Recent content by Westernfalls

A salient feature of the concept is the unfluctuating price of your trip. If you pay real money, you don't know from day to day what your price may be. So, when you're ready to buy your transportation, you do the arithmetic and chose whether to spend points or money.

After at least 3 days of telling everyone that the Silver Star was sold out for 2½ months, the space became available again this morning. How many people decided to fly or drive instead? Someone at Amtrak needs to lose his bonus over this one.

I did that first before throwing the question out to the crowd. The word from the "Rate Desk" was that "they" have the space blocked out for..... well, I guess "they" aren't telling, not yet anyway.

Amtrak has blocked out all sleeper space on the Silver Star, 91 & 92, between January 12th and March 26th. This is high season, I need to make plans. Anybody know their game?