Grey hound coaches rock!!
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31 Aug 2010, 07:25
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So grey hound coaches have recently come to the UK and i'm having to take one from b'mouth to London today because my car is broken and i have to get to work
ok so its a little pricey at £10 one way but for that you get a leather seat, wifi, more leg room than a fat guy could ask for (maybe coz its an american company) and its pretty quick too.
Also its quicker and cheaper than National Express (who have the most dangerous coach drivers in the world) but they only operate from a few coach stations.
Anyway I'm quite lucky that they have a couple of stops in my home town and one outside my work in London and i'm able to troll on crossfire on the way up XD
the only down side is the wifi seems to keep cutting out for some reason, i'm guessing its because the bus is in an area with no signal, so I can see regular travellers have brough 3g dongles to get around that. Although if I had more work to do which didnt involve the internet it would be ok.
ok so its a little pricey at £10 one way but for that you get a leather seat, wifi, more leg room than a fat guy could ask for (maybe coz its an american company) and its pretty quick too.
Also its quicker and cheaper than National Express (who have the most dangerous coach drivers in the world) but they only operate from a few coach stations.
Anyway I'm quite lucky that they have a couple of stops in my home town and one outside my work in London and i'm able to troll on crossfire on the way up XD
the only down side is the wifi seems to keep cutting out for some reason, i'm guessing its because the bus is in an area with no signal, so I can see regular travellers have brough 3g dongles to get around that. Although if I had more work to do which didnt involve the internet it would be ok.
although u are right, i might try in a bit when ive sorted out how to get the sockets working so i can charge my laptop
in fact, this fits exactly to the story when I got my first car. I had driven half an hour when I fell asleep. I wake up because there's bunch of rocks hitting the bottom of the car, I was very close to the ditch. I make some evasive action that barely keeps me on the road :P
-Seatbelts ( i lold)
-Power sockets
-Reclining seats
-Extra legroom
-Free newspaper
-Cctv
-Toilets
DO YOU?
but for the time of travel national express was £20 one way and took 3/4 hours (depending on the exact bus) where as grey hound was £10 and 2.5 hours (though with traffic it was 3)
though they're new to the UK, i guess they will do a london to Glasgow route at some point