Coach travel
February 15, 2008 – 11:37 am
According to our financial situation, our preferences and the offers we find, we have many means of transport to choose.
If you have decided to travel by coach, no matter how long the trip will be, you have to consider some things:
- The coach can assure the transport of 40 to 50 passengers, depending on its type. If you`ll travel alone, you`ll probably have a trip mate and that`s not a person chosen by you. It can have a ticket with the specified number of the seat or it will just assume that one because he paid for it.
- You`ll depend on the driver`s goodwill. I recommend you to find more details about the trip before you buy the ticket, ask where will be stops, how many and other information like this.
- The weather. If is summer or very warm outside, think that the conditional air might be on almost all the time. It`s true that you can stop from time to time the one above your seat, but it can get pretty cold in the coach anyway. So it will be good if you`ll take a blouse with zipper or buttons.
- Make a list with necessary things while travelling: what you can eat, drink, napkins, magazines, players, books and so on. If you have something which needs low temperature, you can leave it there with your luggages, it`s colder. But consider the possibility that other travelers might have many luggages with clothes or stuff and those will have priority.
- For entertainment in a boring long trip you can bring some magazines or books for reading. Beware if you have car sickness, it`s not a good idea to keep your head down.
- You can listen music at your mp3 player/cd player or others. Don`t forget to charge it completely before you leave.
- If the coach has tv, the driver might put some movies. Those have between an hour and a half and 2 hours, so if you see 2-3 movies there are from 3 to 6 hours gone.
- Word games can also be a nice way to spend the time or playing games at your mobile phone.
- If you travel by day, you might see beautiful landscapes on the window from time to time. You should keep your camera near to you for some pictures.
- If you have no problem with sleeping in the car, congratulations!
