To be a driver for Flixbus not only do you need to be bilingual, you also need to be a seriously good driver to maneuver the coach on and off the train.

I can guarantee the bus driver isn't paid anywhere near enough for his knowledge, language and driving skills. He's basically doing 3 jobs simultaneously

I did that journey in the late 80s. Coach to Dover, hovercraft to Calais as a foot passenger then on to a different bus for the journey to Paris. A bus ticket that included a flight on a hovercraft, now that is different!

Would love to see a train or airplane wait for three missing passengers! As an ex coach driver - it's nae a bus! - taking a coach on the hovercraft was just as challenging, but if you get the angles right the back generally follows the front!

Such a fascinating video, cheers Scott! And that manoeuvre to get onboard the train, bravo!

Brilliant & fascinating vlog as normal. Years ago when I was driving coaches for a living I had an elderly passenger most disgruntled as we went through the Channel Tunnel, she could not see any fish through the windows of the train.

I took that coach from London to Paris in 2019 and it was a very good experience indeed

Thank you so much for sharing

As always. Great video. Paul

National Express and Irelands Bus Eireann have reintroduced the London/Birmingham to Dublin bus service. Might be another one for you to try sometime. Great video as always.

In the case of flights there is the extra cost of getting into Paris which the other methods don’t have. Thanks Scott for this extra video, much appreciated.

Great stuff Scott please never stop 👍

Loved it! Thank you.

Drove that trip many times heading to Paris and France in general. (Driving Coaches). I also used Newhaven-Dieppe, Waymouth-Cherbourg and Dover Dunkirk.

Keep up the amazing work and vidoes. Love transport

This is one level up from cycling.

Thank you for this! Very helpful!

Just did the Flixbus to and from Bruges. One word of warning, provided by the driver: if any one of your fellow passengers has a problem with their passport, the entire bus waits until it is sorted. The driver on our tunnel return leg mentioned that he'd once been held up for seven hours because one passenger had a passport issue. Hearing that made me wonder about ever taking the bus again... But it was such a pleasant journey, with none of the stress of airports etc, and at such low cost, that I will probably risk it again 😁 You do definitely need to not care how long the journey takes, though, or what time you'll arrive.

Great video mate! I always used to do the eurotunnel with my dad, reminds me of my childhood. Can't wait to do the Eurostar in September

Another interesting vlog cheers scott.

Excellent video, The coach look very nice as did the scenery. Boy you sure do get around. Hope you enjoyed Paris.

The train bit is impressive. I've dont it a few times by coach. Something to note for any cross channel coach trips you make, after a certain point at night you cross by ferry and note Le Shuttle

Nicely put together video. Very informative 🙏

Great video love it

Great video thanks! The flight times for Air France & British Airways look impressive but there is a lot of extra time used up with security checks, boarding the plane, getting off the plane. Not to mention planes waiting to take off and land.

Great I must try that trip.

Muchas gracias por el video. Saludos desde Peru.

Nice guy rooting through the bins @11:00!

Thanks 🙏

Good video, 😊

Great video

Dam good driver.

Nation Express my fav coach💕

I've done that journey many times.The tollbooths are called peages a e the coach has a tag on the wind screen that lifts the barriers otherwise you pay by cash or credit card.. Driving on to the train is very easy ,you just have to line up square on . Driving off is harder because you ha e less room and you have to watch your rear end.. I am now retired from coach driving and doing something completely different. But it's nice to watch these videos and reminisce.

Good news

Good job you are able to bypass the lorry stack. Although I have been on Eurostar I have never been on Le Shuttle except on the excellent Euro Truck 2 Sim game with Promods map Mod

Like your videos Scott 👍👍👍

Good video Scott

Thanks

Way better than flying! I noticed all those tractor-trailers waiting in their queue.

great content scott absolute bargain price from uk to paris i dont know how british airways havent gone bust

I did one month ago, fantastic.

Looks like a pleasant journey, I've taken the eurostar the last two times I've gone to Paris and I just love how quick it is. I think I'd take this if I could get a spot late at night and then sleep through the journey.

Nice💗

Cool video buddy from Alan Shelley in Lowestoft UK 🇬🇧

That all looks pretty civilised. Quite a long journey but the various stops probably break it up a bit.

Loooks good Scott if you have the inclination. Thanks for the extra video. Times must be hard in Paris taking food from bins.

The Magic Bus used to go from London to Istanbul via Athens. You can recreate it today with a London to Sofia with Eurolines + Sofia to Istanbul local operators. Recreate that old hippie trail of the 70s and 80s.

To be fair, I think that, in the price comparisons, you should have included easyJet (or even RyanAir - wash my mouth out with soap and water). For environmental reasons I would not choose to fly from London to Paris (unless to make a connecting flight for a longer-haul journey), but, since you consider the established national airlines, I think a no-frills airline would be a fairer comparison with going by coach. Also, when making comparisons, you should consider the journey time from city centre to city centre - including getting to the airport, getting through check-in and security, getting through passport control at the other end (remembering we are no longer in the EU), and getting from the destination airport to the city centre. Simply looking at the duration of the flight itself is not a meaningful comparison.

I travelled from London Victoria to Copenhagen via Amsterdam, Bremen, Hamburg once or twice I seen you in Lidl in Paisley a couple of weeks ago

Have you ever done the isle of man steam packet ferry? Think you'd enjoy that mate. Be a nice trip for you. Takes about 2 hrs 45 minutes to get to Douglas from Liverpool. Few mountains to climb too when you get there. Great videos mate.

I went there and I think I saw u!!

Thanks for sharing this with your subscribers, can you one day try the London to Swansea Flixbus route

I baulked at those eurostar prices, then if came to me that that was two weeks before the trip lol Our train to Amsterdam in standard Premier is just under £200 1 way. Anyway, love going on Le shuttle, certainly unique

I'm off to Brussels next month but my return flight has been cancelled so booked the eurostar £60:Brussels to London Happy with that

I've taken the tunnel a few times over the past 2 years, for me as a person who was (is) more COVID vulnerable being able to remain in my car was a big plus. The French do love their motorway tolls, the cost quickly mounts up, driving is not a cheap way to get about. I have relatives in France and they swear by the bus network, including this bus to / from London, it's good and cheap! However, the journey time is so long, makes me think of the phrase "slow coach" ... I'd rather drive myself anytime. (And with a faster speed limit in France than the UK as well as generally less busy roads it is possible to make good progress too).

🍁Well, if i get to England next year I am going to Europe on Flixibus!! It seems the easiest and cheapest way to go! This bus driver was so polite and pleasant.

Hello Scott, FYI this morning MyLondon reports that Flixbus is starting a new route from Manchester to Paris in a couple of days. There will be two stops in London (but not in Central London).

Grand

how many times I had a bite and a coffee at the same Starbucks looking at the buses 🙂

Hi from Netherlands 🍻.

£40 all thexway, and yhat was a good seat you got right behind the driver, made the video way more enjoyable to see the actual drive from the drivers view.

Id want the front seats in that!

This sounds fun, but that coach better have air con that is blasting at maximum. It is boiling today. 🥂

In 2000 I went from Kilmarnock to Disneyland Paris by Coach via the ferry, it took about 20 hours.

Eyyyyy i saw that obsact bus going past the coach taking us to the station back to station to get eurostar back

Obviously it depends when you look (and where you look from, I'm outside Europe so may well see different prices), but I'm seeing BA tomorrow Heathrow to Charles de Gaulle at just over 100 pounds. Double that on other days, but still well under the quoted prices.

Last month I flew Easyjet from Luton to Paris CDG for £80 return, 55 min flight. No queues really either. Around 3hrs total UK to France🇫🇷

Hi Scott . Last weekend the coach to Germany was delayed over 15 hours . I wasn't on it but I did feel for them . The poor people were getting Little to no information.

You need to start rating these travel journeys for comfort, money & customer service.

I saw another vid where someone took Flixbus from Bercy to London via the Ferry - looked like the journey from hell! I know its cheap, but I haven't got enough patience for all the messing around. There again, I remember when you could get to Paris on the Eurostar for £50.....

Thanks for another interesting video today Scott. I agree Eurostar is so expensive right now. Standard class is (currently) either fully booked or expensive. The market is crying out for a "lite" Eurostar similar to SNCF's Ouigo. A no frills Eurostar would lessen the need for cut-price bus services which, with all the stops, are a palaver. In 2018 Get Link (the new name for Eurotunnel) said it hoped there would be a budget Eurostar train at some stage ... after all the more trains which use HS1 and the Tunnel the greater the income from toll fees.

Hey the driver is VICTOR CAB !

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I used to use FlyBMI in the early 2000s it was like 20 Pounds altogether, away from the 80 Pounds of Eurostar WITH 1 free sausage roll

Thanks for taking the time to upload this. I did this route in the opposite direction in February 2020 (the day after Brexit) and sat in the very front row. I looked at the Flixbus website recently and all the international journeys to Paris were stated as using the ferry. Was your journey billed as such or did you know in advance it would be the tunnel?

Flixbus seem to have taken over Eurolines which use to operate most cross border European buses and even did one out of Europe to Morocco as I recall.I don't think that they went into Asia but they might have had something to Ankara?

You forget one possible option, easyJet fly from Luton and Gatwick, I've done that for under £100 return on two occasions

Scott. Just out of interest, were you paid by Flixbus again to do this trip? As it would certainly explain a few things if this was the case such as the lack of information on How Busy The Coach Was, How The Journey itself was bar the checks that had to be made. It's these videos where the information would be most useful particularly when we'd like to compare in terms of convenience, cost, time of travel journeys, just all these things whether using Trains, Planes or Coaches etc.. Keep up the content though! Would appreciate more Impartial views regardless of the types of videos you upload though.

What time did you leave Victoria, Scott? This looks a leisurely way to start a holiday. Is Bercy bus station near Bercy station (walkable with luggage?). Thanks for another great video

Can you do the Bus Eireann Expressway from Dublin to London? It only relaunched last week.

Something I am interested in, what is the fascination in using the centre door when it's not needed. Seen this a few times such as at Victoria. Just seems daft, the front doors are much easier to get in/out of the vehicle, why not use that instead?

Great vid again Scott. What was the music in the vid?

Nice film, what was the time centre of London to centre of Paris? be interesting to see how that stacks up with an airline option, probably not a lot in it. As airlines reduce flights due staffing issues they are charging a fortune to fly on the aircraft they are operating and they try to blame it on fuel when it is profiteering

would have liked more information on whether the bus was busy, was it comfortable, space, luggage capacity etc? also information on timings, how long was each segment of the journey?

Hi, Scott. My question is about transfer between flexibus I. London from Leicester to Paris. It is the same bus station or need to go some where else I. London?

It seems to me the customs checks were pretty "light", I didn't see any luggage taken out of the bus for inspection.

I have German Schengan visa.. Can i use it to go to Paris?

try getting on euro tunnel with a 44 ton truck at 60ft

May God have mercy on all souls that travel through Paris Coach Station.

That flight ticket price seems a bit off. I just searched and found one with easyjet from London Gatwick to Charles de Gaulle for 36 euro. Even if you pay 20-30 quid for a bus out to Gatwick and calculate in the extra hour commute, its still going to get you there faster and cheaper then most other options.

Would just like to add that the Eurostar can be only £39 if you book far enough in advance

It's criminal that Eurostar have a monopoly on the passenger trains. I'd love if there was a low price option, less of a plush interior, pay for extra baggage etc.

FYI None of the ferries are doing walk on so you can no longer do the old way. I live near Dover and I wanted to do it a while ago

how about ryan air and easy jet???? im sure you could have got a price for them, easyjet goes to orly

I swear I watched you on a bus on the ferry before...

Can go rome from Paris and other day go Barcelona by bus ?

I just returned from flix bus Glasgow to London to Paris. Trip was great fun. Sadly I was robbed in Paris. Passport mobile and card taken. No passport no hotel bookings (didn't book in advance due to travel chaos) I had to stay in Bercy Park for a few days. Flixbus reps wouldn't email my family, they wouldn't tell me what documentation I needed for driver, consulate were not available police wouldn't help too. A friendly Flix passenger allowed me to use his phone to call my family to get it resolved.

I've never been abroad before. Can someone explain the 2 sets of passport checks. I've recently seen the delays and wondered could Victoria Coach Station have some border force there to check passports there rather than delaying coaches in the port twice. Just helps speed things up a little. Afterall, VCS has plenty of international coaches and so staff wouldn't be short of work.

Hi was there any covid pass or pcr checks at all?