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Diana M.
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I am fairly new to Amtrak, having traveled on it once many years ago from Syracuse to Buffalo. I rode coach on the way and first class coming back.
I'm thinking about taking a longer trip this time, but with a private room. I am disabled and use a power wheelchair, sometimes I use a walker. How hard would it be to reserve an accessible room? I searched for such rooms on Amtrak's website but saw only one accessible room on it. For the most part I found viewliner and superliner roomettes, family bedrooms, coach and business class seats.
Can I get on an Amtrak train with my wheelchair?
How wide are the hallways on Amtrak trains? I watched a number of YouTube videos re. Amtrak and they seem so narrow.
Are accessible rooms near the dining and observation cars? How close are they to self-serve coffee & juice areas I've seen on some of those videos?
Is it possible for someone to reserve an accessible room, get onboard, and then find it was given to someone else? I heard many horror stories about airline passengers getting bumped. Does this happen on Amtrak?
Lastly, is there a way I could secure my room if I needed to go to another part of the train? All the videos I've watched so far say that they can only be locked from the inside.
Thanks!
I'm thinking about taking a longer trip this time, but with a private room. I am disabled and use a power wheelchair, sometimes I use a walker. How hard would it be to reserve an accessible room? I searched for such rooms on Amtrak's website but saw only one accessible room on it. For the most part I found viewliner and superliner roomettes, family bedrooms, coach and business class seats.
Can I get on an Amtrak train with my wheelchair?
How wide are the hallways on Amtrak trains? I watched a number of YouTube videos re. Amtrak and they seem so narrow.
Are accessible rooms near the dining and observation cars? How close are they to self-serve coffee & juice areas I've seen on some of those videos?
Is it possible for someone to reserve an accessible room, get onboard, and then find it was given to someone else? I heard many horror stories about airline passengers getting bumped. Does this happen on Amtrak?
Lastly, is there a way I could secure my room if I needed to go to another part of the train? All the videos I've watched so far say that they can only be locked from the inside.
Thanks!