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Worldcon Travel Booking
Feb. 20th, 2022 06:06 amAs I was scouting potential travel dates for our planned train travel to Chicon 8 later this year, I discovered to my annoyance that what Lisa and I had penciled in as our return date (Thursday, September 8) is already sold out of bedrooms. There are ten bedrooms (two sleepers, five bedrooms per car) on the California Zephyr, so it was surprising to find them all gone already. Thus, we concluded that we were going to have to go ahead an make our bookings already, and leave a day later than we originally planned.
( Natter About Booking Train Tickets )
The only thing we haven't confirmed is whether the parking garage we identified near the Reno Amtrak station actually will work for long-term parking the way it seems to be able to work from what we found online. If so, it's a bargain at $5/day. Even if it does not work, the worst-cast scenario seems to be to drive to the station long before our scheduled 4 PM departure on August 28, leave the luggage with Lisa at the station, then have me drive to Reno Airport and park there for $10/day and take a taxi back downtown, and that's still not too bad. There will also be the challenge of stowing our luggage (including the "Elephant," i.e. the big camera case) in the lower level luggage rack. Lisa very much does not want to trust that camera to checked luggage, but because we won't be starting in Emeryville, the origin station, there's a good chance that the racks will be crowded by the time we board in Reno.
( Natter About Booking Train Tickets )
The only thing we haven't confirmed is whether the parking garage we identified near the Reno Amtrak station actually will work for long-term parking the way it seems to be able to work from what we found online. If so, it's a bargain at $5/day. Even if it does not work, the worst-cast scenario seems to be to drive to the station long before our scheduled 4 PM departure on August 28, leave the luggage with Lisa at the station, then have me drive to Reno Airport and park there for $10/day and take a taxi back downtown, and that's still not too bad. There will also be the challenge of stowing our luggage (including the "Elephant," i.e. the big camera case) in the lower level luggage rack. Lisa very much does not want to trust that camera to checked luggage, but because we won't be starting in Emeryville, the origin station, there's a good chance that the racks will be crowded by the time we board in Reno.
