Amtrak to WDW from Boston

[Maxwell]

Anyone ever take Amtrak to WDW from Boston? With kids? fares, etc?

 

[tmatthews]

Not from Boston but we are taking it from Philly with kids! DS12 DS4. fare was $333 one way. Getting sunray to take us from train station to ASMo with a grocery stop first. SHould be interesting!

 

[OKW Lover]

I wonder how long a train would take from Boston to Orlando - anybody know?

 

[Detailor]

I wonder how long a train would take from Boston to Orlando - anybody know?

I think that the quickest from South Station to Orlando is about 27 hours including a short layover at Penn Station.

Dick Taylor

 

[OKW Lover]

27 hours to Orlando. I'll bet its an interesting trip, but I suspect the $330 price from Philly is for a regular train seat. I can only guess how much it would cost from Boston in a sleeper unit. Well, I suppose I could go to the Amtrak web site and find out. Thanks!

 

[tmatthews]

Yup coach seats for 4!!! (20 hours from PA) To get a sleeper, I would fly! The cost jumps dramatically!

 

[trailerparkhero]

it took about 26-28 hrs total with changeovers..../. with 2 kids inlaws bros ans siss their 5 kids .....two more maby??? it was loooong and painful same price to fly though, it was $239/person to take the train from bos to DC to orlando. it was $269/person <priceline was the cheapest all said and done> for my flight . i flew last year and it was 3 hrs. 25 hrs on the train id take the flight if i ever went again.

 

[jdlutz]

Totally agree with the previous post. You'd have to bind me and tape me up to take me on any long distance train or car trip. Traveling should be fun, not torture... a cruise is fun as is a quick flight to your destination but car, bus and train travel can be amazingly boring/tedious/tiring. Current pricing as it is... flying is probably cheaper than a train trip of any lengthy distance.

 

[DC7800]

Traveling should be fun

Which is exactly why so many people opt for the train over other modes of transportation. While I completely respect your opinion, although the plane may get your there faster (over distances of more than 250 or so miles, anyway), between the security checkpoints, carry-on restrictions, food service (or lack thereof), and too narrow seats that appear to have been designed for small children - you just can't tell me that's fun.

The long-distance train, however, has a dining car where even the lowliest coach passenger can order a steak dinner, and those in sleepers have a private roomette or bedroom (with restroom, some with showers) to retire to at night. And railroad coach is more comparable to airline first class, you can get up and walk around whenever you feel like it, go to the lounge car for a snack, or take pictures of the passing scenery.

Again, I respect your opinion - some people would rather fly and get to their destination in just a few hours. If you are really in a hurry, you probably are in no mood to watch passing scenery from the train or anything else - you just want to get there, and any delay thus seems tedious. Nothing wrong with that viewpoint at all. Others would rather drive, having the freedom to stop whenever and wherever they wish. Then there are those of us who want to travel the most comfortable, most relaxing, and certainly the most enjoyable way we can - aboard the passenger train watching America go by outside our window.

Incidentally, the decision to take the train isn't usually about cost, either, even though that is what many people erroneously assume. People sometimes pay more to get to take the train, when they could have flown or driven for less. Indeed, the railroads direct competition isn't really the airplane - it's the automobile.