Amtrak makes it easy to purchase tickets for passengers with a disability by offering various booking options:
Please make a reservation for any of the following:
For these types of accommodations, reservations are encouraged on all trains, including on "unreserved trains" (on which reservations for standard seating is not required).
Accessible spaces for a wheeled mobility device and/or transfer accessible seats are limited. Please make your reservation in advance if possible to ensure availability.
Up until 14 days prior to the departure of each train from its origin city, reservations for accessible bedrooms may be made only for passengers with a disability.
Passengers booking an accessible bedroom accommodation will be required to certify that they require one or more of the accessible features of the accessible room accommodation in order to book and receive the discount. Passengers are not required to indicate the type of disability they have but only that they require the accessible features due to a disability. Conductors on trains with accessible room accommodations will provide a self-certification form to be completed by the passenger.
Within 14 days prior to a train departure from its origin city, and if all other Bedroom and Family bedrooms have been reserved, accessible bedroom are made available to all passengers on a first-come, first-served basis. For this reason, we urge you to make your reservations as far in advance of travel as possible.
Amtrak offers a 15% rail fare discount to passengers with a disability and up to one traveling companion.
This discount cannot not be combined with other discount programs (such as senior, AAA, Student Advantage, NARP, etc.) unless such discounting is expressly described in the terms and conditions of a particular program. Please ask your reservations sales agent for further details about restrictions.
You must provide written documentation of your disability at the ticket counter and when boarding the train.
Acceptable documentation includes:
