Tipping Question
Jul 12, 2016, 8:58 am
#31
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I was always under the impression that these cars were off limits to revenue passengers. This was the first time that I have been booked into one of the compartments on board. I was told by staff that they have been selling rooms in these cars WAS-CHI for the past few months.
I would be interested in getting another room in one of these cars for another reason. On the lower level there were two "booths" like in the sightseer lounge. The conductor let me sit down there, and in fact we spent the last two hours of the trip (after breakfast), TOL-SOB, down there and really enjoyed the ride and the relative privacy. I often take work on these trips, and being able to set up at one of the booths in that open space with no foot traffic going past looked really appealing to me.
I would be interested in getting another room in one of these cars for another reason. On the lower level there were two "booths" like in the sightseer lounge. The conductor let me sit down there, and in fact we spent the last two hours of the trip (after breakfast), TOL-SOB, down there and really enjoyed the ride and the relative privacy. I often take work on these trips, and being able to set up at one of the booths in that open space with no foot traffic going past looked really appealing to me.
May 21, 2019, 11:44 am
#32
Join Date: May 2017
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Bringing up an old thread...
Sincent this is FlyerTalk I'll take it some of you have flown J or F in the skies. Now nearly all would say no tipping is required in that situation, why all of the sudden when on the ground are we encouraged to tip.
If I buy a sleeper car ticket, equivalent to the J class, with meals included why would one tip? Why would one tip the Sleeper Car Attendant when you don't tip the Flight Attendant making up your F cabin for sleeping.
Seems like a fair comparison, or am I missing something?
Sincent this is FlyerTalk I'll take it some of you have flown J or F in the skies. Now nearly all would say no tipping is required in that situation, why all of the sudden when on the ground are we encouraged to tip.
If I buy a sleeper car ticket, equivalent to the J class, with meals included why would one tip? Why would one tip the Sleeper Car Attendant when you don't tip the Flight Attendant making up your F cabin for sleeping.
Seems like a fair comparison, or am I missing something?
May 21, 2019, 11:54 am
#33
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Apples and oranges. FAs don't spend 30-60 hours on near-continuous duty, with one night's rest, then another similar shift in the other direction -- with a cumulative total of 4-7 days away from home. Forget the merits of US tipping culture in the first place, or what occupation or level of effort warrants tipping. But train attendants really do have uniquely demanding jobs, thus tipping them has been a tradition for as long as sleeping cars have existed.