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I am looking at options for a trip to El Paso by Amtrak.
Does anyone have recommendations for transport from the Amtrak Station to the airport? Distance? Taxi? Shuttle?
Thanks for any suggestions...
Andy
Stephen W Member # 6059
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Andy, Google shows it as 8 miles door to door. There looks to be a bus service - No.33 - from the Downtown Transit Center (a short walk from the station) to the airport.
Good luck and enjoy the trip!
SunsetLtd Member # 3985
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Taxi, reliable and the drivers are nice. NEVER take the bus, they're incredibly slow, crowded and indirect. There used to be a shuttle that you called that could take you to the airport but I think the company went out of business.
sojourner Member # 3134
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Are you going straight from train to the airport, or staying over in El Paso? If the latter, I believe some of the El Paso hotels have shuttles.
a meyer Member # 4954
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Thanks for the info.!
I don't know yet if I will be spending the night, but a hotel shuttle would be a good option.
TwinStarRocket Member # 2142
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Incredibly, El Paso is supposed to be one of the safest cities in the US. So there should be no concerns in that regard. Just don't look toward Juarez, lest ye be turned to a pillar of salt.
notelvis Member # 3071
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quote:Originally posted by TwinStarRocket: Incredibly, El Paso is supposed to be one of the safest cities in the US. So there should be no concerns in that regard. Just don't look toward Juarez, lest ye be turned to a pillar of salt.
Too hot there most of the time to really get out and carrouse.....
I did the taxi from the railroad station to the airport once in El Paso..... about 2002. Our eastbound Sunset arrived an hour late, paused at the station to pick up an Amtrak representative, and pulled away immediately toward the yard.
The Amtrak representative was there to tell us that our train was being annulled due to a Union Pacific derailment near San Antonio and that we were being turned on the wye so that our train could tie up facing westbound at the El Paso station.
Buses would be meeting the train immediately to take first class passengers on to San Antonio. Other buses would arrive 'later' for coach passengers who were invited to use the train as a 'hotel' until more buses could be located for them.
Note: When the term 'hotel' is tossed out at 4pm on a weekend and more buses have not been rounded up yet, it is not a good sign.
Faced with a 600 mile overnight bus ride as opposed to a comfortable roomette, I pulled out my cell phone and before we arrived back at the station had booked a one way Southwest Airlines flight (for $49.00) leaving El Paso for Dallas at 6:45pm..... the last flight of the evening.
Once off the train there were no taxis waiting at the station. I banded together with two other passenger also bolting for the airport and called a cab which we shared. The ride to the airport was under 20 minutes and entirely affordable split three ways. It did take the cab 45 minutes to show up and no others just happened by in the meantime. I think that this was because it was a lazy Saturday afternoon in a hot town.
I'll add that the buses for first class passengers were not waiting at the station when the train returned from the wye and they did not appear before our cab whisked us off to the airport nearly an hour later..... it was easily past 5pm by this time.
That's significant because we had boarded a passenger into our 422 sleeper at Tucson about 8:30am that morning who told us he had heard talk on the platform about a UP derailment and the liklihood that our train would be annulled at El Paso.
You would have thought that with at least 8 hours notice that those buses could have been rounded up in time to meet the train at El Paso, no?
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