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Thanks for confirming I wasn't missing something. I was originally going to spend the night in Emeryville (I will be arriving via the Zephyr) and catch the train to Salinas in the AM and then the Amtrak shuttle to Monterey, but now I am just going to head to Monterey after I arrive in...

I was looking at the Coast Starlight on November 16th and 17th and it is listed as "sold out" in both directions between LA and Martinez, as far as I can tell. Could this be a track maintenance thing? I don't see something listed in the official service alerts section.

I had no specific plans for that! I was not aware of that at the time, but there are lots of bike paths there, so I just went out and rode wherever. What I did was, I was going from Portland to LA and stopping for few nights midway in Monterey. So I FedExed a few bags down to their LA location...

So I am thinking of making another Monterey-via-Salinas trip and...it appears the Salinas station is open on the weekends now? I am looking at the hours and this appears to be a seven day a week station: https://www.amtrak.com/stations/sns.html If anyone has any recent info it would be...

Thank you for this comment, that I am replying to months later, as I could not figure out why the Crescent was only running to New Orleans Thursday/Friday/Saturday in January. You would think this would be worth mentioning in the "service alerts" section on Amtrak's website. My follow up...

I'm not anti rideshare but I wouldn't want to depend on it at late hours. One time the Coast Starlight I was on was incredibly late getting into LA, like 1 AM late, and in the second biggest city in America it took 45 minutes for a driver to take the Lyft call and show up. The non-passenger...

Coming west or east you're getting there in the middle of the night. Are there any enterprising taxi drivers waiting for you outside usually? I would hate to depend on Uber/Lyft at that hour to get to a hotel. (I am plotting a trip to Louisville. Indy is about the same distance as Cincy, with...

Yeah this was the first Amtrak shower I've ever taken that was the approximate size of a normal shower. Only drawback is you have to move everything out of the bathroom so it doesn't get soaked.

My original room was 12, so you could be right. I am not complaining, I love bedrooms and have never been in H before.

Also: two days ago I was randomly moved from a roomette to bedroom H, the accessible bedroom--and I do not need an accessible bedroom nor had I asked for a change. I called Amtrak and was like, is this legit? And they were like, yes, it was, though they were also baffled why I was put in H. The...

This train is oddly run...we got the microwave dinners, no real kitchen, but they're not taking any reservations so I have no idea when dinner is arriving. I thought they took reservations so the single oven didn't get overwhelmed but they're just doing everything willy-nilly, with three sleeper...

I'm on the 20 heading back to Philly and annoyed like I was the last time I was on the 20 departing on a Sunday: why does Amtrak ban liquor sales the entire day, when, as far as I can tell, only Mississippi has a "no booze on Sundays" blue law on the books?

The one time I have used SLC...I remember the arrival was fine, but the departure, we were waiting there in the middle of the night--the exact hour escapes me at this point but I remember it being "quite late." This street person who was on the, ummm, "with psychiatric problems" end of the...

Shoutout flitcraft and willbridge upthread, the Miyako is my favorite place to stay in my favorite Los Angeles neighborhood. I love getting a room facing 1st Street and watching people line up for the restaurants, or checking when the lines are short so I can go eat. Anyway, and this is why I'm...

Just wanted to confirm that the staff at this station will let you leave your carry on bags in a locked area while you go out for dinner in downtown Pittsburgh if you are there transferring from the Pennsylvanian to the Capitol Limited. (I was going to go to Morton's but they closed super early...

Yes, it's 8 to 8, allegedly.

Does AGR not pick up the phone after 7 PM? Two nights in a row I called in around 7:15 PM, was on hold the entire time without a wait time estimate, and then hung up on around 8 after getting a message that AGR is now closed. I am Select Plus, by the way, and calling in on the fancy Select Plus...

Thanks for the replies, everyone, especially since I asked my question in a thread in the wrong forum for general travel-related questions. My plan is to go LAX --> MRC, scheduled for a 6:30 AM arrival, so there should be no issues related to a middle of the night arrival. Actually at this...

Bumping this thread because I am not sure my question deserves a new thread but it does relate to the thread topic: has anyone been on the shuttle that takes you from Maricopa to Phoenix and vice versa? It appears to be Amtrak Thruways 8601 and 8602, operated by Stagecoach Express. I'm sure it's...

Oh I love Pittsburgh, have stayed at the William Penn for a couple of conferences and have enjoyed that hotel and the general downtown area, and the free light rail (I think) to the casino.