Amtrak Vacations, operated by Yankee Leisure Group, today announced it was selected as a national preferred partner for AAA and CAA.
“The demand for rail travel has seen unprecedented growth, and with our new partnership, we look forward to expanding our support even further to the AAA travel agent community and all AAA members,” said Frank Marini, president of Amtrak Vacations.
Bill Sutherland, AAA senior vice president of travel and publishing, said that AAA members already enjoy discounts on Amtrak passenger rail tickets, and that the new partnership with Amtrak Vacations will offer AAA members expanded opportunities for savings on full vacation packages.
Amtrak Vacations offers over 300 rail vacations to cities and National Parks, with options to depart from more than 500 Amtrak rail stations across the country. Popular destinations include the U.S. National Parks, including the Grand Canyon, Glacier National Park, Yellowstone, and cities including New York, Seattle, Washington DC and New Orleans.
For 2017 Amtrak is offering 16 new rail vacation packages to the National Parks, including Yellowstone to Yosemite by Rail, Great Southwest feat. The Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountains to Yosemite and America's National Parks. The new itineraries bring Amtrak’s National Park offerings to over 40 unique journeys.
Amtrak also recently expanded its pet-friendly travel options. Early last year the company began allowing customers to continue traveling with their small pets on many eastern corridor trains. Amtrak has also added this service for trips up to seven hours in length to most long distance trains.
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