Amtrak (USA) Reviews

I'm a HUGE fan of Amtrak, which travels the breadth and length of the USA. It doesn't have as many stops as the Greyhound does and therefore it mainly services larger Towns rather than little places. I travelled from Miami to New York City by Amtrak and it took 33 hours in total but was the most relaxing and chilled out part of my ...  Read the complete review

I like Amtrak, the rail service in the USA. I chose to travel with them to get from New York to Chicago, a journey, by train, of about 18 hours. There are two brilliant things that I remember about this journey, and one (serious) negative. Let me get the negative out of the way first! The food. I was not ...  Read the complete review

I've traveled extensively in the USA and Canada by rail, notably during a one month rail trip that formed a complete circle from Montréal to the Pacific and back again. Many segments of that trip, and many other individual trips have been with Amtrak as a 'coach' (seated economy) passenger. To understand Amtrak you need to understand ...  Read the complete review

In April 2003 I took a holiday to the good ole US of A to do a coast-to-coast trip, but as I don't drive I was in quite a dilema as to the best way to get around. Really there are three options: Flying - Expensive but fast Greyhound bus - Cheap but very slow Amtrak - Cheap (by UK standards) but still quite slow I ...  Read the complete review