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I Took Europe’s Longest Bus Ride! (100+ MISERABLE Hours on FlixBus)

Simon Andersen

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A year or two ago, I discovered what seemed to be the longest journey you could actually book with FlixBus in Europe. Since then, I have had a tiny, slightly terrible urge to find out just how bad it would really be.

So in this video, I travel for 107 hours across Europe by FlixBus, starting in the Arctic north and making my way all the way down to Lisbon. Across thousands of kilometres, multiple countries, very questionable toilets, surprisingly decent buses, tight schedules, border checks, overnight rides, weird route changes and plenty of chaos! This turned into one of the strangest trips I have ever taken.

Was it a good idea? Probably not :D

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00:00 Intro (Santa Claus Village)
01:10 Lapland to Helsinki
06:45 Ferry Time (Helsinki to Tallinn)
11:30 Tallinn to Warsaw (Baltics)
20:00 Warsaw Shower Shenanigans
25:12 Warsaw to Prague
28:50 Prague Layover and Tour!
30:50 Prague to Zürich
35:00 Horrible Zürich Layover
38:35 Zürich To Lisbon (The Good Part)
43:50 Zürich To Lisbon (The Bad Part)
46:16 The Worst Night Begins
48:35 The VERY COOL Interconnection Hub
51:50 The Shenanigans Start Again (Zürich To Lisbon)
56:11 Almost there!
57:35 Lisbon!

#FlixBus #BusTravel #EuropeTravel

20 Comments

@Simon-Andersen Creator 4 months ago Pinned

Thanks so much for watching! 💚

What’s the longest FlixBus journey you’ve done, and how bad (or good) was it? 😅

@loitsulaulanta 4 months ago

”I didn’t think to bring earplugs, eye masks or pillow which was probably a mistake on my part” this video is gonna be a wild one I can already tell

@DjVortex-w 4 months ago

"I also gotta say, despite the bus being fairly busy now, it's still very quiet on board here."

Welcome to Finland.

@hariranormal5584 4 months ago

The shower experience was PAINFUL wow.

@-jul1o357 3 months ago

I FEEL EXHAUSTED BY WATCHING THIS VIDEO

@neovr3240 2 months ago

My tip for bad drivers: text the FlixBus support on the bus. They’ll call the driver and tell him to behave. I had this before, texted them and a few minutes later he was driving like an angel.

@Hamfrags 3 months ago

"This seems fun!"

59 minutes later: nvm

@sbeyer17 3 months ago

People blasting anytging on their phone or having loud phone calls on pu blic transport are one of the worst

@maxieonthebuses 4 months ago

Impressive to see how things become less and less organised the further south you go in Europe lmao.

@natehill8069 4 days ago

I always find it depressing to see American chain fast food restaurants, like Burger King and Popeyes, in foreign countries instead of something local.

@dinodinov6557 3 months ago (edited)

And I felt pity for myself after spending 8 hours on a Flixbus. You are one of the hardest men I've seen on YouTube.

@ohieroja 4 months ago

im a bus driver who occasionally drives flixbus with a finnish operator. the bus change at helsinki harbor always confuses people as the buses dont go on the ferry itself and stays in finland or estonia. flixbus should definetly inform passengers about the crew and bus change, and also inform the finland-sided crew even a bit about where the bus continues its journey after arrival to tallin, when a passenger asks us a question about continuing the trip from tallin, we are just forced to say "sorry we dont know anything more than you and wish you the best of luck". the cherry ontop of the cake is that about half of our flixbus-fleet is not yet flixbus colored, so all, and i mean all passengers are even more confused from hustling with the ferry to getting on a bus with a huge logo of a company they have never heard of instead of getting onboard to another flixbus.

@realhawaii5o 4 months ago

As a Portuguese living in Estonia, thank you for testing this for me as I've often considered taking the Flixbus from Tallinn to Porto and this way I don't have to test it myself.

@Xerdoz 4 months ago

The biggest issue with Flixbus is the quality of drivers. Some should not be allowed to be even near a motor vehicle and some are actually decent. It's just a random chance which one you get.

@newera478 3 months ago (edited)

I just don't understand how almost always the busses' toilets don't function or aren't filled with water. It's like the bus companies don't care at all.

@Vanssyyy 1 month ago

This is why I pay for internet: to see a blurred number 2 on YouTube while I’m eating my breakfast. What a time to be alive!

@supermanifolds 3 months ago

Watching that whole crazy shower saga made me feel exhausted and I wasn't even there

@6yjjk 3 months ago

This demonstrates my biggest problem with bus travel: You book with a well-known operator like Flixbus, and you might get a luxury(ish) experience or you might get Big Bubba's Busted Buses with a splash of green on. There's no consistency whatsoever.

@schtormm 4 months ago

Ah it's the European version of that one 150 hour Greyhound ride

@nimit2535 3 months ago (edited)

My goodness this has to be torture. Think of the severe leg and back pain through out, lack of sleep and hygiene, noisy passengers, enduring cold temperatures, deviating schedules, living off carby foods and having to use the disgusting toilets on board. Long journeys like these should come with a health warning.