The Dublin Coach Experience

I was about to reply to a few of you saying fair enough, maybe I'm just unlucky, but then I got 726'd yesterday! Was waiting in the airport for the 18.30. It simply didn't show up. Similarly the 19.30 didn't show. I jumped on the 750 to the red cow and figured I might pick up the 726 there or at least if i had to go back into the city to get a train that was an option. Eventually a 726 turned up at th red cow at 20.45 but there wasn't enough seats so he left 5 people, myself included, behind. Then randomly another 726 turned up at 21.15. This took the rest of us, it was pretty empty. As I was getting off at Naas the driver couldn't open the front door, asked us to use the back. He then had to turn off the bus for something and couldn't start it again. There were people on that bus that waited 2.5 hours in the cold at the red cow and then got as far as Naas, only to be stuck again

Throughout all of this, the 'real-time' info was not working. None of the drivers I asked were able to tell you where the next 726 was or if they saw it in red cow etc etc. Absolute sh1tsh0w.

That sort of experience is a regular occurrence with this crowd. Just look at the physical condition of most of their buses - very high mileage (even for buses), physical damage, pieces missing, dirty... Nothing that suggests any sort of regular or thorough maintenance.

It's more a testimony to the manufacturers that they run at all given the abuse they get from this company.

Route 726 (Portlaoise - Dublin Airport) will be servicing Junction 14 Service Station in Monasterevin in both directions, starting tomorrow (October 26th).

https://www.facebook.com/654282030232877

There were a large number of negative comments About them on this post earlier.

Grand so.

Won't be using Dublin Coach myself again. Used it from dublin to kildare town. slightly minging. around 2015.

Proablly is some alarm. There was a case of Bus EIreann on the N4 previously.

They have introduced seat selection for multi journey tickets which is good. They also seem to have some new drivers over the last while and saw one doing route training.

I remember getting that to red cow over the summer and I was the only passenger on the coach. So makes sense to just run a mini bus

Last Friday we got the 10.30am from the Airport to Monasterevin. 2008 bus I think. Could be wrong.

What the hell. Ripped seats, No Wifi. It was like the buses we went on the school tours !!!!!

The driver did a good job though.

Got the bus from the airport during the summer. When going down the hill into Redcow carpark the bus stalled. It took several minutes in the starter to get her going again. Stuck in a clapped out bus on a steep hill wondering if the breaks will hold does not instill confidence.

I suppose it saves the need to bring the bus right through the town while still offering a service.

Not really, it makes a lot of sense on intercity routes as it means just popping off the motorway and not going through the towns. Very common in Italy and Spain.

600 looking quality this evening as always...

The godawful shade of green they insist on painting them all doesn't help.

They always look dirty and tatty and that's before bits start falling off/going missing.

Can you tell us more about this, any link to information about it?

Seems very drastic and how would it be enforced? Presume you’d need bye laws. Lots of buses older than that on the roads and are perfectly fine