MikeM
OBS Chief
Slow day at the office today, thoughts turned to an upcoming trip in September from Kansas to the Boston area for a meeting. Got thinking, I wonder how much it'd cost to do Amtrak? SWC to Chicago, then Lake Shore to Boston, spend two days on the train, do the meeting, two days back more or less (getting into Newton in the middle of the night of day 3).
Loaded this all into the Amtrak website, and about died. Even several months out, the economy bedrooms were running around $400 for one night. By comparison, if I routed via Washington, economy rooms were about $200 or thereabouts. But even the economy BR on the SWC from CHI to NEW was $222 WB.
Think those are normal pricing for this train? Any suggestions? Has anyone heard if any new sleepers may be on line by then? I just ran through Expedia, and a one connection flight would run around $300. A bit of a challenge to pitch four times the cost to the significant other.
One special bonus question I'd like to toss out... I read somewhere there was some discussion about returning some old heritage sleepers back to service for crews use only. Is there anything to this, or just delusional rumblings?
Thanks in advance!
Loaded this all into the Amtrak website, and about died. Even several months out, the economy bedrooms were running around $400 for one night. By comparison, if I routed via Washington, economy rooms were about $200 or thereabouts. But even the economy BR on the SWC from CHI to NEW was $222 WB.
Think those are normal pricing for this train? Any suggestions? Has anyone heard if any new sleepers may be on line by then? I just ran through Expedia, and a one connection flight would run around $300. A bit of a challenge to pitch four times the cost to the significant other.
One special bonus question I'd like to toss out... I read somewhere there was some discussion about returning some old heritage sleepers back to service for crews use only. Is there anything to this, or just delusional rumblings?
Thanks in advance!