Amenities and Perks...

[Patron Zero]

IMTU, mind such games played-refereed in the 1980s, a lot of amenities for passengers regardless of class-passage rating were based off the golden age of both rail travel (1940s-1950s) and commercial-passenger air services (1960s).

Working within whatever layout of starship offering passenger transport, most vessels did offer a common area to said parties as allotted 'deck-space' allowed.

Where the deviation from amenities and accommodations as canon dictated were in smaller but more functionally and efficient designed berthings for passengers, specifically those holding of middle tier tickets.

Meals were available around-the-clock but as such 'served' by means similar to an 'auto-mat-styled' vending kiosk in the commons-galley area. Common hot-cold beverages were accessible in said compartments but of the self-brew/pre-packaged items, coffees, teas or other non-alcoholic potables.

Ship's services beyond 'simple' laundry and housekeeping were on an as-available schedule depending on the other duties of the designated ship's steward. Said steward often an individual contracted as working-passage in such role or longer-term contracted 'laborer'.

A given a vessel of 200Tons not offering the accommodations of say one of 400, 600 or 800Tons where restriction of layouts for lounges, dining areas and other passenger comforts would be less.

All said, a different thing entirely booking passage on a working ship than a dedicated liner or transport. That's where, in my opinion, the canon rules need a bit of tweaking to express and properly represent such.

 

[Sir Brad]

for his Diplomas of Hospitality and Hospitality Management (combined about two years higher education with cross credits, three years without),then Valet Apprenticeship (an other year of higher education and a year of on the job training) the guy could likely R.P.L. themselves most of the way to a B.A. Business (Hospitality Management). So three years higher education and one year practical training.

where the Medic likely has an Advanced 1st Aid (3-6 months part time) or Ambulance Service Paramedic (6-12 months full time or 18 months part time) and a Cirt 3 in Medical Technician (1 year full time study, 18 months part time) and most probably did there Advanced 1st Aid wile they where doing there Cirt 3 if there not Paramedic Qualified, either that or they are an Enrolled Nurse (18 months - 2 years higher education and on the job training). around two to three years higher education and practical training.

a Starship Engineer would have a Diploma of Engendering (Starship Engendering) and a Trade qualification (Starship Engendering) (4-6 years of higher education and practical training) or a B.S. Engineering (Starship Engendering) (a 4 year University). Both training options would likely also have Cirt 3's in Mechanics, Electronics and Gravetics. so four to six years higher education and practical training.


Edit: so next time you think the Bar Manager is just some clown who's spent the past decade of his/her working life poring drinks, think again the education they have done wile working in a poorly paying job probably equates to about the same as a four year university, and maybe an other doing the Honours year.

 

[Carlobrand]

for his Diplomas of Hospitality and Hospitality Management (combined about two years higher education with cross credits, three years without),then Valet Apprenticeship (an other year of higher education and a year of on the job training) the guy could likely R.P.L. themselves most of the way to a B.A. Business (Hospitality Management). So three years higher education and one year practical training. ...

Or he's some hapless corporate broker drugged and shanghaied by a desperate free trader captain.

 

[HG_B]

Right now I'm sipping a martini in the Observation Lounge bar on the (former ocean liner) RMS Queen Mary, and wondering... What would we expect to see aboard a premium liner in Imperial space? Jump space makes the Observation Lounge problematic for a good portion of any trip, of course, and you clearly can't do skeet shooting off of the starboard rail...

So, what do we offer the Impeial citizen who is traveling in style?

Hmm. If you are talking price, and thus tonnage used is no object type of ship... I'd say that open space would be a major design consideration. Don't worry about observation lounges as there isn't really anything to look at unless you are in orbit around a planet.

Casino's. Opulent dining facilities. Clubs for dancing, mingling. Low/no Grav game spaces.

IMTU, except for the wealthy, everything is automated. Cleaning, laundry etc., is done by ubiquitous robots. You order your food and it is brought to your table by a 'bot. Only the rich rate a biological staff.

 

[Timerover51]

I get brochures from cruise ship companies on a regular basis, and Viking River Cruises does include a drawing of their various stateroom accommodations, with square footage listed. The standard one is 150 square feet, or 2 X 3 in terms of your standard 1.5 meter deck plan squares. The size goes up from there, but that standard cabin is close to the standard for most cruise ships, and with twin beds and fold-down bunks, can handle up to four people. Tight, but doable.

For the drawing, go to the following:

http://www.vikingrivercruises.com

Disclaimer: I am not a travel agent and have no financial interest whatsoever in Viking Cruise Line. The post is intended to show what staterooms might look like. I use material like this for My Traveller Universe ship designs.

 

[Ulsyus]

Or he's some hapless corporate broker drugged and shanghaied by a desperate free trader captain.

Save your shameless plug for less informed forums, unless there's a new and longer trailer in which case send me the link now!!

IMTU, except for the wealthy, everything is automated. Cleaning, laundry etc., is done by ubiquitous robots. You order your food and it is brought to your table by a 'bot. Only the rich rate a biological staff.

Yeah, lots of common sense there, and it ties into another thread.

 

[Patron Zero]

Again I go back to a smaller starship, say 400 tons or less, staffing some crew positions such as stewards or medical officer by way of working-passage employment contracts.

Aside from the 'bare-bones' crew of a vessel needing to have 'familiarity' with the physical operations and particular idiosyncrasies of such, support personnel could be 'swapped-out' on each voyage as long as required staffing requirements were met.

Mind breaking in a new crew member on a regular basis would be something of a nuisance but other than giving that party an adequate briefing-orientation to the ship and their duties aboard such, it might offer the core-crew a good 'applicant' pool in which to find a person suitable for long-term if not 'permanent' employment.

 

[Timerover51]

I came across the following in a Canadian Publication from 1916, concerning the furnishing of a new ice-breaker railroad car ferry to operate between Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island. The ship did have passenger accommodations, but the prime purpose was ferrying railway cars, so not exactly what you would view as a luxury vessel, and it was also built during the early years of World War One.

The first class public rooms are handsomely fitted, the dining room being a large apartment at the forward end of the promenade deck. The floor is of oak parquet artistically arranged, while the framing and pannelling throughout is of solid oak handsomely carved. The ceiling is decorated with painted panel mouldings. A number of small dining tables are arranged to seat altogether 46 people. The ladies' and smoking rooms are fitted up in somewhat the same style. The general effect has been worked out with the view to departing as far as possible from the stereotyped forms of internal decoration peculiar to steamships, and to provide rooms and passages which resemble those of a well appointed house.

I will have to keep that idea of a smoking room in mind.

 

[Carlobrand]

...
I will have to keep that idea of a smoking room in mind.

With bioengineered noncarcinogenic tobacco, of course.

 

[Selandia]

Extract from: Primer for ZEN Line’s steward.

Luxury is a subjective concept. Let illustrate this by three sketches.

First, a middle class couple on Regina:

- I booked our passage today dear, on a luxury liner.
- Wow, can we afford it?
- Don’t worry, I booked middle passage, at the same price as on any old liner. Really, I got the best we could have for our money.

A very rich couple on Regina:

- I booked our passage today dear.
- You know that I only travel high on a luxury liner!
- Do not worry my dear, the price of high passage on this luxury liner is so grossly inflated that only the social elite can afford to rub elbow with you.

Two professionals in Subsector 268:

- Is it the first time you star travel?
- No, we made a round trip to Harriet’s homeworld for our honeymoon.
- How was it?
- Outbound, we booked middle, 10 days on food tablets and recycled water three times a day. Inbound, we upgraded to high. 10 days on microwaveable frozen dinners three times a day. This time, I booked on a luxury Liner.
- You expect fresh food?
- No, I know that we will have microwaveable frozen dinners three times a day. The difference is: on a luxury liner, the microwave works.

BTW T5 rules offer a much more flexible accomodation design than CT, with a genuine steerage class rather than just low berths, for those that want to emulate passenger liner travel in turn of the century or early 20th century,

Have fun

Selandia

 

[Patron Zero]

I think one amenity not discussed here aside from the 'creature' comforts of dining and accommodations has been discretion, which is an a separate commodity all it's own.

There will be some passengers seeking to maintain a low profile for reasons of personal choice or by circumstance-situation they find themselves in, the owner-operator of a vessel offering such might find said enterprise quite profitable.

 

[Ulsyus]

That's a fair point. A passenger could purchase high passage, or both tickets for middle passage. Of course, if they just wanted to be left alone and the journey was otherwise going to be a particular bother they could just pop into a low berth. Nothing helps generate solitude better than unconsciousness in the low-passage lab.

Of course, it would depend what YTU was like as to whether people of substance were willing to use a low-berth that way.

 

[Patron Zero]

Another aspect of said 'amenity' would be the effort to travel without the scrutiny of the authorities, whether that be the Imperial agencies or local governments.

This might be an entirely separate area of smuggling where the act of 'human' trafficking was voluntary on the part of the cargo.