Amtrak Roomette, Bedrooms, and Seat Compared

I work for Amtrak, great job to have! I have a few tips for travel on my trains. If you can always get a bedroom! They are the best on the train. Try to avoid room E though, it’s the smallest. If you travel by coach try to go business class! Better seats by far. In a bedroom, after using the toilet rinse it out with the shower. The toilets are vacuum operated so don’t flush anything but bodily waste and toilet paper!! That goes for all of them btw. We’ve upgraded the blankets and pillows! They are much nicer now. Bring snacks too. By all means enjoy a meal on the diner, but snacks are a must. Enjoy the ride and know there are guys like me doing everything we can to make your trip safe and comfortable.

If I need trip ideas you’ll be the first person I’ll look up! Love your content🔥

Two questions: 1. Why didn’t you actually show what the accessible room was like? and, more importantly, to what extent are the shared showers also accessible? We, mobility impaired folk also wanna travel by train.
Lastly, last year, I wanted to go by train, from Philly to Denver, and found its cost quite prohibitive ($2,000. Round trip, for an accessible room). Did I misunderstand something? OTOH, Thank you for the very useful info (and images) of the different bedroom (except, of course, the accessible room).

Travelled Denver to Sacramento and back on Coach. Very comfortable. Easy to snooze and can see scenery on both sides of the train.

Ummm not pleased. What other video's do you have that show the actual accessible rooms. You only showed the doorway, nothing of the interior of the accessible room. Just only got to see outside the room window. As someone who uses a wheelchair and thought of traveling by train, this wasn't not how I expected the room to be showed off, when you showed all the interior's of all the other rooms in detail. People with disabilities love to travel and need people like you and your company to show us. Again not pleased with how Amtrak's accessible room showed when all I saw was the window.

Awesome video

Why haven't they prioritized making sure there is wifi on all of the trains?

Wow. Have to say the prices kind of shocked me.

Im bringing back my 93 year old dad from Denver to Chicago, he has a very hard time getting around, some say roomette, some say accessbile room,, any ideas

I'm debating

On my California vacation to stay in LA for a few days then take a train back to Chicago

But I'm wondering what route is better the
Southwest chief or the California Zephyr

Hey Jeb thanks so much for this video . I plan to travel AMTRAK with my new wife and family and the information provided is number one. Thanks so much!

Hi. Great video, thank you. Quick question, I am traveling in coach with my 4 kids, is there a way to make sure we can all get seats together?

omg that mask is a MAJOR TURNOFF.

Gotta love people who wear masks when they're by themselves lol

One tip for those of you traveling solo in a Viewliner roomette: consider using the upper bunk as your bed.

The bottom bunk is the default bed option—and on a Superliner, that's by far the better choice, since the upper bunk is pretty cramped. Since the Superliners are bi-level, the ceilings are a lot lower, which is probably why Jeb noted that the Viewliner roomettes feel more spacious.

The Viewliner roomette's upper bunk is different. The ceilings are nice and high, so you can sit up in bed without bumping your head on the ceiling. The upper bunk has its own window, which is perfectly aligned with the bed, making it easy to lay in bed and look out the window. In the lower bunk, you'll have to sit up to look out the window properly. Easy to do—but also not as relaxing.

If you're using the upper bunk in the Viewliner, you can also leave your lower bunk set up as seats. Just climb up whenever you're ready for bed. The bed itself raises and lowers on a track, and is simple to raise and lower at will. When you wake up in the morning, feel free to climb down and enjoy that morning coffee without waiting for the attendant to make your room up. You can also nap during the daytime whenever the mood strikes you!

Your example of chi to sea coach was $150.00 and the roomette was around $780.00. Was that $780 for the roomette or is it $780.00 Per person ( total of $1560.00 ).

I’d like more pics and video of the inside of rooms. Pan around a bit slower, let’s see the nitty and gritty of each room. Thank you for this. It was a nice intro

I swear I thought it would be magical but I HATED the train. We took it from Orlando to DC and that was the worst experience of my life. Out of the 7 of us only the two little ones had a good time. The adults couldn’t sleep and the smell after a while from the toilet (we were not near them) was horrific. Worse on the way back when a fight broke out and the train had a mechanical issue in the middle of nowhere, so we sat on a train with no signal, electricity and a funky toilet. Yeah never again.

Amtrak transportation is the most relaxing way to travel if you can. I have always met the nicest people and in some instances made life long pen pals. 🥰🥰♥️♥️

I loved traveling by Amtrak. When I first rode from Florida to Pittsburgh, I went first class. Expensive but I loved it. There was a bottle of wine and two glasses in my room. For breakfast you could order eggs the way you wanted them along with bacon, etc., just like a restaurant, and for dinner you could order a steak and baked potato and salad or many other great entrees. As the years went by, riding Amtrak wasn’t as great as before. You had more or less pre packaged food and I found that disappointing. I still live trains but like everything else it changes.

Is there Wi-Fi on Amtrak? Is it free if it is provided?

do any bedrooms have double beds … age does not allow getting into upper bunk

My wife and I have mobility issues and can not deal with upper bunks. We need two lower bunks as well as private bath and shower. Can Amtrak provide these accommodations?

Great info!

Is it possible to book a Family Bedroom for 3 adults?

The bedroom is very expensive crazy price

Bedroom or roomete Too much snoring in coach lol

Hi Jeb, I have watched many of your travel blogs by now, and really enjoyed them! thank you for the great tours where you have travelled! So many places i will never get to see, and in such luxury!
I have had the pleasure of a nice long amtrak trip from spokane -chicago, then south on the 'City of new orleans'!...pre-covid times, it was truly exotic for us, a first time in 30 yrs train trip. (yeah well...) (and return!) It was an epic journey and we felt so special being "first(ish) class" in our little roomette........all meals included and wonderful. I was looking for a tour of You doing the :City of New Orleans".....but can't see one.... Have you covered that? We were given a pamphlet with the words to City of New Orleans, the song played on speakers, and the food was cajun delight! Would love to see your take! Best to you! val

I love Amtrak. I have taken the Southwest Chief from Lamy, NM to Kansas City several times in the last three years. I always book a roomette. I prefer the lower level, and only recently had to be upstairs, which wasn't fun for several reasons. Later on this month I'll be taking that same trip, LMY to KCY and I scored the family bedroom in both directions. Wow. Lower level, a room that allows me to see both sides of the train. I may not bother to leave the room, and have all my meals brought to me. I love Amtrak.

Hello Jeb. This is a very nice video! My name is Kenneth Palmer. I reside in San Bernardino, CA and am planning a trip to Chicago, IL sometime down the road. I have never ridden Amtrak outside of the state of California, only within the state. That is why I am choosing to embark on this trip to see what it is like to ride the rails from state to state. Anyway, it looks like my preferred accommodation choice would be the simple bedroom, not the bedroom suite. I am a single adult and a bit on the sizy side, if you know what I mean. In other words,, I'm not the smallest guy around! So, since I am aiming to travel to the Midwest, Illinois as I mentioned, are there Superliner trains that travel in that direction out of Southern California? I understand that the bedroom has its own bathroom and shower if I gathered the information correctly. Are regular bedrooms more expensive than the bedroom suites? Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Also, do bedroom passengers have dining car privileges? And are their meals included in the fare price? Thank you very much!

I have been watching your videos religiously. I'm planning on taking an epic trip with my 3 younger kiddos so this video was a huge help. I think we'd opt for Bedroom suite as opposed to the Family room just to have access to our own toilet.

Another thing that I'm surprised was skipped because it never is in airplane videos, is it all of your meals are included with rooms, so if you're in the train for 2 days that's 6 full meals and they are really very good , and far beyond anything and airline can serve.

In the morning my purser gave me the menu selections for the day and a choice of reservation times for the dining car, and although it was very nice with real glass and silverware, I am just a little too introverted to be seated with strangers while eating (even though they were very friendly) so my purser was kind enough to bring the rest of my meals for the trip to my roomette.

I believe they came in foam boxes with that was perfectly fine for the more relaxed eating experience, and I also was given the option of getting anything from the cafe which is distinctly different from the dining car.

The dining car can you thought of it as more of a restaurant experience in the cafe is very much like a snack bar but they are in two different places and people may not be aware of that and of course food from the cafe is cheaper, but sometimes you just want a burger and fries :-)

I have no idea how much the food would have cost if it weren't included in the room, but it was definitely sufficient for a big guy appetite and the food came frequently enough that I had enough saved muffins and rolls that I thought I would eat snacks later, but there was always another full meal just around the corner!

I think there were two shared bathrooms in my car and I never had trouble walking the few steps to use it, it was clean and there was no smell I'm not so sure I would want one right next to my chair though.

A cool tip I read here was that when you flush the toilet if you're in a room with one to follow with water from the shower or water bottle and that will prevent any build-up or odors in your small space.

The attendance for the rooms really are nice and helpful.

If you want turndown service at the end of the day and have your chairs converted to a bed, you can do that.
I elected to do that.just once since the bed takes up nearly the entire room at with just enough room to stand up between the bed and the door, I found it just as comfortable sleeping in the chair with it reclined.

Also if you're not planning on using the upper fold-down bunk bed, you can use that space for additional luggage or storage of pillows during the day etc.

The attendants really can help you with just about anything you need, they will get you pretty much anything you want, or can give you complete privacy just depending on what you prefer.

It was nice to have a shower room available, the one in my car was downstairs but very large I think designed to also accommodate wheelchairs so I took a late night shower and it was cool to have that experience on a train.

All of those things added together, as well as someone to help you with your luggage and all the rest, was worth the upgrade for me which was an optional upgrade after the fact and nowhere near the advertised price, about $100 over Coach and that part can be a little tricky, and you do gamble a little bit by buying a coach seat and then waiting for the inevitable upgrade email, but for me it was well worth the price for really being treated like a first-class passenger on the Southwest Chief from Kansas City to LA was a trip of a lifetime and not having to worry about packing snacks or worrying about having enough money for food aboard was great, and you're also were local foods available in at several of the stops not that I needed any more food but I did have to try some homemade burritos being sold vendor on the platform in Albuquerque, they were amazing!

Plus unique souvenirs and keepsakes, I bought some authentic Indian Arrowheads and jewelry there as well.

I could have made the flight in 3 hours in been crammed into a seat designed for skinny teenagers and been subjected to intrusive body searches and the crazy hubbub of an airport but I wasn't no hurry and the 35 our train trip was extremely comfortable and enjoyable, extraordinary views of abandoned missions in the middle of the desert with no roads in sight as well as flying across the tracks in Western Kansas at ninety miles an hour at night and crawling through canyons so narrow in New Mexico that have the windows opened it seems like you could touch the walls, you don't get experiences like that flying at 35,000 ft.

Although during that high-speed segment of the trip we did hit some real turbulence and I got tossed into a luckily vacant booth in the dining car lol

I would recommend staying in your seats when the train is going 90 + miles per hour ;)

Everything I needed was taken care of and it was cool being pampered.

My only regret is that since I was traveling on a budget and my first time on a train, I was not able to tip my excellent car attendant very much.
I would next time make sure to figure that into my plans because they really work hard.

I hope everyone gives Amtrak chance and I hope that their routes are expanded so that most cities are serviced!

What’s up with the mask, dystopia

Has anyone traveled on the Autotrain via a Bedroom Suite? My mom and I would like to ride but she is 87 and we are both handicapped. We both use rollator walkers and cannot climb stairs. I am her caregiver and am functional with the exception of using a rollator. The Accessible room is out for
us because it only has upper and lower bunks. Family room is a possibility but as I understand they don't like to assign it to only 2 people. I realize a Bedroom Suite is more expensive but it would give both of us lower bunks and bathrooms. Are these available on the lower levels of the passenger cars? I would really like to hear from anyone about this. Thanks.

how are the family bedrooms less than the regular bedrooms???!

how do you get an accessible bedroom? Cost?

I looked into a trip to NY on Amtrak when I saw the prices I have decided to fly lot less $ and faster.

YOU FORGOT THAT IF TWO PEOPLE BUY ANY OF THE SLEEPER ACCOMODATIONS YOU NEED TO DOUBLE THE PRICE

Highly irritating background music.

Why do people always do that?
We want to hear what the narrator has to say, not be entertained by some banal soundtrack.

Somebody can take the same train ride right now for 588. For anybody thinking about going, I know I want to

If I were doing long distance, I can't see many circumstances in which I'd ride coach. For me, if I'm traveling with my girlfriend, we'd go with the accessible bedroom, since she's a wheelchair user. Also worth noting, pax with disabilities get a slight discount on travel, which is super cool. I want to take her to New Orleans someday, that's somewhere she wants to go.

(I think you should have stressed that passengers shouldn't book accessible bedrooms unless they literally need to. It's like the accessible stall in the bathroom, you don't know who's gonna need it.)

Still think it's weird to have the toilet and shower together...germ wise...LOL. I think I'd prefer a bedroom since I'd be traveling overnight.

Thank you so much for this video! I came across Amtrak advertisements on tiktok and I’ve become obsessed with wanting to explore all the different lines with Amtrak. After watching this video, I definitely feel like shorter rides are better with coach conditions (and you can just save that money for when you reach your destination) whereas longer rides like the California Zephyr (watched your video and loved it) would be better off with a roomette or bedroom.

I have a video suggestion! Maybe you could try giving a basic tutorial of the Amtrak website and how someone planning an Amtrak trip should go about doing it, because it can be a bit overwhelming if you’re in the planning phase. And if you just did the Amtrak site directly or if you also considered Amtrak vacations.

Thank you so much for your videos! I love them!

Thanks for all the tips
GOD bless

I don’t really understand the pet stuff and why only service pets are allowed in the private rooms. I think that needs changed! 😫

Romette to highest class: Way too expensive and not really comfortable! Compared to a normal hotel X times the price.

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Amtrak needs more activities on the train. It's very boring No entertainment and a dull ride.. Jeb you must promote Amtrak too revisit the 1950's to add flair for riders.

I am a single traveler. If i book a bedroom, will it be private? Or can someone have a booking in the same suite since it can fit two people?

Anybody traveled south, Dallas east Texas?