Can you sleep in the coach seats on the California Zephyr / Coast Starlight / Capitol Limited? What should I pack for an Amtrak coach seats trip? What are the coach seats like on Amtrak and how far can you lean back? Would you recommend riding Amtrak in coach?

(Our trip was in January 2020, before all... you know)

As a thank you to all of you who watched my video of travelling across the USA in coach and left such nice comments, here is everything I learned that could be useful to people who are thinking of doing the same trip when it's safe again. Hello and thank you to all of you who subscribed after watching that video!

I know I am just a stupid British tourist, so my new American friends will probably be able to offer better advice. But these are things I wanted to know before going, and I made sure to get enough clips to help out other people.

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This is my advice for riding the California Zephyr in coach seats, the Coast Starlight in coach seats, and the Capitol Limited in coach seats. A lot of my clips are from the ride through the rockies because the scenery is the best, but I honestly enjoyed seeing the snowy towns of Ohio on the Capitol Limited too.


I'll answer your questions about things to pack for the California Zephyr, what to eat on the California zephyr, booking California Zephyr tickets and booking California Zephyr coach tickets.

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