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penguinflies

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Attempting to book STL-CHI 304 02May16 via web.

Amtrak.com price reports 27.00 with accommodation charge of 21.00 to BC. When one clicks to review, price changes coach to $39.00 plus 21.00 accommodation for BC. However, when one clicks through to buy coach, Amtrak.com charges the posted $27.00 (not $39.00).

I ended up having to book 306 which was also reporting 27.00 with accommodation of 21.00 to BC, giving correct total of $48.00.

Does that sound correct? Happened to anyone else on other trains? It has happened to me once before in 2015 and the 800# was also locked out of issuing the estimated $27.00 fare with 21.00 accommodation.
 
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Is the $27 for coach based on applying a discount, not available to BC?
 
re saver fare: It appears to be a value fare (not saver), no discount applied.

Checking back midafternoon now BC is showing the price difference for 304 @ $60 /306 @$48. Coach for both is showing $27. Oh well!
 
The saver fare is 20-25% off the full fare already. The other discounts (such as AAA) are 10-15% off the full fare. You can not combine more than 1 discount. (You can either get 10% off or 25% off, but not both.) That's why it seems like "no discounts allowed" - the discount is already included in that fare!
 
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