Amtrak George
Lead Service Attendant
It Depends. if I am traveling with an employee to a seminar in New Orleans, just over 8 hours one way, we will get whatever discount coach seats available and sit together. If it is a short day trip I will do coach. Now, my wife and I generally do a romette Memphis to New Orleans for the privacy, bottled water, meals etc. When traveling overnight I will get a romette, and 2 roomettes or a bedroom if the wife or son is traveling with me.
In younger days I made several overnight trips by coach complete with crying babies and other various and sundry noises. Not any more. :blush: Once we had set up a long day trip on the Cardinal and the crowd was so rambunctious that I begged the conductor to upgrade me to a couple of roomettes, He did and I paid and the wife and kids thought Dad was the best thing since sliced bread.
In younger days I made several overnight trips by coach complete with crying babies and other various and sundry noises. Not any more. :blush: Once we had set up a long day trip on the Cardinal and the crowd was so rambunctious that I begged the conductor to upgrade me to a couple of roomettes, He did and I paid and the wife and kids thought Dad was the best thing since sliced bread.