The Oxford Guide - Differences between Version 9 and Version 8 of Oxford Tube
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If you plan to catch an evening coach back to Oxford at a busy time (there often seem to be busy spells around 7pm from commuters and around 10-11pm from the post-show crowd) it can be worthwhile catching the coach from the Grosvenor Gardens stop as opposed to Notting Hill Gate or later as this much improves your chances of getting a seat (it's a seats-only service, no standing) over Notting Hill Gate or Shepherds Bush. Well-regarded seats include he two front pairs upstairs (excellent views and good legroom), and the pairs just in front of the stairs upstairs and just in front of the big side door downstairs (no problems reclining as nobody can object behind you, though the downstairs ones can get bad transmission noise on some coaches). The seats in front of the toilet can be both noisy from transmission noise and sometimes smelly from the toilet, and seats towards the back upstairs can suffer from moderate engine noise. Families tend to use the front seats upstairs so those who prefer to keep a distance from loud children may prefer the centre of the coach. Note that whilst the two front seats downstairs have good views of the road and can lead to interesting chats with the driver, they have limited legroom, no power point, poor side visibility, and not terribly effective ventilation from side air vents. |
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This wonderful coach service takes you to London cheaply, quickly, and (for a coach) comfortably. And it runs ridiculously frequently; every 12 minutes during the day, and right through the night at reduced frequencies. For those trying to catch the bus in London, the Victoria stop is really at Grosvenor gardens - this has caused a little confusion.
This service is Stagecoach Oxford's rival to the Oxford Bus Company's Oxford Express; the two services are fairly similar but tickets are not usually transferrable between the two.
Perhaps the main advantage of the Oxford Tube over the Oxford Express is that it offers wireless internet access. Kami, who is a regular traveller on the service, says that it does have a patch around Lewknor where the signal drops for around 20 minutes; also, on about 20% of his journeys the signal strength is very low and on about 10% of journeys the router messes up either all the way or when it comes back from the Lewknor outage.
There is also power available for your laptop, but again Kami says that it's been unavailable on about 10% of his journeys. Normally though, if the power is off, the driver can turn it back on again if you ask.
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