Enjoy a day onboard our luxury California Zephyr dome cars as we run along the shores of the San Francisco Bay and down the San Joaquin Valley to Bakersfield and return. Sit back and relax, enjoy the scenery and let our onboard staff cater to your desires. Our chef will prepare a freshly cooked gourmet breakfast, lunch and dinner and our steward and his staff will pamper you with our award winning first class service. Unlimited drinks and snacks are available all day. We depart from Amtrak's Jack London Square Depot at 7:30am with our dome cars coupled to train No. 712 The San Joaquin. You are welcome to board at Martinez, Antioch or Stockton if you like. We arrive in Bakersfield at 1:46pm. Our return departure is on train No. 717 at 3:45pm getting back into Oakland at 10:00pm.
Private railroad cars now allow travelers the option to step back in time and recapture that romantic era of train travel that Amtrak cannot provide. Once upon a time rail barons and wealthy socialites traveled the country on luxurious private railroad cars, dining on fine china and crystal and being pampered by the onboard staff. Now this form of luxury rail travel is being offering to everyone at a very reasonable price.
Passengers can sip on cocktails and nibble on hors d' oeuvres while sinking into deep leather sofas in lounges paneled in rich mahogany and be lulled to sleep at night in their private pullman rooms by the rhythm of the train wheels rolling down the track. All meals are prepared fresh onboard and made to order by our onboard gourmet chefs. Our first class passengers are separated from the Amtrak passengers by locked doors. We provide our own onboard staff including our chef and make up our own gourmet menus for all meals. All drink and food is included in the ticket price from the time you step onboard until you detrain. This is passenger train travel at it's finest.
