There is at least one weirdo LSA running around on 91/92 who keeps coming up with his absurd rules mostly on his own. I have reported that. The other LSAs are more than fine, at least the ones I have come across that is.
Yes, but seating slots for Coach passengers are limited. I would try to ask the LSA in order to get a reservation.
No cafe or dining car ever opened at 530 am... 6 or 630 would be opening time and closing time is probably 11pm for cafe car.
I’m on 97 right now and while the crew is nice, I noticed that they had 3 tables “reserved” in the diner. One for the “LSA”, one for “Pick up” and one for condiments. I think reserving 3 out of 11 tables is a bit much as it was crowded for breakfast.
I believe it's down to fewer tables means less walking for the staff and putting everyone together helps push people to hurry up and order/finish with the rest of the table. The way dining and sleeper staff can vary to extremes and the way coach staff often provide no discernible service whatsoever (besides barking orders) implies that management do not consider the soft product to be that important.
In my experience nearly all SCA's (sleeper attendant) will bring meals to your room. Even "bad" SCA's will usually bring you a meal, although it may not be at the time you want or have missing items. You are free to tip whatever you like (or not at all) but I found that $5 got the job done.
Yes, they all will provide room service. Exactly how will vary, as DA points out.
Exactly.
While I never woke up that early I do remember the cafe used to close at midnight.
I remember in ole days, I used get the amenity kit and it was great, I still have it in my storage, memories.
Yes with traditional dining it’s an alcoholic beverage per dinner - so if you’re going end to end on one of the western trains that serves two dinners you get a complementary alcoholic beverage at both dinner.
I noticed that last October as well.
I'm disappointed my Meteor ride will not include traditional dining as I had hoped as of a few months ago.
No personal experience, but here's a link to Amtrak "Food Facts". Click on Crudités at the bottom of the list of Entrées for a picture.
Thanks, that's perfect. I needed to know if it has celery for my onboard DIY Waldorf salad.
I feel like this has always been the case for me whenever I ride on FC or a sleeper. It's rare I see anyone even near my age in anything but coach. It makes sense because my generation tends to be more frugal, for me I only have the ability to do this because I got lucky during the pandemic and did my cross-country trip during a double TQP promotion and somehow managed to maintain my status since.
Got my curiosity…what were your issues on the ARR?
When I've purchased the Hummus from the cafe car it's served with flat pretzel chips. I don't recall seeing fresh fruit in the cafe cars recently but you never know - the cafe menus do change quite a bit. My recent trip on the Coast Starlight I was pleasantly surprised by the selection in the cafe. Really good quality salads, and some nicer dessert options like the marshmallow dream bars.
- We were assigned a meal time - there was no choice (to be clear, there were multiple times, but you were automatically assigned one of those times)Got my curiosity…what were your issues on the ARR?
My last ride in 2017 was wonderful experiencing their “Gold Service”, Anchorage to Seward…
