ski bus

Ian Wickham wrote:I can not think of anything more annoying then being cooped up in a coach for 15 hours with a load of other people :evil: not for me 8)

Its the other 52 or so I'd feel sorry for :wink:

Years and years ago I did the coach a few times - it was bad enough on a sleeper coach, but seats all the way was awful.
Train over bus anyday.

I went on a sleeper coach for my 1st ski trip. It was with club 18-30 (when they did ski trips) :lol:

Coach trips are hard work, never again for me :shock:

I did 18-30 to Sauze by coach on my 4th trip - aaaagghhhh

Looks like we have all had some kind of previous. Ok, I went to Lloret de Mar when I was 16 with my bessie mate on the Intasun Express.
Things got off nicely when we sat behind 2 girls from Essex who wanted to chat a lot, but started to go downhill when the camp "steward" spent a ridiculous amount of time telling the men to sit down when they wanted a "tinkle", and then the 5 lads from Cambridge on the back seat had too many beers on the ferry and one of them was sick and it slowly rolled all the way down to the front of the bus.
The smell was so overpowering that we had to open the skylights, except when my best mate opened the one near us it locked open. Fortunately it was a hot evening.
Then we were told not to help ourselves to the drinks machine, but when I went downstairs at 2am on the Peripherique, the Intasun reps were asleep so I got myself a hot chocolate and a couple of teas for the Essex girls and as I was going back up the stairs the driver did what felt like an emergency stop and the drinks went all over the ground floor.
And about an hour later we headed into a thinder storm so we shut all the skylights......except the one near to our seats which had locked open and simply would not shut, so all the people in the last few rows had to sit in their waterproof jackets until we got through the rain, and one of the Essex girls was scared of thinder storms and screamed every time there was some lightning, and it was in the days when smoking was allowed on coaches and not only did I smoke about 60 fags that night but so did everyone else on the bus.
Eventually the rain stopped and they put another film on to keep everyone happy. Except it was Star Wars for the 7th time.
And then we stopped for breakfast somewhere in the south ofr France but the cafe was shut and we didnt get anything to eat, and then when we got to the Spanish border one of the passengers couldnt find their passports and we all had to get off the bus until they found it which took about 2 hours and it was absolutely red hot and one of the Essex girls got sunstroke and was in a bad way for the last few hours of the journey, and when we finally arrived in Lloret the bus backed into the canopy outside the hotel......



......so I think I'll pass on the ski bus, thanks :shock:

Sorry Tony dont mean to laugh but that was so funny. :lol:

Did some-one say 18 hrs from London to France. No way could I do that and I dont like flying. Even given that I live about 2.5hrs from Gatwick, then arrive 2 hour before check in, 4hrs flying to Lapland, 20mins luggage retreival,20 mins transfer thats only 9hrs 10mins to get to the Arctic Circle, I know which I would prefer.

You just can't beat a good Essex girl :-o