Yes, even if it’s on time you will get dinner if you want. They like to do do early dinner seatings on the second day. However you might have to take the 5pm seating.
You won't know until the train pulls into the station! The sleepers can be oriented in either direction.
50/50 as to how they are oriented.
The rooms in the transdorm car always face the same way, but the rooms in the 1130 car can vary
I am in car 1131; is that the dorm? Room 2.
1131 is the second sleeper from the diner, it is not the dorm.
End of April
Oh ok that makes sense. They’ll probably bring back a 31 car by then.
You can book a room in the transition sleeper car where the rooms are always on the same side!
The CSL runs next to the ocean only from about Santa Barbara to just past Vandanberg. From there on it’s all in land. When the Pacific Parlor car was part of the consist, sleepers were a better deal cause you had sole access to it. If there was a parlor car on all long distance routes it would really feel like a First class experience.
They are long gone and off property to new homes: https://www.rtabern.com/ppc/now.html
There has not been a Transdorm on the starlight in recent months. I doubt that will change between now and the summer.
