Luggage Storage - Chicago Metropolitan Lounge

actionuiuc · Mar 21, 2015

Hello,

I'll be taking the City of New Orleans into Chicago Union Station next week and will then be waiting to board the #5 California Zephyr later in the afternoon. If the CONL arrives ontime my plan is to run to Shake Shack to pick up lunch while in town. I'd like to know if you can still store your luggage in the Metropolitan Lounge. I read a topic from many years ago where this was the case. We will have a roomette on the CZ.

Thanks,

Brian

NW cannonball · Mar 21, 2015

As a sleeper passenger on the CZ, for sure you can leave your luggage in the Metro 1stclass lounge and take whatever hours you have in Chi-town for whatever you want.

There's many threads here on "food near station Chicago"

No worries, just be back at the lounge in time for priority early boarding.

dlagrua · Mar 21, 2015

The easy way is to just check your luggage at NOL and pick it up at the arriving CZ station but first check if they offer luggage service. We have often used the luggage room in the Chicago Metropolitan lounge but only for carry on stuff.

Palmetto · Mar 21, 2015

Dlgrua's suggestion caused me to go look up the checked baggage situation on the CZ. There are 19 stations on the route the do not offer checked baggage, and 14 that do. Obviously, if the OP is going to a larger city on the route, he is in luck. Smaller stations: you're on your own, just like all those stations on the NEC east of New York.