National Express - an awful experience on the overnight coach from Glasgow to London but why?
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2022
- Join me on board a National Express overnight service from Glasgow Buchanan Bus station to London Victoria Coach station.
On what should have been an otherwise pleasant trip some people just don’t have any consideration for other passengers.
Although departure and arrival was on time there was no time for much sleep.
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Date of travel: 18.10.2022
Departure: Glasgow Buchannan Bus station.
Arrival: London Victoria Coach Station.
Class of travel: Standard
Cost: £20.90.
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If the coach is travelling after 12 am then it should be sold as a "quiet" coach in my opinion. Everyone wants to rest or sleep. Its different in daylight hours.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - couldn't agree more
To be honest, normally their drivers are steel hard in enforcing quiet at night. One night a lady's phone made the text noise and she get a ribbing for not having it on silent
Absolutely ❤
She was extremely self centered and damm right arrogant! I would have snapped ! 🤪 great vid thank you
I HATE public transport, I take a bus,4 times a week, every morning there is someone screaming on their phone at 5,30,AM, it's always a foreigner
And I'm an Asian saying This
Greyhound bus driver in the states once announced at the start of journey: 'Right folks, people haven't paid good money to listen to y'all talking about your problems on your phones. So, if you've a call you gotta make, make it quick, make it quiet and go to the back.'
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated. Cracking announcement.😂
I would do the same 😂 😂
Welcome to public transport. There’s always selfish people who have no consideration for other users.
What annoys me are the people who take calls on loudspeaker for the whole bus or train to hear.
The loudspeaker conversations go on during every bus journey in London, always in a foreign language, always at full volume. At least that is during the day.
@@laurastuart3814 it’s a cultural thing, they are phoning family back home
@@s125ish It's rude and inconsiderate.
Loudspeaker quality is really bad, the other person can barely hear
Even on ordinary buses during the day, there’ll always be someone who wants you to listen to their crappy choice of music or video game as well 🤬🤬🤬.
I spent £80 on custom moulded earplugs due to a nuisance neighbour, shes gone now but the earplugs have come in very handy as I travel a lot. You have to assume most people are an absolute menace!
new noise reducing headphones have been purchased for the next trip....
I got the coach from Cardiff to Glasgow in 1990 and on board was a lad about 20 going up to see his "gf" who he'd met in Majorca. I use speech marks because he hadn't actually spoken to her since gettin home. "She accidently gave me the wrong number but luckily I have her address. She'll be _so_ surprised"
I've always wondered how that turned out.
😅
I travel on them lots and there’s always one foreign person shouting on a mobile non stop , always
Always the f,rginers causing problems nothing new there 🙄
I remember being at the Knutsford service station early in the morning in September 1992, hitching back to Liverpool from Birmingham - I was asking people if they were going anywhere near there and eventually I got a couple of old dears who were actually going to the same area of Liverpool I lived in and they dropped me right outside my door! Bless them, whoever they were.
I took this overnight coach once. Never again. Before we even left Glasgow, a woman on the coach was blasting happy hardcore from her phone and shortly after leaving Glasgow she was screaming for her drugs and that she wanted to see her baby. A sorry situation but not one I needed to be subjected to as well. She kept this up for a good while, with passengers asking her to shut up, but eventually she did run out of steam and I got to sleep. I woke up somewhere roughly halfway where we had stopped for a service station loo break. This was pretty quick but once all the passengers were on board and the doors were closed we just sat there for a while before the driver stood up and announced that he had not been drinking but had failed the coach's built in breathalyser test and as such the coach was immobilised. He said that they sometimes malfunctioned like this and the only way to start the coach would be for the police to come and breathalyse him to confirm he didn't have alcohol in his system and then the coach company could deactivate the immobiliser. They took their time coming but eventually did arrive and test the driver, who hadn't been drinking after all and the coach started up.
I had been drifting in and out of sleep throughout this wait and woke up when we started moving, then drifted off again. I woke up to hear the driver shouting "SIT DOWN. SIT DOWN," and then "PUT YOUR FUCKING CLOTHES ON AND SIT DOWN". One of the passengers was naked and harassing the driver. I looked out of the window and we were stopped on the slip road out of the service station. The police were called again, and again they took a good while to arrive, and when they did it was the same two officers from before, who can't possibly have been far away. I think they might have even still been in the service station. They arrested the passenger who then started asking for his suitcase, which was in the hold. We had to unload all the luggage, get this guy to identify which bag was his, then reload everything before getting underway and finishing the trip.
Awful. Never again.
This is true. I was the naked guy
Ooo. Yer anti-Scot agenda is showing there, pal.
Listening to hardcore music and being drug addicts are negative stereotypes towards Scottish people that were engineered by Westminster to make us look like a joke of a nation.
It really wouldn’t surprise me if you were being paid by Westminster to spread anti-Scot propaganda online.
It's always happy hardcore, there must be a bylaw.
@@garystefan8550 ha ha ha ha brilliant
@@garystefan8550Dude stop walking around naked and harassing people that's rude 🤣
Good video. You might want to rephrase the title. If I didn't watch the video, I might just have assumed the National Express service itself was awful, and not that the experience was soured because of an inconsidrate passenger.
I've not been on a National Service coach for yonks but have very pleasant early memories and continue to admire their resilience in the face of all the competing alternatives - I wish them well.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - thanks for the info
I agree, I watched this thinking the title suggests it’s an awful experience with National Express…not that it’s something that is nothing to do with them. Misleading and unfair on National Express tbh. £20 a bargain.With the money saved from flying buy a pair of noise cancelling headphones…they are fantastic for just this type of thing. 😊
It's called "click baiting"
no matter how hard I try, on a bus, on a train or in any sort of queue I always end up with a pratt next to me
Same here .
Have you seen the nutter on the bus piece that Jasper Carrot used to go. I'm a bus driver and yes we get all sorts. Majority of passengers are lovely though. Just a few ruin it for everyone else as is the case with most things.
YOU NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELVES, PRATS ATTRACT PRATS
@@AB-hu2uw you should know
@@4evaclapham IF YOUR WATCHING THIS CHANNEL YOU NEED HELP FIRSTLY, I RANDOMLY STUMBLED ACROSS THIS VIDEO WAS INTRIGUED TO SEE THE LOW LIFES WHO WATCH THIS SHIT. JUST A LOAD KARENS AND BILL
I have tried this and like any other overnight travel, it's not worthwhile because the next day you're heavy with sleep.
I would recommend this only for young students on a tight budget, who are big on stamina and low on funds.
For normal people, any so-called "saving" doesn't work out in reality.
Experience is the word.
Not surprised at all. The woman demonstrated a perfect example of self centred disregard for others. I would have told her to cut the call or get off. Although it is the company’s responsibility to ban mobiles and music which can be heard through ear phones. Good manners are not taught at home, in school or university so expect the worse.
Take the train, use the quiet coach. It’s become so expensive so I don’t bother travelling.
I know how you feel. I was once on a long-distance coach in France and there was a girl talking non-stop on her mobile and she was still yacking as she went down the stairs to get off the coach.
It really makes you feel like murder.
This is the trouble with public transport , it's full of the public ! full marks for the journey , my idea of hell , at least with a train you can move about a bit !
Thanks for watching, much appreciated, agreed......
You can move about a bit on the coach I -e. Get off , you are part of the problem you are the public, you can never stop complaining
Alan train's are Even worse, I hardly ever get a seat, last week I managed to get a seat and a couple opposite me were giving me evil stares throughout the 45 minute journey
Our national express driver told us no phones on his service. Loved him for that
I travelled megabus Glasgow-London-Glasgow on overnight and the coach was so quiet. I’ve also travelled Glasgow-Cardiff and London-Glasgow day service with National express and was quite lucky that the other passengers were quiet and considerate
My mate my was on a journey from Birmingham to Edinburgh and and someone was talking in this manner that the person sitting beside them told them to shut up due to how much shit that person was talking. The person asked how many people she was annoying and 75% of the bus said yes, she said sorry but then a hour later took another phone call and went back to square 1
Hi, thanks for watching -- appreciated..... That's the problem, you can display displeasure at somebody but if they dont care they'll never take notice.... Crazy
you should have said something to the driver as he would tell her to be quiet or get of the coach as she was disturbing passengers
exactly, instead of making it an issue on an otherwise average/dull travel blog to give a title that captures the eye of channel surfers like me. Shit video, not subbing
Thanks for watching, much appreciated. Yeah I should have, maybe inexperience I didn't think I could as he had no co-driver. Next time noise reducing headphones
Should've just grabbed her chucked her out on the hard shoulder! Hope she lands face down!
@@TheGeordieTravels Silicon earplugs are great for these situations.
When I travel I always take ear plugs and also a headset that cancels out other people's chattering, at least that way I can listen to gentle classical music rather than someone's inane chatter, on one occasion on a train journey during the day, London to Glasgow, some guy talked loudly on his phone for a solid 90 minutes, business call, when the ticket inspector came I asked if there was anything that could be done and to his credit he went an gave him a telling off and instructed him to be mindful of disturbing other passengers, the selfish guy's reply was that it was not the quiet coach but the ticket inspector said that was irrelevant and told him to get off his phone or take it into the corridor where he would not disturb people, for the rest of the journey he sat in a petulant silent huff with everyone else in the carriage flashing him dirty looks every now and again. Sometime's it is best to make a complaint to whoever is in charge of the vehicle and they can tell the offender to put a sock in it.
Anybody who does a long bus journey overnight wants their head examining, especially in the era of the biggest disaster invention of all time, the mobile phone.
I know, but some of us are on a budget, and they are cheap.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - i hear you mate
I used to take a coach from HMS Collingwood in Fareham, Hampshire, to Liverpool when on weekend leave from the Royal Navy. That wasn't too bad. However, the journey back was AWFUL. We would join the coach in Liverpool at around 10 pm.. we'd hit Fareham at around 6am with almost NO sleep. Awful AND their was always a collection for the driver. I was quite young at the time and didn't have the character or maturity to tell them to piss off. Was SO glad when I got my first car... a Mark 5 Ford Cortina!
you definitely should have said something and told the driver, very unfair on everyone. she's like the type of person that takes hands free calls throughout her whole shift at work. people like that really get on my nerves, like make calls in your own time and space
women all ought to be at the back!
I would have reminded the girl that people were trying to rest and her selfish behaviour was disturbing them !
Some passengers are just awful
Going to Birmingham from Teesside we had women eating out of carrier bags (rice and god knows what else) that stank to high heaven .
When asked to put it away she responded in fury thinking making a scene would help
It didnt and she was removed at Manchester
It was so bad we had to get off while the bus was quickly aired out
What a nasty person she sounds
hi mate, thanks for watching, appreciated
I've learned from experience that you can't sleep properly on overnight transportation and the next day you're heavy with sleep.
It's not worth it - you think you're saving money, but in reality you're not - the next day is a wash out.!
Its crazy because ive been watching overnight coach videos from japan and wow they look so peaceful and everyone is quiet.
Exactly, I did a trip across Europe and a few of the nights we spent travelling on Coaches - impossible to get any decent sleep even without any disruptive passengers... so we spent half of the next day napping at the hotel.
Exactly
@@Black.Sabbath only unless you've got a proper bed to go to, soon after you arrive, say at 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning.
I was on an overnight bus journey from London to Newcastle and ALL THE WAY there was a family absolutely jabbering on as loudly as they could and I think it was in greek! It was pointless trying to change seats as they could be heard anywhere on the bus. If it had just been a single or a couple of people I'm sure someone would have told them to pipe down but I suspect that since there was a whole group people were worried they'd gang up.
Recently used the Edinburgh to London service. A couple in front towards front of the coach were talking quite loudly. After a while when the drivers were swapping round, the driver that had been driving politely but firmly told them to keep the conversation down.
There is a cheap secret weapon that solves multitudes of noise problems - travelling, home - anywhere.......earplugs!!
Hi mate, thanks for watching - earplugs and headphones now bought
Drove long distance coaches myself through the night. Had to speak to a few people who thought it was okay to talk nonstop on their phone or listen to music or movies with no earphones. I'm surprised the driver never spoke to her.
Drivers probably get tired of asking passengers to be considerate of others, and probably get nasty responses when they try.
@@Bobrogers99 spot on I’ve seen it for myself on these trips
Good on you for raising it with them!
@@Bobrogers99 anyone ever got nasty with me, they left my vehicle. Simple. Not paid enough to take shite from entitled passengers.
@@Bobrogers99 You need to adopt Slavic approach to such issues. You throw their phone/speaker away, and ask if they want to follow it.
Your awful journey reminds me of a truly dreadful experience of a coach holiday a few years ago. From the moment two middle aged women got on the coach to where we left as we got off the coach, they talked constantly played music on a mobile phone. The return journey was peppered with 81 text messages received......never again. This was the third and final time we go on a coach holiday, totally spoilt by middle aged elderly people. Regards Crawford
first time I used national express to Victoria from the North East it was midnight, full of drunks, smoking none stop, playing cards, telling jokes, playing a radio until 3am, eating sandwiches, talking, snoring, it was GREAT, I was 14 and it seemed fun to me, it cost £1 return, no television, it had a toilet and a trolly service with hot drinks, sarnies, pasties, pop, crisps and ear plugs which I thought was very enterprising. run by a self-employed woman.
after I used BRs new 125 for the first time, I never used the coach again, in saying that the National Express was OK and very cheap, especially compared to BRs 125,
Why didn`t you say something to her about the constant yapping. And as a former National Express driver, I wouldn`t have let her eat that food on the vehicle. In fact it`s a NE rule. And in his safety announcement, he should have said about inconsiderate phone use. We used to leave VCS, and it was almost deafening with all the idiots saying "I`m on the coach" on their phones. After I gave the safety announcement, anyone being noisy was told to tone it down.
Me too. I'm a nx driver now I take no nonsense from passengers who are rude and loud. Or aggressive. I always check periodically also that they are not drinking alcohol too I always mention that any use of alcohol or smoking and it's a veryong walk and we do have 14 cameras watching their every move.
@@vincentmcclafferty87Would you stop me eating my pack lunch robo cop? 😅
Thanks for keeping the noise down and idiot drinkers though 👍
Hi as I am a nx coach driver. One of my bug bares is a noisy passenger. If you speak with the driver we politely ask to keep her conversation to a minimum or to use the seat at the back of the coach as to not annoy or disturb any other passengers who are trying to get their head down for a few hours sleep its even on the safety announcement about mobiles phones but who actually really listens to them. I would gladly tell her. For you no worries. Hope you had safe and pleasant onward journey. Jeeps I sound like I'm actually on me coach. Stay safe on your travels.
Hi mate, thanks for watching. There was only one driver and I wasn't sure if I could approach him when driving, I figured not. Spoke to him after the second stop but his shift was finished and another driver got on board. Nothing was said but she fell asleep soon (ish) after.... Safe travels my friend.
Not all the driver seem to understand English
Unfortunately we all do understand English language as it is my first language of cause I'M very strict when it comes to passengers comfort and safety.
Reminds me of a journey I had with my father back in the 80s as a boy, from London to Ireland via a ferry from Fishguard Wales, anyway as we were travelling along we started to hear a noise from the back of the coach it was a loud man's voice and he was clearly drunk, it got soo bad and people fed up, the coach stopped pretty much in the middle of nowhere and the driver kicked him off, simple.
Cant do that these days. Might hurt their feelings and upset their human rights
Stranraer to Larne on a ship with two children under three years old and a drunken nun ( 40yrs ago ) plus the Welsh Rugby team.. really loud and drunk . I wanted to jump ship half way through the journey .
Yeah, I lost count of the drunks that got on the bus, you’d be like oh nooo, most times they would get kicked off after a few stops.
😂😂😂👍
@@suzannelacy8093 Was it Dave Allen's nun? ruclips.net/video/McXEYQuaO2s/видео.html&ab_channel=SavereoJohn
I did Glasgow to London in 2002, wask ok I guess but now would need industrial ear defenders.
We had a loud talker/shouter most of the way until someone else in the bus cracked and advised them to cool it.
hi mate, thanks for watching. Yep, noise cancelling headphones and ear plugs were purchased soon after!?!?
I used to travel a lot on these on 12-14hour journeys. The seats have gotten worse over the years and trying to sleep at all or even a nap is a nightmare. I found the new leather seats worse than the old cloth ones. Legroom is a huge problem. Being 6ft4 I used to make sure I either had the rear seats (not a good idea if people regularly go for a dump) or the front open seat also not a great idea as it doesn’t recline
In Japan nobody uses phones or music players on transport, it's just not the done thing
In Japan people are very respectful, tidy, polite..
they do
Yeah, was on the national express, going to Glasgow from inverness, I’m from Glasgow, well I always go up the back of the bus hoping it will be quiet, the very back seats to my dread where taken up with a group of about 8 women, was kicking myself all the way to Glasgow, wishing I’d taken ear plugs.
I travelled to Glasgow from Manchester - 6 hours. The lady in front of me talked on her phone for 5 of those ..... It was a day service and that was annoying enough, so can imagine on a night how frustrating it would be.
Bet she was African
Alway use Boots wax ear plugs, blocks out the nagging from the mrs as well!
I’m making this trip with NE next week - albeit the 2245 departure from Glasgow. I’m bringing my ear defenders. 😂
Great review. Very informative.
Hi, mate, thanks for watching. Good luck....
@@TheGeordieTravels Thanks mate. Hopefully your chatty lady isn’t making the journey again.
Great video, and a pity that passenger was so inconsiderate. I have done this journey before and found the coach okay. I am a bit shorter than average at 5'4" so legroom is never a problem. I don't know how it would be if you were taller.
I used these coaches back in the mid/late 80s from Hartlepool to victoria station for almost 3/4 years, they were fully booked every weekend and i mean every weekend for years with construction industry lads, i still look back with horror at having to use them horrible coaches.
I bet those builders stank, they usually do , uneducated oafs who believe they Are tough
When I was making this journey fairly often - a long long time ago - Scottish Citylink would do the journey in 8 hours, 10:30 depart arrive Victoria 6:30. It was so long ago that mobile phones hadn't been invented, so we've made progress backwards! I'm sure that Citylink enforced people to be quiet and threatened to put anybody who created a disturbance off the coach! There was never any noise as everyone was trying to sleep.
yep I did the journey a few times late 80s early 90s you're bang on
I often use flix bus f0r night travel Newcastle to London, usually very quiet, I use national express for daytime routes, sometimes tho the train can actually be cheaper than NX.
I did that trip many years ago. Fortunately I was able to get some Scottish anaesthetic before boarding the bus.
Great video I did this route many years ago when it was the 596 from Edinburgh Carlisle Heathrow London Victoria Also MCLEANS also did the same service from London Victoria regards Paul in Kent
Regarding the girl chatting I forgot to tell you about 3 years I got the overnight coach from London Victoria to Manchester the coach was going to Burnley 540 it was stopping at Coventry Birmingham airport Birmingham Manchester airport and Manchester this girl would not stop speaking on her phone the driver saiid something she would not stop so when we arrived at Coventry he told her to get off and make other arrangements he warned her twice good on national express like you said it’s selfish. Paul in Kent
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated.
Been fortunate enough to have my own car since the age of 17 ... will be using national express for the first time in my life on a 6 hour journey to manchester airport your video was helpful
Hi mate, thanks for watching - good luck my friend..
This is the problem.
We never challenge anyone for this type of behaviour, and we just accept it.
There is a proper way to approach People like this politely.
But you never know what would happen.
Great video anyway.
That's the thing these days mate, doing the right thing can get you done in,folks don't want to risk it.
sounds like the cowardly approach
I’ve never not had words with someone that needed to be spoken to, and I’ve not been done in yet. Grow some balls.
@@MKRM27 you grow some balls,start by not hiding behind a fictional name.
@@rondonnis6588 good luck with the hero outlook.
Briliant video, thank you.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated.
I didn't even need to know what the result of this video was going to be because i've done this journey myself XD
i studied in Glasgow Caledonian University in 2006-07. which just outside Buchanan Bus Station. Traveled to london 3-4 times. Those were the great days.
It was originally a college, Glasgow College of Technology which everyone called Glasgow Tech then the Tory government had the idea that if they changed all the colleges to Universities then they could rightly say more people are going to uni than ever before. A previous student there was Hassan Rouhani current president of Iran who attended in the mid 90’s.
I spent 13 years as a nx driver and would always ask passengers using their phone to keep it quiet and preferably short especially on overnight svs
Did you work for Traccy, Grace?
Yes eamonn 13 years at tracky, eventually went to durham
@@gracedenton3737 Almost certain I did a London with you once. Ended up on the night car before I left.
@@manofgreatbeauty never did night car, only did that on megabus
Wasn’t on the night car, Grace. Just a daytime 560.
Ear plugs Blindfold and Sledgehammer are a must for every journey 😂
Can't complain that much Geordie lad the journey only took just over 7 minutes 😅 As you got the hump and I could see why I've subbed 👍 Bon Voyage ....
Cheers for watching mate, noted - I'll defiantly be taking a sledgehammer next time.....
New subscriber here! Love travel blogs and I also subscribe to Scott's channel. Informative video, I definitely would have said something to the driver about that selfish girl
Hi mate, thanks for watching and thank you so much for subscribing - appreciated, means a lot it really does...
Same with Megabus from Aberdeen to London there’s always some rude git having a phone call for ages between 2-4am to keep you awake
I've done this journey many times. I always take noise reducing headphones until 3am plus sleep tabs and try to get 3 hours sleep plus beanie to cover your face
Hi mate, thanks for watching - already purchased.
I did this very journey a few years back when I was a student - thought my arse would fall off by the time I got to Victoria
Foreigner on phone all night typical, you should have told her to shut up .
It's always the foreigners isn't it though who do it. I don't understand. It is socially acceptable in their country to sit there on the phone all night stopping people from sleeping? I doubt it, so why do they come over and think it's acceptable to do it on our transport.
Brits are too awkward to sit on the phone for fear of the good ol british 'tut of disapproval' from other passengers.
@@UserUCKANAOD8SlYguEhbCkUdlMQ What in middle of night you’ll find most British a sleep or trying to sleep at that hour , next time ya out & about on public transport check who’s the loudest & longest on phone..
@@UserUCKANAOD8SlYguEhbCkUdlMQ Nice name 😂
@@UserUCKANAOD8SlYguEhbCkUdlMQOur rules and laws don't apply to her attitude. Always have problems with foreigners on the coaches and everyone in UK
@@UserUCKANAOD8SlYguEhbCkUdlMQactually people shout into small mobiles like walky talkies on Indian trains, time doesn't matter. Also when they arrive onto the coach they just hit the lights and settle down for a family meal, again doesn't matter the time. They don't give a fuck
Noise cancelling headphones / earbuds are my saviour sometimes
Used to do this journey back in the early 1980's with national express and it was bad,then along came stagecoach running out of Kings Cross, double deckers and a wee packed lunch...but it was brutal 🚬 🥃🥊🤢 .
I had to get these with my sister as older kids/teens to visit family in London and Bristol. They were awful then (mid 90s) and it’s refreshing to see in these uncertain times, some things never change. Get the train, night sleeper service is excellent.
They should have a rule for night coaches, no phonecalls after 11pm
Really nice video!
Hi mate, thanks fir watching - appreciated.
loved watching this
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated.
I know it must have been annoying and uncourteous BUT unless the coach company has a 'no mobile' rule (like quiet coaches on trains), then she in theory was allowed to do that and telling her or the driver would have no affect.
I do the Glasgow-London coach about every 4 or 5 years...just enough to remind me not to do it anymore. Overnight is best because it's quiet though.
This goes through my town, I went on it once to get to the airport.. I hated it.. It felt stuffy (the type of air that makes it feel hard to breath..), loud, the air con wasn't ever used, it had that school coach smell like engine fumes.. And the one I was had a broken toilet which people ignored and kept using it so there was a poo smell for the 2 hour ride..
Toilets or the doors are often broken
just subscribed mate, keep it up from shields 👍🏼
Cheers mate, thanks for watching and for the sub - appreciated.
I hate coaches. I'm just a little bit too big to be comfortable in the seats, and you have to share the coach with other people. That being said, when i was travelling up to scotland, we had an issue that meant I missed the last connecting coach from Carlisle (their fault) and national express sorted me out, got me to my destination by any means. I remain impressed to this day and will always credit Nat Ex for doing that. It cost them nearly 10x my fare (return) just to sort me out on the outbound leg.
I was going to do this journey as I have to commute to work costing me 200 a week and wanted a cheaper option but after seeing this I can’t: would have definitely been thrown off for what I would have done to her. I’d need to sleep as I’d be doing a full days works
I had a late afternoon coach trip in Italy yesterday and it was incredibly quiet and was happy to pay a bit more for extra comfort. The operator is called Itabus.
In any case, seat 2A on National Express is absolutely brilliant and experienced it last month on a coach between Leeds and Milton Keynes
Hi mate, thanks for watching and thank you for the advice. I've had a look ag Itabus and I'll give it a go next year.
@@TheGeordieTravels sure. Just do keep in mind that their app is only accessible on the Italian App and Play Store, but their website is pretty handy and allows you to book for reasonable prices, allows you to track your bus, and more importantly, you can comfortable seats (with larger legroom) for as little as €1.69 extra on your fare
This is a nightmare - annoying how something so simple can keep everyone around her awake - how rude. I'd like to give these overnight buses a go - I wish they still had the megabus sleeper service with the beds!
Not on your own , i use them alot and always always sleep before i get on any journey as this was not just you , It happens every coach and every journey . its either someone shouting down the phone or someone playing games on a tablet or handheld without headphones.
I would have to have told her to be quiet, you have far more patience than me!
I’m sorry but the girl talking on the phone is incredibly rude, it is a night coach therefore noise should be kept low, she should have been warned. When she fell asleep id have kicked the back of her seat.
One time I used the 336 to Glasgow From Birmingham, a lady behind me was making noise making me think she was crying, I looked round and to be honest I wish I never. Releasing tension is only a summary.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - seriously?!?! I think I am crying
@@TheGeordieTravels I kid you not, I wondered why to be honest, maybe she likes Scanias but a little more than the usual common Joe.
Luxury, I once did a 30 hour coach trip to spain !
I found victoria bus station to small for the mountain off travelers my first time with the train off i felt scared when my husband left me to look for our departure gate a lot of sad souls that had no we're to go and the toilets were bad very bad .we had seat's together but l found people stretched out on both seat's to make it harder for people at the last pick-up to get seat's nearer each other. The driver was spot on time
hi, thanks for watching - appreciated. Agree with Victoria, it is way too small and on my visit the loos were also not very clean.
You're right about Victoria Coach Station - it needs knocking down and rebuilding from gravel up. Last time I was in there the boarding lanes were so overcrowded we spilled out into the gangway and there was a lot of unpleasant pushing and shoving going on as people tried to pass through. It got really annoying, Then this dude with a ghetto blaster actually started playing reggae music - quite loud and you could barely hear announcements. Despite security wandering about the place no one asked him to kill the sounds !
Interesting video, as a 6.4 tall guy, this is my idea of hell. I couldn’t have kept my mouth shut with the selfish phone lady and would have confronted her early on, I would imagine the entire coach would have rejoiced, she really boiled my blood…
Welcome to the world of cheap travellers, when we have to deal with people speaking loudly or snoring whether we travel with a coach or sleep in a hostel 😅 I love traveling but I don't sleep very well during my travels
I won't have a word said against National Express. They are absolute stars. Ok it's gruelling but it's character building.
There is a seat towards the back which has almost double the ffoot room as the others. It is usually on the opposite side of the toilet
Beautiful aroma
horses for courses an all that but ive seen flights from glasgow to london for under £60 return 1.15hr flight time & factor in the 2hr arrival before .
I took Megabus and it was even worse. At least National Express is comfortable
Excellent ❤
Thank you! Cheers and thanks for watching
This is exactly why Governments pushing people onto public transport will never work. As humans we’re not designed to be that close to others. Great video though!
that's just not true. You know it. this is just a bad experience.
Once done the national express from Stranraer to London traumatic experience it was
Had a mixed bag on the overnight NX. The worst was a screaming, vomiting child, a roasting hot seat and two girls making stupid noises all night. Last one from Plymouth though was great, always try and have a fair few in the pub to send me to sleep.
On the calley sleeper train I had a Hare Krishna guy doing humming noises for the duration
Didn't they small your breath 🤔
People on phones do my head in! I never board a bus without headphones, it's the only way.
I’ve been to Glasgow to London and I’ve been all around different places I am a traveller keep on putting your videos app and keep on go on and keep on smashing I love watching you all the time my name is Catherine from Cardiff
Hi Catherine, thanks for watching and thank you for the support.
i used to take these coaches from scotland to england regular , always hated them , never going on them again , will always be the train
I took that very bus ride 30 years ago- it was GRUELLING! NEVER AGAIN did I travel by bus to London from Glasgow!
Try it from London to Alicante. It took my arse 2 days to get back to normal. But it was a cheap way to get there, so not complaining really. Esp when the temp was 20c at xmas.
I think a punch on the nose would shut her up quite well. I find almost everything you do in life there is ALWAYS one person that will ruin it for everyone else..
Great vlog, thanks. I have always wondered how National express actually make any money. The cost of tickets is pretty minimal and coaches are rarely full or near full, coaches cost a fortune, fuel is super expensive and then you have to pay staff, insurance all the rest and fees to use the coach stations. I don't get how they do it!
Yeah, gone are the days you got really good online deals, cost me £40.00 return on September.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - appreciated.
If you've got a bed to go to, at say 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning after your arrival, then it could be considered.
But if you've got a day's schedule ahead of you, no way - out of the question.! Cheaper to fly because you'll save a nights accomodation costs - deduct that from your air-ticket price and you've got your true calculation costing.
I nickname them NATIONAL DISTRESS!!!!!
I’ve never yet had a good journey yet comfortably!😡
I will say drivers are wonderful and fell bad for them. The least and worst part of travel’s !
People say public transport what do you expect yet it’s still a private business.
I’ve experienced travel all over Europe and Asia yet when travelling far I cringe at the 4hrs or so to Heathrow 😢
I sympathise with you. We've unfortunately all had a bad experience of selfishness like this. It only takes one person to sour what could and should be a pleasant experience. I couldn't believe how this girl droned on for so long! National Express should learn from customer experience, and sell a ' quiet' coach. Personally, I think they should have a much better option than they do, a lie flat or partially reclined quiet option would sell.
Need to get noise canceling 🎧. I live in the US and once did the Florida to NYC Greyhound in the 80's, if I recall it was around 20 hours. I'm now living in Florida but our main home is in Pennsylvania. Drove up there last month, took 15 hours.
Hi mate, thanks for watching - already bought some for the next trip, I'm ready.......
But National Express look okay as a company. Nice coach and improved since the days I used them.
You should have asked the bus driver to ensure none of the other passengers was talking over their phone between 10pm and 6AM. Or you could have had a word with the unconsidered woman herself.