My sister is planning on giving Amtrak gift certificates to her son and daughter. On the website, it states that discounts do not apply to gift certificates. I think I understand what that means but thought I'd check with the experts here. I told her that meant you could not apply, for example, a AAA 10% discount when purchasing the certificate. But, once you have the certificate, all discounts on ticket purchases, such as rail sale, AAA, NARP and the like would apply even though a gift certificate was used in the purchase. Is that a correct assessment?