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Hi, thank you for the feedback, these were just the default timings on the editing software I use, but I can certainly look to leave them up longer going forward! :) I wasn't aware that Americans were known for their quick caption reading? ;)

Thank you for watching and commenting... you should absolutely try the 36 it's really good. Likely to get even better with the new buses, hopefully too! I get a bit further than Durham and Darlington ;)

Thank you for watching! You're not *far* off to be honest, I did have to take a megabus back from Newcastle the day after... but I got a little bit further than Newcastle.

Thank you for watching! and commenting!

Thank you for the feedback, I can assure you there was plenty of bus snacks consumed over the day... although I avoided Greggs for most of the day! No need to wait, I've literally just uploaded Part 2! 🤣

This would be a really cool route as you could take in the peaks with the Transpeak Express / Airport 199 services. 👌

Thank you for watching. That is interesting, it always amazes me how much you can change a narrative through statistics from different sources. It certainly didn't feel very green when I went through 🤣

@@backpack-travels-uk Seems to be what they include in the scoring: Sheffield does seem to win on numbers of parks, but number of trees is similar to a number of other cities and Sheffield seems to fall quite low in air quality which pushes it down some lists

And do you know what? I was pleasantly surprised by both of them! People were friendly and the scenery was lovely.

I have to say both were fairly decent from my very quick visit! :)

Thank you so much for watching. It was an absolute blast, I don't think I'd have ever seen so much of the UK in one day without the flat fare It'll be a real shame if it finishes in December.

Thank you for the comment. Absolutely you should do it. Might not be able to in the new year if the flat fare is stopped (be a shame if it is) so get out there and do it!

I had thought of doing a nice circular route from the midlands through East Anglia and then to London so I might just do that! Not long left to take advantage of the flat fare.

I did finally get to leave Wakefield. But it wasn't a great journey from Wakefield. Thankfully it was lunch after so it didn't matter too much that I was made late! Part 2 be up this weekend hopefully.

Thanks for watching, yeah it wasn't a bad little bus. I originally used to be a trentbarton user when I lived in Nottingham and was a frequent user of the rainbow 5!

@@backpack-travels-uk cheers for the reply subed

@@stevenkohut6395 Thank you so much, Part 2 should be out later today :)

Thank you so much for watching and subscribing and your kind feedback!

And just wanted to say that your videos are some of the inspiration for me to get out and do this!

Thank you so much for watching! I won't spoil it but I get a fair bit further 🤣

Awww, thank you for watching! I (normally) love staying in the hotels!

@@backpack-travels-uk no problem mate was a great watch

You're not wrong!

@@backpack-travels-uk I'm glad I work for the other bus company

@@theleedsbusdriver First for the drivers ✅ First for the passengers 😬

Arriva's old motto if I recall was "Here to get you there" which I always added "Eventually and late" to the end of it

@@15redleg It's such a shame as some of the Arriva areas can be pretty decent but some are awful.

Absolutely, it was foolish of me not to check. However not having air con itself wasn't the problem, it was the fact that you couldn't open the windows more than an inch - due to the height of the building and safety. So the heat had nowhere to go meaning the room in essence became a greenhouse. I agree with your point about not whining on YT which is why I addressed it twice on the first day with the hotel (no joy) and then also with their customer care team via email afterwards and again met with no joy. Maybe I didn't make that clear enough in the video I hate not being positive - which is why I called out the great service by the check in staff. Just sadly the rest of the staff and after care let it down and like you say, Premier Inn would have just refunded straight away - not that this was about the money, it was the fact I paid a fairly high price for a really uncomfortable stay. It's their lack of care that would make me not bother with Travelodge again. It's not how I'd treat a customer.

Thank you, that means a lot as it took ages to edit this together as it's my first real "long" multiple shot video! Part two editing is underway as we speak! 😁

@@backpack-travels-uk sounds good. Keep well

Same I will do too

Thank you for the feedback, why was it so poor so I can try to make a better video for next time?

Yes, I mentioned there was a covered walk way to Sheffield. But as they're separate stations I wouldn't class it as a proper interchange like Barnsley or Bradford where it's all in one site. The tram is just outside, you're right.

Thank you for the comment and watching! Not only did I get the bus number wrong in Barnsley, I also got the destination wrong. I think I was having a moment!

Without spoiling the ending you're not too far away from the last place I got to.

Yes, there's not much that Scotland are worse than us at but no bus cap is frustrating. Saying that we might lose ours in the new year :(

You'll see in the next video that sadly that wasn't the last awful Arriva leg of the journey. They really were the worst.

Thank you for watching! It was a great day out and I think I'll do another before the end of the cap. Must admit I'm jealous and can't wait to get my bus pass, free travel sounds amazing 😍

@@backpack-travels-uk Enjoyed your video, wish I had the stamina to do it! When I started there were no ways of doing the journey planning easily -it was a matter of getting a route for about 20 miles to a main town in the next bus region then another planning exercise. I eventually had printed paper timetables (and sometimes maps) for all the surrounding regions. When I went I had alternate buses and routes and destinations ready. For me it was as good as a game of chess - - planning for all happenings. Nowadays the mental exercise has gone, it's just routine. The only anxiety is "will I make the next bus?" And for the vast majority of the time the answer is "yes". Except my local bus which has to battle through traffic and is usually 5 to ten minutes late, with a frequency of 15 minutes. I travelled all over the place, saw towns and villages and hills and valleys I'd never seen from the A and M roads. I became a bit of an expert on bus stations....

@@alanmon2690 Yes, it used to be a bit of a lottery - but that's part of the fun I guess. I tried to not OVER plan my route but I had a fair idea of where I wanted to end up when I planned it. Thankfully the availability of online timetables and services like Traveline and Bus Times makes it SO much easier now.

Thank you so much for the comment, it really means a lot. It's the first time I've edited something as long as this so the feedback really helps! Stay tuned for Part 2:)

@@Paul-js4ch Thank you for watching. Just editing part 2 this week and hope to have it out shortly... There might even be a part 3 as I realised I have so much footage!

This could be pinned, so that it appears at the head of the Comments (and not 3rd from the bottom!) 😜 Good luck in Part II btw 😉

Thank you, new to this TH-cam malarkey!

Do you know what? We never checked that! It's the phone for when you need to get help to escape 😂😂

I don't think I'm being harsh at all. We were not forewarned, we were told at check-in - by which point we'd paid £100 to stay there and had no opportunity to move rooms or hotels. There was no warning on the website that the room windows opened a tiny fraction - as I said in the video if the windows opened properly we would have at least had the opportunity to let some air in. During the trip the hotel ran out of ice and the water machine in the restaurant broke down meaning we had to buy water from the vending machine - which of course ran out. Of course Travelodge cannot control the weather - but this is a new hotel built in the last 12 years in a capital city, how it was built without air con and such small windows is such a design flaw. Sadly also whilst the majority of the staff in the hotel were great the customer services afterwards via email was pretty dire - had they had reacted better I'd have left more of a positive view - so no, I don't think I'm being too harsh. This was £100 I spent to not be able to sleep.

As for the water... we filled the sink up before bed and put a bottle in it to keep it cool over night. In the morning the water was all gone, it either evaporated or the sink plug leaked... However, water doesn't evaporate at 100 deg c. Water boils and turns to steam vapour at 100 deg c, it can actually evaporate at much lower temperatures.

@@backpack-travels-uk I understand you paid a lot, fair enough, but again, Travelodge can’t control the temperature based on how much you have paid. I get it at the lodge I work in because my lodge also does not have air con and they ask for refunds, but Travelodge won’t allow us to give guests a refund based on the weather, because I know the rooms can be humid, but again, that’s something Travelodge cannot control. Windows are restricted for health and safety, as you can imagine if they allowed the windows to open fully and your child falls out of the 5th floor window……. And if a health and safety auditor ever found a restrictor taken off, we’d fail our audit, and the manager + staff on duty would be sacked

@@backpack-travels-uk I understand you paid a decent sum of money, but Travelodge can’t control the temperature based on the room rate. You even said reception warned you, so you were warned. The windows are restricted for health and safety, because if you had a fully opening window and a child fell out of the 5th floor window……. Sounds daft but my point stands. And if a auditor was to turn up at the hotel and sees a window restrictor taken off at a guest request, the hotel would fail their health and safety audit and that staff member would be out of a job. I understand your frustrations but, there’s also the hotels side also regarding customers safety which is always priority, and why not use tap water from the room? It’s perfectly drinkable, buying water was a choice you made, not the hotel.

Absolutely I understand why the window restrictors are there and that's why I go back to my point that it's absolutely crazy a new hotel is built at height where they have to restrict openings without AC. Both hotels left and right of it have it. If this was a hotel built in the 70/80s like a lot of the roadside Travelodge hotels I'd absolutely understand - but this was built in 2012. As for warning - telling me at check-in and then giving no option to move to a room in a lower floor is not really a warning. Premier Inn for example will warn you at booking on the website if the hotel is not air conditioned so you can make that choice. I work in complaints for a large company and maybe I'm basing my expectations on what we'd do for a customer but Travelodge response just reassured me that they couldn't care less if I booked again - wasn't even after a refund per se.

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it, I wasn't sure whether to post as I don't normally like doing a negative review but I just couldn't be positive

Do you know what? I didn't actually know that and you're right it's a bit out of the way to be called that really - it doesn't go towards or away from Canterbury!

Completely agree, it's really well situated for the Excel but also travelling in to London is cheap and easy too. Thank you for watching my review :)

Glad you enjoyed it