Tip is optional but recommended. For the dinning car attendant if you eat all meals there $2.00 to $4.00 for breakfast, $3.00 to $6.00 for lunch and $6.00 to $10.00 per person in cash. The sleeping attendent $5.00 to $10.00 per 1 full day depending if the attendant helped you a lot or just a...
if you book way in advane like 10 months you can get a roommate for around $800 to $900 otherwise if they roommates are over $1000 you can wait for an Amtrak Sale and usually you will save money for that but not always.
I am suprised that they did not put you on the crescent to New Orleans, than the Sunset Limited from New Orleans to LA. That would be the best trains to take and only 2 of them, unless something happened and not running. Here is the list of all long haul Amtrak train and if you click on the...
Texas Eagle already has traditiondal dinning but from San Antonio to LA and flexible dinning from San Antonio to Chicago and those are only for sleeper passengers that started in July 2022. On the cardinal currently still has flexible dinning and only for sleeper passenger too.
That is slightly wrong to say the Texas Eagle does not have a dinning car or Observation car. From Illinois to San Antonio the Texas Eagle has no observation or dinning car but when the Sunset Limited connects to the Texas Eagle in San Antonio it has an observation car and dinning car. Here is...
They already have traditional dinning on all routes west of San Anotniono and Chicago except a tiny portion of the Empire Builder, and the Auto train also has traditional dinning. The rest of the train still have flexible but I heard for a youtube site that will change eventually to traditional...
Right now the small portion of the Texas Eagle from Chicago to San Antonio has no dinning or observation car, but when they had the Sunset Limited to it in San Antonio there is a dinning car and an observation car for all passengers and in the part is traditional dinning for everybody in the...
There are 2 different meals on the Amtrak long haul trains. One are flexible meals that are prepared before the trip and just reheated on the microwave in the dinning/cafe car and those trains are the train east of Chicago and north of San Antonio, part of the Empire Builder from Spokane to...