30-hour Flixbus from Germany to Romania (for $15)
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
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I took one of the longest bus journeys in Europe, the flixbus from Berlin to Bucharest, so that you don't have to. (really, you don't have to. please don't put yourself through it!)
I went in to it expecting it to be an extreme boredom test, but it actually ended up being way worse than that, for multiple other reasons.
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This was shot just at the start of summer, and thankfully we had decent weather for the run through Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. The Romanian part of the coach journey, especially, was really beautiful and I can't wait to actually travel and see some parts of this country!
I used a Flixbus discount voucher to go this whole way for about $15 USD, since I bought so many of their FlixDeal vouchers 3 years ago.
I hope that you're doing well and staying safe.
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0:00 the longest bus journey in Europe
0:59 Flixbus Germany to Romania
1:30 food and rest stops
2:20 overnight Flixbus to Bucharest
4:10 crossing the Romanian border on a bus
4:40 Flixbus discount vouchers
5:21 Flixbus Romania
6:35 bus travel in Romania
7:53 Berlin to Bucharest bus complete
What's the longest bus journey you've done before? And how did you survive?? Give me tips for the next time that I am so stupid as to get myself in this situation again... 😅
Hamburg - Glasgow last September, about 35 hours it was I believe. Listening to music, trying to sleep, watching the landscapes and cityscapes outside, talking to my seat neighbours… but it still felt like an eternity. All worth it though. First time I’ve been to Scotland and I didn’t want to fly but trains were too expensive.
Amman to Bucharest, 12 times :)
Munich to Rijeka(Croatia) about 13 hours. We took Flixbus, they were cheap enough and I had no experience with them at the time. Bus that arrived wasn't a Flixbus, it was a regular intercity bus that had no toilets, drivers were rude rednecks, stops were rare and short. All in all, terrible experience since they promised extra legroom, phone chargers, toilets and we literally got none of those. We felt like we were scammed to be honest. Since then, we take trains.
Did a couple of 20 hour trips in Argentina. The experience there was sooo different, with zero or almost zero intermediary stops, with meal service and red wine, with straight roads, and with an affordable upgrade to a better seat. I'd rather do another 20 hour trip across the Cono Sur than a ten hour bus ride in Central Europe or a five hour adventure in the Balkans.
I did Bucharest-Strasbourg once when i was younger and poorer :))) would i do it again? Not necessarily :)))
I did Copenhagen-Vilnius back when Eurolines still existed. I remember the journey through Poland, where we took a detour to the driver's village, where we ended up parking in front of his house for 3 hours because he wanted a nap. We also had a long stop in Poznan where a group of men greeted the driver, got onboard and asked if anyone wanted to buy drugs, and then started dealing with multiple passengers while the driver was patiently waiting.
As a Pole myself, I must add some positive facts to the old Eurolines, Sindbad and such sort of buses: I was traveling with them very often. ( a couple of times in a year ) And it was always very normal without such weird happenings. Only issue, before Poland got in the EU, was the waiting at the border. That took often 2 hours waiting, checking the passports, checking some luggage) but besides that, everything was fine. I mean, the ride was long and exhausting, but normal.
What the….
big biznes
"a group of men greeted the driver, got onboard and asked if anyone wanted to buy drugs, and then started dealing with multiple passengers while the driver was patiently waiting."
hahaha
i would be so happy to get some for a trip like that. a trip for the trip
And later you just woke up?
I did Bucharest to London on Flixbus. 48 hours of fun. :)
you have my respect 🏆
@@thornton I knew people that would sometimes take the Moscow - Düsseldorf coach back in the day....
hahah
In my youth, 2005, I've done Bucharest to Zaragoza with eurolines, must've been more than 60 hours overall.
@@specularverzide9972lol😂
Did a much shorter flixbus journey this spring, and those few short hours were enough for me… this is some resilience on another level!
you mean you did some normal travel like a normal person? teach me
@@thornton unfortunately I think you’re a lost cause… but so am I, I would totally do this for a good enough deal
I drove with a bus from London to Germany 26 hours including the ferry and I was 10 lmao maybe that's why I manage to survive 6 hours in a train every few months
@@KennyNGAim going from Berlin to Amsterdam soon, very excited
And still plenty of people do this every year. There's millions of Romanian in Diaspora and do this trip. Me myself I do it at least 2 times a year that counting as 4 tikes a year of you add the round trip.
Congratulations for surviving the Eastern European Bus Odyssey - I write this as someone from this part of Europe myself. I used to travel a lot with the bus that went from Bari, Italy to Rzeszow, Poland which had kinda similar vibe to it: I remember the odd smells, people smoking cigarettes like it is their essential food, constant stopping at the petrol stations, strange loud music, someone sitting in front of me having some sort of sexual activities with the person next to them and so on. It was like giving part of your dignity as a price of a ticket, I discovered that with time and settled for a train as a more self compassionate way of traveling. Thanks for sharing, hope to see part two from Bucharest!
The experience sounds similar to the Greyhound buses that run across USA
Very spot on. From Romania to Italy or Germany it was the same thing. The old days :)) Would not do it now if you paid me :))
Wow thank you for your comment. I am from Poland too and every time I took a long journey and I wasn't flying I drove my own car. Yes the bus would have been a lot cheaper but I can't imagine spending the best part of a day in such a small compartment with such inconsiderate people around me.
I've done 16 hours on a flixbus and swore to never do it again. I usually live vicariously through you but this time you just have my sympathy 😅
Same. My last FlixBus ride was 15 hours and this is already the limit. More would be pure torture.
Same, will never do it again. My first one was doable, but my second one I started to feel claustrophobic at times. Will from now on make road trips by car with cruise control and freedom, much much better.
The fact that you did this without noise cancelling head phones baffles me the most 😂
Last time I traveled with Flixbus, 15 mins after leaving Vienna the bus driver missed a highway exit, tried to still make it, realized he wouldn't, almost crashed into the guard rail and made a full break to come to a stop on the hard shoulder. Fair to say everyone on the bus was quite attentive afterwards
My first time with flixbus last under 1 minute because the driver back off into another bus. All windows in the back broke. So we decided to leave the Bus and take the car instead..
Kinda reminds me of experience in Finland about 2 years ago in long distance bus. Driver missed a ramp which had a bus stop on it, decided to stop in the middle of a lane on busy motorway on rush hour, open doors and yell to the bus stop on ramp if anyone was coming to this bus.
I doubt I could withstand a bus journrey of even five hours, so massive respect to you! I love to see videos of all of these silly journeys, keep up the good work
hahaha I also could not withstand it, I guess :) thanks a lot!
because of the war now i need to do 12 hours bus journies, did it already 5 times, its a hell and it takes couple days to recover physiclly and mentally from that long trip on bus
I had a 56hour journey a few weeks ago 💀
@@alexg3745 💀💀💀
I did a journey in the philippines once on a small, cramped and overloaded mini bus for almost 24 hours, with a flaten tire and small stops of course and I survived it. The only thing was that my legs and knees were hurting afterwards. Mentally I did fine.
Holy smokes I need to go to romania, this country is looking so beautiful.
Romania has its share of beautiful places, please do you due diligence before visiting and hope to have a nice trip. And please don't torture yourself with getting in by bus ;)
It's beautiful and the people are friendly. And some.things are much cheaper then western Europe.
As a Romanian living in Munich, I took the bus twice to Bucharest and I don't need this travel style anymore.
As for the plane let me educate you: Tarom, the national airline, no longer has flights from Munich, or Germany,
to Bucharest, Lufthansa have taken over most of the flights to Romania, that's why they almost doubled the prices.
Who does not have things to do in Bucharest prefers the bus because it is still cheap and they can get home faster.
From Bucharest they should take the train or bus again to get home, another money, another expense and time.
I flew in May and a round trip ticket costs 280€, by Lufthansa you get only hand luggage for this price.
With Tarom a round trip was 220€-230€, with baggage included.
Lufthansa wants another 90€-100€ for luggage, total will be around 380€ mark.
A Romanian who works for 1000€ net in De is normal to look at 180€ difference,
plus he has to pay the train or bus from Bucharest to get home.
The baby crying when entering Romania is just evolutionary survival reflex.
Absolutely loved this! As a frequent Flixbus traveler (by financial circumstance, not by choice) and a native Romanian living in the thinking man's Berlin (never heard Leipzig be called that way before, but I love it!) I very much enjoyed you go through the magic of traveling in a very tight space with eastern Europeans... I can definitely relate to your experience, so thank you CZcams algorithm for randomly throwing you my way.
if you ask why people don't fly and use Flixbus for such long journeys, I got two strong arguments for that. First of all, it's about luggage, innit? when you really need a few suitcases with you, it's ridiculously uncomfortable and expensive to fly. But secondly it's just easier for older generation. For example, I'm living in Köln with my mom and sister. And when mom wants to go back home to Ukraine, she needs to go to the closest Polish border because nothing flies there. And she would get lost in any airport in a second. One time I had to literally stay on the phone with her while she was navigating an airport in Barcelona. She arrived at the wrong terminal and didn't know where to go. So it's easier for me just to escort her to the nearest Flixbus stop in 10 minutes by foot, and in 20 hours she'll just hop on a train home from Przemysl. Me personally - I'd prefer flying. But it ain't cheap either and there are not so many useful flights from Cologne to Poland for example. I'd still spend the whole day in transit.
oh that makes sense :)
@@thornton thanks for an awesome video once again. I also have love-hate relationship with Flixbus. So it really strikes a cord🤭
Another plus is, that those buses, are often very on time. You really can rely on them. And everything is very simple. I simply need to be at the main station in hamburg, for example, maybe 15 min earlier. wait for the bus, show my ticket, put my luggage in the trunk, make myself comfortable on my seat, hope to have both seats for myself (sometimes it works out), put music on and "enjoy" the ride as much as possible and have nothing to worry about.
But I have to say, that I got used to those buses from an early age. I visited my family in poland a couple of times in a year and that bus was a normal thing for me. You learn, how to sleep and how to sit there. You know the differences between middle seats, front seats and back seats. sometimes it is better to sit near the row (you can strech your legs) and at the window seat, you can lean the head against the window.
I was experimenting with different seats. All have their plus and contras.
My ride was 18 or 19 hours. The first 10 oder 12 hours were no problem, but after that, my but hurt. ^^
But all in all, it is very uncomplicated, as you said.
And there are no airports in eastern poland. At least, no direkt flights from hamburg. I would have to flight to london, wait some hours, take a propeller plane to a small airport somethere and after that, I still would need to take a train or bus, to get, to where I want.
those buses (sindbad for example) are driving almost exactly to the town, where my family lives, so another plus point to the list.
@@juilescieg yeah, absolutely. I'm also team row seat! And for example I discovered this fantastic route from Amsterdam to Przemysl: at 7 am you hop on a bus that's literally in the center of a small town where I live and in 4 hours you are in Amsterdam enjoying the day ahead. Amazing!
And I feel your struggle with finding a proper plane connection to Eastern Poland (we need it desperately too). Haven't found one without sketchy layovers that are either too short or too long. Or too expensive (I'm looking at you, Lufthansa)
@@anastasiiazdorikova LH is expensive just like any other normal airline. Plus there's literally zero point in them having a direct service to Rzeszow. They offer combined flights via Warsaw - that's why they're are so expensive.
Great editing Tom @thornton - I remained engaged throughout. I can truly appreciate just how much time and effort it took to pull this all together. Most excellent! 😎👍
My friends and I took a Flixbus from Amsterdam to Salzburg in 2016. It was €20 I think and it took a little over 24 hours. Our bus stopped in Rosenheim at 2 AM and another one would pick us up at around 6 AM. We went into a bank/post office and just emptied our suitcases to sleep on our clothes on the floor.
The banks security came in later and told us he had to throw us out unfortunately but the doors to the ATM section would remain open and he won't come back again.
That was so nice of him. Of course he had to throw us out because that's his job but he basically let us know that we could just go right in again.
I'll never forget that whole trip but honestly it was similar to yours and a nightmare for all of us in the bus.
I haven't taken a Flixbus since and I probably never will again. It's fun when you're young and don't have much money to spare but I'm done with all that😅
Recently travelled with flixbus from Copenhagen to Frankfurt, from 22:00 to 13:13 the next day. So a whole night and half a day's journey. Was actually better than expected, but the home journey was done by train, witch was far better in every way.
Thanks for a nice video
I spent two months travelling Argentina and Brazil recently. Took 5 bus trips over 20 hours. The longest Iguazu - Rio was 27 hours including 3 hour stop in the middle of nowhere due to flat tire. Yes, they are very long journey but not a big deal really. Long distance buses are generally comfortable and you get to see a lot. I see this long bus trips as adventure.
We have been spoiled by technological advances. People used to spend months on ships to get to faraway destination yet we moan about 30 hours spent sitting in rather comfortable seat.
Holy hell... Been wondering how one of these 24-hour-plus bus rides work! You're a brave man.
brave, stupid, same same
Fluxbus is awesome if you’re only going on short trips (3-4 hours). On my eurotrip in 2019 my favourite journey was going from Lyon to Milan and Milan to Interlaken (Switzerland). I paid 2 extra euros to get the front seats and it was so worth it. The views along this trips were just insane. Highly recommend these cheap bus rides if the distance is short. 🙂
Agreed. I have travelled plenty with Flixbus from Aarhus to Copenhagen and back (both are in Denmark) and it has always been a great and unexpensive way to get to and from the CPH airport.
I think Hamburg-Amsterdam in 11 hours was about the maximum I could bear, I am in awe of your strength.
I did Karlsruhe to Barcelona in about 18h and i loved it
why did it take 11 hours for that distance?!
What a champ you are. I don't go for more than 4h, the surprise factor is just too big....
I did the Munich to Berlin route on Flixbus, 10 hours; absolutely hated it. I was pissed off at DB for almost a 2 hour delay while going from Berlin to Munich, so I decided to give Flixbus a shot. 10 hours in Flixbus made me realize how good ICEs are 😅(specially the newer ones)
@@galdersrontgorrth Well it was supposed to be 7 but apparently the bus driver didn't feel like it.
Another great video Tom, thanks for taking us on your adventures
thanks mate :)
As a Romanian, I can tell you that that is how many Romanians travelled to western europe in the early 2000's, when work and study visas were abolished. Flying was not yet as cheap and plentyful. Then, as a 20 year old, I visited my cousin in Rome in 2006. It was a 28 hour ride. I do have some fond memories, and there is some romance in being lost on those highways, but that is mainly because I was young and Deep Vein Thrombosis was not in my head. Now I would't be caught dead 30 hours in a bus. We all use WizzAir or Ryan these days. Greetings from Arad, Romania 🙂
The ~10hr train to the seaside is the longest non-flying journey I’ve ever done and that’s because I was a kid and nobody was asking my opinion.
I don’t think I could survive any longer trip with my sanity intact since I’m one of the unlucky people who can’t sleep on any moving vehicle even though I’m short enough that leg room is never an issue.
I’d be asking to be let off by hour 3.
I really love your channel…and this post was so very exciting! Sooo glad your survived this journey!!!
Aw thanks Diana!
I have a friend who got two very solid habits, and that is:
- smoking,
- going to Crimea every summer.
Now since last year no airplanes fly to any Black Sea destinations (we live in Moscow, it's about 1.5 hours flight, and it cost ridicilous pennies before the war), she somehow had to make it by bus. Why not train? Because, you can't smoke on the train, some legs take 4 or more hours between stations long enough for you to smoke a cigarette on the platform. The bus, on the other hand, makes stops every two hours on the roadside specifically for smokers.
So she chose that 24 hour or so bus ride just because of that. I'm not smoking, and i cannot understand her. Our trains, even the cheapest, are so much more comfortable. Sitting and entire day in a bus chair, even sleeping in it, that's tough!
Bravo Tom! Couldn't even conceive of doing something like that...glad to have accompanied you from the comfort of my desk chair, made for a nice lunch break.
Keep up the good work,
Cheers from Canada!
Aw thanks! Greetings to our transatlantic cousins
Just love how bus rides are bus rides... just everywhere, all the same vibes that I get when I go to São Paulo every once in a while.
Couches like this are a thing because they take off from crazy many cities, and usually the main station there, meanwhile airports tend to be on the outskirts of the city, often much less accessible to people with no car. They also connect less popular cities, are less stressful - no security checks, you can take whatever food and drinks you want with you, and many people are scared of flying. I took flixbus once, Łódź-Hamburg, and I'd never do it again though.
Just amazing how flixbus can give us the opportunity to travel around europe even if we have to be patient to endure the long rides. My longest ride was Lyon-Prague it took a bit over 14 hours.
I honeslty like traveling by roads, you can see the sights, it is a whole experience in itself. Although these buses are definetly not made for you to be sit in it for that long.
Great video.
Thank you for the CC in the parts where there is a lot of background noise. Very thoughtfully produced/edited.
I've done the Copenhagen to Bucharest a few times (44-46 hours) and you were VERY unlucky on this trip.
It's usually not that bad. But fun to see anyway! 😁
Hi Tom, congratulations to finished that long ride. I had a round trip with flixbus in april this year. From Dresden to Strasbourg, from Strasbourg to Freiburg, from Freiburg to Lausanne (and Montreux), from Lausanne to Chamonix (and Mont Blanc), from Chamonix to Milano (and Portofino), from Milano to Munich and Munich to Dresden. All 7 main routes with Flixbus and in 8 days with many mountain views and no problems.
A couple of years ago I went from Rotterdam to Zagreb on Flixbus. I don't think it was as long as this, and we changed buses in Munich so we had a bit of a longer break there, but this definitely reminds me of that trip. Thankfully I was able to sleep a little haha
You are a madman. Curious to see what you got up to in Romania, seeing your country through foreign eyes is always interesting.
Watching this video brings back so many memories haha. Like sitting next to a woman watching videos and listing to music without earphones for 5 hours straight or a baby that didn't stop crying behind me. My Flixbus days are over for now.
Such an epic, inexpensive journey, well done, mate!
Was amazing…😁
Thank you Kyle! Hope you’re doing well :)
I really enjoy your travel videos. Could watch it all day ♥ Greetings from Germany :)
Hi from Prague - actually the stop in Bratislava, Slovakia is not "multystory car park" . but the biggest shopping mall in Slovakia, opened very recently in downtown area , where the central bus station is located under the mall in garage area.
I'm in awe of your stoicism. A two and half hour train on Transpennine Express gets me extremely grumpy 😅
that's also fair tbh
It's amazing that you can travel this route so cheaply. It's excruciating to travel, but still pretty cool that it's available.
Congrats on the trip, Tom!
I actually did it once from Lisbon, Portugal to Luxembourg (by air) and to Warsaw, Poland (with flixbus) as my friend and I were in a budget.
The bus trip took 21 hours in total (1h30 was resting in Berlin) and it was not the end of the world but, definitely, very tiring. We enjoyed a lot resting in a park in Luxembourg, could eat some delicious food and even slept a bit in front of a lake.
In Berlin, we also went to a park so we could rest a bit more and drink something.
It didn't help the fact the we both got into some arguments haha but, at the end, we got to our destination safe and sound.
Would I do it again? Probably not. As much as I like to travel by bus, it is too much (even staying in the airport, during the night, waiting for a connection, is pretty tiring).
Thanks! Oh that does sound like a long way. Glad you survived :)
I think you guys should have get drunk or took drugs
Well you've earned my sub, that's a crazy journey. I've just done the Baltics by Flixbus and I can't imagine the brutality of 32 non-stop hours of that.
oooo Baltics, I need to do that! any recommendations?
Fascinating journey, thanks for taking one for the team! I'm sure I recall the longest scheduled bus in the world was Rio to Lima? About 4 days... 😂
haha yes I also read that! maybe one day?
I did Paris-Wrocław on flixbus last summer, which was around 22 hours long. My journey was quite comfy to be fair. We booked the panorama seats on upper deck with my girlfriend and had plenty of space to lay down. Spent most of the journey sleeping. Though I'd say it all depends on your luck, I had very unbearable 4 hour trips on my usual Wrocław-Berlin route.
Many domestic Turkey coach trips actually last 15+ hours, however those buses are often equipped with entertainment system and they serve some refreshments on board. Most of them don't have a toilet though, so you have to wait for the next stop.
I did a similar route almost 12 times in a year, after a while if you are prepared you just get used to it, but you don't realize how having the seat next to you free makes the whole trip ten times more bareable
I went 7 hours by FlixBus like 20 times when I was much younger. Back then it was worth it but jeez, I really do not miss it.
Good video!
Thanks!
As a Romanian, I can say that I expected you to abandon the bus while still in Germany, you have the mettle that very few possess my friend.
30h in a bus seat without a neck pillow gives me second-hand neck pain lmao, impressive resilience you have. Did a 14h Flixbus journey from Bremen to München recently (~7pm to 9am). Definitely something you need to have enough entertainment pre-downloaded for, or pray the wifi works (though I have had bad luck with that recently) & hope that the other passengers are not the worst.
My return journey was also quite interesting, >15h from Vienna to Bremen, with ÖBB and DB, in the night during/after the recent storm in middle and northern Germany. Actually got super lucky for most of the trip, though the last train then randomly changed its destination to one not even previously on the route, without any announcement or explanation, leading to a last minute switch at Hannover.
About the ticket price: Flixbus has *very* dynamic pricing: If you book far enough in advance, you should see lower prices than those you showed. For example rn you can book this bus on 30.08. for 69.99€ (nice). Also the time of year (e.g. vacation time in summer, and public holidays in general) can have an extreme effect as well, sometimes 2x or even more. For example there is one route I need to do in early August, which normally would be 25€, but is now 75€ during that time, making it more expensive than DB even. As to why people do not just fly when it's similarly expensive, that is a good question indeed, I can only guess fear of flying and/or luggage costs.
Brave of you, to say the least. I found the 7,5 hrs from Brno to Ljubljana to be approximately 7 hours too long, and I'd prefer to walk the distance rather than spend 30 hours onboard a Flixbus.
Crazy thank you for sharing your Journey :D Keep grindin
I am going from Frankfurt to Sibiu in Romania in 2 weeks. That video helped me prepare. TY
I hope you enjoy it :) pack some earplugs!
@@thornton I have earplugs, a nice pillow and some anti-odor balm to pur under my nose. I will download some movies to my smartphone. My advantage: I am that kind of person who can sleep anywhere :)
I did not choose plane because CO2.
My longest ever coach bus route was Munich - London (changing in Paris) which took 24 hours, but because I could stretch my legs in Paris and on the Ferry over the channel, it really wasn’t that bad
I'm from Romania, and I hate travelling by bus, even for 1-2 hours..I've traveled through Italy and Switzerland with Flixbus but it was for maxium 6 hours...for me, it's very hard to do it, it takes me 2-3 days just to recover from such a trip.
The worst experience I had was from Iasi (Ro) to Istanbul back in 2013 with an old bus, we did like 25 hours..smell, noise, narrow space, it haunts me even after so many years..
Flixbus is pretty amazing when it comes to pricing.
You can take a bus from Bordeaux (South West France) all the way to Bucharest (Capital of Romania) for 190 USD.
That's a 49 hour bus journey covering 2800 km or 1740 miles.
That's 10 cent per mile or 7 cent per km.
I highly recommend the bus tour from Arica (Chile) to La Paz (Bolivia) through the atacama desert. Price approx 15 USD with a duration of six hrs. Even if this is a more dangerous one due to curvy streets in the desert mountains, its lovely
I did a 25-26 hours (or so) Flixbus journey last year, from Budapest to the Hague, with a change in Munich.
Never again. 😅
Edit: Actually it was 2 times about 26 hours, since I went by flixbus there and then got home the same way.
Back in 2016 I drove with Flixbus to Paris for a day trip as it was like 10€ total. It was an 8 hour drive over night and this was already pretty hard even though the bus was relatively quiet. I think with your trip there I would just go insane.
a day trip to Paris wow! good effort
Same man, Rotterdam - Paris; took 8 hours. It was horrible
I definitely wouldn’t do a bus trip over 10 hours
I don't know about other nations, but Romanians, love taking the coach to bring back goods and many things from abroad back home, things like clothes, trinkets and many other things which would make their luggage cost hundreds on a plane. That's usually one of the main reasons, other being fear of flying *but that is a small percentage.
I used to go from Düsseldorf to Amsterdam every other week with Flixbus as it was the cheapest option and I had a long distance relationship with someone living in Amsterdam and having done that for a few months and spend countless hours on Flixbus combined I have to say, I would have thrown myself out of the window barely half way through the 30 hours. You are built different to go through with this lol
Yesss I just saw the CZcams Short and was wondering when this video will be up!
quick turnaround here these days 👏
My God you're a trooper, Tom. After watching this footage I want to buy you a drink.
I'm always willing to accept that drink my friend
After you've spent some days on a flixbus, you start realising that time might be more important than money - even if you're broke.
3 months ago I did Czestochowa - Munich, 16h plus 3h of delay, it was terrible experience. But the reason why coaches solds out for those price is easy - you can transport the entire wealth of life for reasonable price. Taking 30kg worth of luggage jack up price of air traveling.
I think my last long travel by bus was 17 years ago from Ploiesti (72 km away from Bucharest) to Brussels. We lost a lot of time at the hungarian border of course, the process was way lenghtier at that time, there wasn't a highway between Romania and Hungary. Miraculously the drivers not only managed to recover the 5 hours delay but we arrived 2 hours earlier in Brussels (I do remember some very mad fast driving during the night especially in the corners but I did enjoy that). Of course you only see this kind of circus where romanian management is involved (the bus you were travelling with belongs to a company in Pitesti as far as the markings on the bus say). Definetely my 2006 ride was the last long one, it's just too much to handle
I did some some shorter trips with a buses (Around 10-12hr) It's hard to deal with border crossings since I travelled outside to inside EU and I think what can make trip easier is a driver who makes short bathroom breaks so people can stretch out and relax a bit, AC is a must during a summer. But yea you always need a day-two to recover from that kind of travel.
I think you find people buying those quite expensive full fare tickets for Flixbus when they cannot plan a trip in advance. Then also saver fares for trains or planes are usually no longer available, and even if LCCs like Ryanair or Wizz should serve that route, their fares can also be expensive when you must travel tomorrow.
When you want to travel from Berlin to Vienna on short notice, one-way fares are typically €250 for a plane ticket, €200 to go by train or €50-70 for Flixbus.
Yep, and also on the bus you can bring more luggages and the other advantage compared to Plane it's that it cover more cities than the plane.
Romanian highways infrastructure and cleanliness have developed so much in the last 10 years - wow. It seems like the same level of quality as Hungary.
Romania is actually a tad bit richer than Hungary now but you’re right, it did change a lot!
@@sikerslalatm3147 No, GDP per capita is higher in Hungary. Also, the highways are better in Hungary and I'm a romanian.
I've done 5 days on a greyhound. I've taken Flixbus plenty of times as well. The two are like night and day and I'd gladly ride Flixbus over Greyhound without hesitation. 😂😂
Loved this! Great channel.
hey thanks! that's really kind 😇
I think the two longest trips i did with flixbus were Aachen - Hamburg and Genova-Venice, both overnight and max 8hours, and for me the most problematic thing has alqays been going to the toilet on the bus.. And plugs/wifi not always working! Chapeau for your 30hrs, i would never!
I went from Stockholm to Prague on Flixbus. 24 hours. The most annoying things were that men were not discouraged from standing in the loo so every visit started with cleaning piss off the entire loo and that the lengths of stops was completely random and never announced for length. But hey, it was cheap and I could avoid flying.
I did Stuttgart to Bucharest with Flixbus once and also Toulouse (France) to Bucharest with this bus. It's crazy! Too many hours.
I was on a short flixbus ride about 3.5 to 4 hours and I didn't like it. Some of the passengers were ignorant, there were some arguments and so on. I could not imagine travelling 30 HOURS like that. You deserve a medal!
The longest bus ride I was ever on was from Vancouver to Calgary on a Canadian greyhound service.
Sadly greyhound creased operations in Canada 2 years ago.
My experience with Flixbus so far has been rather mediocre. It seems that the low prices attract people who simply have no respect for fellow passengers, who don't turn their phones down, who don't keep conversations quiet, and so on... I certainly would not do this trip, especially since I can't manage to sleep on the bus...
This is the labor class
In my student days, my friends and I went from Cologne to Prague in a bus. It was with one of the student travel groups which are cheap but put you through physical hell. As if the overnight journey was not enough, the bus driver also shut the toilets, saying that they get too dirty if used. It was December and I vowed to never ever repeat the experience.
The problem with cheap flights is you come to your destination city at evening. So basically you should count one night in hotel additionally to your transfer costs what end up in bigger price. Buses are mostly more flexible in this regard.
not with the kind of mental trauma and fatigue it brings with
@@patelyash530 Luckily my experience was good enough so far)
That's a journey i dreamed as a kid of once to do. Thumbs up 😊. This bus fits western standards. Thirty years before we traveled in Eastern Europe by bus sitting on the bare ground as overbooked. And it was freezing cold winter with snow of twenty to thirty centimeters high.
Did a few Routes like this (including a big part of this one) this summer. I loved it! Travelled 10.000+km in 2months and visited 6 countries on 100€/week! Met amazing people and made unforgettable memories. My first Bus was Dresden-Targu Mures, Romania - 4hr delay but the nicest people, it didn’t matter!
Back when Flixbus was new in Germany, I took a ride from Lörrach to Hamburg and back, a few days later.
I thought it couldn't be that bad, took something like 9 or 10 hours each way.
After arriving in Hamurg, if I had had the money back then, I would have booked a plane ticket back.
The worst part was, that on the way to Hamburg, the seat next to me was empty - fantastic, some space, not as horrible, as the way back was, when I had someone next to me, who was constantly on the phone, and extremely loud. I hated it - can't imagine doing such a long trip as you.
I know some people who have such a fear of flying that they would rather travel for days by land.
I don't know how you did it, but I think it's good that are alternatives to flights.
its just such a nice feeling to live in Europe, i mean man you can go to every place without big borderchecks and within 30 Hours your in 4 Diffrent Nations
Actually, there is a border check between Hungary and Romania.
@@popix33 true! but nothing like for example when you go into the US from Canada or something, most of the time there just a Toolbooth show your Passport and thats it and there do some Random Controlles here in Europe
@@Doc_Rainbow Even in Europe for countries outside of Shengen area it's king of the same I guess. All vehicles must stop and we must show our ID or Passport at the tollbooth.
@@popix33 Schengen or Shenzhen? 😝
@@comemela never ever had a control, from Germany to every other country i travled...
Belgien, France, poland, Netherlands, Swiss, Austria, Lichtenstein, Denmark...
Flix bussed from Berlin to Prague and from Bratislava to Budapest. Both experiences were very good.
I went from Duisburg to Berlin with 3 Japanese friends on a Flixbus and at one stop we actually left with two of them still in the restroom outside. With a bit of begging I convinced the driver to stop again luckily 😂
crazy, ive been on a flixbus ride for 10 hours and i swore to never do that to me again, at the end i was really exhausted despite just sitting down all night
Brave. I quit bus travels after an 11 hour ride. It was too rough, even without co-passenger incidents.
Flixbus is the best! I'm constantly taking it from Bratislava to Vienna airport 👏👏
I did a Greyhound bus trip across the USA. Leaving New York on a late Thursday evening and arriving Los Angeles on Sunday late afternoon. Three overnights along the way. Slept poorly on the first night through Pennsylvania but slept much better on the second and third nights. I guess I was more acclimated by then. Distance was about 4500km. I was the only passenger that did the whole journey. The others were pick ups and set outs along the way. Routing from New York was via Pittsburgh, St Louis, Joplin, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Needles, Barstow, San Bernardino and Los Angeles. Much of the routing was on or paralleling Route 66.
What a trip! You willingly signed up for this? R u from the USA or thought it was a good way to see it?
@@johnnyappleseed8200 Am am from the USA in the Northeast. This was 40 years ago when I was much younger and had more stamina than I do now.
in 2015 a friend and i took an overnight flixbus from hamburg to copenhagen. the on-board toilet was out of order and we only stopped for a single toilet break on the entire 8 hour journey. i dont know if that was because they thought everyone was asleep anyway or if it was just one rogue iron-bladdered driver, but it was one of the worst experiences of my life, and enough to put me off bus travel forever lmao
I once did a 24 hour Flixbus ride from Southern Germany to Oslo. It was the cheapest way to travel, but definitely not the best.
I went by train from Arad to Lubeck through Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, Berlin and Hamburg and that was a challenge. Did the return journey through Vienna and back the same way. That was exhausting. The only journey I will never repeat would be a 3 day bus ride to Spain. In no circumstance worth it. Unfortunately those without headphones are the main clientele of the buses - just because lack of border controls.
They had a border control, hadn't they? At the Schengenzone borders.
super Video, deine entspannte Art ist sehr angenehm :D
Unimaginable to do such a long bus ride 😮
hi, just a small correction. Bratislava’s bus station was moved underground after its renovations. It is not just a car park, but one of the newest shopping malls of the city as well as being a place for people to gather with a wonderful rooftop “garden-like” place from which the views of Bratislava are just incredible. Otherwise a great video, loved it a lot!
Yes, I for one, absolutely love the fact that the bus station was moved underground instead of taking up precious space in the city center. Defiitely one of my favorite bus stations in Europe.
As a student, I had a 36 hour bus ride from southern Turkey to the middle of Transylvania and I swore to myself that I will never take busses for long distance travel no matter how much it costs. 12 years later, I'm still sticking to that and the only long driveI took was from the Germany-Netherlands border all the way to the middle of Transylvania (with similar results - swearing to myself that I don't do it again). For every travel I do now, I plan plentiful breaks and even though it's longer, I assure myself that I arrive relaxed at my destination.
Good minset right there. I do the same thing with long car trips, plenty of breaks, food, visiting small towns, taking walks, it's a thousand times better than bus journeys.
You mad lad! I wouldn't be able to travel that much in a bus.The most I did was 10 hours and that was the last long distance bus I ever took.
This is how the best traveling memories are created. Good vibes back on Eurolines and long distance trains such as Avala and Hungaria. Isnt really that much of a thing nowadays.
There are much longer routes still going like Bucharest - Alicante - 55 hours lol I did Cluj - Valencia in early 2000s, crazy stuff to live 2 day on a moving chair.
Here in the US I’ve taken FlixBus from Phoenix to Los Angeles. It Is about 400 miles for more than twice the cost. It was about a 7 hour ride and that was about as much as I could handle.
I once took a bus early in the morning from Berlin to Kopenhagen. I takes 8h to get there and because we were cheap we traveled back on the same day at 10pm for another 8h. The worst part was having to leave the bus in the middle of the night, because you are not allowed to stay on the bus while on the ferry.
Lol, that's good to know! xD