Two In A Bedroom

[Acela150]

I am hopeing to book a trip from SEA to PHL via AGR using points for a bedroom. I will have a companion will i get charged double? Or is it like booking with your charge card where you get charged for two in coach and the upgrade is for one person.

Steve

 

[AlanB]

As long as you provide both names at the time of booking, both people will be issued tickets for the same award. You don't need extra points above the number for a bedroom for however many zones you're traveling.

 

[Acela150]

So it would be the 50,000 for two?

 

[the_traveler]

Yes! And it include the rail fare for both, the room and 3 meals a day for both in the Dining Car!

 

[mrsyeltzin]

I am hopeing to book a trip from SEA to PHL via AGR using points for a bedroom. I will have a companion will i get charged double? Or is it like booking with your charge card where you get charged for two in coach and the upgrade is for one person.
Steve

I just booked my first rewards travel (WPB to NYP) and they asked me on the phone if I wanted to add anyone to the itinerary. By the way, you have to call to book bedrooms. I never read the rules and thought I was getting blacked out because I couldn't redeem points for a bedroom online.

 

[mj_2341]

I am hopeing to book a trip from SEA to PHL via AGR using points for a bedroom. I will have a companion will i get charged double? Or is it like booking with your charge card where you get charged for two in coach and the upgrade is for one person.
Steve

I just booked my first rewards travel (WPB to NYP) and they asked me on the phone if I wanted to add anyone to the itinerary. By the way, you have to call to book bedrooms. I never read the rules and thought I was getting blacked out because I couldn't redeem points for a bedroom online.

Okay so let's suppose I say "yes I'll bring another person," - I guess it doesn't hurt, right? There is no problem if only one of you decides to go, right?

(What I'm trying to say is always say you're taking a guest, but in reality you don't have to).

In other words, Amtrak won't know who is who, so as long as they (either one or two people) have ticket(s), am I right??

 

[MrFSS]

Okay so let's suppose I say "yes I'll bring another person," - I guess it doesn't hurt, right? There is no problem if only one of you decides to go, right?(What I'm trying to say is always say you're taking a guest, but in reality you don't have to).

In other words, Amtrak won't know who is who, so as long as they (either one or two people) have ticket(s), am I right??

When you say to the AGR person on the phone, "I'm taking a guest" the AGR person will need that guest's name, etc. You can't just say a guest and not provide the info. They have to produce a ticket with a person's name on it.

Now - if you book the bedroom and a guest already has their ticket, you can link the two reservations together, but the guest would be paying when they don't have to.

If you want to travel in a bedroom by yourself, that is OK, too.

 

[the_traveler]

And if you want to bring a guest, and that guest can not travel on all trains, still book the guest on all trains, Otherwise, you would have to book separate awards - which will be more points!

Example: A couple of years ago, I booked an award from BHM via WAS, CHI and PDX to LAX. My traveling companion could not make the BHM-WAS segment, but joined me on the WAS-CHI and CHI-PDX segments. (He stayed in PDX, while I continued to LAX.) His name was on all the trains. Because the room is the same points (or price) for either 1 or 2, they did not care because the room was occupied.