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Struggling Amtrak offers 50 percent discount for vets
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The discount does not apply to sleeper or other premium services, but you can upgrade a 50 percentoff coach ticket at the usual upgrade cost. The discount is not valid on Acela Express, Metroliner, Auto Train,[url=http://www.sport.fr/smartphones/moncler.asp]doudoune moncler[/url], Downeaster, the Canadian portion of joint Amtrak/VIA services, Amtrak Thruway bus services,
or connecting services via nonAmtrak carriers. The 50 percent discount is available to any veteran, but not to family members.
Veterans Advantage also offers everyday 15 percent Amtrak discounts, a good deal for veterans of any age and possibly a good deal for senior veterans, too.
discount applies to the lowest available Amtrak coach fare, while many other discount programs limit the discount to full fare. The 15 percent discount is also valid on offpeak Metroliner trains in the Northeast Corridor, and it is never capacity controlled.
Veterans Advantage is as you might have guessed a "club" offering a smorgasbord of member benefits to veterans. Membership is $22.95 for the first year, plus $4.95 for each additional family member you want to enroll.
Other travel benefits, available to family members as well as veterans, include about what you'd expect from a travel club discount program for hotels,
vacation rentals, rental cars and tour packages. As is often the case, those other benefits are provided by wellknown "partner" companies, such as Hotels. com and Collette Tours. As far as I can tell, Veterans Advantage members don't do any better than any of those firms' other customers (certainly, a quick check of hotel rates would lead to that conclusion).
Nontravel benefits include discounts on computers, entertainment, moving expenses, phone service, "gourmet" foods, magazines and prescriptions. Also, the club provides news and information of interest to veterans, including suggestions as to how to take advantage of available veterans' programs.
Having extolled the virtues of the Amtrak deals, I have to close with a warning: Amtrak is again running out of money, and Congress may not bail out the system again without major changes. The most likely change would be to discontinue some of the longhaul trains, which lose money and don't relieve airways and highways of enough traffic to matter.
For now, however, any seniors who are veterans and interested in train travel should take a good look at the Veterans Advantage program. You'd probably pay for a year's membership on just one intercity ticket.