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Bob
Guest
Hi all I am currently on the California Zephyr with my family. First long distance train trip, going all the way from San Francisco to Chicago. About five hours to go, and I'd like some option ion on whether to tip our cabin attendant.
We have a family bedroom, and there are 4 of us. No prior experience to compare to, but I'm thinking we have a pretty poor cabin attendant - I've had to put the beds down and up both nights, and to get juice or ice I've had to go to one of the other sleeper cars. Not sure how clean the attendants are supposed to keep the bathrooms and showers, but when I showered this morning it was gross - about 7 half used soap bars scattered around the shower, and a very sketchy floor. She didn't even bother to take the soap bars out of the box and put them in the basket - just threw the open cardboard box of them on top.
In fact, the only time she sought us out to ask is a question was when she asked this morning if she could go into our room when we were at lunch, to make up the beds for the NEXT trip.
All this to say, as uncomfortable as it makes me having worked a lot in the service industry, I'm not inclined to tip her at all. Interested in agreement/disagreement if anyone happens to respond in the next 5ish hours!
We have a family bedroom, and there are 4 of us. No prior experience to compare to, but I'm thinking we have a pretty poor cabin attendant - I've had to put the beds down and up both nights, and to get juice or ice I've had to go to one of the other sleeper cars. Not sure how clean the attendants are supposed to keep the bathrooms and showers, but when I showered this morning it was gross - about 7 half used soap bars scattered around the shower, and a very sketchy floor. She didn't even bother to take the soap bars out of the box and put them in the basket - just threw the open cardboard box of them on top.
In fact, the only time she sought us out to ask is a question was when she asked this morning if she could go into our room when we were at lunch, to make up the beds for the NEXT trip.
All this to say, as uncomfortable as it makes me having worked a lot in the service industry, I'm not inclined to tip her at all. Interested in agreement/disagreement if anyone happens to respond in the next 5ish hours!