re: Anyone ever taken an Amtrak train to anywhere?

I'll also add that one reason we took the train was to not fool with parking a car when we got to New Orleans. It was cheaper to take the train there and back than to drive plus pay parking fees, considering we were going to be staying by the French Quarter and walking almost everywhere we went.

I think tickets were around $35 each, so a pair of round trips was $140. By the time I put two tanks of gas in my SUV and paid $15/night parking, it was less wear and tear on my vehicle and saved a good bit of money. If you were going to take it one way and fly back that might not matter, but our trip was a weekend getaway and made more sense to just do roundtrip.

A coworker at an old job I had took a massive trip when his wife retired. They took the train from Birmingham to New York, just to see the countryside, then flew from there to Europe. They hit several places there, then took a cruise back across the Atlantic, and took the train back home. I think it was 3 weeks total, with 2 of that being the cruise. They left from Italy, and stopped in a few spots in Spain and France before hitting some islands on the way to the US.