The bus to Poland...

DOLEMAN

So a friend of mine (Polish) gets the bus to Poland whenever she wants to go home. It's about €160 each way and takes about 2 - 3 days.

IMO paying a little extra to travel if you're afraid to flying is worth it, but it's still a bit mad getting the bus to Poland.

Are there other buses like this? Has anyone ever taken this bus?

JPA

You can get buses everywhere. Oblivious to most of us as we fly just about everywhere. I don't think I could stand a bus journey of that length, so boring!

BuffyBot

www.eurolines.com - buses all across Europe. Travelling internationally by bus is quite traditional in Eastern Europe

DOLEMAN

Ahhh. Lovely. Thanks BuffyBot.

Raphael

Cool, an amphibious bus!



=p

makmaciek

Let me tell you something about the buses. I'm Polish and I know my compatriots, I know who takes the buses to Poland.

They are mostly people who can't speak English at all and therefore they are unable to book a flight with Ryanair or any other airlines. Some of them are afraid of flying, true. The journey is a torment, u sit there for 2-3 days sweating, surrounded by drunk and vomiting Poles who openly drink vodka on the bus. I looks more like a drink-bus-tour and you have to be insane to decide to get one of them buses (unless ur already drunk and u dont care, just throw in ur stuff and enjoy). Why pay 160 each way if its cheaper by plane??? Plus, statistics show that there's loads more crashes and road accidents that plane crashes.

But, if u seek adventure and survival camp is not enough... Give it a go

DOLEMAN

Yes, but to someone who's afraid of flying, a bit of extra money, some discomfort and some sweating is probably worth it!!

The smell of puke, that'd be bad...

Are you "allowed" drink on the bus?

makmaciek

Formally ur not but how would u prevent 40 men, construction site workers mainly, from drinking on the bus??? That became a part of tradition, besides Poles dont hesitate to drink on the planes either...

I prefer buses. 2-3 days is too much but I've taken ones for 24 hours rather than fly. I hate flying, I have sinus trouble and I always end up in agony or get travel sick. I hate being so cramped. Buses are much nicer.

Tha Gopher

makmaciek wrote:

The journey is a torment, u sit there for 2-3 days sweating, surrounded by drunk and vomiting Poles who openly drink vodka on the bus. I looks more like a drink-bus-tour

Sounds like mad craic, like one of those mystery tours you go on in college

Mushy

That'd be something id love to do. Just randomly decide to go to Poland by bus. Apart from the people getting sick, id love it. And for the person who said the mystery tour thing, could ya imagine doing that and they get off the bus in Poland? The looks on their faces would be worth the money I'd say

simu

Sounds like hell. Cork - Galway is bad enough. ////

Mimikyu

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Aisling(",)

ooookkkkay
maybe im just really niave but
how can you get a bus to poland theres 2 seas in the way?

Explosive_Cornflake

Ferry I'd imagine is included.

Caryatnid

Aisling(",) wrote:

ooookkkkay
maybe im just really niave but
how can you get a bus to poland theres 2 seas in the way?

It's a magic bus that drives through time/space warp holes when it approaches large areas of water. This is unlike the other eurolines buses, which of course use the ferry....

Aisling(",)

Explosive_Cornflake wrote:

Ferry I'd imagine is included.

alrite cool thanks.I'm just very dozy tonight:D

MrVestek

Aisling(",) wrote:

alrite cool thanks.I'm just very dozy tonight:D

Tonight?!

seamus

I cannot imagine anything that sounds more like 2-3 days of hell.

I spent 13 hours on a bus in Croatia once. Never, ever again. If it's more than 4 hours, I'll drive myself or fly.

tman

simu wrote:

Sounds like hell. Cork - Galway is bad enough. ////

snap:p
it takes a good half hour for the feeling to return to my ass after that journey, there's no way in hell i'd go for anything longer

Ruu_Old

Aisling(",) wrote:

ooookkkkay
maybe im just really niave but
how can you get a bus to poland theres 2 seas in the way?

Tis a bus like this obviously.

jimmycrackcorm

Whee do you sleep for two / three days - curely not on the bus each night?

BuffyBot

You sleep on the bus.

I did the Dublin - London bus once..that was more than enough to convince me that flying was truely the way of the future.

[Jackass]

:eek:

I would not be able to STAND that!! It would be hell!! As Seamus said, I think anything over 4 hours on a bus is not gonna happen. If I could fly to kilkenny I would, cause 2 and half hours on that bus kills me!! Sooooo bored!!

Fajitas!

Yeah it's pretty horrible alright, I do the bookings for it, would hate to have to it myself.

Chap came in last year and booked down to Spain. Ended up 5 days traveling... Rough out.

Oh, and the buses go to London, by the ferry, then down to France, via the tunnel, and onwards!

up for anything

God be with the days when the youth of Ireland used to hop on Slattery's bus to travel to the UK to get work and it was the only option as if you could afford to get a flight you were already working. It could sometimes be 12 hours of drunken Irish hell and other times was full to the gills of Irish mammies bearing sausages, rasher and Tayto to the exiled childer. If I remember rightly it used to be £60.00(IR) compared to anything up to £350.00 (Sterling) on the plane!

Then there was the Magic Bus which backpackers back in the 70s used to get right the way across to Nepal. The toilet on that was a bucket at the back and if you were lucky someone would hold up a sheet to screen you off from the rest of the bus although my friend who did the trip said you didn't give a dog's bollocks who was watching when you were in the grip of Delhi Belly.

Or there was the Greyhound Bus on which I travelled across Canada.. very civilised with a stop off every few hours at a truck stop/motorway service type place where we'd eat a giant sized portion of pancakes and maple syrup and/or a huge steak with fried eggs on top and chips out of sheer boredom. I put on about a stone and half in a little over two weeks between pigging out and inactivity

Nowadays my badly laid pelvic floor doesn't stand up to the rigours of bus travel and I have to resort to Iarnrod Eireann... a different kind of hell.:D

MrVestek

tman wrote:

snap:p
it takes a good half hour for the feeling to return to my ass after that journey, there's no way in hell i'd go for anything longer

Erm... what do *you* be doing to pass the time on that bus eh?

DOLEMAN

Fajitas! wrote:

Yeah it's pretty horrible alright, I do the bookings for it, would hate to have to it myself.

Chap came in last year and booked down to Spain. Ended up 5 days traveling... Rough out.

Oh, and the buses go to London, by the ferry, then down to France, via the tunnel, and onwards!

Wow, 5 days to Spain!! How does it work - is it one bus all the way, or would you have to change buses in various locations, hanging around the stations? Also, how much did it cost???

testicle

Ryanair fly from Dublin to Łódź, Poznań, Kraków and Wrocław and from Shannon to Kraków and Wrocław for a lot less that €160 when booked in advance! You can even book online in Polish if you want!

DOLEMAN

testicle wrote:

Ryanair fly from Dublin to Łódź, Poznań, Kraków and Wrocław and from Shannon to Kraków and Wrocław for a lot less that €160 when booked in advance! You can even book online in Polish if you want!

The bus is for people who don't want to fly...

Tha Gopher

Mushy wrote:

And for the person who said the mystery tour thing, could ya imagine doing that and they get off the bus in Poland? The looks on their faces would be worth the money I'd say

ROFL:D Aye, the ones I went on the windows had bin bags over them so we wouldnt really know where we were going. I should go back to college and become the entertainments officer.

3 days cooped up on a bus, then they stumble out in Warsaw with some meet and greet guy with a Borat moustache shouting "yak-shamash! I like sex!"*





*:yes, i know he was Kazakhstani but still......

kevthecelt

Tha Gopher wrote:

3 days cooped up on a bus, then they stumble out in Warsaw with some meet and greet guy with a Borat moustache shouting "yak-shamash! I like sex!"*





*:yes, i know he was Kazakhstani but still......

anybody else realised that he speaks polish? yak shamash is how are you in polish and 'jenqueea' is thank you

ptashek

makmaciek wrote:

Formally ur not but how would u prevent 40 men, construction site workers mainly, from drinking on the bus??? That became a part of tradition, besides Poles dont hesitate to drink on the planes either...

Maciek, let's clear things up. It's not all Poles that drink on the bus or during a flight. Sure, you'll get more of them on the bus but rarely the whole lot. I've travelled quite a lot by bus and train, so I'm speaking out of experience.

Don't make our Irish hosts think, that all we Poles are is drinkers, non-english speaking, cheap and exploitable work force. We're not