We stay in hotels in Switzerland that offer bed AND breakfast. Breakfast is paid for and is not a courtesy offer. We have noticed a wide range of consumption habits at breakfast from mouse like to

Hello Rachel/All: Most hotels do offer their guests a courtesy Continental Breakfast as part of the daily room rental. Taking extra rolls and cold cuts will not get you arrested, but it will not do

Here is the prototype http://vaunut.org/kuvasivu/22510 Andrew

I remember that concept. They might try again with the next round of procurement for S-Bahn stock. Max.

--- In SwissRail@..., "Krist van Besien" wrote It doesn't really matter whose fault it is. It is an annoying thing, seeing it would have taken so little to remedy. Andrew

The interior is specified by the customer. Stadler will put in whatever seats in whatever orientation the customer wishes. On the drawings the SER published of the new RhB railcars the

of course such things are nasty. But it could have happened in a bus as well. It could have happened to you when you were driving your own car. BTW, I believe the ICE trains have a switch the

distract the the ICE3 at lines with line and sometimes I'm not sure what planners think. my favourite example is the GTWw hich has a nice glass partition between driver and passengers, but guess

The MOB does have a good number of strange conductors. I'm happy to say though that this isn untypical as most Swiss railways employ highly competent staff. My girlfriend, her parents, and I once

In fact Talgo proposed a double deck train with through gangways on both levels. A prototype was built and demonstrated in Finland, but this was an experimental train and never carried passengers. As

I fully agree with the interior of the ICN... "boring" is my middle name... and the ICE-3 (actually, the ICE-T) interior is one of the most elegant at the moment in western Europe; for really

I don't mind uniform consists that much. I find the ICN sets some of the most attractive trains on the SBB network, but their interior could be better. The most attractive "modern" interior to me is

On the ICE-3 sets the partition behind the driver uses a special kind of glass that becomes transparent when electric current is applied, and becomes opaque when the current is cut. This works on

Up to a point, the amount some people eat for breakfast is far greater than I would eat even if I do take a roll with me. Roll fillings will last for a few days; it can be very inconvenient to

I told you I have feet in both camps! I tend to agree with Marcus here. This is why I enjoyed my last few visits to the Zermatt lines, and the 'FO' last Easter. Although 'railcar', the local consists

distract the Another aspect to this is what happened to me in the 1980s when travelling in the suburbs of Cardiff (Wales, UK). An elderly chap decided to 'end it all' by stepping out in front of the

As far as I am concerned this is theft. Nest time buy the stuff at a Co-op/Migros. This sort of thing gives other guests a bad name.

bob gillis wrote: I've always liked Spiez as an alternative to Interlaken. It's got an attractive lakeside setting, but it's much quieter and less of a tourist trap. I've found it makes a good base

I am 100 percent in favor of being able to look out the front. Perhaps an argument against windows is that passengers might distract the driver from driving safely. This doesn't seem to be a problem