Would take the guided tour up or drive up ourselves if I were to do it again. Train ride was expensive, we couldn’t see anything outside of the car, and getting back down was a disaster. So we get back to the bottom, sounded like a lot of the families (including us) on board had hungry kids, and the railway had shut down their cafeteria at the bottom. Wild that she couldn’t let people on and check tickets once everyone was inside - and that the company doesn’t have policy drawn up about being able to do that when the weather at the top is notoriously bad. So they had to get back off in the rain, more people are stuck outside. She stopped checking tickets and a couple of families climbed on, she then comes on the train and starts yelling for them to get off. Everyone goes back out and the breakwoman was checking tickets as slowly as possible, kids were crying, and everyone was soaked. Back inside we go, a few minutes later we’re told to get in the train. Everyone goes outside in the freezing cold and sideways rain, and the break woman hasn’t and wouldn’t unlock the door. and they’d let us know when to get in the train.Įveryone sits around and stares at each other for another 45 minutes, and an announcement is made to get back on. So now we were stuck with nothing to do, freezing weather, rain, wind etc. Spent some time exploring the gift shop, sent postcards (cash only for stamps!), and checked out the museum before they closed.Īn hour after arrival it was time to line up to go back, once in line someone came and told us it would be about 30 minutes because another train was having trouble on the tracks. We were able to grab a couple drinks from the cafe before it closed, but no actual food. We took the 3pm train up on a terrible weather day which was fine, it took about 40 minutes to get to the top and the building starts to shut down around 4 which I did not realize. Our conclusion is that your time and money is better investing by driving up Mount Washington. We barely were promised a refund for less than 1/3 of the cost for the terrible experience to be paid in 10 days and that is because we learned that from other passengers and not from any company rep who kept apologizing but did not mention the possibility of any refund. The bottom line is that we spent a large number of hours of our precious vacation time waiting for a crammed train that moved very slowly. Then, on the way down the train arrived another 20 minutes after it’s scheduled time. We only got to the summit shortly after 5pm when the museum and all stores had already closed. The train wagon was crammed with passengers with rather uncomfortable seats with no amenities since this was supposed to be a ride of about 1 hour. Another 30 minute delay happened during the trip as we were told the train had to move aside to let two trains coming down from the top to pass. When we then boarded our train at 3pm, there was another 30 minutes delay for which no explanation was provided. We found that out at 2pm when we tried to board our train. The price was also quite hefty (76 dollars per adult 45 for our son). We got sold tickets for 2pm, which by itself implied a 1 hour 40 minutes wait from our arrival time, without being alerted the trains were already running an hour late. We were hoping to get this train ride to avoid the intense drive up Mount Washington and allow everybody to enjoy the trip.

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