Recently upon a trip from Bos to Cle, we had a roomette from Alb to Cle on the LSL. A few minutes after settling into our room, a diner attedant stopped to get our dinner reservations. Once that time came, the diner was full and we were told it might be a 30 to 40 minute wait. Someone told us that the diner was inundated with coach passengers that had boarded at Albany.
It kind of negates the idea of a reservation if that situation is allowed. It's reminiscent of the Seinfeld episode where he had a reservation to rent a car but when he went to pick it up, they didn't have it. They know how to take the reservation but they don't know how to hold the reservation.
If the reservation means nothing then wouldn't we be smarter next time to just order from our room and have it brought to us? I thought that was an option with all the changes with the diner cars over the last several years.
It isn't the first time we've had problems in the diner of the LSL. Funny, though, in all of our other thousands of miles of travel with Amtrak, we've always enjoyed the diner experience.
It kind of negates the idea of a reservation if that situation is allowed. It's reminiscent of the Seinfeld episode where he had a reservation to rent a car but when he went to pick it up, they didn't have it. They know how to take the reservation but they don't know how to hold the reservation.
If the reservation means nothing then wouldn't we be smarter next time to just order from our room and have it brought to us? I thought that was an option with all the changes with the diner cars over the last several years.
It isn't the first time we've had problems in the diner of the LSL. Funny, though, in all of our other thousands of miles of travel with Amtrak, we've always enjoyed the diner experience.