Best Viewliner Room

[Viewliner]

I'm traveling on the Cardinal in a few months and wanted to know the best Viewliner room to choose. I am current assigned Room 2. Any insight appreciated.

 

[Mystic River Dragon]

In my opinion, Room 2 is a very nice one to get. It is at the end of a row, so has neighbors on only one side. It is right around the corner from the hall that goes by the bedrooms. So, it is nice and quiet.

The only drawback I can see is that the coffee machine is at the other end.

I have not been on the Cardinal (yet!), but the Silvers I have been on I believe have the same configuration.

Someone who has traveled the Cardinal may be able to add more detailed information.

 

[Viewliner]

Thanks! I like the idea of being near the center of the car for a smoother ride, but I worry about the noise of people walking down the hall and hitting the end of my room, such as bumping up against the wall on a moving train.

 

[the_traveler]

The Cardinal, the Silvers and all single level trains have the same configuration of the Viewliner sleepers.

If you qualify for it,, I think the best room on a Viewliner is the H-Room! But i think any roomette or bedroom is great. Room 2 is a good room.

 

[Rail Freak]

Guest, it sounds as though you're like me & think too much,LOL!!!

 

[viewliner]

Guest, it sounds as though you're like me & think too much,LOL!!!

haha! I do. This is going to be my first viewliner trip -- I'm excited to use the upper bunk with a view!

 

[Shanghai]

I prefer room 2. Room 10 is near the shower.

 

[Rail Freak]

HAVE FUN!!!!

 

[JoeBas]

Room 2 is also across the hall from the assigned room for the Car Attendant, so it's usually pretty quiet (no screaming kids/etc).

 

[the_traveler]

In a Viewliner, the SCA has room 12. It is room 1 in a Superliner only.

 

[JoeBas]

In theory. In practice, I've had plenty of trips with the CA in room 1, and room 12 stuffed to the gills with bedding, bags, water, etc.

 

[Hytec]

I have ridden Viewliners (Crescent) dozens of time, usually in Roomettes 1-6, except once in Bedroom H. The ride in H was very uncomfortable because the room is directly above the truck bolster. We were continuously jerked around, both up and down, and sideways, which made sleeping extremely difficult. The Roomettes were, by comparison, absolute bliss because they are in the center of the car with minimal motion.

 

[cassie225]

I have always ridden the Crescent and majority of the time am in the H room. There was only maybe once where the ride was rough, and I felt like I was riding on top of a bunch of rocks. I have done the top bunk and it was great,but by far the best was this last time coming back from Jersey in the H room all alone,with the bottom bunk all by myself,like a double bed,with comfortable clothes on,almost like my jammies,it was like riding in a rolling hotel,SMOOTH.

 

[Guest]

Over the years, I must have been in every roomette on the Viewliners. I have found that there isn't much difference between them, due to location. I mean, none of the roomettes is ever really all that far from the coffee/juice "bar", nor all that far from the shower.

I have never had the SCA occupy any roomette other than the pre-assigned one across from the shower. I have found the shower, on occasion, filled with supplies, but the SCA quickly removes the stuff if anyone wants to take a shower (I always do in the early AM ... and try to time such with a station stop. ).

 

[Bob Dylan]

Most times when I've ridden in Viewliner Sleepers, the OBS usually occupy the #1-#4 Roomettes plus the SCA room across from the shower! I was told that this is because these are the smoothest riding Rooms on a Viewliner!

On the Cardinal, which used to always have one Viewliner, they occupied #1-#6!

The Best Room on Amtrak Trains is still the H Room on a Viewliner in lots of folks opinions!

 

[OlympianHiawatha]

Any Room on a Viewliner is the best because that means you are on a Train

 

[George K]

I know, I know, cars can get switched end-for-end. But...

I upgraded D4's voucher (that she got from the contest) from roomette to bedroom on the LSL from BOS to CHI.

We're in room B on car 4920. Which side? North or South?

 

[AmtrakBlue]

I know, I know, cars can get switched end-for-end. But...

I upgraded D4's voucher (that she got from the contest) from roomette to bedroom on the LSL from BOS to CHI.

We're in room B on car 4920. Which side? North or South?

Doesn't matter as much as a roomette because your door has a window and just across the narrow hallway is the other side's window, so you practically have a window on both sides.

 

[AlanB]

In a Viewliner, the SCA has room 12. It is room 1 in a Superliner only.

In theory. In practice, I've had plenty of trips with the CA in room 1, and room 12 stuffed to the gills with bedding, bags, water, etc.

Room #12 on a Viewliner is a revenue room, also sometimes allocated to other OBS crew; the attendant's room on the current Viewliners is #14, opposite the shower which takes what would have been room #13's spot.

So unless that room isn't sold, you won't see bedding piled in that room.

I strongly suspect that you are confusing the Superliner cars with the Viewliner cars. On a Superliner, room #1 is indeed the attendants room. And I believe that room #12 is one of the last rooms sold on a Superliner car as it is right by the door to the next car, so if the car isn't sold out, then it would be empty.

On the new Viewliner II cars, the attendants room will be #12 meaning it will no longer be a revenue room. What was room #14 will become two public bathrooms.

 

[George K]

Room #12 on a Viewliner is a revenue room, also sometimes allocated to other OBS crew; the attendant's room on the current Viewliners is #14, opposite the shower which takes what would have been room #13's spot.

So unless that room isn't sold, you won't see bedding piled in that room.

I strongly suspect that you are confusing the Superliner cars with the Viewliner cars. On a Superliner, room #1 is indeed the attendants room. And I believe that room #12 is one of the last rooms sold on a Superliner car as it is right by the door to the next car, so if the car isn't sold out, then it would be empty.

On the new Viewliner II cars, the attendants room will be #12 meaning it will no longer be a revenue room. What was room #14 will become two public bathrooms.

 

[the_traveler]

I strongly suspect that you are confusing the Superliner cars with the Viewliner cars. On a Superliner, room #1 is indeed the attendants room. And I believe that room #12 is one of the last rooms sold on a Superliner car as it is right by the door to the next car, so if the car isn't sold out, then it would be empty.

Not to disagree with you Alan, but on a Superliner room #12 is 1 of the 4 roomettes on the lower level. The rooms at the end of the car are #9 and #10.

 

[shelzp]

As far as people hitting the walls etc. that hasn't been a problem to me as there's a certain amount of noise on the train anyway so I barely notice people moving around the sleeper car. Sometimes at night I do use earplugs to keep out the train noises.

 

[Sleepless_in_Sleeper]

As far as people hitting the walls etc. that hasn't been a problem to me as there's a certain amount of noise on the train anyway so I barely notice people moving around the sleeper car.

Very true. There is enough background train noise, and its pretty rare that I have a problem with a noisy neighbors. Matter of fact, the only time I can remember having a problem was the time a bunch of coach passengers were "tag team" sleeping in the roomette next to mine. About once an hour or so, a couple of coach passengers would start banging on the roomette's door, attempting to wake up the current people soundly sleeping in there, so that they could swap out.

I really wish Amtrak would more vigorously enforce the no-coach-passengers-in-sleeper rules with some rather severer consequences.

 

[guest]

As far as people hitting the walls etc. that hasn't been a problem to me as there's a certain amount of noise on the train anyway so I barely notice people moving around the sleeper car.

Very true. There is enough background train noise, and its pretty rare that I have a problem with a noisy neighbors. Matter of fact, the only time I can remember having a problem was the time a bunch of coach passengers were "tag team" sleeping in the roomette next to mine. About once an hour or so, a couple of coach passengers would start banging on the roomette's door, attempting to wake up the current people soundly sleeping in there, so that they could swap out.I really wish Amtrak would more vigorously enforce the no-coach-passengers-in-sleeper rules with some rather severer consequences.

I would have been furious! So the coach passengers hadn't even paid for the room?

 

[pvd]

Most likely, someone paid for the room, and had bunches of his/her "friends from coach sharing it, which of course is still wrong. Most SCA's would not let someone "annex" an unpaid for room, since they would have to clean it and make it up.