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Abroad i've taken a few high-quality and relatively cheap busses, like the LuxExpress in the balcans. But nothing can beat the Alsa Supra V.I.P.-bus i took from Madrid to Alicante. I ended up taking it because all the other ones were sold out, but i was actually vert happy i did.

To start with, the bus has 3 seats in breadth, so plenty of shoulder room. Two individual armrests. Of course the back seat was adjustable even in the very rear where i sat. Under your legs you could take out a foot-rester ala recliner chairs to rest your tighs. Of course it had electricity and free wifi.

In the start of the ride the bus stewerdess, yes there was a dedicated stewardess in adition to the two drivers, came back with complementary peanuts, then complementary headphones for the radio thingey, then complementary shirt-buttons with Alsa and a bus ingraved, then complementary sandwich, coffee, tea, newspaper and cold cola. And the complementary cola i learned was complementary to infinity - just ring the service-button (that every bus has but i never ever saw used before), and the stewardess braught you another box of cola!

That was the most comfortable 5 hours i ever had in a bus! And even so, it wasn't actually all that expensive. I think something along the lines of €50, tops. In norway you would pay more for regular public bus for 5 hours!

Here's how it looked like:
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A humerous side-comment: As this big, shiney, freshly cleaned superbus pulls into the bus stop, the driver aperrantly pushes the wrong button, and manages to empty the bus-toilet on the terminal floor!
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Observe laughing driver, angry other driver and shocked stewardess! :P
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Now, if THAT was the level of service on National Express coaches, maybe £30 for a very circuitous route from Huddersfield to London (via Dewsbury; Suburban Sheffield at rush-hour; Chesterfield; Derby; and against all common-sense, Uttoxeter!) taking over 7 hours would not seem like such a travesty...
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To be fair, coaches in Spain are very very nice compared to most. I went from Madrid to Salamanca on Auto Res and it was ridiculous. Red leather reclinable seats, 3 abreast, free wifi, free internet. No attendant, but it was only 2 and a half hours... If only national express was nicer, but due to past grievances, if I can avoid them I do.
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Looks really good. But I would prefer a train anytime. :wink:
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I believe they've had posh buses like that in Latin America for a long time, since the railways there declined. There tends to be quite a lot of crossover between Spain and Latin America, I wonder if Alsa is a Latin American company.
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Kevo00 wrote:I wonder if Alsa is a Latin American company.
Nope, there owned by the National Express Group.
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A321Pilot wrote:
Kevo00 wrote:I wonder if Alsa is a Latin American company.
Nope, there owned by the National Express Group.
Ah, the fatal 'Spanish acquisition'!
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Kevo00 wrote:
A321Pilot wrote:
Kevo00 wrote:I wonder if Alsa is a Latin American company.
Nope, there owned by the National Express Group.
Ah, the fatal 'Spanish acquisition'!
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