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My family (two adults and two children-7 and 10) will be travelling on the Southwest Chief in August. We have booked the two roomettes (numbers 5 and 6) to travel all the way from Chicago to LA in one go. We did the LSL and CZ back in 2004 and the Coast Starlight in 2005 - the Children loved the journeys, especially the trips to the dining cars. Just one thing concerns me - will the dining experience still be good or will we find the standards have changed? How does this journey comare with our previous trips?
As you may tell from the name we will be traveling in from the UK to Chicago prior to the train journey - can any one suggest a fairly reasonable hotel near to the Chicago station that we can stay in the night before - perhaps one that is also close to the subway route from O'Hare?
In anticipation
PHIL
My family (two adults and two children-7 and 10) will be travelling on the Southwest Chief in August. We have booked the two roomettes (numbers 5 and 6) to travel all the way from Chicago to LA in one go. We did the LSL and CZ back in 2004 and the Coast Starlight in 2005 - the Children loved the journeys, especially the trips to the dining cars. Just one thing concerns me - will the dining experience still be good or will we find the standards have changed? How does this journey comare with our previous trips?
As you may tell from the name we will be traveling in from the UK to Chicago prior to the train journey - can any one suggest a fairly reasonable hotel near to the Chicago station that we can stay in the night before - perhaps one that is also close to the subway route from O'Hare?
In anticipation
PHIL