The dining seating is useful these days, because they're serving a separate Parlour Car option for meals these days. There's a special entree only served there, or you can request a dining car entree and have it brought to the parlour car.

On the other hand, they also like to serve the wine tasting in those seats, too. Thankfully, they're been very nice in letting us have the wine and cheese either in the center cocktail seating or in round chairs.

I can't stand the regular lounge car configuration and seating, so I'm very happy we have almost certain PPC coverage these days. During the dark months when there was limited PPC coverage, I pretty much stopped taking the Starlight.