Evidently some of you "get it" and some of you don't. :lol:
If I pay for, and receive a bedroom ticket on the Starlight, I expect to receive all the first class amenities. If, through that bizarre set of circumstances, I'm downgraded to coach on the next day train, I'm going to be a pretty unhapy puppy if I'm treated as a "standard" coach passenger.
If Amtrak gives me a refund for the difference between the bedroom and coach, you're saying that I should just shut up and accept it and resign myself to being treated as a "standard" coach passenger? That, by itself, isn't satisfactory. I don't want to pay that top dollar for each meal on a standby basis, just in case there's room for me in the diner, or the PPC.
And, as an aside, I've never heard of Amtrak lifting ticket STUBS. Certainly they would lift the tickets, and exchange them, but the STUBS? I don't think so. The stubs would serve as proof that I was booked on yesterday's cancelled train, and if the crew couldn't figure out what to do on their at capacity train, then god help us all.
IS THERE NO POLICY IN PLACE? Amtrak doesn't have being downgraded from sleeper to coach in their OBS manual? <_< Sounds like a shaky way to run a railroad.