Thread: Bad website experience- ugh

I'm planning a trip from Toledo to Chicago, and don't want to drive, so I last night I started to plan to go by train. The Amtrak website took a while to load - not sure why, because there didn't seem to be a lot of stuff to load. The design wasn't too intuative, and I had to figure out how to look up the schedule. It wasn't as easy as looking at an airline website when planning a round trip, that's for sure. Finally figured out how to get the schedule for each way on the dates I wanted. When I tried to create an account, that page took forever to load, and when it finally did, none of the fields seemed to accepting any input. So I had to reload the page...same thing happened. It was late, so I gave up.

Tried again this evening, with moderate success. I'm a registered user, and will be eligible for a 10% senior discount. But I haven't tried to book the actual tickets yet. I'll have to check and see how I can submit my proof of age on the website. I'm waiting to get my friend's flight info to find out when he's arriving so we can coordinate meeting up. I think I can take one of the city trains to the place we're planning to stay, but I need to check that too. If not, I'll have to figure out how to get there. Thank goodness I have a few more weeks to figure all of this out.