09-26-2019, 01:36 PM
Yes, I've made a few trips on Megabus. And BoltBus, which Greyhound started to compete with them.
The $1 seats (IIRC there's a booking fee as well) are the first few sold when booking opens, probably 90 days or more before departure. They're merely a marketing gimmick. But even day-of fares are typically quite low.
As with the low-cost airlines, though, at those prices there's no redundancy built into the system. No station, no one to ask when the bus will arrive. In the smartphone era that's more tolerable, but (in the flipphone era) I once spent three hours sitting on the curb under a Milwaukee freeway overpass hoping the bus would eventually show up. It did. "We were late leaving Minneapolis" was all the driver said.
The $1 seats (IIRC there's a booking fee as well) are the first few sold when booking opens, probably 90 days or more before departure. They're merely a marketing gimmick. But even day-of fares are typically quite low.
As with the low-cost airlines, though, at those prices there's no redundancy built into the system. No station, no one to ask when the bus will arrive. In the smartphone era that's more tolerable, but (in the flipphone era) I once spent three hours sitting on the curb under a Milwaukee freeway overpass hoping the bus would eventually show up. It did. "We were late leaving Minneapolis" was all the driver said.