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45 minutes late and almost no update from the staff... The bus was old and not so clean. I'm 1m78 and couldn't stretch my legs entirely but it was no big deal. Otherwise we arrived at the right destination.
Driver was checking his phone while driving and changing lanes constantly. He almost had an accident because he braked too late. Also he was really tired. He dropped us at a wrong hotel. We waited 40 minutes at the pick up point.
We got told to give them our food so that we wouldn’t eat during the drive because apparently that’s not aloud and we where supposed to get them back when we got to our destination but instead of getting them back they ate the food during the drive even though we where supposed to get them back since it was ours! They could have at least asked because we could share with them. The seats weren’t that great either because we couldn’t put them up so we had to lie down the whole drive and there was no button to turn off the air conditioning because the driver controls that so it was on for the whole drive and it became very cold.
For a Dutch person of 1.80 sharing the small cabin with his girlfriend, it was definitely an experience. However, we managed and was actually comfortable. Put your backs in de back of the truck because you won't have space otherwise. We had 2 stops for food/toilet in our 6 hour drive. ( it took longer then expected). Would do it again, but if you can, reserve 2 cabins just in case.
The bus left at 23:30, they changed us the bus at the middle of the night. They wrote us to go at 22:00 to the station because the bus would leave sooner but then the bus left at 23:30.
The bus was comfortable and left on time, however how we have been treated by one of the drivers/staff is terrible. He knocks near your seat without speaking any English, shouting to let you know that you have arrived and have to leave the bus. For this you have 30 seconds, and your bags are already thrown on the street. Couldn't even put on my shoes properly. Only to find out we weren't dropped off at the airport itself, but had to wait for another 45 minutes for a minibus to take us there.
