Info about Megabus.com

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I've used them in America to travel within state. They are better than Greyhound. Obviously, the earlier you get your tickets, the cheaper they will be. Don't sit next to the restroom, because it can get annoying watching people go in and out of there. And the smell... Try not to sit next to people with loud children, etc.

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Ok my experience was from Manchester to London. England is a small country compared to most places but the journey was long enough for comfort to be important.

I was sold on the £5 to any part of the country, which was a good $50+ cheaper than the train. For price, it does what it says, it gets you from point A to point B. Now, the journey....

The bus was shit. I don't know any other way of phrasing that, it was old, it stunk, there was a toilet at the back. There was a family of a foreign country(won't name the country) sat near us on holiday, whilst I understand this is an exciting experience for them, there are no set seats its just like a normal bus. So they where dotted about the bus, all walking up and down all journey and being generally disruptive. This I could deal with, what I couldn't deal with was the 17 bags of sweets and fizzy drinks they shovelled down their teenage kids throats as the 5 hour journey began. So they began to be sick around an hour in. There was no stops as it was a straight service, so the boiling hot, sick smelling, noisy megabus became not worth the £50 I saved 2-3 hours in.

The way back cost more as London is more expensive because...well...London. I think it was £28, this was an entirely different experience. We got the actual "mega" bus, not the shit bus. It was air conditioned, we had a table to the 4 of us, was double decked, windows tinted, electrical outlets, internet access, the people on the coach had experience of what was ahead of them so if people where getting drunk it wasn't too rowdy. Was a very pleasant journey, the driver gave us 2 stops on the way back to stretch our legs and a smoke.

So I guess it depends on what you get? If you get a bad driver on a bad coach, not worth. If you get the good coach with the good driver and good fellow passengers, it's more than worth it.