They're offering a voucher with no change fees but I'm going to push for a full refund based on the non-return of trad dining by the promised date and no SSL. As you say though, it's probably moot as we won't be allowed in anyway!
Don't apologise! Our trip on the CZ in 2019 was one of our best travel experiences ever. As for trains over here in the UK. If you've never stood at Westbury atation at 2100 on a wet Sunday, you haven't experienced misery.
I'm now even more depressed than I was before. I think that even if President Biden decides to let us in to the US, I'll cancel our TE booking. Our favourite parts of our previous trip were sitting in the SSL and eating in the dining car. In fact, we did little else, apart from sleep. Drat.
Can I please just clarify something about this? Being an Brit and a relative Amtrak 'newbie' (only have done one other LD trip before, on the CZ in 2019), does this mean that we will have to stay in our sleeper for the entire trip, with the exception of meal times (if of course, traditional...
Oh no. Without that, I'm not sure I really want to travel on the TE! It's looking increasingly likely that we'll just cancel our trip planned for July.