Amtrak Bedroom Tour On The Texas Eagle | Biggest Amtrak Sleeper Car

all right guys I'm going to give you a full tour of our bedroom on the Texas eagle [Music] I'm going to show you one of the best features I think of the bedroom is that you not only have Windows on this side which you can sit here with the seats and we'll talk about that in a minute but at the door you actually can see out the window right there so that's really cool and I do like your lock here make sure that you flip the one down and then the other one over then you've got your own sink here in the room and your mirror right here and you've got light switches here on and off and there's actually two outlets here but as you know we've got our travel buddy here so I've got what do I have one two three four things plugged in there and I have one more spot which I'm not currently using but we are charging things right there so that's your whole vanity area here and the sink and Then There are towels down here foreign can right here and then in here is just some extras like uh soap and extra toilet paper and that's a bonus because we do have a bathroom in here so this is one of the seats here and this seat folds up and turns up against the wall so that it's out of the way so you can go to the bathroom easily in the night you can also leave it there because the bathroom door still opens and does clear it as you can see you can leave it there and see there's still clearance with bathroom door if you don't want to fold that up you've also got the big couch or like double seats here look at how big those are it's actually enormous I'm sleeping down here and I actually feel bad because it's really really big compared to Rob space upstairs and here is the closet this is where we're keeping our blankets and pillows during the day and then here we've got an outlet here but I found it challenging that it wasn't holding our um plugs so it was just falling out so that's how come I put it at the vanity and then we've got temperature control here you can make it a little cooler or warmer it just kind of closes the vents off a little bit it doesn't control a ton but it will change the room temperature just a little bit and then we've got a light right there so that's good and then on this side you have your attendant button here it's a little bright from the Sun and we've got our ceiling light and a night light you can just flip this button and it will control that and then here do not forget like I did last night when I came in turn this to zero and volume all the way down so that you don't hear the announcements in the first thing in the morning that's what woke me up this morning when we got to Tucson was the announcement so I quickly flipped that and that is now off and then there's another night light here and then there's the tray here where you can pull this out and you can have lunch right here or dinner or breakfast or you can use it as a regular table and then we've also got get that in there and then we've also got this area here you've got a night light or a reading light I should say right here as well and then there's this nice shelf here right now we're storing some snacks which we don't really need because they give you so much food on this train you don't even need snacks and then we've got our jackets up here too just bundled up we are in January headed to Chicago so it is going to be a little bit Nicky when we get there this is Rob's bed here let's see if we can get to it now during the daytime my mattress is stored up here so this is the big old mattress this is the width look at how big that is it's almost as big as Rob's bed is long so that's this and this bed goes all the way from there to here and then as you can see there's a little bit of space right there um so it doesn't go all the way to the window so it's a little bit shorter than it would normally be so that's up there and then also the ladder is stored up here as well that goes out and to the ground so that's that we'll put that up so that's basically what the room looks like during the daytime Okay so we're going to take a look at this bathroom real quick right here it is a commode and a shower all in one and this curtain you pull that across and it snaps actually into the side here you see those little snaps all the way down now if you're thinking toilet paper is going to get Dr wet while you're showering it is not because they have this little flap Plexiglas kind of door here that covers up the toilet paper which is right up here and then you've got your shower head right there and towels are stored there so they do suggest that you sit to shower in here because you could fall over very easily but there is also a bar that you can hold on to if you need that and you can always just go downstairs if you feel like this might not work out for you you could use the bigger shower downstairs where the other restrooms are as well so you can always use some of the other amenities that are on the train you don't have to only use what's in your room beds are made up time to crawl out there and show you around a little bit first thing though is how do we get up there we have this ladder and that differs from the room at that there's an actual ladder instead of stairs that you step on so because of the the skinniness of the room here the ladder does have to go on this end which is by the window which means your head has to go on the other end by the door or you'll have a really hard time getting out so we're gonna go in head first like you would do go up the ladder and this is what it looks like up here so there is a little bit more room um I will say kind of light up here let me turn that on there's a little bit more room above the head which is really nice because in the room at it is very very tight you feel like you almost can't even flip over at all another thing that you might be interested to see is that this mattress is quite a bit thicker so I noticed that the mattress was quite a bit more comfortable you have more space those are some pretty good upgrades from the roomette now having more space up here means the person below has a little bit less space but their bed is wider so they do have that going for them um the thing that I really do miss though from the roomette is that there is no like bag or pouch up here to hold your glasses anywhere so there's just really all you have is that light there's nothing on the wall over here so to make up for that I'm gonna have to back up here show you I have all my stuff hanging in this white bag right here and I have some snacks on the Slugger drag over here too but those are kind of inconvenient to get to in the middle of the night and I will say that getting down this ladder is a little bit tougher than getting down the uh the stairs and the room at that are just kind of stationary and built into the room this is a little bit thinner so it's a little bit harder to get down overall it's a good trade because you have a lot more room to sleep and move around and you hit your head a lot less often than in the roomette that's the one thing I wish we had was a little bag up here but overall this is for being on top bunk this is definitely the way to go so I'm gonna have Alice show you what is different with the lower birth now and she's going to show you around okay hey we're gonna go down here so as I told you earlier look at how big this is it goes on it seems like forever it's bigger than a twin size bed for sure as far as the width the length is probably about the same but keep in mind too that the nice thing is you've got the bathroom in here at night so you don't have to leave the room to go to the restroom at night because it's going to be really hard to do with this tiny little space I basically can I mean you have to squeeze through there but I can get like my leg through I can walk through if I'm facing the vanity you can walk through and get out of the room if you've had to for some reason while the bed is made but pretty comfortable down here and as Rob said there's a little less Headroom here so I do and as you know I'm not very tall I'm 5'4 um so my head basically I have a bun in my hair right now so it's basically being pushed back like this when I'm underneath here while when I'm in the roomette I can sit up with my hair and my bun like this at night and not have any trouble at all so there's a little bit less room like he said down here and he's got a little bit more up there which is nice for him up there to have a little bit more space so that he doesn't constantly hit his head while he's up there so um that's kind of the the setup for night time it's pretty nice setup and as I mentioned before too this chair here is folded up if you remember it was sitting out so there's a lot more room here you can see now all that space between that chair and the bathroom so that's pretty much it for the nighttime setup now we're gonna put our PJs on I'm going to wash my face do my whole nighttime face routine which is nice because we've got our own little sink in here and then I'll be ready for bed and we'll be ready to break up with the sunset limited early in the morning and head up north to Chicago to see our sun

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Length: 10min 29sec (629 seconds)

Published: Fri May 26 2023