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... 😅

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.

Did a much shorter flixbus journey this spring, and those few short hours were enough for me… this is some resilience on another level!

I did Bucharest to London on Flixbus. 48 hours of fun. :)

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!

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 😅

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

Holy smokes I need to go to romania, this country is looking so beautiful.

The baby crying when entering Romania is just evolutionary survival reflex.

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

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.

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.

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.

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😅

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 KZfaq algorithm for randomly throwing you my way.

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! 😎👍

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.

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 🙂

I really love your channel…and this post was so very exciting! Sooo glad your survived this journey!!!

Another great video Tom, thanks for taking us on your adventures

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. 🙂

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!

I really enjoy your travel videos. Could watch it all day ♥ Greetings from Germany :)

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.

Such an epic, inexpensive journey, well done, mate! Was amazing…😁

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.

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

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! 😁

Crazy thank you for sharing your Journey :D Keep grindin

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.

You are a madman. Curious to see what you got up to in Romania, seeing your country through foreign eyes is always interesting.

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..

I think Hamburg-Amsterdam in 11 hours was about the maximum I could bear, I am in awe of your strength.

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. 😂😂

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

It's amazing that you can travel this route so cheaply. It's excruciating to travel, but still pretty cool that it's available.

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... 😂

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.

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.

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.

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.

Flix bussed from Berlin to Prague and from Bratislava to Budapest. Both experiences were very good.

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).

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!

My God you're a trooper, Tom. After watching this footage I want to buy you a drink.

I am going from Frankfurt to Sibiu in Romania in 2 weeks. That video helped me prepare. TY

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

55 hours from Philadelphia to Monterrey Mx. 1 week ago. That was an adventure!

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.

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'm in awe of your stoicism. A two and half hour train on Transpennine Express gets me extremely grumpy 😅

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.

my anger issues would be raging high after the lack of sleep, food, so much noise and having to wait in traffic. I can barely manage myself in the 3 hour buss journey to my parents

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!

super Video, deine entspannte Art ist sehr angenehm :D

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.

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.

Loved this! Great channel.

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

Thanks for showing me the ride I’ll never take!

Unimaginable to do such a long bus ride 😮

I must say though, I havent seen anyone but me, loving warm fuzzy drinks. It is pleasant to have a brother-in-warm-drinks somewhere out there.

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.

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.

Leipzig - "The thinking man's Berlin." Never heard that before but it really makes sense.

Great Video, i was about to say thats actually a really nice thing to drive from Berlin to Bucharest for cheap prices, but at the Point the Kid threw up everywere i noped out quicklyer than you can imagine :D

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

Yesss I just saw the KZfaq Short and was wondering when this video will be up!

When I slept in the bus, my snore shocked everyone LOL good memory using 30 hours flixbus

Content creation makes people push so many boundaries.

Flixbus is the best! I'm constantly taking it from Bratislava to Vienna airport 👏👏

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

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.

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.

4 hours to Prague from Berlin was enough for me,,,,,, you are a soldier

I used to do the eurolines bus from Munich to Strasbourg often, which was cheap and fine and only 4 hours..... but the worst was the return trip, the bus would arrive in Strasbourg at 4am from Paris and was always packed with people who were all sleeping and drooling with their shoes off, the stench when boarding the bus was really something else I remember vividly. One time a non company marked bus arrived two hours late, and everyone already on the bus was either crying or in a terrible mood but weirdly....only some still had shoes on or had a bag on their lap. I remember the driver getting out and smoking 10 cigarettes whilst we boarded, he was cursing in French a lot and was very, very pale faced despite being a night time driver. It turned out, they had all gone through a nightmare, the original bus from Paris had its climate compressor violently catch fire on the motorway, immediately stopping and everyone, including those sleeping were swiftly evacuated off the bus, in less than 10 minutes the bus was reduced to a skeleton because off all the plastics that are built in these vehicles. The electrical fire also rendered the undercarriage unusable thus luggage compartments wouldn't open. Many people were stranded without shoes on the motorway in their jogging pants and t-shirt and most had lost all their belongings and documents that were in their suitcases too, being a non boarder crossing tour. This is where I learnt, always keep you're shoes on, and pack a light overhead storable backpack and do so ever since, world wide. Driving out of Strasbourg finally at 6:30 I saw the the skeleton on the opposite lane, a skinny metal cage without tyres or suitcases. That was the bus I was supposed to travel in. Scary Shit, that poor driver and those passengers went through hell.

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...

My professor used to organize international trips with buses. one time we went from romania to spain with the bus. 300 11-18 year olds. pure madness

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.

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.

Wow.such a beautiful journey. Keep enjoy

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!

You are hardcore, man! I cannot sleep in a plane or on a bus, so for me, it would be a no-go, but then >1.000km for 14€ - looks tempting!

Regular Bus user here. I travel Thesaloniki - Belgrade every week and i am scared of flying. To be real honest it aint bad at all. I also sometimes go by car but bus is more relaxing. That is a 10h journey with 2 full border crossings. Soon i hope we lower it to only one but will see

i guess the reasons people might buy flixbus instead of flying are: - Fear of flying, - Wait time before the flight, - Environmentalism I'm not sure either why someone would take such a trip. but shorter ones can be cheaper than any other mode of transportation.

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 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.

I did Stuttgart to Bucharest with Flixbus once and also Toulouse (France) to Bucharest with this bus. It's crazy! Too many hours.