Word: snoozers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after a tour of a Napa Valley winery, the guests climb aboard their two-story inn. Then, after drinks and a meal, they watch movies in the lounge and roll on to the text stop. They are passengers on the newest thing in pampered tourism: the mobile motel. The Snoozer, as it is inevitably known, is a live-aboard bus with a bar, kitchen, sky lounge and eight mahogany-paneled passenger rooms, each with two beds, shower and toilet, radio, closed-circuit television, closet, dresser, heating and air conditioning. The first of ten vehicles to be eventually acquired...
Built by the West German firm of Neoplan Co. for some $600,000, the 594-ft-long Snoozer consists of two double-decker cars, joined by an accordion-like hinge, on an air-suspended chassis; it can traverse the bumpiest byway. Powered by a 10-cylinder, 400-h.p. Daimler-Benz diesel engine, the superbus can reach 80 m.p.h. and is as high and wide as the aw permits (13.12 ft. by 8.2 ft); a six-footer can walk its length without stooping...
...minimum daily rate on the wavward inn is $75 a person, double occupancy, which includes a Continental breakfast. Snoozers will be available both for charters and scheduled tours, and Travel Network President Barry Jones expects a wide variety of guests. "With the Snoozer," he says, "we're not in the business of transporting people from A to B. The bus is really the destination...
...greatest demand is for long weekends. The Snoozer is especially popular with golfers, who can play three far-flung courses in a weekend- for example, Las Vegas, Lake Havasu City Ariz., and Palm Springs, Calif.- with the bus traveling at night. However, the company has lined up 18 charters for events like the Calgary, Alta., Stampede in July, the Superbowl in Pasadena, Calif, next January and the Winter Olympics in February at Lake Placid, N.Y., where local housing has already been rented in advance at astronomical prices. Other future charters mclude a seven-day tour of Bryce Canyon and Zion...
...gives them professional training in grooming and pays their dental bills for regular teeth cleanings-but absolutely forbids them to accept dates with passengers. Cabin crews are larger than on most carriers, and best of all, SIA offers tired passengers a chance to sleep in either almost fully reclining "snoozer seats" or (first class only) pull-out bunks...