The Ride from Hell
Firstly, I did not want to award any stars for this company. No rating is more appropriate.
My wife and I were booked on the Sydney-Melbourne service at 5.30 pm from Central Railway Station.
It is hard to know exactly where to start with this review, given the experience.
My wife visited the toilet and discovered there was no toilet paper. She had to wait for the scheduled stop at Barnawatha.
Only 1 stop for food or convenience on the Syd-Melb route is unsatisfactory. The facilities at the Canberra stop (to drop off and pick up passengers only on this occasion) were closed on arrival. A stop at Yass was clearly warranted.
There was no notification that our seats 6A/6B, had no overhead locker space and that the seats were troublesome to get into due to the placement of the overhead TV screen.
Someone had spilt water into the aisle and onto the seat immediately in front of 6A/6B, making the aisle slippery.
Bag handling - there was none. At Central, I had to crawl into the baggage space and place our two bags (my wife took a few pictures, which I intend to upload to a public website. It is certainly not a good look for a 71-year-old trying to put bags in the baggage compartment). Subsequently, the bags were moved from where they had been placed and were shoved roughly elsewhere. There was no baggage organisation whatsoever, except for a request that Canberra bags be placed on one side of the baggage compartment, and Melbourne bags on the other. In Melbourne, the process was reversed. I had to remove a number of other passengers' bags to get to our cases.
I cannot recommend Greyhound under any circumstances (they are more expensive than other bus lines with clearly inferior service).
Additional:
Some three days after this review was posted I was asked to provide further details to Greyhound so that they could respond. The fact that no response has been received says much about this company and their approach to customer service.
17 de abril de 2025
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