Aside from whether this was rude or not -
- was it not true that accomodations may actually have been *too small* and the cars to restrictive for comfort?
A lot of Americans now simply tower over their not-as-well-fed overseas brethren. (And I'm not considering the somewhat overwight or obese US traveller either!)
And as to the size of accomodations, transportation facilities and the like - we are talking about what is popularly described as 'socialist Europe', where (equivalently) gas is five dollars a gallon and the price (I'm sure) of home heating oil is similarly priced (not to mention natural gas) ...