Megabus and St. Louis Boos

So last weekend James and I headed down to St. Louis to visit Mikael. We took the Megabus. This is a new company in Chicago (although it has been around for awhile in England) that advertises 1 dollar bus rides to various places in the MidWest with Chicago being the hub. People keep asking me is it really a dollar? and how do they make money if its only a dollar? Well it wasn't only a dollar, from what I can tell when I mess around with their website you really only get a dollar price if you book like at least 30 days in advance. After that the price starts to go up depending on closeness of travel date and how many seats have already been taken. For example James and I went to St. Louis, we booked about 3 weeks in advance, and for our trip their we paid 9 dollars for the both of us. The bus was pretty empty maybe only 15 people or so, but on our way home on Easter sunday the buss was much more packed, and it coast 25 dollars for both of us to come home. So still thats like 34 dollars for both of us to get there in back, thats a hard price to beat. Not to mention it was cheaper (and better times than Amtrak) cheaper than flying or renting a car for the weekend. For us it was pretty convient.

Well we arrived at St. Louis Friday afternoon, and Mikael picked us up at Union station. Then we picked up some beer, and some meat and went to his place and grilled out. His friend Shana came over and joined us for an evening of good BBQ, beer and converstaion. On saturday we bumed around and played video games during the day then early evening we met some people for dinner and headed to the Savvis center for the St. Louis Blues game. James bought a new blues hat, and I got peanuts and preztle. They didn't have any churros, that was dissapointing. The blues did surprisingly well against the much better Detroit Red Wings, and they were tied going into the 3rd peirod, but low and behold in the last 2 minutes of play the blues buckled yet again under pressure and the Wings scored for the win. Game over. It was at least an exciting game. Sunday we slept in, and then had lunch at a local falafel place and headed back to union station to catch out bus home.

Overall the bus isn't bad, I wouldn't sit in the back, cause the toilets are kinda stinky, and dont' count on luxery for a few dollars, but a bus is a bus, and it was well worth the cost of the ticket.