{"id":310103,"date":"2026-07-30T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310103\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:26:07","slug":"amtrak-business-class-vs-coach-i-liked-the-cheaper-train-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310103\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak Business Class Vs. Coach: I Liked the Cheaper Train Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 6 p.m., the train rolled into the Amtrak station in Albany, and the conductor announced we would be stopping there until 7:40 so a train from Ontario could connect to ours. The caf\u00e9 car closed a few minutes before the stop, and it wouldn&#8217;t reopen until we were running again.<\/p>\n<p>The extended stop was frustrating, as I was eager to get back to Manhattan. Plus, the lights and AC weren&#8217;t on most of the stop, so it got hot and stuffy on board.<\/p>\n<p>While we were stopped, most passengers got out to wander around the platform. I used the time to grab some food from a restaurant at the station.<\/p>\n<p>After I ate a subpar chicken wrap, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/whats-the-best-popcorn-at-the-grocery-store-chef-reviews-2022-4\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;tout_click&quot;,&quot;index&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;,&quot;product_field&quot;:&quot;bi_value_unassigned&quot;}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a bag of Skinny Pop<\/a>, and a granola bar, I spent the rest of the hour walking back and forth across the platform.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy to walk around after sitting for so long, but I would have liked the option to nap on a row of seats, as I did on my journey to Rochester. My time in the coach seating was looking better and better as time went on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 6 p.m., the train rolled into the Amtrak station in Albany, and the conductor announced we would&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-310103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}