Greyhound Lines
Reviews and Complaints

I totally can relate to all these complaints! I took greyhound from Charlotte, NC, not only were the people who work in that station RUDE! they also lost my bag, which had non replaceable photos off my children! I purchased my ticket on my debit card, I could not leave on my departure date due to child being sick, was told that ticket would be good for a year! June 5th whent to bus station, was traveling to florida to visit parents, greyhound cashier told me because i did not come and pick my ticket up, i would have to pay the $100.00 again and the $100 that came out off my debit card would be put back in, It has been over a month! and I'am still waiting for my refund.! Anyone who is thinking about using Greyhound, DONT! Go Amtrak instead if you don't like to fly, might take a little longer, but a much better experiance, and not that exspensive.

Greyhound charges $18 service charge to just order online. Or they call it a gift charge because the dad buys the kid a bus ticket. They state it right out, therefore they say they can do it. But my ignorant teenager ordered his ticket and then it's too late to do anything about the exploitive charges. Don't ever buy bus tickets online.

Houston tx should not be parked on mcdoonalds grounds or even on the corner

Greyhound snuck an $18 'Gift Fee' on to my purchase when i used my wife's credit card online for my bus tickets. I did not notice until i got my email confirmation, and then it was too late with their non-refundable policy. Try to save a buck and book ahead online, and i get stuck paying even more! SCAMMERS!

I hate Greyhound...They over booked so I had to sit in New Mexico for 18 HOURS! THey treated me like [censor] and I will never take greyhound again!

I was travelling across America and used my credit card for the first time in over a year to purchase a ticket from Lexington Kentucky to Austin Texas. A few days later it was charged $275 to Rent a Center in KY, there was no physical way I could have been there since I was in Texas! Since this there was 2 other fraudulent transactions before I stopped the card.

When I think of it the guy who served me was overly friendly with me, thought he was *** and hitting on me! He must have passed on my credit details there is no other explaination since it stayed in my wallet the whole time, only used my credit card to buy a ticket because Greyhound stations tend to be in the wrong end of town and would not like to carry cash! Anyway know anything more about this please contact me. Have emailed Greyhound and have had no response!

THE BUS DRIVER WAS A PIG WITH HIS CONSTANT EATING, ALL HE NEEDED TO DO WAS BRINGOUT THE PICKNICK BASSKET NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE WHELL, SAFETY, MANNERS TO THE CUSTOMERS AND RUDD GIVING PEOPLE A DEMEANER LOOK AT ALL TIMES, I THOUGHT GREYHOUND WAS A TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, BESIDES THIS HE HAD POOR HYGENE - THIS WAS COMENTED BT 35 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BUS, IT SMELLED LIKE VOMITE - THE SWINE FLUE INFILTERATED THE GREYHOUND HOW LOW HAS THE QUALITY OF SERVICE HAS COME

BUS NUMBER 6510 STARTED IN FRESNO CALIFORNIA BUT I HAD TO GET OFF BEFORE MY HELATH GOT WORSE I GOT OFF AT SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA, BUT YOU WOULD NEVER GUESS THE NAME OF THIS SORRY ### DRIVERS NAME... COINSADENCE ... DRIVERS NAME IS DENVER PIGGE ( PIGGIE IS RIGHT)

we have family arriveing on the bus, but get a call saying there broke down.they will be delayed for several hours.but the worst, when trying to find out information, on how long the delay will be, and when they will now arrive.we found that there are no answers.we have internet and phone.neither one were helpful.there are still no answers to our upsetting questions.we are very stressed and uptight over our family members out in the cold.please contact us. [protected].(sherri)

It's also very unprofessional for a business to not allow passengers to transport a pet along with them on board providing the passanger has taken all the necessary steps are taken to protect pet and passangers. Would Greyhound tell a parent she/he could not bring a crying infant on board? For a pet is also equal as that of a child they both create the same amount of time & space.

Last summer, I decided to go to Seattle for a weekend vacation. I originated from my hometown of Lewiston, Idaho (the bus depot was a truck stop called the Shell DynaMart). The place was OK and the bus (Northwestern Trailways) was fairly decent.
The Northwestern Trailways bus ended at Spokane (another fairly decent bus terminal), but the ticket clerk told me that the bus to Seattle scheduled for 1:45AM was overbooked or so I thought and I would have to be on the next bus at 9:00AM. Luckily, I manage to get on the 1:45AM bus thanks to the good Lord. A somewhat decent trip. But when I got to Seattle, the bus depot was filthy and when I went to the ladies room and saw one of the toilets had blood in it, it made me gag. And so, I decided to originate from Everett instead. I'll be going to Seattle again in mid-May and this time, I'll be taking the plane instead.

I am an RN who wanted to find a way to see my new grandbaby in Tacoma Washington, from Chicago, Ill. I checked out the greyhound website and saw that they were working on upgrades, their fares were good, so I thought why not!

By the time I was in Milwaukee I was in tears. The seat cushion was ripped and very uncomfortable, the bus driver had already used the F word on two little old ladies, the bathroom on the bus stunk, I would not attempt to use it.

Needless to say it only got worse from there, St. Regis Montanna they made us all get off the bus and left us at a cafe/casino combo that closed at 11:00pm The bus said they would be back by 10:50 it was more like 11:20 so all were left outside the establishment, other people had small children. Not to mention the patrons that were coming out with a little too much to drink.

Again in Spokane we all had to get off the bus just to reboard this was 1:20 am - around 2am. Needless to say sleep was out of the question, again what about the mothers with small children. These were not transfers.

But the last leg of the trip was beyond inhumane. The cooling system would decide to dump the condensation down on various passengers, including me, it would soak our seats, pillows and blankets. When the passengers complained to a greyhound attendant she informed us that she "was not in maintenance". The bus was full so finding another seat was out of question. The last five to six hours on the bus the bathroom smelled so bad that it literally made me nauseous every time someone opened the door. The attendant that wasn't in maintenance apparently didn't do housekeeping either as she never attempted to clean the bathroom.

Being a nurse the infection control issues have me quite concerned especially with the H1N1 pandemic at hand. I intend to investigate this further.

Heidi

My friend and I decided to go to Kansas City MO to see the KC Royals baseball game. When we got to the primary bus station in Salina KS, the bus driver told us we could get on the bus even though the bus was full. We sat down in seats together and when the reboarders got back on the bus we found that we had taken a guy's seat. He was very polite about it, but the bus driver came back and demanded my friend get out of this guy's seat. My friend did not get out of the seat and the bus driver asked the guy to go sit elsewhere, but the guy ended up standing in the aisle for fifty miles along with four or five other people. When we got ready to come home from Kansas City, although we had been waiting for the bus home for over three hours we could not get on the bus because of overbooking. It was around two o'clock in the afternoon and the woman at the service desk said we would have to wait until 12:30 am the next day to get on a bus. Nobody seemed to care.We were stranded there until I remembered a shuttle service, the Roadrunners. We had to spend extra money to get to the airport and get picked up and then it cost us dearly to get home, much more than we would have paid if we rode the bus. I will never ride the Greyhound bus company again unless someone in the family has died and it is a dire emergency. I am glad to get this off my chest even though we cannot do anything about it.

Just this weekend I experienced the same issues as you all. Tacoma to Vancouver, BC - the 11:25a was an hour late getting in due to the driver taking too long at the stops from Portland, OR. We arrive in Seattle at 1:10p with both 12:45 busses having just pulled out - how easy it would have been to call ahead and let them know we would be right there. No one was available to let us know what to do or what the schedule was except to tell us to get in line so we can get onto the bus. Busses came and went but not to Vancouver, BC - they arrived broken or not able to accomodate a wheelchair. Finally we left Seattle around 6:00pm. During the time we were there were 2 announcements both of which I had to relay to the line because no one could hear, both being about more delays but nothing definative. There were no managers to be found anywhere. We were in line for 5 hours with no seats, no offer of food or vouchers, no one to let us know what was going on. I have put in a formal complaint and I have encouraged others on my bus to do the same. I am very disappointment overall in Greyhound but specifically the dirty & understaffed Seattle location.

Hi We had similar experienc. They over book and don't stop. some time the staff are very rude. they don't care any way

We booked ticket from Bellingham WA, to Vancouver BC . The scheduled time of departure at Bellingham WA as 5.25pm and we traveled from south to reach Bellingham at 4.10pm. We were told at at Bellingham that the bus, which originates from Seattle will not stop at Bellingham and we would have to take the next bus which was at 8.25p.m.
Because they over booked at Seattle!
We compalined to the customer service representative at the counter, but she simply shrugged her shoulder and said that it was a mistake made at Seattle and she should do nothing, closed the counter and went home!
The next bus at 8.25pm did pick us up, but the bus was delayed at the border crossing for nearly 2 hours and by the time it reached Vancouver BC it was around mid night. I complained to Gray Hound but never got any response!.
My advice don't travel by Gray Hound . They suck

I asked other bus company to serve Ottawa/Gatineau, but their answer was that this is impossible because Greyhound has the exclusive right to Ottawa area. So we all here in Ottawa are slaves of the monopolist Greyhound . No wonder that the fares are excessivelly high and the quality of its service more than poor.

Whatever happened to customer service I myself will never use Greyhound again.

I was traveling to Ottawa Ontario with my fiance Chris for a visit to his brother, my fiance purchased our tickets the day before us bus departure, the next day we went to board our bus and the driver advised us we were on the wrong bus and we were traveling to Toronto Ontario, we had to go into the bus station to make the correction and were advised it wasen't her mistake and in order for us to be able to go to Ottawa we would have to pay the difference for their mistake which was more then $80 on top of the $200 in something we spent to travel, I contacted greyhound and for weeks called them to see what would be done and I was promised a refund for our trip, well today in the mail I recieved a travel voucher for $80 and not the refund for the tickets as promised and then I was told by greyhound to mail the voucher back and they will determine what to do which will take another 6-8 which is stupid, is there anything more I can do or someone else I can speak to I have already made a complaint and spoke to people boarding greyhound that they are being ripped off and screwed over and will continue to do so till the issue is rectified.

Thank you.

After a 4 day horrible experience, lost luggage, stolen wallet, and a week of frustrating dealings with Greyhound, I'm putting out a Call to Action against Greyhound. Please read below for more information:

It's time Greyhound was held accountable, so I'm putting this action together to get everyone who has ever had trouble with Greyhound's bus system to call and complain about their operating procedures, lack of customer service, amount of lost baggage, and anything else you can think of that you, or anyone you may know, want to address with Greyhound Lines, Inc.

Action Dates: June 23 through 27, 2008
Action Time: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Central Standard Time (so adjust the times for your time zone.)

I believe if you can post this information in your Blog, on Message Boards, on Forums, or email it to your friends. If everyone then calls, sends letters, creates picket lines outside your local Greyhound station, faxes Greyhound and Laidlaw on June 23 through the 27th, perhaps they will understand just how unhappy everyone is with their bus service. Also, please consider finding and taking another bus service. If you know of a bus service, please list it so others can learn about them. I've listed one below, after all the other information.

Unpublished location of Greyhound's Corporate Offices:
Greyhound Lines, Inc.
Criag Lentzsch, CEO
15110 Dallas Pkwy
Dallas, TX [protected]
U.S.A.

Do NOT call the listed phone numbers for Greyhound [protected] is given but only reaches a voice system and it's almost impossible to reach a live person on the [protected] official Greyhound number.), instead reach a live person by calling any of these unpublished numbers:

Operator with Executive Office: [protected]
Bryan: [protected]
Ursala: [protected]
Safety Dept: [protected]
Claudette: [protected]
Jennell: [protected]

These are the numbers that I was able to reach people, however, you can try to reach other live people by dialing 214-849-82XX (put any number in for the XX)

The Parent Company (the company that owns Greyhound) for Greyhound is:
Laidlaw Inc.
55 Shulman Boulevard, Suite 400
Naperville, IL 60563
U.S.A.
Phone: [protected]
Fax: [protected]

Other Bus Services:
Trailways services some areas, so please see this website to see if they service the areas you are traveling: http://www.trailways.com/schedules.asp

Another great website to find bus services: http://www.apta.com/links/transit_by_mode/bus.cfm

Service in Memphis is horrible. The ticket employees are rude, rolling their eyes, sarcastic not helpful at all. One positive point. The ticket employees in Columbus, Oh were friendly nice and helpful.

im up set why the bus driver never tell you how much time we got for used the store o use the beth room im customer for long time, before they play movies and now they play what they want, so you tell me the, wy they use the cell whent driving, and play music what they want to lesiting this is my fith time to meke this report how many more, you tell me and this is an AMERICANOS BUS LINE, AN ONE MORE, I GOT SOME MANY COMPLAINS NO TV, TALKING AN THE CELL WHENT DRIVING, REST ROOMS REALLY BAD, NO COMUNICATIONS WHENT THEY STOP EN ANY STATION, HOW LONG HE SI GOING TO STAY AN THAT STATION SO WE CAN BUY SOME THING TO EAT O USE REST ROOM, IF I PAY FOR A SERVES YOU NEED TO GIVE THAT SEVES YOU OFERT ! HOW MANY MORE DOU YOU WANT ME TO REPOT, AN YOU NEED TO CHEK DOES OPERATORES AMERICANOS BUS LINE OPERATORES !EVEN I CALL CUSTOMER SERVES IT WAS CLOSED, WHAT SERVES IS THAT

the greyhound website under station locations does list hanford but when you click it for the address it does not even say the address or where the bus stops in hanford california. when u click hanford on the greyhound website for the address it only says

Bus Stop
Bus stops [identified with a (B) in Greyhound Ticket Center] provide limited schedule service for a large number of locations, which do not support a full-service terminal or agency. As a general rule, no ticketing, baggage, or package express service is offered at these locations. Some of these locations may be at a local airport or transit center, while others may simply be a stop along a highway route, without an enclosed waiting area.

Passengers should be aware that no Greyhound ticketing facilities are available at bus stop locations.

ALL stations and agents of Greyhound are listed on the website, PERIOD! If you are too inept to plan a trip then blame it on yourself, not a company that handles thousands of passengers on a daily basis, they cannot and will not babysit you or your responsibilities, in a pefect world YOU would handle your greatest concerns instead of dropping it in someone else's lap. As to the drivers, stop blaming them for tarnished customer service because they deal with the rudest ###s that exsist, once again, on an hourly basis, who can't be ADULT enough to act properly on a bus with 40+ other people, it's soo sad to see people tring to be a social center of attention on a ###ing bus! give me a break! Grow the ### up people and you will be treated like an adult!

My daughter was only 16 and was caught off guard by the driver failing to stop. She was dropped off at the next stop and The DRIVER should have become involved in communicating to us where she was. Yeah, something was not right.. the driver failed to drop her off at the right stop and then correct the situation by working with us. He could have called on her cell phone to us. In a perfect world, my daughter would have asked the right questions, but when you buy a ticket, and your father speaks directly to the driver before departing, you would think a company like GH whose sole function is to take people from point A to point B would be able to get it right. As a follow up, I asked Greyhound to refund her ticket, at least. They wrote a BS form letter of apology and nothing else. I was more insulted by their failure to look into the situation. Yeah, something is wrong- Greyhound

something is not right..

why didn't you ask the driver for the address?

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Greetings!

I started my trip from Ft Eustis bus station @ 0430 Sunday morning and was due to arrived at my destinaion at around 1200 Midnight Sunday ( now I told that my trip would be delayed in Nashvill TN and would arrive at my destination 10:00am on Monday) This in my view is unacceptable I payes for a service and I feel that proper notification should have been afforded me. Now this aspect of my travel will cause undue hardship on my body and personal finances. Please reply.

Thanks!
Ph# [protected] or [protected]

This was a trip from Missoula, MT to Sweetwater, TX about a month ago. I got to the station 3 hours early so I could check my suitcase and walk around for a while since, as anyone knows, most of Greyhound's depots are too small with too little seating. Before getting on the bus I noticed my suitcase wasn't on the cart that the driver was using; I brought this up and talked to the counterperson, and she looked and it wasn't anywhere. Turns out it had got put on the *wrong* bus going west to Spokane rather than east going to the first transfer in Billings; apparently, someone who wasn't even supposed to be touching the bags put it on the wrong cart -- the unhelpful lady said "Oh, he was just trying to help." So she tells me she'll alert Spokane and will priority ship it going east and that it would reach Sweetwater either before me or when I got there (though I found both of those scenarios implausible). Oh, but before we could get there we were treated extremely rudely by the employees at the Billings depot -- they act like you're inconveniencing them by asking questions (these are usually the kinds of people who have cruddy social lives and are unpleasant at home); and then at the Denver depot, with disgusting bathrooms with thick feces caked in the commodes, we were 2 hours late leaving because some dippy dispatcher didn't bother to relay a driver's morning call that he was sick, and insteado f leveling with us and keeping us up on the situation, just kept lying and said the bus would be there "any minute" with a smug smile that indicated he just loved seeing us angry. Then at a 1-hour layover in Amarillo, half of the depot was tarped off due to "remodeling" and the frigging bathrooms were locked even though the depot was open and there was a ticket person behind the counter. And the departing bus was unnecessarily crowded because a lot of people missed their connections because of the 2-hour delay in Denver, so they had to get on this bus which made it even more crowded. Then upon getting to Sweetwater 2.5 hours late with the depot closed (it's a small town), I laid down outside until they opened up at 8a, and wouldn't you know -- no suitcase! It's June 25th now, and I haven't seen my suitcase since May 31st, and even though the helpful employee at the Sweetwater depot helped me file a claim, I've been checking back with the lost-baggage department by phone, and they're of absolutely no help! For one thing, the call center is outsourced to India or somewhere and you can't understand half what they're saying; and then they talk like a machine and don't *listen* to you. I told the people I used to do a call-center job and I know they have a comment section to write relevant details, and I keep telling them this must have something to do with the incompetent lady at the Missoula depot screwing up my suitcase *before* I'd even gotten on the bus. But all they do is keep saying I'll have to wait 30 days while they have a "trace" on the bag and are looking for it. There is only one Sweetwater depot in the entire United States; I looked. So how can my suitcase which clearly had a destination tag of Sweetwater *still* not make it there. And, of course, the maximum dollar amount they'll reimburse you for a lost bag is a lousy $250 even though I had at least $650 worth of stuff in the bag, including an extra pair of eyeglasses and a portable DVD player. And since I was moving (this was not a vacation where I just took some of my belongings), almost *all* of my belongings were in that suitcase. I've had to shell out money for clothes and socks and underwear and toilet items just to get by on an everyday basis, and Greyhound *just does not care*! I'm going to start calling their baggage phone number 3 times a day everyday until I get some results:.

Most of the drivers are rude and surly and act like they're so much better than their passengers, . If they're such hot shots, though, what are they doing driving a frigging *bus* for a living!? The seats are majorly uncomfortable, the legroom is dismal especially when someone in front of you reclines their seat back?. And you also get some real rude and noisy passengers, who, like the drivers, act like they're so cool; they usually sit in the back but you can hear them all the way in the front and they disturb everybody, and a lot of the time the drivers won't do anything about it'. Also grating is people throwing all their crap on the seat next to them when the bus is filling up so no one will sit by them|. At the reststops you get ### passengers trying to bum cigs and money from you, who I have no problem telling them to go to and leave me alone..

Greyhound cares absolutely nothing about their customers!. They know most of them are low-income and view them as vermin. They certainly want your money but they don't want to lift an extra finger to make sure you get your money's worth by offering basic reliable service with courtesy. What's really ironic is that Dallas is headquarters for Greyhound and yet Dallas is one of the worst, unsafest depots there is located in a bad part of downtown where the homelesss and panhandlers frequent. And instead of the lone security guard keeping an eye on the place to keep the customers safe, Greyhound has him taking people from their line out to the buses. I heard from someone that the night before the city cops came in and arrested 4 people and a stabbing happened right inside the depot, too! Again, Greyhound has no concern for the safety and convenience of their customers. An airline or Amtrak would get absolutely hammered if they treated their travelers like this; so why does Greyhound get away with it? If rich people rode Greyhound, you can bet there'd be congressional hearings and investigations by the BBB and CPA.

For all those like me who've very bad experiences with Greyhound, the best way to get back at them is to *never* do business with them again. I'm set to go to Salt Lake City next month, and I've already purchased an advance ticket with the airline and it cost about the same amount as a Greyhound ticket. Book ahead with Amtrak and you'll get a decent price, too. Heck, even posting a rideshare ad at Craig's List is a good alternative. Greyhound has been losing customers for a while and is continuing to do so. I talked to one decent Greyhound employee who said some company rep was going to all of the depots trying to see what they can do get more business, and he suggested the execs ride their own crummy buses from coast to coast and see if they'd ever take Greyhound if they were everyday citizens. So do the smart thing, people, and plan ahead and fly or take the train. It's just not worth giving this terrible company so much as a single dollar more of your hard-earned money, especially since Greyhound does very little earn it.

They're reprehensible, they know this, and they don't give a hoot just as long as they continue to get that money. I'd question how these company execs can have this on their consciences when the obvious answer is that they don't have consciences in the first place -- or scruples or principles or deceny or morality. Simple. As. That.

Thanks, and what a great saying!

And, yes, I want my suitcase; I don't want their measly $250 payoff, which I've heard they delay paying you as long as they can. See, though the detination was Sweetwater, I needed to get to the town of Roby 18 miles away but the bus doesn't go there; I was going to hitch-hike out there, and with a rolling suitcase and being properly dressed, I wouldn't come off as some raggy nomad who people would be cautious about picking up. So I had to stay in a motel in Sweetwater overnight for $40 just to see if the suitcase turned up the next morning after the morning it was supposed to be there. So that's another $40 on top of the money I've had to spend on clothes and stuff that were in the suitcase.

Oh, and then when I got a ride to Sweetwater 2 weeks later, I was supposed to leave out of there at 7:30p but the frigging bus arrived almost 2 hours late and was told I'd miss my connection and I'd have to be stuck in a depot for almost 12 hours. And with it being 100 degrees outside and the Sweetwater depot closed, I forked out *another* $40 for a motel so I'd have somewhere to sleep! Greyhound's got this insane idea that it's no big deal to spend 12 hours in some crowded, dirty, unsafe big-city depot for 12 hours! Again, if their execs had to do such a thing, they'd balk and scream bloody murder. If the airlines and Amtrak aren't allowed to do this people and not properly compensate the travlers for this, Greyhound shouldn't! There's a severe lack of oversight going on here because, again, lawmakers and congresspeople don't take Greyhound, so it's no big deal to them; and the low-income people who make up most of Greyhound's ridership don't have the ears of their congressman or - woman.