JoeBas
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Okay so...
Have an AGR trip back home from vacation PHL-HOS expecting to leave PHL on 19 this afternoon. Found out when I woke up this morning that my grandmother passed unexpectedly last night, which obviously puts my plans in a bit of a boggle - family is not sure how long it will take to figure out when the services will be, and likely won't know until early-mid afternoon, and I have to be back at work a week from Monday due to other people's vacation plans.
I hop on amtrak.com and see that there are rooms on the 19 leaving a week from today, and decide on the brilliant plan to reserve the rooms on a "paid" reservation, and have them do the 24-hour hold for phone reservations. This will give enough time until early this afternoon to figure out if the services can be before next Thursday, or if they'll be later, in which case I can just go today as planned. This way, I have until around 3:30 to decide whether to leave today, or a week from now.
No go. Amtrak tells me this would be a "Double booking", and not allowed their policy.
Wait... what?
Travel is a full week apart. At no time would the two reservations overlap. I *THEORETICALLY* could be taking the one trip back to HOS today, FLY back to NJ, and do it again, just because that's how I roll. I mean, that's like saying someone who reserves the 4:30PM Train each day going home is double booking because they're traveling the same route at two different times.
Can someone please explain this one to me in a way that a rational human being could understand?
Have an AGR trip back home from vacation PHL-HOS expecting to leave PHL on 19 this afternoon. Found out when I woke up this morning that my grandmother passed unexpectedly last night, which obviously puts my plans in a bit of a boggle - family is not sure how long it will take to figure out when the services will be, and likely won't know until early-mid afternoon, and I have to be back at work a week from Monday due to other people's vacation plans.
I hop on amtrak.com and see that there are rooms on the 19 leaving a week from today, and decide on the brilliant plan to reserve the rooms on a "paid" reservation, and have them do the 24-hour hold for phone reservations. This will give enough time until early this afternoon to figure out if the services can be before next Thursday, or if they'll be later, in which case I can just go today as planned. This way, I have until around 3:30 to decide whether to leave today, or a week from now.
No go. Amtrak tells me this would be a "Double booking", and not allowed their policy.
Wait... what?
Travel is a full week apart. At no time would the two reservations overlap. I *THEORETICALLY* could be taking the one trip back to HOS today, FLY back to NJ, and do it again, just because that's how I roll. I mean, that's like saying someone who reserves the 4:30PM Train each day going home is double booking because they're traveling the same route at two different times.
Can someone please explain this one to me in a way that a rational human being could understand?