Originally Posted by
WeekendTraveler
I think I saw taps.
The lounge is fantastic. Food is a step up from the Admirals Club, it’s beautiful and the people who work there (today at around 1:15pm) are incredibly nice.
This outdoes the Admirals Club and it equals Brightline. If the drinks were free it would be better than Brightline.
The cocktails are Cutwater brand, which I’d never heard of, but which are good (and strong).
I commute once every week or two about 600 miles. The trip from my office to the train station- with this lounge- is certainly better than the trip to LaGuardia. This lounge certainly is great marketing for Amtrak and makes me want to take it more.
The only odd thing was boarding. An announcement was made to “head to track — for your usher”. So I darted out of the lounge right when the announcement was made. The announcement for general boarding was made when I was on the ground floor of Moynihan Train Hall, so a line had formed when I got to the track. So I boarded last, and the escalator leading to the platform was at the other end of the train from the sleeping cars. That’s like being in Group 9 on an airline, I guess.
How is boarding from the Metropolitan Lounge supposed to work?
If you are in Acela first you might be able to request a Red Cap escort. On one trip a few months ago I was traveling in Acela first with a friend who qualified for Red Cap service as a person with a disability. When we were paged in the lounge for the escort well ahead of general boarding, there were several others who joined us and a few had no luggage or other obvious reason for the escort other than traveling in first class.
Last edited by rittenhousesq; Dec 21, 2021 at 1:13 pm