My brother and his family will travel cross-country with me and my family in July. Specifically, we will go from PGH to SLC, and then, a few days later, from Whitefish to Seattle. The complicating factor is that for him this is part of a month-long trip with railpasses.
His family takes 2 roomettes. In order to save the roomettes adjacent to ours, when I booked my tickets, I also booked (as a separate reservation) the 2 roomettes that he wants.
I seem to recall having read somewhere on this forum that cancellations made during a given day take effect in the system at 2:00 a.m. (I hope I’m remembering correctly, and that I didn’t dream that up.)
My idea is to cancel my reservation for his rooms late one evening, thus freeing them up; then early the next morning he can buy his railpasses and reserve the same rooms; hence it will only be a few hours that they will be unreserved in the system and at risk of being taken by someone else.
Generally, if anyone sees any problems with this plan, any advice would be appreciated.
More specifically, one thing I would like to confirm is: when he calls to reserve the rooms with the railpasses, will he be able to request a particular car # and room #, like you can when not booking with a railpass?
His family takes 2 roomettes. In order to save the roomettes adjacent to ours, when I booked my tickets, I also booked (as a separate reservation) the 2 roomettes that he wants.
I seem to recall having read somewhere on this forum that cancellations made during a given day take effect in the system at 2:00 a.m. (I hope I’m remembering correctly, and that I didn’t dream that up.)
My idea is to cancel my reservation for his rooms late one evening, thus freeing them up; then early the next morning he can buy his railpasses and reserve the same rooms; hence it will only be a few hours that they will be unreserved in the system and at risk of being taken by someone else.
Generally, if anyone sees any problems with this plan, any advice would be appreciated.
More specifically, one thing I would like to confirm is: when he calls to reserve the rooms with the railpasses, will he be able to request a particular car # and room #, like you can when not booking with a railpass?