The Lux Express

At first glimpse, this may seem like a fancy airplane--with in-seat tv screens, leg room and a fold down tray with cup holder. With a closer look, you'd notice the clean toilet, free earphones and complimentary tea, coffee and latte machine. Or the first class divider curtain separating the plebs from the well-to-do types. And if you've ever taken a trans-european budget flight, you're probably wondering where this has been all your life.  

Wait no longer.  The Lux Express (does what it says on the tin) has come to your rescue.  Because if you look closely, you'll notice that the window is far too big to be a plane's, the overhead lockers do not close and the 'airport' outside is actually a bus station.  At at 23 lat (roughly £26) for a 4-hour Riga to Vilnius, Lithuania journey, it's pretty impossible to go wrong.   

Map function, wireless and on-the-seat internet, movie function with 8 options in English, Latvian and Russian. 

                                      

It may be one of the five best travel decisions i've ever made, and I didn't even make it! Bless the ticket agent at the International Bus Counter in Riga's central station.  Four hours, 2.5 films, three lattes and a nap later, Judith and I arrived into Vilnius well-rested and raring to go.  And what a good time we had.  

Though we did worry about our journey back.  Lux Express was sold out.  We'd have to endure four hours on the 'Simple Express'...