VIA Rail Canada
One review for VIA Rail Canada
1 review in English
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Review from Luke A.
Toronto, ON
9/21/2008
Taking VIA is reasonable if you're going along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor (like between Toronto and Montreal), but it gets really expensive and time-consuming if you want to go greater distances.
And it's not so great a travel experience: in ten years, I have been on only one train that arrived less than ten minutes late. The loading and boarding is awkward (especially compared to most good European train systems), and the food service amounts to railway robbery. Bring your own sandwich (even if it's from a station Subway), and save yourself ten bucks.
Still, it's not all that bad. Last year, I dropped my bus pass on a train, and the employees found it, called me on my cell, and had it put on the next train so that I could pick it up at the station that I had gotten off at. I still had to wait around for hours, but since it was my own stupid fault, I think they accommodated me as well as could be expected.
