Hello,
We are looking forward to our first sleeper car experience (since I was a kid) on the Coast Starlight a week from Sunday, Portland to Emeryville.
Currently we have two roomettes booked out of Portland (one for me, one for my two teenage daughters), in rooms 13/14 in car 31. So if I'm reading a chart I found online correctly, they're on the lower level, rear of the car near a family bedroom. But maybe it's the front of the car?
However, we could adjust our travel plans to hop aboard at Seattle instead, in which case we would get rooms 9/10 in car 30. Those would be at the rear of the upper level unless I'm misreading it.
So my questions to you experienced travelers are:
a) Do you see advantages/disadvantages to either position? Noise, swaying, foot traffic, proximity to bathrooms as a good/bad thing?
b) Do you know which car is the Pacific Parlour Car and where the Dining Car is? Would one of these room locations mean there's more foot traffic as people go to and fro?
Thank you!
=Travelin' Mom
We are looking forward to our first sleeper car experience (since I was a kid) on the Coast Starlight a week from Sunday, Portland to Emeryville.
Currently we have two roomettes booked out of Portland (one for me, one for my two teenage daughters), in rooms 13/14 in car 31. So if I'm reading a chart I found online correctly, they're on the lower level, rear of the car near a family bedroom. But maybe it's the front of the car?
However, we could adjust our travel plans to hop aboard at Seattle instead, in which case we would get rooms 9/10 in car 30. Those would be at the rear of the upper level unless I'm misreading it.
So my questions to you experienced travelers are:
a) Do you see advantages/disadvantages to either position? Noise, swaying, foot traffic, proximity to bathrooms as a good/bad thing?
b) Do you know which car is the Pacific Parlour Car and where the Dining Car is? Would one of these room locations mean there's more foot traffic as people go to and fro?
Thank you!
=Travelin' Mom