Gary Behling
Service Attendant
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2019
- Messages
- 109
I'd like to get some advice from other experienced Amtrak riders regarding late trains and missed connections. I have a bit of experience myself having been an Amtrak rider since 1978 but, my main concern involves my use of long distance round the country trips in Bedrooms, never coach.
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I try my best to plan my schedule so that whatever train I'm on is scheduled to be at my next connection point 3 to 4 hours before the next train I connect to leaves the station. However, sometimes a train can be maybe 8 hours late and my next train has already left. THAT train that left had my Deluxe bedroom which I paid a bundle for and now I have to find a motel and wait for the next train which may or may not have a bedroom available and I don't know if Amtrak will let me have it since MY bedroom was on the train that left yesterday or the day before.
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How do you people deal with this situation? What I have been doing is scheduling a one or two day layover in a motel at each connection point
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I try my best to plan my schedule so that whatever train I'm on is scheduled to be at my next connection point 3 to 4 hours before the next train I connect to leaves the station. However, sometimes a train can be maybe 8 hours late and my next train has already left. THAT train that left had my Deluxe bedroom which I paid a bundle for and now I have to find a motel and wait for the next train which may or may not have a bedroom available and I don't know if Amtrak will let me have it since MY bedroom was on the train that left yesterday or the day before.
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How do you people deal with this situation? What I have been doing is scheduling a one or two day layover in a motel at each connection point