So is it worth upgrading from a roomette to a room? Amtraks' roomettes offer everything most travelers need on a train journey, but for others, the Amtrak bedrooms are worth the upgrade.

I spent 75 hours traveling in Amtrak sleeper cars and learned some lessons about overnight train journeys the hard way.

I took an Amtrak Viewliner train from my home in New York City to Miami and spent the 30-hour ride in a roomette — a 20-square-foot private cabin — for $500. After spending the next three ...

I spent 60 hours on overnight Amtrak trains traveling between NYC and Miami. I booked a 20-square-foot roomette for $500 and a $1,000 bedroom twice the size. The extra 20 square feet in the ...

For my first overnight Amtrak ride in 2021, I booked a roomette on a Viewliner train. Then, in 2025, I booked a roomette on a newly upgraded Superliner train. The rooms had similar layouts ...