I have no issue with shutting it down at 10:30pm, or even at 9:30pm for that matter. But, it should be open to Sleeper Plus passengers (as it always has been) during the day when the scenery is visible! Email them that you don't like this change: [email protected]
electricron wrote:I hope they don't change the new policy, I like it, they should make it year aaround. ...There are two reasons why VIA should not adopt the new policy for the off-season.
There would have to be a Skyline car for sleeping car passengers as there is in peak season. (There are two in peak season, one ahead of each dining car.) Given the usually low passenger loads in winter this considerable expense would be unnecessary. Almost all my trips on the Canadian are in off-season and the Park car is rarely crowded except for the few hours at the beginning of the trip ex-Vancouver and in the Rockies.
The number of Prestige passengers in winter is very low and, from first-hand reports, there are sometimes none at all. It would make no sense to run an empty or even almost empty Park car in winter when you have a few dozen disappointed sleeper passengers who must confine themselves to a Skyline car with its inferior lounge space.