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Hey, howdy again! I'm in the middle of a reservation here and I have a choice of the 22 or the 422 TE. Everything else looks the same, including price. Is there a difference? Do you guys prefer one over the other?? ACK, didn't expect THIS in the middle of booking this trip!

I remember fiddling with Amsnag for my first trip in spring 2017. I think there are links to how to do that here, so I'll go a-hunting.

That'll teach me to skim my emails! Original question still applies. That 3-5 month window is coming up fast, so I'll be checking things out and trying to settle on dates by the end of this month.

Oh, I'll add this: Booking this trip before November 17 nets me double Amtrak Rewards points.

Howdy! Am hoping to take a trip from Pittsburgh to Houston around April to visit some friends there. Am a bit flexible on dates. I've got a boatload of rewards points—more than enough for this trip, though I noticed recently how fast the points needed can shoot up if you time your booking...

This is precisely my thinking! And we're the same height, so that's encouraging. I'm going to try it! Hubby thinks I'm crazy for not flying down to Florida with him, but hey, I've got a ton of rewards points to spend from last year's cross-country trip. I'm leaving a day before he does so we...

Oops, sorry! Definitely the Meteor, with Thruway buses. When I typed in my origination city and destinations (actually starting in Pittsburgh, not Philly), I wasn't given much choice/many options. The arrival and departure times kinda picked my option for me, since nobody could get me the 50...

Yes! I wrote a whole book about the experience! My trip was in early May 2017, and the book came out in September 2017. It's available here: https://amzn.to/2CcOQo5

Hi! I'm getting excited for my second Amtrak trip. (I took a cross-country trip last year... my first trip ever!) I'm on a Viewliner this time, the Silver Meteor from Philly to Tampa. I'm in a roomette and everything I see online seems to show their upper bunks are better, bigger than the ones...

Booked a short NYC trip from Pittsburgh next April. Staying 3 nights. Looking for a reasonably priced hotel that's not a dump, fairly near to the station. Recommendations from this group are always taken seriously because I know you folks have been there, done that, many times over. Thanks for...

Thanks! I had a sort of hybrid idea. I booked a trip to NYC for next April. (I'm in Pittsburgh, so a business class seat is only a day trip and came in at around a hundred bucks for one way.) Minus the $87 voucher, I had to pay a pittance. I'm now going to book the return trip with some points...

Howdy! I have an electronic voucher for $87 that expires tomorrow night. Would like to use it in conjunction with a bunch of AGR points to buy a roundtrip fare to NYC next spring. I can't seem to find a way on their site to combine these two particular payment options. The eVoucher works if I...

Thank you! Very helpful! :)

Thanks, definitely helpful info. So, it's definitely also called the Metropolitan Lounge in L.A. as well as Chicago?

Added question: Can sleeper car lounges be used if you've just gotten off a sleeper car but are staying in town a few days and need to crash a few hours before checking in to your hotel? Or are they exclusively for people getting ONTO a train/sleeper car, and not for people who are merely...

Despite the fact that I spent time there myself back in May, I cannot for the life of me now recall if the sleeper car lounge in LA's Union Station has its own name (you know, the way the one in Chicago is called the Metropolitan Lounge). I'm completely blanking on this, and it's driving me...

That could be! It was just a paper sign. Definitely not a job for the claustrophobic! :D

Same here, though. What was posted and what actually happened were not the same thing. :D Just trying to remember what the *sign* said, even if it didn't work out that way. ;)

I'm pulling together my notes from my cross-country Amtrak trip back in May. Right now I'm writing about my second day, still in coach, on the SWC, when I went to the café car to get a hot dog and chips for dinner. I remember a sign just outside the little "convenience store" where you purchase...

I had some awesome Red Cap service in both L.A. and Chicago this past week (on my first train trip ever). All were not only kind and helpful but took me right to my car and put my bags inside the car for me. I was at the front of the train both getting off at Chicago and then getting back on to...