SweetSue
Train Attendant
We are looking forward to a LD trip in September on CZ,CS AND EB but with the special of triple points for AGR in May, I decided to surprise my husband for his birthday and booked the CL to WAS on May 19. Since we are still fairly new to riding Amtrak and have only taken one other trip, I have a few questions:
We board just before midnight. Does the attendant help us find available coach seats or do we find them ourselves? The last time we boarded in TOL so many people were sleeping and no one was around to help so when we found two empty seats there were still slips of paper above the seats. We didn't know if those passengers had just disembarked the train but we sat there and then no one came to take our tickets and nobody told us that we took their seats.
This is my first time going to DC. My husband hasn't been there for 35 years. Still trying to decide where to stay. Any suggestions? We like motels that have free breakfast buffets. Also which is the best tour bus to ride where you just get on and off where and when you want. We will be there Thursday after noon, Friday and Sat. until we get back on the train on Sat. afternoon to head home. I hope to get a motel that will honor a late checkout so we don't have to worry about what to do with our luggage till we head back to union station.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
We board just before midnight. Does the attendant help us find available coach seats or do we find them ourselves? The last time we boarded in TOL so many people were sleeping and no one was around to help so when we found two empty seats there were still slips of paper above the seats. We didn't know if those passengers had just disembarked the train but we sat there and then no one came to take our tickets and nobody told us that we took their seats.
This is my first time going to DC. My husband hasn't been there for 35 years. Still trying to decide where to stay. Any suggestions? We like motels that have free breakfast buffets. Also which is the best tour bus to ride where you just get on and off where and when you want. We will be there Thursday after noon, Friday and Sat. until we get back on the train on Sat. afternoon to head home. I hope to get a motel that will honor a late checkout so we don't have to worry about what to do with our luggage till we head back to union station.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.