Inter City bus trip from Picton to Nelson ...

terrible. The seats were too small and hard. I am 5'10" tall and there was NO legroom between my knees and the rear of the seat in front of me. Eventually I had such bad cramp that I was forced to stand up and walk down to the rear seats. Despite wearing a seat belt hubby and I were tossed around like corks on a rough sea. Literally thrown from side to side, backwards and forwards. Conversation was out of the question. He huddled up in the one corner of the rear seats, I huddled up in the other corner of the rear seats ... both clinging on to anything we could to try and stop the constant tossing around of our respective bodies. I was honestly sore when I got off that vehicle but do not blame the driver at all who was careful throughout the journey. Rather, it is the vehicle itself that is not appropriate for the route it takes, round and round, up and down through the mountain roads seemingly with little or no suspension to protect passengers from the twists, turns, bumps, etc. I also noticed with concern that at three places on the right side windows there are devices that can be used to break open those windows from inside the bus but none of the same devices on the left side. In some places you are extremely high up with the valleys very far down on your left, with the bus wheels having an extremely worrying amount of space to manouevre on the left verge which is virtually non-existent. God forbid that a bus should ever go over the edge ...

Definitely would never use this service again.

Reviewed over 6 years ago