>>2026198Sure, took a 5 hour trip (business class). Autistic detail incoming.
My travel experience: domestic and international first/business on Singapore and American. Have ridden Acela first/business also.
Pros:
- Arrived exactly on time within the minute.
- Dining car available with decent food.
- Lots of luggage storage
- Very wide and spacious seats, with singles/doubles/quads available.
- USB and 120v plugs available for each seat (type B I think).
- Seat have a coatrack and two armrests.
- Huge bathroom.
- Huge windows and doors.
- Great wifi, can stream videos/music.
Cons:
- Bathroom only has a blow-dryer.
- Bathroom was out of soap.
- Bathroom sprung a water leak 3/4 into the trip and was closed.
- Seats DO NOT recline. The bottom slides out slightly, that's it.
- Very hard seats, I was constantly shifting. They feel harder than economy class aircraft seats.
- Some seats already had the "recline" buttons broken.
- Felt a little dirty, crumbs/splashes on the seats despite this being the first trip of the day.
- Trash cans are way too small, they were overflowing by the end.
- Overhead trip info displays were not on/working.
- Horrific screeching speakers that got noise feedback every single time they made a station announcement.
- Amtrak employees were surly and grouchy, which for some reason seems to be the case no matter where you go in the US. They could do with some customer service training.
Neutral:
- Pretty full for a Monday on a non-holiday weekend, but not crowded.
- We pulled over once for another Amtrak train, but that was the only time.
- The car was not super quiet but not loud either, in terms of passenger/track noise.
Verdict: worse than flying, better than driving.
