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Got it. I added to my last post, does this happen on the Coast Starlight as well?

Oh...Wow...Yeah downgrade to coach aint gonna work either way. I would hope at least a full refund of points without penalty would be offered. In my situation, 2 weeks out wouldn't be devastating, but certainly wouldn't be happy about it at all. Thank you for the warning. Do you know if this...

Interesting. Will definitely have an idea of an alternate plan just in case. Guessing they're expecting a bump in ridership for the Holiday weekend? I got room 6 if that means anything. Wonder what the cutoff for rooms booked is for keeping/ditching the 31 car is.

Thank you for that! Glad I asked these questions, though my brother decided he wanted to join me on this trip and get a roomette for himself out of Chicago the next day. So for an additional 1K points I'm going to meet him in CHI and go end to end CHI-SEA. Bucket list item for sure. Price is not...

Gotcha. Thanks! By "diner constraints" are you saying that since only sleeping passengers can use the dining car therefore more are likely to book a roomette to enjoy the dining? First world questions for sure! :):):):)

Anybody here have experience on the Empire Builder out of St. Paul MN westbound in a roomette? It's 11:13 pm scheduled so just curious if they pre set it up with bed ready to go or does the attendant wait until the passenger is boarded and go from there. MSP appears to be a a longer "break" stop...

Thanks for that. I decided to change ours to a bedroom since they had both rooms available. Not that many more points but not likely to have to worry about this problem since it seems the sleeper IIs are running on the Cardinal now. Don't want a last minute cancellation like you had!

So I just booked 2 roomettes for late October this year NYP to CHI and got the last two rooms 11 and 12. Should I be concerned? Are all the runs using the Viewliner IIs?

Awesome thanks! I just wound up changing our trip to the Cardinal instead and got us each our own roomette. lol. Rooms 11 and 12 so I'm guessing this will be a Viewliner I sleeper.

Cool thanks!

Yes, it's still going. I had to call AGR today in fact to book a bedroom.

Absolutely a first world problem question here. I already had a room booked on the Lake Shore limited NYP-CHI and added my son. The agent explained to me about the Open Sleeper Ticket so I got him that using points. I've never seen one since we have to get it printed at NYP. Anybody have...

Is anybody else having this problem when searching for points tickets? Literally any itinerary I search for using "points" I get the rate for Roomettes but when I check for bedrooms or family bedrooms it shows up as "0 points". If I change to show the price in dollars, then all available rooms...

System is still doing this for every itinerary I search for. Roomette shows points but bedrooms are always zero. In order to book a bedroom using AGR points one has to call. Kind of annoying.

On the LSL NYP to CHI in late May. Roughly 4 hours after landing from a 12 hour flight from Asia. Going to try it and see how it works with the jet lag etc. (got approx 28 hours in Chicago before getting on the Zephyr to Emeryville. "Traincation.") Anyway, on the LSL I got 4911 room 2. Sounds...

I'm on the Star next month (before the flex dining gets added) NY to FL, and have been flip flopping back and forth between a roomette on the Meteor or Bedroom on the Star. I've got the voucher credit for the difference in price, roughly 330$ more for the Star BR, however only "A" is available...

Does anyone know the exact size of the Acela First Class overheads? I've searched and searched to no avail for true dimensions. I have Samsonite 25 inch in height spinner that looks like it will fit based on pics but I'm not 100% sure. I know there is a luggage rack at the end of the car too...

I agree, extremely subjective. I never thought LD train bedroom fares were "good value" even with the dining car. But then again, I pay for them, enjoy them, and will keep doing so so I guess I'm getting "good value" if I'm doing it? lol. I do see the whole point of this thread is to speak to...

Ok great. Then I don't understand your definition of "good value" then. To me the ONLY reason I travel LD by train is for the charm, accommodations, and long, slow relaxing trip, and YES for the meal service. As much as we're paying, NOT "good value" in any case. I do look forward to trying the...

Ok, well then even better value flying economy. If one is looking for "good value" traveling on Amtrak in a sleeping car, then one will be sorely disappointed, regardless of dining service. Much cheaper and faster to simply fly...