The Royal Oak Amtrak location is a bit odd if I do say so myself! It's nothing like the Ann Arbor…read moreAmtrak location, which was the only other location I was familiar with in Michigan, so I pulled up to the Royal Oak stop expecting the same. What we got instead was minimal infrastructure. The parking lot at the Amtrak here is similarly metered, so look for street parking spots in the residential neighborhoods of Royal Oak away from downtown, which the Amtrak station is on the border of, not too far away from this station (~5 minute walk depending on what you can find). Be careful to read the street signs too because some residential streets either require permits or paid parking as well still. But once you get to the Amtrak station, it's pretty unclear of where to go. There's no central Amtrak building the way that Ann Arbor has, just a platform that you walk up to and wait at and that's literally it. We weren't even sure which direction the train was going to come in, whether we were at the right platform. Granted, when I caught the train from here it was like 6 am in the morning. So that could've contributed to the fact that there was very little activity around. But you basically had to keep an eye out for any signs you might see and navigate yourself to the platform and that was it. The platform was very understated as well. Just a small ramp leading to a patch of elevated concrete, no railings, no nothing, and that was it! Writing this review in the hopes that anyone reading it will be better prepared and have managed expectations on what you'll find once you get here. It's a very small space compared to Ann Arbor and I would assume Detroit as well. Our trained arrived a little bit after the scheduled time, probably because they take a bit longer to stop at those bigger stations, and since there were only a handful of us getting on at this point, we were on and GOING within a matter of 2-3 minutes. So get here early and be ready for a quick onboard!

This is a great way to travel if you have a destination fairly close. I wouldn't suggest it for…read morethree or four day trip although I hear people that do it all the time. We were going to Chicago from the Detroit area and since the driving time is approximately the same as the train time we thought we would take the train. Besides the fact that it's very expensive to park in Chicago if you can even figure out how to get around in the heavy duty traffic. So we actually caught the train at Troy Michigan -- it's a fairly new transit center and it's got plenty of free parking and very easy access to the train tracks. The train ride is approximately six hours and you are able to bring on unlimited luggage from what I could tell. The nice thing is you can walk around, you can use restrooms, and you can go get a bite to eat from their little cafeteria. On the trains we were on there were plugs at every seat so you can keep your cell phone or iPad or computer charged!! The train staff was very helpful and answered any questions that we had.

When I searched for Amtrak to leave a review of our trip to Chicago and back, other stations had a…read morebusiness site, but not Pontiac! This is information that would have been really useful to us at 5am on a Monday morning when we arrived at the address given by Amtrak of where to catch our train. At least on the day we went, the inside of the building did not open until 10am, according to a sign taped by the door. We promptly went back to our car to drive up the road, toward the trains we could see on the tracks, to see if there was a more station-y station further along. And then we drove back. Luckily this time there was another woman who said she had taken the train before, and we were in the right place. The building looked really nice, through the windows. Luckily the two teenagers I was with were not traveling alone, cuz that was a freaky start to our trip. The train ride itself was great. While there seem to be plenty of horror stories about trips gone wrong, we had an uneventful ride to Chicago, and then at the end of the week, back again. With all that said, we would recommend this as a great form of transportation to Chicago and back. But we also would have loved to know we were catching the train at an abandoned building before we arrived. Just sayin.

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