Dublin Coach Experience Discussion Thread

will they ever go hourly on the M9 Waterford service? Perhaps if they added Carlow to some of them it would up numbers greatly (not that I particularly want that as it would increase travel times for me!).

The 7.00 am ex Waterford is a bit of a miss tome as it gets into Dublin City Centre at 9.25 am. Be better if it was 6.30am and in for 9.00 am for commuters. A few years back had a course in UCD and there was some 9.00 am starts and that was too late

I find JJ Kavannagh while good a bit expensive. You’d notice more free travel people with them. Also if you’re going up from Waterford they don’t always run direct on the motorway with a long stop off off the M9 in Carlow

I see air coach is going to start purchasing electric buses this year so maybe in a few years time the green bus would be able to buy them off them

They are reliable and a good service but given the choice of €12 fare with Dublin coach on a new Double decker. They are significantly cheaper

Wednesday I was getting the 7.50am service from Monasterevin to the airport, bus showed up at 9.10am. Then a 20 min wait to change drivers in Junction 14.

As I was flying to Bangkok at 2pm my finger was firmly on the taxi button.

Anyway go there in the end, and yes the weather is fantastic.

I got the new minibus home on the 726

Another day, another typical experience on the 726

So, I was in Portlaoise at 9pm last night and planned to get the 9:30pm 726 from Portlaoise to Red Cow. I get to the stop and there's no bus parked up awaiting to depart so I thought “Maybe it's late, give it a few mins” until I checked the Dublin Coach tracker which showed nothing at all. Long story short, the 9:30 didn't run. I decided to get some food and wait for the 10:30pm departure (I wasn't in any rush) but that also did not run! Now realistically I should've gotten the train but 1) I had just come from one and 2) I wanted to get Dublin Coach as it's great entertainment 🤣.. anyways, the 11:30pm did run and turned out to be an 08 reg Setra which I didn't mind as I like Setras. Before anyone comes with the “You're lucky a bus turned up” it's not acceptable by any means to have a 2 hour gap inbetween the service and especially during the times when the last trains are passing/finishing!!

To top it off, some idiots ended up arguing with the driver in Newbridge over fares/payment 👀🍿

I was talking to one of the drivers today in the red cow, and he says the new CEO of Dublin Coach is planning on putting more buses on and I was saying to that good, but they need to do something with the portlaois to airport route and he was saying to me that they’re getting some 181 double-deckers that will be going on that route from January

Used the 726 Newbridge to Naas this morning. No lights upstairs - I couldn't see a thing. And no air conditioning - a serious issue since Covid. Overall a complete lack of professionalism from Dublin Coach. It's a shame the National Transport Authority staff never leave their desks to experience FIRST HAND what the public transport experience is really like.

If they done that, most of their buses will be taken out of service

Is there any update Regards the court case with the rental company