I love taking the National Express with comfortable & modern coaches, friendly staff and ice cold aircon! Even if it is a bit longer than the train, the fares definatley make up for the longer journey times! Glad you enjoyed your trip too :D
I'm on the national express now from Heathrow airport to London Victoria some people say that seat 2a is the best seat but if the toilet doesn't smell bad the seat all the way at the back is the best as the perks is well... Unlimited leg room all the way to the front of the coach :-)
On the National Express there's a jolly hostess Selling crisps and tea She'll provide you with drinks and theatrical winks For a sky-high fee Mini-skirts were in style when she danced down the aisle Back in '63 But it's hard to get by when your arse is the size Of a small country
@@johnmcquay82 On the occasions I went up to Newcastle/Ashington in the early 90's on the National Express Rapide, there were some really hot Geordie lasses on those coaches.
The Levante 3s National Express use are surprisingly very nice if it’s not too busy. The seats are comfortable and give a fair bit of privacy. They’re best at night when the blue ambient lights glows down the coach. They just need to re-do that 5 minute long safety announcement, it goes on forever. Great video G
Lucy really knows a thing or two about coaches! That is a very nice vehicle, I have to say, and I agree that the colour scheme for the interior looks very smart and will probably last well. Even that loo looked clean and efficient! Hope you enjoyed your Cardiff trip, both of you!
The Levantes are nice looking vehicles, unfortunately Caetano build quality leaves a bit to be desired. The blue lights are night lights. Good to see the newer ones have USB-Cs, ours are 68 reg so don't have them. WiFi is fitted to the coaches but doesn't always work
Haven’t been on a coach for years. They really look very stylish. Only time I did one before Oz was a coach from Manchester to Butlins Minehead overnight. A shocker. Still enjoy your train vids as well as this. Cheers.
Nice one - glad you like Cardiff so much, is a beautiful city and is such a great and green location for a coach terminal when compared with other cities
Love using National Express around the UK. I often use them from Bournemouth or Southampton to London as its cheaper and more reliable than the trains. Though I once did a Southampton-Edinburgh National Express Coach journey as I wanted to compare the Coach to the Plane (using easyJet)
This brings back so many happy memories of visiting my girlfriend in Sheffield, I'd get I think the 350 to Bradford from Nottingham Broadmarsh and she would be waiting for me at Sheffield Interchange which was very new then, around 1998. Lovely times. I noticed that the new Trent Barton buses on the Threes service, not only had standard USB sockets but also USB C AND charging pad stations on some of the seats. Tfs, blessed day x
Great video G , really enjoyed the video . I usually drive everywhere but my wife and I actually used this service from Birmingham to Cardiff , that's the last time I used the national express coach service . Keep up the excellent work 😊😊.
Glad you had a great ride on the national express to the mega centre of the universe Cardiff your fav place of all G, and the knowledgeable Lucy of all things coaches great Vblog see u both again soon guys 🤗
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the national express (bet they don’t have jolly hostesses anymore!) I found that being 6ft2, that it was just a bit too cosy on the coaches - although this coach looks amazing!
Brilliant video G, I've seen so many national express coaches around during my lifetime and I've still not been on one lol. The M5 is a motorway I've endured for far too long of a length of time when travelling down to Cornwall by car. Don't even get me started on the M50, it's not what I'd class as a motorway by todays standards lol. Also the weather here was the exact weather as on my first holiday down to Wales almost 20 years ago.
That was a great video G, loved it. Your singing was fab. I thought you had a Dandelion in seed on your t shirt until I realised it was the microphone.
Lovely stuff as ever G. I'm heading to Wolverhampton next Friday but instead of the direct train from Wigan I'm going the more unusual route of Newton-le-Willows to Chester then Chester to Wolverhampton via Wrexham and Shrewsbury so that'll be something to look forward to as it'll be a nice change from the norm
So glad you made the nod towards the Divine Comedy, shame royalties prevents you from using it. I mentally hum it whenever I see one of their coaches. Nice looking coach and always odd to see my home city on video like this. Plans are the coach station at Sophia Gardens will eventually relocate to the rear of the railway station at some point.
I have been on a National Express coach before. Also National Express used to run rail services when you had WAGN, c2c, One Railway/NXEA, National Express East Coast, Scotrail, Wessex & West and Thames Trains.
Those coach seats looked very comfortable. Problem with a washroom at the back of the coach in the event of a badly timed rear end shunt ( oooeeerrrr Mrs ) you could see the back wall smashed and have just you sat on the loo for all to see ha ha ha ha
We're doing a trip Newport-London in June to make sure we catch a flight - the earliest train would have left zero margin for error if anything went wrong. £10 per head, can't go wrong.
i really enjoyed this vlog i used to travel up North to Blackburn or Manchester on the National express when i was very young before i started going up on the Train but the last time i used the National Express was back in 2009 when i had a day out in Stratford Upon Avon i traveled from Newbury to Stratford & back even tho i do all my long distance travel on the train i always keep the National express as Backup if i need it & i remember the National Express Song good song & the coach looks amazing brilliant vlog
Really enjoy your youthful enthusiasm, hope the channel grows so we can watch you enjoy European Trains.. Maybe, just Maybe you will find somewhere you like as much as Cardiff?
I usually book seat 2A whilst booking National Express being a tall person and in my opinion thats the best seat you can get on National Express as it offers you a great legroom. You should try the Belfast-Dublin Dublin Express service, which is owned by National Express even if it has a different livery, but its brilliant nonetheless
In 1980 NatEx didnt stop at University - would have been handy in a way for me if they did , but most of the time I was getting an early morning from London to Cardiff Bus station , arrive 0830 then change onto local bus to work in Ely for the week ( cycled back to flat opposite UWIST for the week ) Still dont think I know where Sophia Gardens is as such ( my entire time was spent along Cowbridge Road or Crwys Road ! )
If I wanna go to London, I normally just take the National Express coach, costs me nothing to take (I have a Discount I can use), so it's a no brainer, and it's not bad, just so long as you realise that it's a coach of 50-60 people and not a train.
I do feel that national express vehicles are quite good, have you ever been on one of their electric buses they are really good and have when they bother to put them route announcements like London buses which I think is cool
The majority of people get off at Cardiff University because it's more central than Sophia Gardens which is just a patch of mud on the Wrong Side of the River.
I know Scott from Planes, Trains and everything has done a comparison. Also I've done one comparing Flix with Megabus and also done National Express too. Hope G doesn't mind me jumping in here plugging my stuff 😊
Rail fare (with a railcard) a few days in advance is about £25 and takes less than two hours, so for the coach company to charge over £20 and take nearly three hours is a bit of no-brainer. Especially if you have a bladder like "G"...🤣
I’ve heard that National Express aren’t as good as they were before. Including when they operated rail operators under National Express. Including National Express East Coast, One Railway/National Express East Anglia, WAGN, c2c, Scotrail, Wessex & West and other train operators that were franchised by National Express.
I drive for NX's bus operation in Birmingham, and we turned our wifi off at the beginning of the year, the company stating that very few people were still using it thanks to everyone having virtually unlimited data these days! Don't know if they've done the same on the coaches but that may explain your lack of wifi!
I remember the old Digbeth (Brum) coach station before it's redevelopment, You needed a tetanus shot just waiting for the coach, and the fumes... cor blimy.
Did you ever see the old Digbeth coach station? It was a really terrible place. They were going to build the new one up the hill, somewhere near Snow Hill station, but it didn’t happen and they ended up demolishing the old one and building the new one on the same site. While this was done there was a trmporary one across the road.
Wow getting flashbacks, used to be in Birmingham coach station almost every night driving London to belfast, northbound was 2am and south was 3am, Bruce's in scotland had the longest nx journeys in the country, inverness-london, Aberdeen-London, edinburgh-Plymouth, Edinburgh-Bournemouth, and obviously belfast-london, ours was a 17 hour journey, we had two of the newest coaches in the fleet at one point bu18osr and osv both levante 2, they don't do those long journeys now so mostly it's a connection ticket, miss those days
G have you been to Norwich? not sure if Cardiff and Norwich are my favourite city. Last time I was in Cardiff I was given the job of leader of all the staff and students for taking 7 coaches with 52 people in each full of students (they were learning English for the summer) to the city on the hottest day of the year it was 30C+ that day
Yeah, Sophia Gardens isn't what you would call a psuedo interchange and it is a good distance outside of the city as well so maybe could be useful for NX to find a location somewhere in the city centre for them to pick up and drop off Also, squishy boobies, in The Wigan, the local cry of a good lady. In Birmingham, a sign that you have pulled haha
Sounds like you have become a poet in class with a person born in Stratford upon Avon But there are two things that should made the trip better You speaking Welsh and next time please travel down via the heart of wales line
I love taking the National Express with comfortable & modern coaches, friendly staff and ice cold aircon! Even if it is a bit longer than the train, the fares definatley make up for the longer journey times! Glad you enjoyed your trip too :D
Fully agree that there should be more USB-C ports on public transport. Looked a very nice coach
Absolutely! 😀
Awesome. Get on the bus gus, without any fuss….
That's the Trifecta of coaches now with a National Express vlog, really looks a great trip down and a great vlog G.
Trifecta - what a word!
I'm on the national express now from Heathrow airport to London Victoria some people say that seat 2a is the best seat but if the toilet doesn't smell bad the seat all the way at the back is the best as the perks is well... Unlimited leg room all the way to the front of the coach :-)
On the National Express there's a jolly hostess
Selling crisps and tea
She'll provide you with drinks and theatrical winks
For a sky-high fee
Mini-skirts were in style when she danced down the aisle
Back in '63
But it's hard to get by when your arse is the size
Of a small country
I didn't spot the aforementioned Jolly Hostess though... What a song! I quite often crucify that one while driving along. :D
@@johnmcquay82 On the occasions I went up to Newcastle/Ashington in the early 90's on the National Express Rapide, there were some really hot Geordie lasses on those coaches.
@@johnmcquay82 That stopped in 2008 I think,
2:38 cheers G, I nearly choked on my tea then 🤣🤣
The Levante 3s National Express use are surprisingly very nice if it’s not too busy. The seats are comfortable and give a fair bit of privacy. They’re best at night when the blue ambient lights glows down the coach. They just need to re-do that 5 minute long safety announcement, it goes on forever.
Great video G
Love this. Used to travel on NX a lot before I learned to drive. Coaches are getting luxurious these days!
Lucy really knows a thing or two about coaches! That is a very nice vehicle, I have to say, and I agree that the colour scheme for the interior looks very smart and will probably last well. Even that loo looked clean and efficient! Hope you enjoyed your Cardiff trip, both of you!
The Levantes are nice looking vehicles, unfortunately Caetano build quality leaves a bit to be desired. The blue lights are night lights. Good to see the newer ones have USB-Cs, ours are 68 reg so don't have them. WiFi is fitted to the coaches but doesn't always work
Haven’t been on a coach for years. They really look very stylish. Only time I did one before Oz was a coach from Manchester to Butlins Minehead overnight. A shocker. Still enjoy your train vids as well as this. Cheers.
Great video. Love Cardiff.
Must pay a visit, long overdue.
Cheers!
Nice one - glad you like Cardiff so much, is a beautiful city and is such a great and green location for a coach terminal when compared with other cities
Love using National Express around the UK. I often use them from Bournemouth or Southampton to London as its cheaper and more reliable than the trains. Though I once did a Southampton-Edinburgh National Express Coach journey as I wanted to compare the Coach to the Plane (using easyJet)
Brilliant video:-)
Looks like a very comfortable trip, very enjoyable video to watch the price was reasonable as well, well done to both of you ✅✅👍👍
This brings back so many happy memories of visiting my girlfriend in Sheffield, I'd get I think the 350 to Bradford from Nottingham Broadmarsh and she would be waiting for me at Sheffield Interchange which was very new then, around 1998. Lovely times.
I noticed that the new Trent Barton buses on the Threes service, not only had standard USB sockets but also USB C AND charging pad stations on some of the seats. Tfs, blessed day x
Nice one coach ride!
Always a cool journey with you and Lucy! 😎
LLovescoaches 😀
You should try the Flexibus to Paris/Bruges/Brussels so on 👍🏻😁
Great to see you covering NatEx at last G 🙂 they’re my favourite long distance coach operator to travel with in the UK! 🚌
Great video G , really enjoyed the video . I usually drive everywhere but my wife and I actually used this service from Birmingham to Cardiff , that's the last time I used the national express coach service . Keep up the excellent work 😊😊.
Thanks! 😀
2:57 i would love to see you ride that tram
Your videos are always so amazing
Glad you had a great ride on the national express to the mega centre of the universe Cardiff your fav place of all G, and the knowledgeable Lucy of all things coaches great Vblog see u both again soon guys 🤗
Good video, G! I do sometimes see National Express outside Leeds Bus Station too.
It's very useful you've got Lucy as your bus/coach expert there! 👍
Loads in Leeds!
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the national express (bet they don’t have jolly hostesses anymore!) I found that being 6ft2, that it was just a bit too cosy on the coaches - although this coach looks amazing!
Awesome Video G Loves Trains 😄😄
Brilliant video G, I've seen so many national express coaches around during my lifetime and I've still not been on one lol. The M5 is a motorway I've endured for far too long of a length of time when travelling down to Cornwall by car. Don't even get me started on the M50, it's not what I'd class as a motorway by todays standards lol. Also the weather here was the exact weather as on my first holiday down to Wales almost 20 years ago.
Great video G
That was a great video G, loved it. Your singing was fab. I thought you had a Dandelion in seed on your t shirt until I realised it was the microphone.
Haha!
Quite like the look of the Levante 3 coaches! If it has cameras instead of wing mirrors, it's a Levante 3A
Thanks for the video, G and Lucy. Looks very comfortable, I used the toilet l'd probably be sick.Enjoy you time out in Cardiff with Lucy!!😎🚍🚍🚍🚍🇬🇧
We did thanks!
Lovely stuff as ever G.
I'm heading to Wolverhampton next Friday but instead of the direct train from Wigan I'm going the more unusual route of Newton-le-Willows to Chester then Chester to Wolverhampton via Wrexham and Shrewsbury so that'll be something to look forward to as it'll be a nice change from the norm
I never travelled on National Express before, but I am tempted at some point. Depending on where I decide to go.
So glad you made the nod towards the Divine Comedy, shame royalties prevents you from using it. I mentally hum it whenever I see one of their coaches. Nice looking coach and always odd to see my home city on video like this. Plans are the coach station at Sophia Gardens will eventually relocate to the rear of the railway station at some point.
Nice one! And same can't help but sing it when I see a coach
@@GLovesTrains I have a "ten things hidden in Cardiff" video coming soon. You and Ruth may enjoy some of them when you are next down.
I have been on a National Express coach before. Also National Express used to run rail services when you had WAGN, c2c, One Railway/NXEA, National Express East Coast, Scotrail, Wessex & West and Thames Trains.
Hi G, I spent 20 odd years driving national express. Just needed a change
Those coach seats looked very comfortable.
Problem with a washroom at the back of the coach in the event of a badly timed rear end shunt ( oooeeerrrr Mrs ) you could see the back wall smashed and have just you sat on the loo for all to see ha ha ha ha
We're doing a trip Newport-London in June to make sure we catch a flight - the earliest train would have left zero margin for error if anything went wrong. £10 per head, can't go wrong.
i really enjoyed this vlog i used to travel up North to Blackburn or Manchester on the National express when i was very young before i started going up on the Train but the last time i used the National Express was back in 2009 when i had a day out in Stratford Upon Avon i traveled from Newbury to Stratford & back even tho i do all my long distance travel on the train i always keep the National express as Backup if i need it & i remember the National Express Song good song & the coach looks amazing brilliant vlog
Really enjoy your youthful enthusiasm, hope the channel grows so we can watch you enjoy European Trains.. Maybe, just Maybe you will find somewhere you like as much as Cardiff?
Would love to!
Coach!!! what you doing on that 😲 Oooh cardiff, Torchwood location 😎
Can you log in to the coach CCTV and save a few clips
Great video G, new Bus line for Lucy. When the next video on trains?
Seat 2A is the best one on National Express, there is no seat in front of you and a clear view ahead.
2:36 - an offer no one can refuse.
I usually book seat 2A whilst booking National Express being a tall person and in my opinion thats the best seat you can get on National Express as it offers you a great legroom.
You should try the Belfast-Dublin Dublin Express service, which is owned by National Express even if it has a different livery, but its brilliant nonetheless
In 1980 NatEx didnt stop at University - would have been handy in a way for me if they did , but most of the time I was getting an early morning from London to Cardiff Bus station , arrive 0830 then change onto local bus to work in Ely for the week ( cycled back to flat opposite UWIST for the week ) Still dont think I know where Sophia Gardens is as such ( my entire time was spent along Cowbridge Road or Crwys Road ! )
Great vid as always. I thought you said before that you didn't like coach travel as it made you feel ill?
Thought it was Jimmy Savile from your thumbnail!! 🫣🫣
Birmingham-Digbeth station.
Glovestrains? More like GLovesTravel 😂
GLovesWalking too 🤣
Those lights in the coach make it look space age hope you both enjoyed your time in Cardiff G
We did thanks, already posted most videos from the trip 😂
@@GLovesTrains wasn't sure if it was a different trip
Shame you didn’t have the Divine Comedy playing in the background. I’m assuming it’s a copyright thing?
If I wanna go to London, I normally just take the National Express coach, costs me nothing to take (I have a Discount I can use), so it's a no brainer, and it's not bad, just so long as you realise that it's a coach of 50-60 people and not a train.
Yo- perfect ~have a good day,😉
I do feel that national express vehicles are quite good, have you ever been on one of their electric buses they are really good and have when they bother to put them route announcements like London buses which I think is cool
What camera are you using?
The majority of people get off at Cardiff University because it's more central than Sophia Gardens which is just a patch of mud on the Wrong Side of the River.
Could you please do a comparison video between the 3 coach companies and tell us which one is your favourite
I know Scott from Planes, Trains and everything has done a comparison.
Also I've done one comparing Flix with Megabus and also done National Express too. Hope G doesn't mind me jumping in here plugging my stuff 😊
Great vlog and review of the national express bus G. How much do you pay for the tickets?
Thanks Sam, I can't remember off top of my head, I said at the very end tho 😂
@@GLovesTrains I’ve just seen now lol I must have been half asleep when commenting last night.
Rail fare (with a railcard) a few days in advance is about £25 and takes less than two hours, so for the coach company to charge over £20 and take nearly three hours is a bit of no-brainer.
Especially if you have a bladder like "G"...🤣
I’ve heard that National Express aren’t as good as they were before. Including when they operated rail operators under National Express. Including National Express East Coast, One Railway/National Express East Anglia, WAGN, c2c, Scotrail, Wessex & West and other train operators that were franchised by National Express.
slightly offended that you call it scermingham but love your videos anyway
I drive for NX's bus operation in Birmingham, and we turned our wifi off at the beginning of the year, the company stating that very few people were still using it thanks to everyone having virtually unlimited data these days!
Don't know if they've done the same on the coaches but that may explain your lack of wifi!
Ah okay thanks!
as you said cardiff was the best place .. ive sub'd your channel lol !!!! the sophia gardens i a bit of a way out... used to be a consert hall etc ...
Sure is! 😀
I remember the old Digbeth (Brum) coach station before it's redevelopment, You needed a tetanus shot just waiting for the coach, and the fumes... cor blimy.
Was there a jolly hostess providing drinks and theatrical winks for a sky high fee?
Did you ever see the old Digbeth coach station? It was a really terrible place. They were going to build the new one up the hill, somewhere near Snow Hill station, but it didn’t happen and they ended up demolishing the old one and building the new one on the same site. While this was done there was a trmporary one across the road.
Nah was my first time there
What tech do you use on your iphone?
Pretty sure she has an android, not a scamphone
Wow getting flashbacks, used to be in Birmingham coach station almost every night driving London to belfast, northbound was 2am and south was 3am, Bruce's in scotland had the longest nx journeys in the country, inverness-london, Aberdeen-London, edinburgh-Plymouth, Edinburgh-Bournemouth, and obviously belfast-london, ours was a 17 hour journey, we had two of the newest coaches in the fleet at one point bu18osr and osv both levante 2, they don't do those long journeys now so mostly it's a connection ticket, miss those days
Bruce’s now exclusively on Scottish nx work.
@s125ish yeah they are the only operator in scorland but the routes have been cut to the north, bx don't go further than Glasgow or Edinburgh
G have you been to Norwich? not sure if Cardiff and Norwich are my favourite city.
Last time I was in Cardiff I was given the job of leader of all the staff and students for taking 7 coaches with 52 people in each full of students (they were learning English for the summer) to the city on the hottest day of the year it was 30C+ that day
Not been to Norwich yet
Don't catch the 3am coach from Birmingham to Heathrow airport it's full of arguments
GLovesCoaches now? ;P
😛
Yeah, Sophia Gardens isn't what you would call a psuedo interchange and it is a good distance outside of the city as well so maybe could be useful for NX to find a location somewhere in the city centre for them to pick up and drop off
Also, squishy boobies, in The Wigan, the local cry of a good lady. In Birmingham, a sign that you have pulled haha
Lol, we did walk in from there cant remember how long it took dont think it was too long 😂
I hope you change your name to GLuvsBuzzes 😊
Sounds like you have become a poet in class with a person born in Stratford upon Avon
But there are two things that should made the trip better
You speaking Welsh and next time please travel down via the heart of wales line
You're so cute and silly G!
Took me embarrassingly long to recognise Digbeth at the start given you didn't even call it "Birmingham"...
Glovestrains but just likes coaches as a friend.
GLovesTravel?
National Express
Hate coach trips give me a train any day
Who is sitting opposite the sixth woman in the night stream??!! Or girlfriend
I think you're on the wrong video
No, sorry, although you can sit down and sit down who are man or woman@@GLovesTrains
Great vlog like always @glovestrains
Great video, your bf definitely knows his coaches! love this channel!
I'm bored of coming out now.
Disappointed, G. No jolly hostess!
Not watching my favorite G-Loves trains ride a bus! No Thanks.
Gloves trains your videos are awesome from Alan in Lowestoft huni buni ❤😮😊
Very Disappointed you did not use even a short clip of the actual national express song
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