How Bad is America's LOW COST BUS Service? Flixbus | Los Angeles - San Diego

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  • @res887
    @res887 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Flixbus now owns Greyhound (the used to be biggest bus company in the USA)!

    • @kennethstein8394
      @kennethstein8394 ปีที่แล้ว

      So is Greyhound going to disappear or will the brand survive?

    • @creeguyvernon
      @creeguyvernon ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Greyhound driver speech: no smoking in the washroom and no alcohol on bus, if you have headphones, keep volume down as not to disturb others, our next rest break is 1 hour and 10 mins away! 😎

    • @Neville60001
      @Neville60001 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kennethstein8394, the brand still exists in the USA, but here in Canada, the Canadian division of Greyhound, Greyhound Canada, folded up operations two/three years ago.

    • @skyh
      @skyh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kennethstein8394Looks like they will disappear They selling most of the down town Greyhound Stations in Major cities to raise cash so they don't have to pay for building maintenance, utilities, cleaners ,staff , security , property taxes ,and any other things associated with real estate and they get rid of the. sketchy people hanging out at the station .

  • @wicky201
    @wicky201 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You have to keep in mind that Flixbus is 100% contractor operated. There isn't a tight grasp on individual contractors. The missing panel on the bus in the opening of your video is a perfect example of what SHOULD NOT be on the road.

  • @saraclark7451
    @saraclark7451 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    If you have a choice between taking a Flixbus or walking to Las Vegas from Los Angeles, I recommend walking. From beginning to end my Flixbus ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas was so horrible, uncomfortable, confusing, and frustrating that my family rented a car to get back home instead of using the rest of our Flixbus tickets. For the first leg of our trip from Los Angeles to San Bernadino Flixbus DIDN'T even tell us we were put on a Greyhound, which was on seats that were so slippery you couldn't even sit up straight. And the entire time someone decided to share their music with the nastiest lyrics I've ever heard at full volume. The ride was bumpy and uncomfortable, but it was like a starting appetizer of terrible before the main course of awful that is Flixbus. Once we changed at San Bernandino to our actual Flixbus things only got worse. For one, our Flixbus driver was beyond impossible to work with. We showed him our tickets several times proving that this was our bus and he still insisted we were incorrect (EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ABLE TO SCAN US IN) he almost left us there but then just told us to get on. We confirmed with Customer Service on the bus that we in fact were correct and on the right bus. We selected reserved seats in advance on Flixbus when we booked the tickets, but neither bus let us sit in our reserved seats. This ride was worse than Greyhound. Seats that are half the space of any seat on Spirit Airlines, the bus had a strange smell, air conditioning at full blast until my hands turned blue, and another rider decided all of us should be forced to listen to his Call of Duty game at full volume the entire ride. I would have been more comfortable being stored with the luggage below. I wish I read any reviews beforehand, on any given review site it's nothing higher than a 1. HOW IS THIS HORRIBLE COMPANY STILL IN BUSINESS. We didn't even use our return trip because it was so awful. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. HORRIBLE. MISERABLE. UNCOMFORTABLE. RUDE DRIVER.

    • @skyh
      @skyh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@saraclark7451 why walk there's always the Union Pacific freight train hop hobo style. Las Vegas to West Colton free too .

    • @joyceanderson1473
      @joyceanderson1473 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@saraclark7451
      Always best to take thedirect bus from downtown to LV,no issues, wr have been many times

    • @sheluvssmokedupeyes1
      @sheluvssmokedupeyes1 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Was in Vegas and they left a whole bunch of people standing there On the street the bus bus never arrived

  • @Patrick-on2ty
    @Patrick-on2ty 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    flixbus has also trains in sweden and germany

  • @georgeanderson1818
    @georgeanderson1818 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Its ok to drop off and pickup in Cali weathers good. But in the midwest its too cold and snowy for that.

  • @DavidLovesJesus
    @DavidLovesJesus 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks!

  • @joanne8881
    @joanne8881 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is the worst way to travel if you are in a wheelchair. I was stranded in Lake Charles Louisiana for 3 1/2 days. They all said the wheelchair lift didn't work. Then the bus doesn't stop where Greyhound stops. Horrible customer service. They would not take my complaint because I bought my ticket through Greyhound.

  • @dcflow7859
    @dcflow7859 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well made! Thanks!

  • @Northanteus
    @Northanteus ปีที่แล้ว +13

    *ALWAYS* comforting to see a bail bonds agency nearby while waiting by yourself, especially at night! 👍
    ... 🤣

  • @rickybee
    @rickybee ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I so agree about not seeing out the windows on wrapped buses! Folks who are into the wrapped buses must only look at them from the outside. I would never want to ride from LA to SD on a wrapped bus.

    • @Northanteus
      @Northanteus ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Someone did a review of a wrapped train and many were commenting about not liking the wrap because of the lack of view from inside, but someone said that it helps block out the sun, thus keeping it cooler inside ?

  • @UnderwaterFishFilms
    @UnderwaterFishFilms 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thank you for showing! it looks ok

  • @Mlogan11
    @Mlogan11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The train at $36 is a superior ride to this at $43.46

    • @skyh
      @skyh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      BNSF and the state need to fix the landslide and beach erosion problem on that line

  • @JPDiamondMonroe
    @JPDiamondMonroe ปีที่แล้ว

    For your drop off in old town was there a flixbus sign as well?

  • @skyh
    @skyh 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    No markings on the bus. Should at least have a DOT number to be legal.Big fine if they get stopped for an inspection or pulled over for traffic violation. I saw it at the end it had a CA number on the back.

    • @rileyburnett720
      @rileyburnett720 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do public transit bus have DOT numbers?

  • @roserivas1882
    @roserivas1882 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very very very bad , me and my sister bought the tickets travel San Francisco ca To Anaheim ca, we are early to get the bus , but the bus never showed up,we was waiting for more the two hours .
    We called to flixbus costumer service ,they said the bus was on time, they can’t help us, stolen our money,they refused to give us the money back.
    Very poor service.

  • @daws866
    @daws866 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There's plenty of other bus companies that can take you to Las Vegas and in style

  • @brianbrwa
    @brianbrwa 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a Tijuana coach operated by Fronteras Del Norte. Ooh...

  • @stephaniebrown2818
    @stephaniebrown2818 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This company is completely garbage. My bf was travelling to Buffalo airport from Toronto and the bus broke down at the US-Canadian border. This company hired clowns as customer service representatives who hung up on her when she called and refused to give her a refund. She had to spend almost $100 for Uber to the airport and had to pay extra to move her flight. I did my research and heard this is quite common with flix as well as peoples luggages getting stolen and unsafe drivers. I have encouraged her to file a law suit as they left her stranded in the middle of nowhere and she missed her flight. I pray everyday this trash company goes out of business

  • @Howrider65
    @Howrider65 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How dumb who is in charge to make the windows look like this.

  • @keokukramey9008
    @keokukramey9008 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember having to come back home in an Uber because my bus transfer already left because the driver that took me to the transfer was 20 minutes late

    • @jakegonzalez8060
      @jakegonzalez8060 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I took a greyhound bus home and waited for my bus in Portland. The bus was about an hour or 2 late and we were told that we missed our transfer and if we got on the bus we would be stranded but I went anyway because at least I would be closer to home and just got a uber to my grandpa's house and had him drive me home the next day

  • @thedeadbaby
    @thedeadbaby 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    they were trying to implement (successfully) a monopoly with 4 dollar fares to put greyhound out of business

  • @Mars-ev7qg
    @Mars-ev7qg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Flixbus is a bloody joke. I gave them a terrible review on trip advisor, and I wasn't the only one not even close. Get a load of this foolishness. On route 2605 from New York to Charlottesville, Virginia, the bus stops in Richmond, Virginia. Passengers from Washington DC and further north are allowed to get off, but no new passengers are allowed to board. In the other direction, passengers coming from Charlottesville must remain on board all the way to Washington DC, but new passengers are allowed to board in Richmond. Passengers from Charlottesville must ride all the way to Washington DC and catch another bus back to Richmond. There is another bus between Charlottesville and Richmond it leaves very early in the morning. Most buses into Richmond arrive too late to allow transfers to this bus. Flixbus expects passengers to either race to Washington DC and hope they get there in time to catch the bus back to Charlottesville or wait in Richmond for up to 24 hours for the next bus. This problem could easily be solved if they just let people get on the afternoon bus in Richmond. This doesn't make any sense. Lots of people get off the bus in Richmond. There are no more stops before or after Charlottesville. Richmond is the last chance to sell those seats. A great many people want to buy tickets between Charlottesville and Richmond, so why not let them do it? Going the other way, if they let passengers off the bus in Richmond, they would have more empty seats they could sell to fresh passengers going to DC and beyond. People would absolutely buy those tickets. What they are doing is completely ridiculous. Seriously, Flixbus fix this. By the way, I'm sure there are other Flixbus routes with similar problems. Megabus is aware of Flixbus's blunder, and maybe they will decide to start a new service between the two cities eventually. Of course, I'm sure it takes several years to plan out the new route, get all the necessary permits and insurance, and train and qualify drivers on the new route. If Flixbus doesn't fix this, eventually Megabus might decide to fix it for them. So many people want to travel between Richmond and Charlottesville. Virginia wants to run a commuter train between the two cities. Unfortunately, the railroad that owns the tracks won't allow Virginia to operate passenger trains on its tracks. I highly doubt this will ever happen. Flixbus is throwing away a fortune here. Seriously, Flixbus, what are you doing?

  • @Kiwi_NZ610
    @Kiwi_NZ610 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good ride tho.

  • @danogeto78
    @danogeto78 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So sad you got such a bad bus

  • @czg2012
    @czg2012 ปีที่แล้ว

    "bad" is too short a word. need to 3nhance it with expletiive!
    the buses belong to different companies ( Four Seasons Travel, Luxury Coach ) scamming under the F*Bus name. then F*Bus continues the scam. it's a scam becoz they mistreat riders without just compensation.

  • @kellybrown8638
    @kellybrown8638 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow. REALLY inaccurate. You assume what you are experiencing is standard to other areas - itnis NOT

  • @Ahuntsicspotter
    @Ahuntsicspotter ปีที่แล้ว

    Greyhound belongs to Flixbus.

  • @nyreeavi1863
    @nyreeavi1863 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Former USMC. I traveled in the past it was ok. I like the assigned seats. But the BUS STATION IN TAMPA, FL IS UNDER A BRIDGE. Bus drivers that stopped there didn't give a SHI* about answering costumer's questions. That's what our money is worth and our value and our safety. I took a trip to Knoxville TN. In Atlanta our trip was canceled after being there 9 hours with bus 0105 canceled 2xs. They offered a Voucher or Reassigned your route for another time. HOW convenient as a smart A** remark. NEVER AGAIN SAVE YOUR MONEY AND TAKE A SAFER ROUTE.