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German tour bus or chicken coop on wheels?

Weird tour bus on Boylston Street in Boston

Brian Lee spotted this contraption rolling down Boylston Street today:

Party in the front, sub-standard housing in the back?

Per Michael Yanikoski, it's a weird German tour bus that features semi-private lodging in the back. So what's it doing in Boston? Per Mitchell, its German owner sent it over here for Germans who want to see the Northeast and a bit of Canada.

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It is for Germans who want to tour in style, and I'm betting it will be somewhere around Charleston, SC or maybe Nashville, TN or somewhere in between during the mid-afternoon of a Monday a couple of weeks from now.

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Liesen Sie das Link! Neue England, Quebec, Neues York, und DC.

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IMAGE(https://www.rotel.de/usa-die-oststaaten-der-usa-von-new-york-bis-miami-k088_2017-jpg_karte.jpg)

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Die nachste Reise nach Suden kommt in Oktober.

(also, sorry for the lack of umlauts.)

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Ja es ist easy mit der 'Option U' keystoken und den typen sie der Letter Sie wollen ein Umlaut zu haben uber it.

Bork Bork Bork

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According to their website it will make two more trips to Boston this year, 15 days apart... so again on August 24 and September 8.

https://www.rotel.de/reise-durch-den-osten-von-usa-und-kanada.html

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I've seen this bus in Boston several times over the past few years. It's often parked on Charles Street next to the Common, near Boylston. I've never had a chance to talk with them about it; usually when I see it I'm riding by in another tour bus (since I'm a guide myself). I've always been intrigued by it but am no longer surprised to see it in town.

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Das bus!

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Arduino Versus Evil? Sure sounds like him in the top one! https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil/about

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Whhhhat did I just watch??

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Amazing! This old bus manages to make the T look bad!

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To figure out how to maneuver and park this massive bus in the streets of Boston.

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The Clampetts go to Louisburg Square!

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Public transit is so bad and underfunded in the US that Germans have to send over their own buses.

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If an American tour group brought their own motor coach or camper to Germany, would you assume that it was because the German public transit is poor, or that the Americans simply had money and expensive tastes?

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Especially when it's a question of an alternative charter tour coach, not public transportation.

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It really does seem like Kinopio doesn't know how land tours work. They don't take public transit from place to place in any part of the world (aside from possible train tours, which are special in of themselves and nowhere near as prevalent.) My gut is that the tour operator wanted a setup that is familiar to those to whom the tour is being marketed. So yeah, I expect that there are MCI buses built in North Dakota prowling the roads of Europe for the exact same purpose.

Of course, buses are also a from of transit, but we'll leave that for another time.

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... on the narrow streets of Boston clogging traffic and threatening the lives and safety of pedestrians and cyclists. Yay!
Whenever one of these tour buses looms over me I feel like an endangered species being stalked by tourists on safari.

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Does the bike mafia never rest?

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When they do, their resting heart rate & respiration is fabulous!

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.. to spring for First Class seats. It def looks like a chicken coop in the back, but plenty of leg room towards the front.

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It looks like about 25 small bunk/berth spaces In the back half, with room for a similar number of comfortable touring seats in the front half.

The only way I can think of that would make financial sense here as a tourist charter (as opposed to a traveling band or theater group) is interstate touring to multiple destinations far enough apart to make it attractive.

Sightsee one area, then have the option to doze in your tiny private bunk (instead of sitting up next to somebody) during a 6/8/10 hour late-night or overnight drive to another destination. Arrange late check-in at your next hotel for a few hours' sleep or early check-in for people to shower & change.

Stay in Boston a couple of days, then instead of paying for hotel night & morning shuttle flight to Washington DC, drive overnight to DC (use the time, save the money). Stay a couple of days there, then drive overnight to Orlando or someplace, stay a couple of days again.

It would be an interesting balance of time and money... Find a price that's an attractive enough bargain to the tourists when bundled with the use of time and the modest accommodations - and balance it with the tour operator needing a profit margin on 25 people per bus in stead of 50 people per bus.

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Autobahns. Wunderbar!

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Let's both Pollute the Environment and Not Contribute to the local economy where we're being Ugly Tourists!

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Coincidentally, WAPO ran this piece today on a California variant.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/08/10/can-a-bett...

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