Added to the list of important safety tips.
I’ll have a small video camera with me, and am prepared to document any Vinnie B. type behavior.
My takes Megabus between Chicago and St. Louis fairly frequently, including the day before Thanksgiving. His one persistent complaint is that the bus is almost always late departing, mostly the fault of the passengers, not the driver. Last week, the trip was massively overbooked, so the company chartered a couple of regular tour buses, so there’s that to think about.
Except for once when they had a mechanical problem, he’s never had an unscheduled stop. The internet service is spotty, so he generally reads, listens to music and sleeps.
Overall, he says it’s a decent ride for the price, but he prefers Amtrak and only takes the bus when the train is sold out.
I expect the Internet on the bus to be roughly as reliable as the Internet I used to get from Sprint via my Palm Treo while riding on Amtrak. For the most part, I download long articles, stories or threads. I have my Dope preferences set to maximum number of articles per page.
Same here. I’m going for Megabus for the cost. I usually take the Southwest Chief from Chicago to KC, but sometimes take the one that goes through St. Louis. I figure the bus is worth a gamble.
I’ve taken Megabus a couple of times from Minneapolis to Chicago and back. The price was right (less than a dollar), and it was about as pleasant as a bus could be. The buses I rode were generally full, but they left and arrived on schedule.
I’d bring noise-canceling headphones, since the movie is usually something I don’t want, and always played too loud.
I haven’t taken Megabus in a while, because Southwest Airlines can be pretty cheap on the Minneapolis-Chicago route, and 7 hours is an awful long time to sit on a bus.
I just rode from Chicago to Kansas City. It left on time, arrived on time. The bus was clean, the toilet didn’t smell, the drivers were polite, the electric outlet worked. Sadly, the wi-fi didn’t work, but luckily I had plenty of movies to watch. There were two 30 minute stops and one 45 minute one in St Louis.
Since I last posted to this thread, I’ve ridden the Megabus from Kansas City to Chicago and back several hundred times. I’ve learned the system very thoroughly, and most of the tickets I have bought have cost me $1. For instance, I recently bought 28 trips for $29.50 - which is just insane.