Anyone ever got the bus from Dublin to London?

uch · 10-08-2011 10:23PM

I got the Bus from London to Dublin in the 80's when there were no Jaxes on them, filled about four Coke bottles with piss before we could stop anywhere

moco · 10-08-2011 10:26PM

I did London to Belfast (then on to Enniskillen) one year and it wasn't great. I've not did it since anyway! It was Christmas and I left it late to book flights. Was too poor for a flight and the bus was £35 return

Elba101 · 11-08-2011 10:11AM

I got the bus from north England to Dublin last Christmas cos all the flights were cancelled. Worse 14 hours of my life!

Richard Hillman · 11-08-2011 10:20AM

I sail n railed to London last month and it was a very pleasant trip and very scenic.

SEPT 23 1989 · 11-08-2011 10:23AM

Bus Eireann do a Dublin - Poland service :eek:

sunflower27 · 11-08-2011 10:29AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Bus Eireann do a Dublin - Poland service :eek:

Yes. It would be torture

Takes 3 weeks

Mec-a-nic · 11-08-2011 10:30AM

Didn't get one to London, but did get one from the midlands to Birmingham in the mid-80s. It was an overnighter, I was ~13 and travelling alone, but slept through most of it...

fryup · 11-08-2011 10:37AM

yep i did it once..never again

believe me.. just take the flight, its not worth it

Dub Ste · 11-08-2011 10:42AM

Did it last year when the snow closed Dublin airport,was in that there London on the Thursday night,and there were no seats available till Saturday night,so got the coach.

The coach from London was full,so I got a coach to Leeds,had a couple of hours to kill on the oul stomping ground,then the coach to Holyhead,then the ferry home.All in all just under 24 hours to get home,but worth it.

The worst journey ever was many years ago,a coach trip from Hull to Blanes on the Costa Brava in Spain,horrendous beyond words.....

ULMarc · 11-08-2011 11:37AM

I went from to cardiff on this. Aw man, it's such a boring journey and you meet a load of odd fish. But it meant I could bring myself and a kayak all the way to cardiff (a freakin' kayak!) for 50 quid

orourkeda · 11-08-2011 11:43AM

done both the boat and bus and boat and train to vaious destinations on the uk on numerous occasions.

am a season ticket holder with a football club in the uk and have decidied to go to games on short notice many times

rossie1977 · 11-08-2011 11:44AM

yes quite a few times in the mid 1990s actually, did the trip to manchester by bus as well, used to go over to the soccer games alot back then, mostly sail and rail but an odd time by bus, at the time flights to england were £200+ so at 10 times less it was an easy choice, got the bus from london to paris another time, that was interesting as you get to see the cliffs of dover and go on the eurotunnel shuttle and then they stopped right outside calais in this big warehouse of duty free (probably not there anymore

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bus from london to amsterdam another time but that was by ferry so not as interesting as paris trip

i don't have a problem with long bus journeys, you get to see alot of countryside, last year we got the bus from budapest to krakow, about a 6 hour journey and we had to drive the whole length of slovakia stopping off at one or two places, during the day i find bus trips are easy enough, at night its a little harder, about 12 years ago got a bus from las vegas to san francisco took 15 hours between all the stops, all manner of weirds f**kers on that, one mexican was drunk within an hour, there was another chap talking about the various prisons he has been in and we picked up this total weirdo in sacramento

Kitty-kitty · 11-08-2011 12:05PM

Did it two years ago on the presumption that it'd be an oldy-worldy adventure. Worst trip of my LIFE. In busáras they told us we'd have to get a different bus to the port to meet the bus we needed, but when we met the bus there ... the bus we needed had come from busáras an hour later. Because most seats were taken our group had to split up. The bus was tight packed, incredibly stuffy in a way that nearly made you reel if you got off at a rest stop and then back on, and I got stuck sitting next to a young fella who seemed to be being dropped hom with his sister by his ma to his da in London.

Every time he fell asleep she would wake him (and me by proxy) by shaking him to ask him if he was okay and if he needed anything.

We were dropped in at about 6AM which is a useless hour, too =\ the head was MELTED off us by the end.

later12 · 11-08-2011 07:56PM

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Stop feeling sorry for yerselves, a friend of mine drove to Lithu-fücking-ania this summer!

Driving to Lithu-fücking-ania isn't too bad, that's a road trip. Sitting on a bus to Lithu-fücking-ania, however, or Poland, or Romania (as people do, from Ireland) would, however, be a nightmare.

They used to have the ''roll on - roll off'' bus in Clonmel when I was a wee fellow. It was for the emigrants, I presume, or children who thought they were just going on a fun adventure, but who unbeknownst to themselves, after their parents scuttled off the bus and drove away, were being packed off to their British relatives for the Summer.

I've taken the boat to and from Britain, but only with my car. That was a bad enough experience, so I can only imagine how dreadful it must be on a bus.

supermonkey · 11-08-2011 11:14PM

It is a fascinating trip. Everyone on it is a bit mad (or occasionally a kid. t is full of people who either can't plan trips home in a timely enough fashion to take a plane, can't get access to credit or debit cards, are terrified of flying, are smuggling drugs, are teenage kids or are just barking for some other reason.

Highly recommended

Kersh · 11-08-2011 11:19PM

Went to Reading Festival 1995 when I was 19 with 2 mates and my sister.

Our downfall was jumping off the bus at Birmingham services and we went mad buying sweets and sh1t like that. We scoffed most of it like we never saw sweets before

I got sick on the bus pulling into Victoria station. I was in a total jocker. :pac:

Its a long oul trip

Pingi · 12-08-2011 01:41AM

Can you do this without a passport?

I'd like to visit my brother in London but the only picture ID I have at the moment is a student card.

teol · 12-08-2011 01:50AM

Pingi wrote: »

Can you do this without a passport?

I'd like to visit my brother in London but the only picture ID I have at the moment is a student card.

Yes.

However you can fly with aer lingus to the UK with just a student card.

jill_valentine · 12-08-2011 01:56AM

Went on the Sail & Rail to see a band in Manchester at the last minute just before Christmas. 80 quid return, it was much cheaper than the equivalent flight at the time, and going out early on a Saturday morning, I pretty much had the ferry to myself. The ferry was comfortable, with nice bars and decent restaurants, and the train journey was scenic, comfortable and pleasant. If you were with a few mates, it would be great.

If you don't mind the extra length of the journey, it's 123872423% more comfortable than travelling by plane, none of the hassle of going through the airport and you can walk around and have a pint on the way. And I was dissolving into a puddle of hangover on the whole trip, so that's saying something. It's also pretty flexible in that you can come back on whichever boat suits you, so it's a lot more forgiving if you're struggling with the old motor functions by the time you dribble back to the terminal. I'd do it again pretty happily, definitely.

Bus though, jaysus no.

theboss80 · 12-08-2011 01:59AM

Cork -Letterkenny is one I did regularly and takes a nice 9 hrs in total

Pingi · 12-08-2011 02:10AM

teol wrote: »

Yes.

However you can fly with aer lingus to the UK with just a student card.

It says on the Aer Lingus and Eurolines websites International student card, mine is just a regular old college issued one (WIT)

I guess I could ring and find out, or actually cancel and reapply for my lost passport.

Probably married/wanted for 50 offences at this stage :pac:

rossie1977 · 12-08-2011 02:21AM

later10 wrote: »

I've taken the boat to and from Britain, but only with my car. That was a bad enough experience, so I can only imagine how dreadful it must be on a bus.

buses on the continent are not too bad at all these days, that trip from budapest to krakow, they had a kind of trolley service and went round with tea and snacks, there was free wi-fi, they showed movies and the seats were bigger than normal

Father Damo · 12-08-2011 03:41AM

sunflower27 wrote: »

And back to Busarus after all that. God, how grim. Busarus is so depressing! I'm surprised they haven't revamped it. Tourists must get an awful shock when they arrive there for the first time.

Its some dump alright.

Theres a bus to Poland IIRC! Gets pretty messy apparently. Cant figure out why long distance buses exist these days when flights are cheaper.

jill_valentine · 12-08-2011 03:42AM

Father Damo wrote: »

Its some dump alright.

Theres a bus to Poland IIRC! Gets pretty messy apparently. Cant figure out why long distance buses exist these days when flights are cheaper.

Might work out cheaper if one was travelling with a large quantity of, just as a for instance, spirits or cigarettes.

flas · 12-08-2011 03:43AM

have done longford to glasgow more times than i can remember, from the age of 10 up until a few years ago would do it 4 or 5 times a year, drive from longford to ravensdale, picked up by bus, bus to belfast boat from belfast to stranrar and then bus from stranrar to glasgow, usually left longford at around9 and in glasgow by 7 if get the fast ferry! coming back used to be a drag, going over was always great craic! couldnt recommend it enough, good times!

Dan I Am · 13-08-2011 12:26AM

later10 wrote: »

Driving to Lithu-fücking-ania isn't too bad, that's a road trip. Sitting on a bus to Lithu-fücking-ania, however, or Poland, or Romania (as people do, from Ireland) would, however, be a nightmare.

They used to have the ''roll on - roll off'' bus in Clonmel when I was a wee fellow. It was for the emigrants, I presume, or children who thought they were just going on a fun adventure, but who unbeknownst to themselves, after their parents scuttled off the bus and drove away, were being packed off to their British relatives for the Summer.

I've taken the boat to and from Britain, but only with my car. That was a bad enough experience, so I can only imagine how dreadful it must be on a bus.

The last 15 years, every single bus ride has been a joy. (Ever since I spent 19 hours having to constantly stand up on a bus form Stanta Cruz, over the Andes to La Paz, after a long hard long weekend of carnival and stimulants. The Pain.. . and the joy of finally seeing a Paz in the distance... ................ I should have qualified for the special forces or something after getting off that bus. Then again though, I would have given up willingly after an hour if given the choice.)

Pdfile · 13-08-2011 12:46AM

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Stop feeling sorry for yerselves, a friend of mine drove to Lithu-fücking-ania this summer!

i drove to poland in a suzuki swift pissing blue smoke out the back ( embarrassing but worth it all the same

)

its not that bad until you realise that 79 mph is about all yer gonna get out of her on the autobahn. :mad:

thee glitz · 13-08-2011 01:11AM

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Stop feeling sorry for yerselves, a friend of mine drove to Lithu-fücking-ania this summer!

Come back here when you've done this
http://www.oz-bus.com/london-sydney/london-sydney-overview.aspx

yesno1234 · 13-08-2011 01:33AM

thee glitz wrote: »

Come back here when you've done this
http://www.oz-bus.com/london-sydney/london-sydney-overview.aspx

That looks like one of the most amazing trips you could ever make. That's one to do when I win the lotto.:D

Stinicker · 13-08-2011 02:31AM

yesno1234 wrote: »

That looks like one of the most amazing trips you could ever make. That's one to do when I win the lotto.:D

Theres a TV show on Travel channel at the moment called "Trabant Trek" basically 6 people drive from Budapest to Cambodia in three clapped out Trabants over 6 months on a pretty tight budget. Hillarity and amazement ensues. If I had two or three good mates with their heads screwed on right I'd deffo do something like it, however one of them is such a tool last time he drove to Dublin he got lost and ended up in Galway and Kerry to Dublin took him 9 hours with a few pitstops for "fuel" for him and the car! It takes a special type of person with organisation and planning to pull something like that off.

Anyone ever got the bus from Dublin to London?

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