Bialystok to Bremen
22 hours with FlixBus from Białystok (Poland) to Bremen (Germany), and honestly this was one of the worst travel experiences I’ve had in Europe.
At first everything looked fine. The Wi-Fi worked, the bus looked normal, and I had even paid EXTRA money specifically for seat 3A by the window because I wanted a more comfortable ride for such a long trip.
A few hours later, some guy sat behind me in seat 4A. Late at night I tried to recline my seat to rest, and this guy immediately told me I “couldn’t do that” because he had long legs. Meanwhile, HE HIMSELF had his own seat reclined.
I went to the driver during one of the stops and explained the situation. The response? Basically: “Nothing we can do.”
Seriously?
I paid extra for my seat, but apparently I’m still not allowed to actually use it normally. The driver later checked and saw the guy would leave in Gdańsk after several more stops, so his solution was basically: “Just suffer through it and wait.”
That already ruined the trip, but it kept getting worse.
The Wi-Fi slowly became unusable. Later the driver admitted they basically have limited data for the entire bus, so after a few hours the Wi-Fi practically dies completely. So all those promises about onboard Wi-Fi are mostly a joke on long-distance trips.
Then the toilet had no water to wash hands.
Then the power outlets stopped working too. The driver said somebody plugged something in and “the whole system broke.” They eventually fixed it, but by then the overall impression was already a disaster.
The entire experience felt like nobody cared at all — not the drivers, not the company, nobody. You’re stuck for almost an entire day on a bus with broken services, dead Wi-Fi, electrical problems, no water, and zero help when passengers create problems.
For a company that operates all across Europe, this level of service is honestly embarrassing.
Never again.