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Old Aug 23, 2017 | 4:32 pm
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fairviewroad
 
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Originally Posted by Dianne47
That upgrade to a roomette certainly was a no-brainer for $26. For sure you ate more than $26 worth of food. How did your dad like the train? I think you said it was for Father's Day, you're a good son!
Bear in mind that, as BC passengers, they each would have gotten a $6 voucher to use in the diner. So effectively they would have had to have eaten more than $38 worth of food to break even (if you just measure based on food consumption).

But of course there are other benefits that come with being in a roomette, and $38 to upgrade from Emeryville to Oxnard was probably a good deal anyhow.
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