A detailed look at the Superliner Roomette sleeper compartment on Amtrak trains, including maps of routes, how much it costs, how it compares to other types of Amtrak rooms, and its features and amenities, or lack thereof.

0:00 Amtrak Superliner Roomette intro
0:28 What is an Amtrak Superliner Roomette?
2:14 Superliner Roomette vs. other rooms
3:37 Superliner Roomette amenities and details
4:56 Nighttime in the Superliner Roomette (beds and privacy)
7:02 Superliner Roomette prices (with examples)

A Superliner Roomette is a small private compartment with two seats and it converts into two beds at night. Only long-distance overnight trains offer any sleeping accommodations. Shorter day routes only offer seats. Superliner roomettes are available on Auto Train, California Zephyr, Capitol Limited, The City of New Orleans, Coast Starlight, Empire Builder, Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited, and Texas Eagle.

The Superliner Roomette is the smallest of Amtrak's sleeper accommodations, but also the cheapest, and you have a choice about the level you want to stay on. Plus, sitting in the roomette seat in the daytime and watching the scenery pass by is awesome. Seats face each other, so if you’re traveling as a pair you’ll get to argue about who gets which seat. If you’re traveling alone — and I’ve seen many solo passengers with a Superliner Roomette — well the world is yours.

There’s a small closet, good enough for two or maaaybe three coats or jackets. There’s also a little coat hook that you can pull down from the wall. In the daytime, sitting in the seats, your suitcases may fit on the floor beside your feet, or if especially small on the armrest beside you. Otherwise you can put your bags in the storage area on the lower level of your car.

Making the beds is simple. The two seats in the Superliner Roomette slide down and meet in the middle. On top of that, you place a thin mattress and a pillow and blanket, and there’s one bed. The top bed is just unlatched and pulled down horizontal, and it locks into place. It has the same mattress, pillow, and blanket. Your Amtrak car attendant, who has certainly already introduced him or herself, will be happy to do all the bed conversions for you. I personally like doing it myself. It’s like setting up a campsite.

To get up to the top bed there’s a step and the armrest to climb up. There’s a net on the open side to prevent you from rolling out at night. The space in the top bed is pretty tight, with no window and the ceiling right over you. It might feel a little claustrophobic to some, but this is where the gentle rhythm of the train at night comes in, to lull you off to sleep.

The door latches and you can draw the curtain across it at night to prevent people in the hallway from seeing in.

Both beds in the Superliner Roomette are two feet, four inches wide, or 72 centimeters. The bottom bed is longer — six feet, six inches, and the upper bed is six feet, two inches — 200 and 190 centimeters, respectively.

One of the key benefits for staying in a Superliner Roomette, or any sleeping accommodation, is that breakfast, and all your meals, are free. For as long as you’re on the train, you have your choice of whatever breakfasts, lunches, and dinners are on offer. As a lover of Amtrak food, I think of this as a major benefit of Amtrak sleeping accommodations. Passengers in coach seats have to pay extra for each meal. And all passengers, in a private room or not, have to pay for snacks from the cafe.

What does a Superliner Roomette cost? Well, it depends on the route, the days you’re traveling, and even the direction you’re going. Plus there are discounts for certain people but also add-ons you may want.

How it basically works is that you pay one price for the roomette itself, and then each of the one or two passengers pays a fare on top of that. And you are limited to two passengers in a Superliner Roomette. All the prices depend on the route.

There are some examples in the video of what the Superliner Roomette costs on different trains. For instance: California Zephyr from Chicago to San Francisco is $894, but only $547 going the other direction from San Francisco.

When you factor in the comfort of the bed over the coach seat, plus the free meals and the privacy, a Superliner Roomette can actually be a pretty good deal, especially if it’s split between two people. Just check the Amtrak website to get the real story for your trip’s prices.

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