Hi Family Trip! I am taking the Zephyr next week and plan on looking at one of the family bedrooms if possible. This time, my first trip, I am only traveling with one of my children, so I booked a roomette.
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The diagrams can be found here.I would post the link to the room diagrams if I could find it, hopefully someone else has it.
As long as at least two of the kids are haven't reached their teenage years, you should be just fine in the family room. Put the smallest child with the smallest adult in the lower adult bed and you'll be fine. During the day, the room has plenty of room. You could probably invite another 4 or 5 friends into the room during the day.
Don't forget to that those price are included for meals (dinner and maybe breakfast if the train is late).
I'm guessing that you meant to say the fifth person, as 4 meals are included with the family room. And something tells me that if one family member can fit in a pack N play, they probably don't eat all that much. So whatever they'll need to buy shouldn't be too bad, and that's assuming that they aren't being feed from mommy and daddy's plates.
A little googling leads to http://www.gracobaby.com/productguide/firs...e_playards.aspx
They can guarantee a room right next to the family room. She was probably a newer agent and just punched in asking for the lowest priced room. That could easily land you anywhere in the train's sleepers. You'll need to get an agent who knows how to request a specific room.
You can only do that via the phone with an agent, or in a station with an agent. It cannot be done online.
Correct, they only discount if you book as a group. I believe that the minimum is 20 people though. And I'm not sure if they offer discounts on the rooms or just on the rail fare. I think that it's only on the later though.I think you only get such discounts if you book as a group.Speaking on that subject, are there discounts for, say, 6 - 10 people reserving a block of rooms together or would that cost extra?
