripheral hubs requiring 45-minute transfers. There is no EES at the platform. No biometric registration queue. No fuel surcharge announced the week before departure.
Introducing BajaTraveler’s new From Baja to Europe series — the editorial case for why knowing Baja deeply is the finest preparation for traveling Europe at its best.
This is the version that requires knowing someone, or knowing how to ask the right question of the right person three months in advance. It is a city within a city, and its entrance has no sign.
But in 2026, for the first time since 2009, the Michelin Guide’s famously secretive emissaries are back in the desert, making rounds on a dining scene that has spent seventeen years becoming world-class without anyone’s permission.
Step off the Strip and past the casino floor, take an elevator to the second or third floor of any great hotel, and you will find a city that has been reinventing itself in the most unexpected way: as one of the world’s most sophisticated wellness destinations.