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Amtrak USA Rail Pass: Travel 10 Segments within 30-Days

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Amtrak is offering an introductory fare for its Amtrak USA Rail Pass where you can travel 10 Segments within 30-Days for $299.

Thanks to Deal Hunter serra for finding this deal.

Note, book this offer from June 8 - 22

About the USA Rail Pass:
  • The USA Rail Pass allows you to take a multi-segment journey on Amtrak for one low, fixed price. After you purchase your pass, you will be able to start booking each segment of your trip directly from your purchase confirmation, by going to 'Modify Trip' on Amtrak.com, or by looking up your reservation on the Amtrak mobile app.
  • A travel segment occurs any time you board and disembark a train (or other scheduled services). If your trip involves making one connection, you will use two segments of your USA Rail Pass.
  • The pass validity period is 120 days following the date of your purchase. Once you travel on your first segment, you will have 30 days before your pass expires.
  • The USA Rail Pass is not a ticket and is not valid for travel; it is used to obtain all tickets for travel. You must have a ticket and a reservation for each train you board.
  • Travel in regular Coach class seats which feature wide, reclining seats with a big picture window, ample legroom, and no middle seat.
  • Hop on/off the train across 500 destinations

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Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This offer is $200 lower (40% savings) than the regular price of $499.
    • The USA Rail Pass is valid for travel on all Amtrak trains except Auto Train, Acela, Thruway bus connections (7000-7999 series), and the Canadian portion of trains operated jointly by Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada.
    • Travel is restricted to four one-way trips between two cities, and to all cities in between, over the same route.
    • Review the complete terms and conditions here. -qwikwit

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Amtrak is offering an introductory fare for its Amtrak USA Rail Pass where you can travel 10 Segments within 30-Days for $299.

Thanks to Deal Hunter serra for finding this deal.

Note, book this offer from June 8 - 22

About the USA Rail Pass:
  • The USA Rail Pass allows you to take a multi-segment journey on Amtrak for one low, fixed price. After you purchase your pass, you will be able to start booking each segment of your trip directly from your purchase confirmation, by going to 'Modify Trip' on Amtrak.com, or by looking up your reservation on the Amtrak mobile app.
  • A travel segment occurs any time you board and disembark a train (or other scheduled services). If your trip involves making one connection, you will use two segments of your USA Rail Pass.
  • The pass validity period is 120 days following the date of your purchase. Once you travel on your first segment, you will have 30 days before your pass expires.
  • The USA Rail Pass is not a ticket and is not valid for travel; it is used to obtain all tickets for travel. You must have a ticket and a reservation for each train you board.
  • Travel in regular Coach class seats which feature wide, reclining seats with a big picture window, ample legroom, and no middle seat.
  • Hop on/off the train across 500 destinations

Editor's Notes

Written by qwikwit | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This offer is $200 lower (40% savings) than the regular price of $499.
    • The USA Rail Pass is valid for travel on all Amtrak trains except Auto Train, Acela, Thruway bus connections (7000-7999 series), and the Canadian portion of trains operated jointly by Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada.
    • Travel is restricted to four one-way trips between two cities, and to all cities in between, over the same route.
    • Review the complete terms and conditions here. -qwikwit

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murxam
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You have to use all 10 rides within 30 days from your first ride. But the first ride has to be made within 120 days of the pass purchase.
irrationalconsumer
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How do you work on the train? The amtrak wifi is garbage based on my experience
IlluminatusCU
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Not just the distance between cities but the layout. In most cities you're gonna need to rent a car over and over to get around within town, and if you're doing that - just rent the car and drive the distance.

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Jun 13, 2021 05:19 PM
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KManJun 13, 2021 05:19 PM
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Quote from Tails83 :
I can't wait until all streets, roads, and expressways are electronically tolled at each stop sign, stop light, and exit. Perhaps then people will realize just how much "free" roads cost, how much they are subsidized with general taxes, and how alternatives like public transit aren't as expensive as they thought.
Heh, tell that to our "libertarian" (i.e. liberated from their brain) friend here, who doesn't understand the first thing about how our (as well as that of literally every other country on earth) infrastructure is actually built and paid for and how if it were all privatized, folks like him would probably be priced out of most roads and such. (I'm assuming that this site being what it is, most frequent visitors aren't rich). If things were restructured along libertarian ideas, society would basically either collapse or revert to the middle ages, which are basically the same things. But yeah, we all basically own "shares" in government, and while we get to elect its leaders, they then get to decide how to spend our "maintenance fees" (i.e. taxes). There's always room for improvement of course with room to debate how it's best spent, but the core model is unbelievably sound.
Jun 13, 2021 09:19 PM
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Tails83Jun 13, 2021 09:19 PM
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Quote from jimx200 :
BLM protests? That scam nonsense is almost all over. But the founder sure made her money and bailed. In short, public transportation sucks, big time. We don't have a "me first attitude", it's more a attitude of self reliance, less government is best, freedom of easy travel by any means with train travel at the very bottom. Perfect example is our high speed rail project (all but dead) that the State of California (with Fed money) flushed down the toilet to the tune of $100 billion and unlikely to never be completed. Early estimates of fares were $100. to go from SF/Bay Area to LA on a 4+ hour trip. Compare that to a SouthWest Airlines fare of $59-$99. fare leaving out of various cities and arriving in a hour+. Former Gov. Brown pushed this as his legacy and just like his tenure, it's a absolute failure. That money would have taken care of our State's homeless problem many times over, improved our bad roads, etc.
By self-reliance, do you mean driving your private car only on your own private roads? Do you also rely on your own defense network, or use the socialist trillion dollar per year U.S. one? Do you consider hours spent commuting to work to be "easy" and "free"? ... Public transit sucks because you chose to live in a place where public transit sucks. Also, your local leaders chose to make public transit suck. Notice that public transit exists, but it sucks. It exists as such to suck and to advertise how sucky it is. That is by design! I also chose to live in a place where public transit sucks, however, driving also sucks, with constant traffic jams. Americans ignore history to their detriment. We've already has successful massive public transit in my hometown of Chicago 100 years ago. when the population was DOUBLE. What method of transport will we use when the roads become increasingly useless? HSR is complete trash, but the expressways are an expensive socialist nightmare. And where are the bicycle roads and bicycle expressways? What a disaster!
Jun 13, 2021 11:28 PM
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jimx200Jun 13, 2021 11:28 PM
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Quote from Tails83 :
By self-reliance, do you mean driving your private car only on your own private roads? Do you also rely on your own defense network, or use the socialist trillion dollar per year U.S. one? Do you consider hours spent commuting to work to be "easy" and "free"? ... Public transit sucks because you chose to live in a place where public transit sucks. Also, your local leaders chose to make public transit suck. Notice that public transit exists, but it sucks. It exists as such to suck and to advertise how sucky it is. That is by design! I also chose to live in a place where public transit sucks, however, driving also sucks, with constant traffic jams. Americans ignore history to their detriment. We've already has successful massive public transit in my hometown of Chicago 100 years ago. when the population was DOUBLE. What method of transport will we use when the roads become increasingly useless? HSR is complete trash, but the expressways are an expensive socialist nightmare. And where are the bicycle roads and bicycle expressways? What a disaster!
Wow, you like the word "sucks" Still celebrating your special month? No wonder you are grouchy, you live in the failed Dem city called Chicago. Worked in big pharma based out of Chi town and it's a dump by every measure with high taxes, high murder rate, and #1 welfare state. It's why people are leaving in droves.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/il...ing-state/
Your murder rate is atrocious.
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Jun 13, 2021 11:49 PM
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Tails83Jun 13, 2021 11:49 PM
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Quote from jimx200 :
Wow, you like the word "sucks" Still celebrating your special month? No wonder you are grouchy, you live in the failed Dem city called Chicago. Worked in big pharma based out of Chi town and it's a dump by every measure with high taxes, high murder rate, and #1 welfare state. It's why people are leaving in droves.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/il...ing-state/ [illinoispolicy.org]
Your murder rate is atrocious.
You are correct that lack of public transit leads to misery. The murder rate is half of what it was during Reagan, but you know that. And the welfare states are sparsely populated Rep rural states, with excessive inflows of federal infrastructure funding, followed by Rep economic wastelands in the deep South, as you well know. Note that ALL cities are Dem. There are no Rep cities and never will be. I'm not sure why Reps are anti-city, must be the lead in the water. Food stamps feed kids, the elderly, and poor folk, but I suspect you often pick the lowest hanging fruit.
Jun 13, 2021 11:50 PM
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eljeffeJun 13, 2021 11:50 PM
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Quote from itsarectangle :
How's this never become a big thing? Eurail on the other hand is awesome.
Eurail has much shorter segments, more destinations and better/more frequent service, also better facilities and equipment. I've ridden Amtrak many times, but it has to essentially be your destination, it's much harder to pick interesting stop-overs, spend a couple of days there and then ride to your next one. London-Madrid is somewhere between 14 and 18 hrs with 6 trains/day; New York-Chicago is 20-24 and only 2 trains/day. The size and low density of the US really works against rail.
Jun 13, 2021 11:54 PM
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Tails83Jun 13, 2021 11:54 PM
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Quote from jimx200 :
Wow, you like the word "sucks" Still celebrating your special month? No wonder you are grouchy, you live in the failed Dem city called Chicago. Worked in big pharma based out of Chi town and it's a dump by every measure with high taxes, high murder rate, and #1 welfare state. It's why people are leaving in droves.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/il...ing-state/ [illinoispolicy.org]
Your murder rate is atrocious.
People are leaving because your pharma bosses, among others, are siphoning money through tax inversions and other schemes to the Caymans, Greenwich, and Silicon Valley. Everywhere will look like Detroit, or rather Novosibirsk and the like. On the plus side, there will be no need for trains, or roads for that matter.
Jun 14, 2021 02:11 AM
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Tails83Jun 14, 2021 02:11 AM
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Socialist Europe and big government knows best is calling and they want you back.
Dude, are you able to form a coherent comment, with accurate information, and perhaps a valid response? The US government is already the biggest and most Socialist on Earth. It's basic math! Even Trump understood that authoritarian China is beating the US, and that the only way to win is to become more like it. Can you imagine the revolution here if everyone was shown the Google Image results for "Chinese city"? Or do you think American exceptionalism produced your so-called Dem failed cities?

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Jun 14, 2021 02:59 AM
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cdsackenJun 14, 2021 02:59 AM
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I do think it's amusing some Americans are idiotic enough to pretend travel is cheap.

I lived in England for 3 years and came back to the raging dumpster fire that is our system.

I spent $150 roundtrip for a family of 3 from London to Cork.

I can rarely ever get 1 ticket that price to San Francisco. LAX is often is $300 from Seattle.

It's amazing to me that people think we have a good system for travel. It outright blows. I can't wait to retire in Europe.
Jun 14, 2021 04:45 AM
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jimx200Jun 14, 2021 04:45 AM
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Quote from cdsacken :
I do think it's amusing some Americans are idiotic enough to pretend travel is cheap.

I lived in England for 3 years and came back to the raging dumpster fire that is our system.

I spent $150 roundtrip for a family of 3 from London to Cork.

I can rarely ever get 1 ticket that price to San Francisco. LAX is often is $300 from Seattle.

It's amazing to me that people think we have a good system for travel. It outright blows. I can't wait to retire in Europe.
Best you talk to those who want to escape to the US from many countries in Europe. I have friends who come here and take rv road trips and buy expensive camera gear to save the 30% VAT tax. Have at the big brother of socialism and all their restrictions. Heaven forbid you want to own a firearm.
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Jun 14, 2021 03:35 PM
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timsyJun 14, 2021 03:35 PM
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Quote from IlluminatusCU :
Not just the distance between cities but the layout. In most cities you're gonna need to rent a car over and over to get around within town, and if you're doing that - just rent the car and drive the distance.
Is that true?
  • NYC/Boston/Washington DC/Chicago/Philadelphia and all the others I know of personally are right in the middle of the city and have much easier access than airports. You could easily skip a car and in fact many visitors to those cities will park their car for the visit and walk.
  • Lisbon to Stockholm is 2500 miles; NYC to SFO is 2900 miles.
  • Right now, you can get a ticket from Boston to DC (see the Aerospace museum!) or DC to Boston for $34 (walk the Freedom Trail!)

Amtrak gets a lot of negative propaganda thrown at it and people don't think of it as an option. Yes, its slow but slow while surfing the web and sipping a cold beer can seem a lot less slow.
Good luck!
Jun 14, 2021 03:53 PM
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timsyJun 14, 2021 03:53 PM
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Quote from cdsacken :
I do think it's amusing some Americans are idiotic enough to pretend travel is cheap.

I lived in England for 3 years and came back to the raging dumpster fire that is our system.

I spent $150 roundtrip for a family of 3 from London to Cork.

I can rarely ever get 1 ticket that price to San Francisco. LAX is often is $300 from Seattle.

It's amazing to me that people think we have a good system for travel. It outright blows. I can't wait to retire in Europe.
London to Cork: 441 miles but includes over water.
Boston to DC; 438 miles. I just priced this out for the Saver deals and it came to $185 roundtrip for 2 adults and one child. Yes, there are restrictions. See attached. I tried to compare to London/Cork but could not find any seats (terrible web site; just says "refine your search" without giving hints why)

Sorry to hear you hate America and haven't found it more to your liking.
Jun 14, 2021 06:22 PM
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juanmonJun 14, 2021 06:22 PM
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Thought this sounded like a cool experience. But then I thought about wearing a mask the whole time. Not saying this is a bad policy...smallish enclosed spaces....but just makes long trips far less attractive in my mind. I'm sure there are exceptions, but it's a tough sell in my mind.

From the amtrak website:
"Federal law and Amtrak policy require all customers and employees to wear a mask or covering that fully covers the entire mouth and nose, fits snugly against the side of the face, and secures under the chin at all times while onboard trains and in stations, regardless of vaccination status or state or local laws."
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Jun 15, 2021 12:01 AM
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GIRayJun 15, 2021 12:01 AM
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It sounds complicated. I live in San Jose. I just want to travel across the States by Amtrak. I have 10-day PTO. I don't want to waste money on motel and rental car. Is it possible? What's the best route across the states? If I miss a train or delay, will I get stucked at the station for a week?
Jun 15, 2021 12:20 AM
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SlickDealirJun 15, 2021 12:20 AM
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Quote from irrationalconsumer :
How do you work on the train? The amtrak wifi is garbage based on my experience
You use your own mobile hotspot, such as your iPhone or Android phone, broadcasting WiFi to PC or tablet. Amtrak Wifi is shared cellular wifi, shared with no less than 50 people at a given time, so I wouldn't expect good speeds at all. That being said both the mobile hotspot and Amtrak will go out in certain parts of the country due to geography. The Blue Ridge Mountains in particular because of the Radio Quiet Zone, other parts of the country because cell phone company didn't build out that far and must roam (though, this is becoming less and less common since T-Mobile and Sprint merged)
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Jun 15, 2021 01:20 AM
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Firebird2k6Jun 15, 2021 01:20 AM
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Quote from itsarectangle :
How's this never become a big thing? Eurail on the other hand is awesome.
They stop in every tiny town that had a congressman lobby for it and rarely travel at speed

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