The board for this game is massive! haha. As someone who has never played any of the ticket to rides before it took awhile to get through our first game (mostly setup and reading through the whole book to know everything). But once we got going it was fun, there's not a lot of waiting for your turn to come back unlike some games, worst part I find is I forget where my points are and spend more time looking for my cities because I'm a bit of a potato at that stuff.
The art work is beautiful, we ordered some sleeves for the cards to keep this game around for a long time.