RTOlson
Lead Service Attendant
I'm heading home to San Diego for the holidays and was planning to redeem some rewards points for the trip. Since my trip from Chico (CIC) to San Diego (SAN) required that I use two special routes (San Joaquins and Surfliner) and two of their feeder buses, I had assumed that I would need 2,000 to use two special routes rewards.
I had to call Amtrak Guest Rewards to book the trip and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was treated as one trip and thus only used 1,000 points.
What a deal! I could use the other 1,000 points to take the train/bus on my return trip if I wanted to be on the ground for another 14 hours (Southwest flies SAN-SMF in 90 minutes).
The special routes rewards has got to be one of the best deals in travel incentive programs. It's sweet.
I had to call Amtrak Guest Rewards to book the trip and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it was treated as one trip and thus only used 1,000 points.
What a deal! I could use the other 1,000 points to take the train/bus on my return trip if I wanted to be on the ground for another 14 hours (Southwest flies SAN-SMF in 90 minutes).
The special routes rewards has got to be one of the best deals in travel incentive programs. It's sweet.