Saving BIG Bucks on Amtrak Travel
I’ve recently helped some friends here on Maui plan a ride on the California Zephyr next Fall around Thanksgiving time. As always when I do Amtrak booking, I came across some interesting insights.
These folks will be traveling from Denver to San Francisco and their ideal schedule has them leaving Denver on Friday morning, the day after Thanksgiving, which is smack in the middle of that long, four-day weekend.
By comparison, I priced that very same trip in those same accommodations exactly one month earlier and one month later. The cost for travel in October was $1175 and for that same trip in December, $1027. Double WOW!!
Interestingly, and as testimony to the popularity of sleeping car accommodations on Amtrak’s western trains, I had to check on a few different dates in October because all the bedrooms on several of those trains in October were already sold out.