It's been indeed renovated, and it does London -> Venice and London -> Istanbul, but is outrageously priced (20k eur for Paris -> Istanbul if I remember) I did

It's been indeed renovated, and it does London -> Venice and London -> Istanbul, but is outrageously priced (20k eur for Paris -> Istanbul if I remember) I did the same "route" but took some random night trains between each city, which is much more affordable