Bedroom Buckets on LD Trains

[MattN]

I need the low buckets on bedrooms for these trains CS,EB,Cardinal,Capitol Limited, LSL,Silver Meteor,Crescent, and Sunset Limited

I am planning to travel in mid June and a little bit of July are the buckets high because it is summer?

 

[Hanno]

I need the low buckets on bedrooms for these trains CS,EB,Cardinal,Capitol Limited, LSL,Silver Meteor,Crescent, and Sunset Limited

I am planning to travel in mid June and a little bit of July are the buckets high because it is summer?

Try this:

https://creditcontrolservice.sslpowered.com/amSnag/amSnag.php

It should show the lowest bucket prices for the trips you want to take.

 

[MattN]

I need the low buckets on bedrooms for these trains CS,EB,Cardinal,Capitol Limited, LSL,Silver Meteor,Crescent, and Sunset Limited

I am planning to travel in mid June and a little bit of July are the buckets high because it is summer?

Try this:

https://creditcontrolservice.sslpowered.com/amSnag/amSnag.php

It should show the lowest bucket prices for the trips you want to take.

Can you write them down because i can't read the chart correctly

 

[Guest]

I need the low buckets on bedrooms for these trains CS,EB,Cardinal,Capitol Limited, LSL,Silver Meteor,Crescent, and Sunset Limited

I am planning to travel in mid June and a little bit of July are the buckets high because it is summer?

I doubt that any of the lower buckets for Bedrooms would be available at that time--Roomettes, maybe a few at this point. You may try early June, before the end of schools for a better chance.

 

[amtkstn]

The western trains have more rooms for sell. June is high in peak time travel. When I rode both the Caridnal and the Lake shore roomettes were going for 500 dollers outside my budget for a ten day trip.

 

[piperdriver]

Please forgive me for hijacking a thread, but I am very new to the rail travel. I see the term "bucket" used often, both high, and low referances. Can someone please explain what the "bucket" terminology is all about. Thanks,---

 

[Eric S]

Please forgive me for hijacking a thread, but I am very new to the rail travel. I see the term "bucket" used often, both high, and low referances. Can someone please explain what the "bucket" terminology is all about. Thanks,---

Instead of buckets, think of different fare levels. A certain number of seats (or rooms) are priced at one level (bucket), others at another level (another bucket), others at another, etc.

 

[Big Iron]

As far as the Capitol Limited goes, I try to take an annual trip in early December so I've been looking a few times a month 11 months out. This year the low bucket roomette price ($125.00) stayed in effect until two weeks ago for a trip that was to begin on 12/3/10.

As stated here many times, if you plans are flexible book as early as possible and play with the departure dates to find the best deal.

 

[the_traveler]

Please forgive me for hijacking a thread, but I am very new to the rail travel. I see the term "bucket" used often, both high, and low referances. Can someone please explain what the "bucket" terminology is all about. Thanks,---

Another way to think of buckets is (and these are not the exact numbers but you get the idea) that seats #1-#25 are in the first (or low) bucket, seats #26-#42 are in the next bucket, etc ... When ever seat #25 is sold, that bucket is full. so they have to use a new bucket - and a higher fare.

Unlike airlines where the price rises on a certain day (30 day advance purchase, 21 day advance, 14 day advance, etc...), Amtrak fares rise only when that seat is sold. Thus you could find that a train in 3 months (that has 37 seats sold) is priced higher than tomorrow's train (which has only 15 seats sold)!