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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy boss rode the dreaded Napa Valley Wine Train last week.
And she's quite progressive. Go figure.
She did, however, report that there were a lot of empty seats. On a Friday. Could their bigotry be hitting them in the wallet?
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)There are always lots of empty seats.
Did you know that the wine train has been sold to a hotel group?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)</johnny-carson>
Are "those people" allowed to stay in the group's hotels?
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The Napa Valley Wine Train is family owned and operated.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)The iconic Napa Valley Wine Train has been sold for an undisclosed price by the family of its founder, the late Vince DeDomenico.
The new owners are Seattle-based Noble House Hotels & Resorts Ltd. and Brooks Street, a California-based real estate development and investment company, according to a news release. Noble House is the same group that owns and manages Napas River Terrace Inn.
The trains approximately 150 employees will remain on the job, including CEO Tony Giaccio, said Jake Donoghue, CEO of Noble House Hotels & Resorts. However, chairman Greg McManus son-in-law of founder DeDomenico has stepped down, he said.
brush
(53,876 posts)Empty seats everywhere but they were booted off?
Something doesn't add up.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)But there are different cars for different purposes: full meals; wine and appetizers and just wine, I think. I suspect the logistics of serving whatever they were having and moving them to another car might have entered into it.
But I can tell you I've never seen that wine train full. Sometimes there are entire cars empty in the middle of tourist season.