Originally Posted by meester69

The package coach is the cause of at least half of all package holiday unpleasantness.

What's wrong with it? First thing is you get off the flight at about 9pm, tear through immigration, get your bags, and then? You wait for all the other passengers to -very slowly- do the same. This takes over an hour from landin.

Then the bus, being gigantic, is limited to about 50mph, and actually goes much slower. Eventually you make it to your resort, but wait - it's not yours! It's the first of thirteen stops and yours, an hour later, is dead last.

By the time you make it to your hotel it's midnight, and that delicious dinner buffet included with your package is long since over. Oops. You make it to bed at 1am in a foul mood.

A week or two later, it's time to go home, and your tour rep informs you that your pickup time is 11am. What???? The return flight is not until 4pm, why are you being deprived of your delicious lunch and pool time? That's because you are first pickup, it will therefore take 2 hours to get to the airport, where you will arrive 3 hours early for the convenience of the tour operator - not your own. The airport is of course a charter hellhole, crowded with fractious children, limited, overpriced food, and the queue to check-in takes an hour and a half.