Replying to Is a roomette two people or one?

So if I wanted to redeem points for two in a bedroom on the Coast Starlight from SAN to SEA, the 25,000 points would also cover both tickets on the Surfliner, right? And no extra points needed for Business Class? Am I understanding this correctly?

You are correct!

No extra points needed for the Surfliner.

That is awesome!!!! We were talking about taking that very same run to do the whole CS route. Thanks for the info, Alan!

So if I wanted to redeem points for two in a bedroom on the Coast Starlight from SAN to SEA, the 25,000 points would also cover both tickets on the Surfliner, right? And no extra points needed for Business Class? Am I understanding this correctly?

You are correct!

No extra points needed for the Surfliner.

So if I wanted to redeem points for two in a bedroom on the Coast Starlight from SAN to SEA, the 25,000 points would also cover both tickets on the Surfliner, right? And no extra points needed for Business Class? Am I understanding this correctly?

I would suggest you call and have the name added as soon as you
know for certain, then you will have the tickets when you arrive
at the station and print them. The dining car folks will have
both names on their manifest too. Have a fun trip.

I am taking a trip on points later this year -- and I THINK I will be traveling alone -- but, I put my sweetie on the ticket just so it would be ticked for two. They promised me I could change the second name later if I wanted, so now I have it out to my family in case anyone wants to tag along for one or more legs of the trip. I presume I can change till the day before, as I'll pick the tickets up just before boarding (the station has machines). If no one signs on for the trip, sweetie will be a no-show.

Or if you look at it the other way, the second person goes free!

That's why I invited Alan on my trip to the FL mini-Gathering. It didn't cost anything extra - and besides I'm CHEAP! (I figured how better to impress or bribe "the boss" than with a free trip!)

If you were really cheap, you would have made him pay!

I tried, but Alan promised me my next paycheck would be 10 times the usual, so I agreed!


Then after the trip, I realized that $-0- times 10 is still $-0-!

(which since April 1st would require 20,000 pints for the single trip).

Nah, that can't be right. There's no way you could get that much beer on a train.

Or if you look at it the other way, the second person goes free!

That's why I invited Alan on my trip to the FL mini-Gathering. It didn't cost anything extra - and besides I'm CHEAP! (I figured how better to impress or bribe "the boss" than with a free trip!)

I called my oldest sister a couple days ago figuring to have some sister re-bonding time together, but unfortunately she couldn't meet me at either of my two departure cities (HUN or CIN). Bummer. It would have been fun traveling together.

It's a same-day layover, so it's one zone.

So I could do a roundtrip from Toledo to Orlando (1 zone) for two people in a roomette for 30000 points? Would that include the roomette on both trains (layover in Washington)?

As I understand the AGR program, a layover in Washington, D.C. makes it a two zone trip (which since April 1st would require 20,000 pints for the single trip).