Amtrak Auto Train | What It's Like & Full Review

hey guys welcome back to the channel today I am taking you on a super fun adventure and notice I said I because well I'm not traveling with my regular travel partner my husband Rob I am traveling with a special partner today I'm traveling with my dad I'll tell you why in just a minute but we got more coming up so stay tuned [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] s they Mark your vehicle with a number and if you have priority offloading like we have they are going to put a sticker with a number that starts with p and then the number and that will tell them that yours is a priority vehicle they give you a paper with the number on it as well so they know which vehicle is yours and then the vehicle is right here this blue one my dad's car and then they're loading them right there behind me ours should be loaded soon I'll show you when they load it [Music] thank you [Music] now in order to ride the Auto Train you have to have an auto you cannot ride it without a vehicle on board so since Rob and I sold everything to travel we have no car we have no house so my dad is letting us borrow his car so I thought why not bring him on the adventure we ride his car down here and take the ride down to Florida foreign [Music] once you head inside the station you will check in which is where you're going to get your dinner reservation and get all the information about your room even if you already know it you can do your dinner reservation there and they do start boarding at 3 30 which is really nice because then you don't have to sit in the waiting areas quite a few seats but it is pretty full in there today foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] this announcement is going to be for all of our sleepy car passengers and our sleepy car passengers only once again if I could have the attention of all sleepy car passengers there was a delay today for the crew to get on board to prepare for service that does include our kitchen staff the dinner times will not be at five seven and nine tonight but will be at 6 8 and 10. if you are in a to go seating the first to go seating will be 7 30 at the second to go seating will be 9 30. unfortunately at this time we cannot move anyone around so the ticket that you have will be the ticket that you come in for dinner once again we were delayed this morning getting on the train to prepare for service it was out of our control and we do apologize profusely for the inconvenience but once again our first sit-down service will be at six our second will be at eight and our third will be at 10 so if you have a ticket Marked One you will come in at the sixth if you have a ticket March two you will come in at the eight if you have a ticket Mark three will come in at the 10. to General Electric 4 000 horsepower diesel locomotive and in its entirety the Auto Train averages nearly three-fourths of a mile in length and is the longest passenger train in the U.S we have a total of nine sleeping cars and three coach cars on board today and in between sleeping car 5341 and 53.40 is our sleeper lounge and dining car for that portion of the train flipper Lounge is currently open and serving the sleeper Lounge will close for a dinner break so please listen out for that announcement later on this evening and then they will close before the night at 11 PM once again the sleeper Diner is having sit-down service at 6 8 and 10 tonight we ask that all sleeping car passengers please remain in your room until you hear an announcement inviting you into the dining car as the dining car staff will be working preparing for service between sleeping car 5347 and Coach Carr 53-10 is our Cross Country Cafe the Cross Country Cafe is also currently open and serving and will also take a dinner break later on this evening so please listen out for their dinner break announcements and they will also be closing at 11 PM once again the Cross Country Cafe is located between 5347 sleeping car and Coach car 5310 [Music] the Auto Train is a non-smoking train which does include e-cigarettes and Vapors smoking is not permitted anywhere on the train and that does include our restrooms and our sleeper accommodations if you are caught smoking we will have to stop the train let you off and you will have to find your own way to Sanford while we will continue on with your car so once again please absolutely no smoking on board the train a good one all children under the age of 13 must be accompanied by an adult and that no running is permitted on board this is for the safety of the child so parents of little ones please keep an eye on your children and do not let them walk about the Train by themselves shoes also must be worn by everyone leaving their seat or accommodation if you do walk into a service car without your shoes any service car which would be the sleeper Lounge the sleeper Diner or the cafe car please don't get upset when a crew member asks you to return to get your shoes as it is a safety issue at this time we ask that you sit back and relax or better yet come and visit our attendant in the sleeper lounge or our attendance in the cafe car on behalf of crew number four your conductors engineers and myself we welcome you aboard and thank you for choosing Amtrak's Auto Train you just push that yellow comment and that's right there behind you let me know what you know that you yes see it says ready but it just keeps coming out excuse me [Music] foreign [Music] there's [Music] some stuff this is Quantico um the garage look at that that's pretty cool I'm not surprised they don't have something there that looks pretty foreign [Music] all right guys it is dinner time and dad and I have decided to have dinner here in the room nice and chill for us I got the salmon as you can see if you've watched the channel you probably already guessed that and guess what my dad got he may not be Rob but he also got the steak the flat iron steak so we're going to enjoy that I got my dad got some sugar-free Jello for his dessert and I am going to have the Meyer lemon cake which I've had before and I know it is very good so I'm gonna have that and then um Dad got some Dry Ginger Ale for his drink and I got some wine for my drink so he's digging into his right there what do you think Dad do you think it's gonna be good [Music] so you can see he's excited to try it out um dinner is a little bit different here um as I mentioned earlier when you check in you actually make your dinner reservations when you check in when you get to the station after you drop your car off so um it's a little bit different here on the train and then if you want to have dinner in your room you tell them that when you check in that you don't want to eat in the dining room put in your room and then they'll bring it to you so that's awesome I'm going to dig in here I'll have more info for you later after we set up these beds and do a quickie tour of the room all right all done with dinner we both enjoyed our food very well I'm going to give you a quick tour dad says he gives food what a thumbs up good deal okay Dad's belly is full so I'm ready to give you a quick tour here as you can see right next to my dad is our best travel buddy right here don't forget there's a link to buy this off of Amazon in the description down below I'm just going to give you a quick tour here of the room dad's sitting in the rear-facing seat and right next to him this is the closet area here and I've got my bag here and he's got his back there and then that's kind of the closet area his jacket is hanging there and then you'll see the towels up above right here those are to use for the bathroom for washing hands and for cleaning ourselves up in the morning and then on this side over here we've got the buttons for controlling the lights up above and for the call button for the attendant turning off announcements in the room which I still need to remember to do and then a reading light here these curtains I have not seen this pattern before this is a new pattern I haven't seen it's kind of nice but these will close all the way across and keep us nice and and dark in the room here so that we don't see all the light in the morning once that comes in and then Dad says he's going to sleep in the upper bunk are you going to sleep up there yep he says yes he wants to be like Rob so let's see if it works out so I'm gonna make up the room here we pulled the table out here to have our dinner and then when he goes up we're gonna move these bags but he's going to use these two steps here to go all the way up and then we have a little mirror here if you haven't seen our full tour of the super liner roommate make sure you check that video out here on the channel we also have lots of pictures and lots of information on the website groundedlifetravel.com so we're gonna make up the room here and then I'll show you what that looks like in a minute okay if you've watched our videos before you know I like to sleep on the bottom did offer my dad the bottom bunk but he insists he can sleep on the top he's 72 and he's going to climb up here look germination she didn't take the top bunk so this is what it looks like while he's climbing up this is what it looks like up here there is a net with some space here putting his watch there there's also another little basket back there and then there's his pillow and then you do get a sheet and you get that nice Amtrak take a blanket too it's like a flame type blanket so that's really nice there so he's going to try to climb up there and we've already got this this part up right here okay so he's getting I'm not gonna be much I picked in no problem look at that how is it fire all man [Laughter] now that's a nice Dad right there he knows I really have a hard time in small spaces that's a good dad he's climbing up to the top I have a good dad and a good husband so my life is pretty good foreign foreign hmm [Music] again thank you [Music] he just um there you go all right [Music] all right guys we had a good night's sleep on board the Auto Train and for breakfast what they do is they serve a continental breakfast so you go down to either the dining car or the lounge car and you can have breakfast in there and help yourself and we are also now pulling into the station about an hour and 15 minutes early which is amazing um so what they'll do is they'll pull in they have to wait actually for the station to open because it's not even open yet wait for it to open and then they'll pull us in and then they'll start deboarding us and then we'll sit around and wait for our car we'll give you an update on how long it takes to get our uh priority offloading vehicle when we do that thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] priorities [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Grounded Life Travel

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Id: BAZvoVwf_LM

Length: 25min 45sec (1545 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 17 2023