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We are thinking about planning a trip from Pittsburgh-Chicago-Greenbrier-DC-Pittsburgh (or vice versa). Has anyone traveled on the Cardinal? This is another train that only runs a few days a week.
We would like to spend two nights at the Greenbrier, but I have no idea if we'll be able to get reservations for the first half of August. There aren't any available on line, but I am hoping I might be able to do some through Amtrak. I'll try to call in the next day or two, I could see on line with Amtrak that if I play with the dates, I can probably still get a roomette. What I have going for me is that I can be flexible with my dates, and I'm willing to spend a day or two in Chicago to get a roomette on the CL. We'll have to spend a night in DC no matter the direction we go, but that's fine. It's easy to spend a day there.
We've also talked about doing this in conjunction with The Gathering in Chicago. It might be easier to get reservations at the Greenbrier, but then I remember a huge snow storm that we barely made it home from North Carolina last year about the same time of the year. That is unusual, though.
This has been a crazy year for planning trips. We had to cancel a big Amtrak trip in September for the birth of a grandson. We then set up a cruise to Bermuda that was scheduled to leave on Friday. The ship caught fire two weeks ago, so that ended that. We then thought we would visit friends in Michigan and then go up to the Upper Peninsula and one of them is having major surgery two weeks before we were going, so we are now thinking of a trip on the Cardinal, which has been on our Amtrak bucket list for a few years.
I could use points for a large part of this trip and I see they are having a bonus sale right now, too.
We would like to spend two nights at the Greenbrier, but I have no idea if we'll be able to get reservations for the first half of August. There aren't any available on line, but I am hoping I might be able to do some through Amtrak. I'll try to call in the next day or two, I could see on line with Amtrak that if I play with the dates, I can probably still get a roomette. What I have going for me is that I can be flexible with my dates, and I'm willing to spend a day or two in Chicago to get a roomette on the CL. We'll have to spend a night in DC no matter the direction we go, but that's fine. It's easy to spend a day there.
We've also talked about doing this in conjunction with The Gathering in Chicago. It might be easier to get reservations at the Greenbrier, but then I remember a huge snow storm that we barely made it home from North Carolina last year about the same time of the year. That is unusual, though.
This has been a crazy year for planning trips. We had to cancel a big Amtrak trip in September for the birth of a grandson. We then set up a cruise to Bermuda that was scheduled to leave on Friday. The ship caught fire two weeks ago, so that ended that. We then thought we would visit friends in Michigan and then go up to the Upper Peninsula and one of them is having major surgery two weeks before we were going, so we are now thinking of a trip on the Cardinal, which has been on our Amtrak bucket list for a few years.
I could use points for a large part of this trip and I see they are having a bonus sale right now, too.