<p>Thank you all-- fortunately we are traveling on the east coast and I think trains are relatively reliable here. Happymom…we are planning to use the college deal-- but you have to book online and so far so bad-- I went through all the rigamarole and it still charged me full price. I’ll try again tomorrow and then call–my experience with calling Amtrak has been somewhere between discouraging and rage-inducing…so we will see!</p>