This Trip was taken back in 2018.
Our vacation brought us onto new forms of transportation. VIA (Canada) from Windsor to Toronto and then Toronto to Montréal. Amtrak from Montréal to NYC.
The minute we drove through the tunnel under the Detroit River and found ourselves in another Country, we found out that Canadian rail travel is so very different than American rail travel.
They don't have a snack car (or at least we did not have access to one)...but they have a cart like you see on airplanes.
It comes around for breakfast and for lunch.
We brought our own snacks and food, but we did not have anything but water.
That is where having Canadian currency came in handy, as we bought ourselves drinks (in my case, both days).
Appreciated by this traveler, that I did not have to walk through the cars to get the food.
The seats were a leather or vinyl and so when the train stopped, we tended to slip a bit.
Baggage had a very safe place to be kept, which I liked.
Oh and the bathrooms were OUTSTANDING!
On to the Amtrak.
We were on the train for somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 hours, including 2 hours crossing over into the United States.
When that was going on, right about lunchtime, the snack car was closed to us. Great...not.
We finally got our lunch (hamburger and chips) and it was pretty decent. Dinner, we went for the hot dog, it was OK, but the burger was the better of the two.
They had chocolate chip cookies, which ended up being gluten free. Say what?
The seats are more comfortable and roomy, but the baggage area is small. We ended up getting a spot, so we did not have to throw our bags up in the overhead area by our seat.
Now to the truly terrible part. The bathrooms...or should I say bathroom.
It seems that our car had one that was out of service, so the other was used by everyone and it was a mess...give me the bathroom in Canada, please!
So the bottom line. They both had their good and bad points and minus the inconveniences, all three train rides were wonderful.
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