I did book business class, and yes it's a bit of a spur of the moment trip on the Empire Builder. It's a route I've wanted to see in the winter and my girlfriend hasn't been on it before, and surprisingly the points redemptions weren't too crazy last minute - we're leaving Saturday.
Exactly why I asked. They're only assigned at VAC, SEA, PDX, and EUG. However, they will have a seat preassigned before they get to Tacoma. So when you get your seat assigned in Portland, just mention that you are actually continuing to Seattle, and you have another ticket from Tacoma. They'll likely ask to see both tickets, mark them both as lifted, and give you a single seat assignment to Seattle as opposed to making you move enroute.Thanks for the replies. The only thing I was worried about was that it sounded like from some trip reports that seats are assigned in the stations on Cascades trains, so I was a bit worried about that.
I did book business class, and yes it's a bit of a spur of the moment trip on the Empire Builder. It's a route I've wanted to see in the winter and my girlfriend hasn't been on it before, and surprisingly the points redemptions weren't too crazy last minute - we're leaving Saturday.
