Amtrak 4+

Amtrak app is great, it helps me plan my train rides on the east coast. My travel history includes Grand central station in manhattan as a middle point between New Haven CT for College. I was able to use the app to regularly book tickets at Metropark station in Iselin, NJ after getting dripped off and it only takes about 30 minutes to get to NYC, Amtrak travel FAST! The train stops to board new passengers for a max of 5 minutes and handles everything else en route. Only advice I have is stand on the ramp when boarding and be sure to rush to enter the train you bought a ticket for, once seated, after everyone has time to settle in, Amtrak personnel will go through the rows to check passenger tickets and with this app they just scan it, so easy and great! Amtrak business class is great too, high quality is what you get with Amtrak app along with the total travel experience.

At 8:30p, I got a notification via the app that my train was delayed 41 mins. The app did not update with the new time, however, it does have a red banner on the top of the screen stating the train was delayed. When I click for more details, it just gives me the original time frame information. Luckily, I also got a text message w/ the time update. Unfortunately, another notification for train delayed came through around 11:30p. But I didn’t get a text message update & the app has not updated. I have to go Amtrak’s website which wasn’t much help since my reservation information hasn’t changed. I had to Google the name of my train to get a time update. What’s the point if the app, if it is not going to update with delays. Not every train station is located in a good neighborhoods. Updating the times of departure would be helpful. The lack of a time update makes me anxious & it makes me discouraged to ride Amtrak again especially on a 9+ hr trip. What if I miss my train because the website (under my reservation) and app does not update? What if I am waiting in an empty train station in an unfamiliar neighborhood? It’s right. Please update your app & website with the right & easy to follow information. Please.

Hello,
I hope this message reaches the right audience. I booked a trip to Leavenworth in October though the Amtrak app. When I tried to find a trip, I pressed on the button that states find a train. With this assumption that I was getting a train, and since I’ve never ridden amtrack, I book the first ticket seen. Later when my trip was coming up, I checked on my trip as I was curious what train it was. I googled the number shown and to my surprise 8848 was a bus. With this, I was very confused as this was the only option to choose when booking and I pressed on “Find Trains”. I tried to cancel the trip and I am being charged a large service fee. A fee that does not make any sense to me as I was told this was a train. How am I supposed to know that it’s a bus when I press on find a train. I called customer service and they denied the removal of the cancellation fee. All I wanted was a train ride, and I come out with no train ride, no bus, and less money than what I stated with. I find this process incredibly confusing and unfair for people like me that have never booked a “train” before. As the agent told me, Amtrak assume the customer knows what their booking when they order a trip online. That makes no sense when it was not expressively told to me that it was a bus when I pressed find a train.