FLIXBUS FROM SLOVENIA TO ITALY TO SEE WHAT ALL THE FLIXING FUSS IS ABOUT - REVIEW & TRIP REPORT!
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Hello and welcome to another trip report, this time on a bus!
Today we will be taking my first ever Flixbus on an international service between Ljubljana, Slovenia & Trieste, Italy. This is a relativly short journey and one I had to take in the absense of a viable train alternative. However, that being said... it was good! Sit back and enjoy a rarity on this channel!
Date of Filming: 27/8/20
Camera: GoPro Hero 7 Black
Operator: Flixbus
Departure: Ljubljana Bus Station, Slovenia
Arrival: Trieste Bus Station, Italy
Cost: €11.99
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Thank you for giving our green buses a try and glad you liked it! Hope to see you back on board another time! ;)
Of course, thanks!
@@NonstopEurotrip yes
Coaches offer such an affordable way to travel for people on a modest budget that, even if they are not glamorous with beds and showers like luxury trains, at least most of them have air conditioning and heating. I am happy to see a report on such fine coaches and would love to hear about others. From England, we have the National Express company with its amazing wide option of destinations.
Absolutely! There's Flix in the UK too. Wait until you see the Malaysian bus I'm riding next week 😍
Definitely we'd like more bus trip reports.
Also the info link which u mentioned throughout the videos did not appear. Pls take a look
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I’ve tried Flixbus before, and I think the quality of their busses is just amazing as far as I’ve experienced
I agree ☺️👍🏻
Thank you, Nonstop eurotrip! Oh yes, we've taken Flixbus several times, and we've never been disappointed. But we always reserve seats in advance, if possible in front when it's available, sometimes it's taken. The train is still better for me, much faster and more ecological. And I love the train.
I still prefer the train too! And it wasn't possible to choose a specific seat on this bus when I booked. But it was ok anyway!
a bit far from Europe!!
4:34 Yes, please. More bus reports!
Great report.
I used the bus from Trieste to Rijeka (Croatia) in a trip from Canada to Croatia (Taxi from VCE airport to Quarto d'Altino station, Train to Trieste, then, Bus to Rijeka). But it was with Autotrans. Good service and very low price. We also have the option of Flixbus but Autotrans have better schedules and it was possible to book our trip a long time before so we prefered Autotrans. 3 years ago.
At our return we have to use the same transports (bus, train, then, taxi to the Airport) but we stopped in Trieste for few hours to visit. One thing I wanted to visit was the old tram-funicular but it was broken and out of service. I hope that it is now up and running because it seems to be a very rare technology (a tram that is partially a funicular). Otherwise, the wind can be strong at this time of the year, they cal it "Bora".
Wow that does sound interesting! I didn't have long to explore Trieste either 😔
What a beautiful view of Ljubljana, also great to see a Setra bus !!! I liked the interior, it has plenty of seats but they look comfortable and I think it's great that they have plugs. Thank you very much for sharing the trip and making an entertaining report, greetings!
Glad you enjoyed it, I did too!
6:45 The only journey I went to another country that's not Spain was a tour around Central Portugal ( All the tour's journeys started from the city of Fátima)
For short haul trips, coaches are the way to go. National Express is pretty good if you somehow end up in the UK. I would also suggest a journey from Glasgow to Belfast on a coach.
Unfortunately I live in the UK 🤣
Flixbus are excellent. They sorted me out at short notice a few years ago when my train was cancelled due to an earthquake! (Italy)
Wow, good old flixbus 😀💚
Awesome , thank you for taking the time.
My pleasure!
In Europe the Flix buses seem to be clean and reliable, however here in America it's a completely different story. Reliable is the last thing they are and a lot of people have been stranded or injured because of mechanical issues, incompetent bus drivers, and accidents.
I'll avoid flixbus in America then 😂
Great video! It's certainly good for when there are no cheap or convenient trains around, but atleast the bus stations I have visited are usually poorly kept and dirty (looking at you, Paris Bercy!) Haven't tried riding in Italy though!
Thank you very much!
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Definitely, I'd like to see more bus trip reports!
The bus you took was a Mercedes Setra coach, it is a luxury brand of buses under the Daimler group.
Ah thanks! I'll have to do some more this year! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
OH WOW A BUS REPORT! anyway Nice video some great views coming out of Slovenia into Italy and decent looking interior yes flixbus is one of the largest intercity coach service company in Europe and they also operate in the USA and the UK and in recent months flixbus have done a domestic service in the UK to compete with other well known operators national express and megabus but apart from that flixbus do operate some international services to France but great job
I may have to try them in the UK then 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip the flixbus domestic in the UK goes to places like folkestone Dover Bristol and other places Manchester and Sheffield too I think
Great video. I took Flixbus from Braunschweig to Leipzig, Germany, a few years ago. I think it's a great option if you want to travel on a budget. Obviously, it takes a longer time, but for someone who wants to travel Europe on a small budget, Flixbus is your answer. Plus you still get to see places along the way, just like taking the trains. :)
Thanks- I agree! Still better than flying too 🤣
Years ago (2014~ish) my wife and I took a summer-trip. Slovenia-Italy-Croatia.
We come from Denmark so it’s always nice to be in sunny Southern Europe.
We visited Ljubljana, Bled (and beautiful Lake Bled) in Slovenia,
Trieste in Italy and Pula in Croatia. We took the train from Slovenia to the Italian bordertown of Gorizia, and could from Slovenia walk into Italy, only 50m from the Slovenian train station. Then local train from the other end of Gorizia to Trieste.
Trip from Italy to Croatia was with a coach bus (I don’t remember which company).
it was a 3 week summer holiday, 1 week in each country.
Thanks for sharing!
That was great. I would certainly like you to do more coach trips (even bus trips if you want to), but I suggest grabbing the front seat whenever possible.
Great suggestion!
I'm going to take this trip next year on my way to Venice and thanks to your vlog I'm now looking forward to it. I took Flixbus from Hamburg to Berlin in 2019 and it was a great journey
Have fun! 🤗
Thank you for your video! I was checking reviews online for Flixbus and there weren't... the best. But I think I'll give it a try thanks to your video 😄
Glad to be of assistance 😌
Interesting trip similar to the trains 🇬🇧 Another great way of travelling 👍 Please upload more 😉
I will this year 🎊
Nice report to this historic VSOE-route and certainly a convenient train-gap-filler regarding all the fuzz by alternatives. I used to travel by train(Interrail) between Ljubljana and Venice several times from the 1990ties to 2011.
Remembering the night train Venice--Budapapest(-Moscow?)/-Zagreb(-Belgrade-...?), the Pendolino Venice-Ljubljana. In the new millenium these international connections were stopped ...
So, the scenic train route to Koper became a nice alternative - connecting with local bus or sundays by hitchhicking to Trieste Centrale.
Actually never used the nostalgic tramway Opicina-Trieste. That would possibly have been another alternative using trains between Ljubljana and Sezana respectively Trieste and Venice. Sezana-Opicina(5km) by bus/hitchhick?
Don't know to much either about the connections in Gorizia/Nova Gorizia. Like the other local buses in Koper (and Sezana/Opicina?) they don't seem to run international with Corona at the moment. But Google says, it's just a ten-minute walk in Slovenia to the italian city bus line.
Last but not least - there was also the "railway-run" connection via Villach. SZ to Villach and ÖBB-Intercity-Bus to Mestre.
Sounds good! There's still so many European trains I want tro try out, after Covid!
@@NonstopEurotrip Excatly - overland travelling - railway as priority - is the one real thing - taking the plane is just the poor alternative :)
Opicina to Trieste tramway is no longer running regretfully.
@@ptrs559 Oops - as time goes by ... thanks for the info - just checked on Wikipedia - 2020 also gone already - let's hope things get better again ...
It would be great to see more bus reports
I'll put it on my to-do list 😊
Nice change to see you on a bus! great video. Love to see more information about the various cities you visit.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yes, I have been to Trieste many times; my wife is from there. Pretty nice city. Quiet and mellow, clean in comparison to other Italian cities and very little petty crime like scams targeting tourists and very little pickpockets. Not many tourists.
Yes, I would love to go back soon to check it out properly 👌🏻🤗
Clean? Compared to say Naples sure it is, but in Trieste everything is polluted from the ferriera. Luckily they have shut it down last year after 150 years of poisoning.
I enjoyed the video , it would be great if you did do more bus journey's please 👍👍😄.
My wife and I did a bus trip from Riga Latvia to Vilnius Lithuania on Lux Express it was brilliant 👍👍. You should try this service .
I actually do plan do do this 😄
Thanks 👍🏻
I don't know why but I was expecting a long distance overnight trip for this one as I thought the two places were something like Melbourne to Sydney distance or about 1000km apart
Neighbouring countries 🙂
I like your channel i like it to learn about the trains and buses specially the trains and flixbuses
about the routes and the prices and also how they look inside
I can use that information for my own travels
so thank you for making this kind of videos!!
Your welcome! I'm glad they help 😃
Interesting little trip report. Looks like the bus you rode doesn't have the full Flixbus interior like I've seen on some of the other contractors they've hired. That interior includes grey and green seats, same colors as what's seen in Dylan's Flixtrain video, plus wood texture floor and green mood lighting. On the buses with working wifi, they also have a small selection of on demand entertainment available, though the player doesn't seem to work on phones. Still I enjoyed myself on a non stop trip from Copenhagen to Hamburg, relaxing in what I'd honestly describe as better comfort than provided by DSB, and watching the Boxtrolls on the laptop.
Ah thanks! I can't wait to try flixtrain as mine last year was cancelled 😔
I agree, Ljubljana is a really nice city.
Also I have traveled several times with Flixbus in Poland and Czech Republic and I was never disapointed.
It really is!
That's good to hear!
Yes, I have been to Trieste.
Have you?
I think that the regional trains between Ljubljana and Trieste (usually they are either Ljubljana-Trieste Centrale, Ljubljana-Villa Opicina and Ljubljana-Udine) are kind of suspended. But in reality, travelling on the road is faster than the railways in Slovenia.
Yeah the train option seemed to be over double the time 🤷🏻♂️😊
@@NonstopEurotrip I travelled a lot through Slovenia in the past between my hometown of Bologna and Western Hungary, and if I had to take a train it would have lengthened my trip by at least twice the 6h driving time required. Now that I live in Malta, there isn't something such as distances ironically
Good. I would see more bus reports aroud Europe and others companies
Thank you 🙏🏻
Great video!
Your bus is Setra ComfortClass S51x HD (probably between S 515 HD or S 516HD/2). Meanwhile first Flixbus in this video was Irizar i8 (engine & chassis unknown), and second Flixbus was MAN New Lion Coach. Need more Coach trip report like this.
Ok, thanks!
I have travelled quite a few times with Flixbus - Inside Germany and across the borders to Czech Republic and Switzerland. The bus are always First rate the wifi is always good and the prices are very good. You alluded to crossing the border and yes as long as its Shengen to Shengen its OK but sometimes it can be slow crossing to say Switzerland (non Shengen). Would recommend them to anyone.
Switzerland is Schengen too, but they someone do a cursory walk through check. I agree. Flixbus are good though 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip Not on my Flixbus - and there are always an awful lot of LKVs waiting on the Singen border crossing so it must be a very special Shenzhen?
I took this exact trip in the reverse direction, also on a European (mostly) rail adventure. I remember it cost 24 euro to go 70 km.
Wow expensive!
@@NonstopEurotrip Flixbus, at least in Poland, released a strategy to aim for the 'missing link' market--at times and connections no one else offers, but often at steep prices, equal or even more than trian prices, with a heavy focus on the 22:00 to 02:00 times, after the last PKP train has departed. I took them once on Kraków to Katowice at 23:00 and it cost 10.50 euro (due to a flight arriving in Kraków at 22:00 and having no other option). I've been looking into their Katowice-Budapest and Kraków-Budapest routes for a vacation this fall (due to there being no north-south rail line through central Slovakia) and it is about 25 euro for that connection, from which I can take onward night train toward Romania.
Flixbus just bought Greyhound in the U.S. for only 2% of what its parent company bought it for 14 years ago.
Wow crazy!
in my country, Italy is called: Włochy
Your coach was a Setra S515.
Flixbus is a nice company but sometimes like is others companies that are operating coaches drivers aren't always polite and the customer service isn't really good if you've a problem (if you've a problem that's maybe better to contact the US service even if you're in EU I believe).
But most of the time it's very good.
9:01 Many people at my city's bus station used to enter and exit there via the bus exit. Idk if some people use it as an exit or an entrance now
Please make a video on Italy to France by bus or train..
I've done Nice to Milan by Thellō... Will be coming up soon!
Looks great for a couple of hours travel!!
Perfectly acceptable!
While Rome is probably my favouritetravelled
It's a lovely place!
Bel viaggio. Ci sono stato a Trieste
Thanks for the tidbit on the Flixbus corporate structure. Good to know in case I ever want to sue them. Obviously, there is no "Flixbus" in the conventional sense so I'd be traveling (how appropriate!) on a fool's errand if I were to file papers.
Your contract is still with flixbus
@@NonstopEurotrip Yes but I believe they would put the liability on everyone else claiming that they only employ independent contractors (former lawyer speaks) But again we are speculating about a non-existent situation!
Nice video Flixbus is good USB and table 👍 can you pinkbus skyline ride in Germany 🇩🇪
Maybe 😏
Thank you so much for pinkbus skyliner ride in Germany 🇩🇪 your video is perfect with video
8:17 I've never tried Flixbus. The largest bus company I've ever tried is the Spanish bus company called "Socibus", that links Northern (Basque Country cities like Irún, Bilbao or Miranda de Ebro (It isn't in the Basque Country, it's in Castille and Leon Autonomous Community, but it's just opposite of the border with the Basque Country) with Southern Spain (Andalusian major cities (Córdoba, Seville, Huelva, Ayamonte (Just opposite of the Portuguese border), Cádiz or Marbella (A city well-known for being the "Jet-Set" people holiday destination) via Madrid
8:41 10.
5 for not to fail this video
Plus 5 for the whole bus report
I tried Alsa bus and they are ok 👌🏻
@@NonstopEurotrip Alsa? Well, I've never tried it. I tried, apart from "Socibus", two local bus companies, "Marcos Muñoz" and "Ureña", in their services linking my city with the capital city of my province (Jaén)
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Nooo, why did you do it?
1. There is a train twice daily from Ljubljana to Trieste.
2. Alternatively, you could have travelled via Nova Gorica and Gorizia (two cities on the border, the Slovenian and Italian railway station are connected by a 13 minutes city bus ride).
It didn't fit in with my plans... plus I wanted to try out Flixbus 😄
@@NonstopEurotrip and besides, on this route the bus takes about half the time anyway...
Bus is cheaper.
@@ptrs559 not even that! It's a regional train and very cheap too.
I need more information please. I am going from Triest to Ljubljana and back again after a few a days.
We are planning to travel to Ljubliana from Venice this summer, do we need a negative Covid test before entering Italy now? Cam we take the train from Venice and Switch to flixbus after getting to
Currently yes, but best to check when you're travelling!
Does the road have a lot of curves? I saw it on the map and it appears not friendly to my motion sickness. But i dont know if its my map. The street view looks ok
I was fine
I like it
Thanks! 😁
I wil visit Solovinia
I think that your coach is a setra comfort class 515HD from 2019
Thanks for the info!
@@NonstopEurotrip you welcome. Also did you think about testing flixtrain ?
S515 HD di Bus Company n.187🤩🤩😍😍😍
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Trieste? Thank you.
Trieste is in the part of Italy no one has ever heard of. been there a few times and it's very nice although, apart from the main square and the surroundings there isn't much to see. Travelling by bus in the end is like driving a car, maybe it will take 30 minutes or 1 hour longer to reach your destination but who cares? you are not the one in charge.
I like it, very different and unique
Do you know if we must put a FLIXBUS label on the bigger bags?
I've never had too!
@@NonstopEurotrip ok, thank you!!!
Most of Puglia is east of Trieste, so definitely not Italy's easternmost city.
You make a valid point 🤣
More bus trip reports please
Will see what I can do!
What was drivers nationality?
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@@NonstopEurotrip Italian.
Slovenia to Italy how many hours journey by bus
Did you actually watch the video?
How far Slovenia to Germany by bus and say fair also please
Check the timetables
But out visa in entry Italy ??
No because Slovenia is Schengen zone too. Maybe passport check though
Are they controlling Documents?
Sometimes...
wait .. no passport controls ?? so i dont need my passport?
You will need it to enter the Schengen zone, and for ID if asked. But there are no immigration border checks.
@@NonstopEurotrip i am a resident in eu , and actually i am planning to go to germany soon . but my passport is in the emigration office . i only have my residence permit and a soggiorno
police checking go italy border
Non stop?? It's stop weit stop weit.....
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05:11 You have a very bad habit. You touch the paper with wet hands and leave it for someone to use after you. You do that on every video 🤢
Actually not all. Maybe 3 or 4 videos and I always take the paper towel after I've finished filming.
I have never tried Flixbus and try to avoid it whenever it's possible. This company is continually producing bad news (at least in Germany), mostly about underpayed partners and overworked drivers who crash their busses. I don't like their businness modell at all.
I still prefer the train 😂
Please don't write in between the video. Whatever you want to say, please mention it in the description. Right from the beginning till the end, u have been writing which covers almost half of screen and disrupts the beautiful view.I clicked just to enjoy the beautiful view , but was disappointed with those scribblings.....If u can , then please send me the unedited footage . i would love it. Please take care and do more bus reviews, but with less scriblings......Thank you !!!
Sorry, all of my reviews have 'scribblings' on them and they will stay that way as most people want them. I do not have a uncaptioned version