It is currently 10 p.m and we have just got here to the Union Bus Station in Toronto because we are
boarding this overnight Flix bus from Canada all the way to America USA America USA? New
York USA we have done plenty of overnight transports before and an overnight bus is
pretty much our last resort so if we weren't saving a bunch of money we wouldn't be doing
it this way but it will be nice to compare what Europe flixbus is like to North America Flixbus,
pretty good it's a pretty standard seat arrangement we do have some good features
like an USB outlet but we're right near the toilet which could be pretty bad
I don't think we're going to sleep very well because we have to be up in two or three hours
to go through passport control which will be exciting hopefully not eventful they do
have also like fixed TVs that are down and we're just really hoping they don't play stuff we had
this one overnight bus in Vietnam and they were full blaring videos all night long and honking
was not good it should have been such a good night's sleep because it was like a full lay down
bus all right look at look at it quiet because we're disturbing people how many of you here knows
flixbus?
we're waiting for two more passengers so that might just do a really quick toilet
look there's not much it's a toilet on a bus like in the toilet there is soap
dispensers and it flushes but it's kind of an emergency only situations I hope no one uses it
Wi-Fi on the bus I always Marketted it but it never actually has it,
i'm impressed
so we have to now take all of our bags off of the bus, the bus driver was super nice and explained
it all to us we're gonna go in here and then 'just get ready but don't move yet they do their doors
okay just get it ready thank you and hopefully it doesn't take too long' time for immigration
we're in [To the United states] but we'll talk about it later
We've
been on the bus for many many many many hours now so I thought I'd give you a bit of a seat
tour. They're pretty comfortable seats they recline quite a bit we each have a seat belt
there's a seat back pocket kind of thing a little handrail one interesting thing is I
think like the last five rows, our Outlet charging ports are on the wall where it's all ahead of us
they are in between the two seats we also don't have a foot rest back here and I think everyone
at the front does but what's really nice is that there's not that many people on the bus tonight
so Jordan got two seats and I got two seats as well considering it's an overnight bus you do
have all the standard controls there's lights and like the air and things above your head as
well as spots to put your bags above you they're quite small though and also the air conditioning
isn't working on our bus so it's really really hot kind of cozy that looks made me fall asleep really
well there is also curtains but I haven't bothered to use that because it's been night time until now
I slept okay not great feeling okay though considering
And we've made it to New York City, not a bad trip
we have just been dropped off at Midtown Manhattan and it's very busy I wanted to give a little bit
of a recap of the bus ride just for informational purposes for anyone who's wanting to do this
ride as well we got to the immigration part at Niagra Falls at about midnight we had already
pre-completed our I-94 form the form that you can complete online and say we're coming into
the US flix bus actually sends you a link to do that the day before you ride so you can go
in and do it and then you don't have to pay at all when you're at the border we then had the
driver tell us everyone go to the toilet because it's two and a half hours without another toilet
break and it was true at about 2 30 we ended up stopping at like an Arby's and there was a toilet
and a water fountain to get some water from and then it was pretty much in and out of sleep the
rest of the time we've pulled over a couple of times and the bus driver would kind of stop and
look behind and see if anyone was starting to wake up and if they were then he'd fully stop
and let people go to the toilet but most of the time he just stopped to look back and kept going
and at about 3 30 they ended up swapping drivers out the second driver wasn't that
much fun but we made it to New York and now we're going to get to our accommodation