Greyhound route to end

I have my own car,, so,,,,,,,

I used the Southsea to Victoria route for a few months (instead of the train) but got annoyed with missing the 8pm Hovercraft every time. It was always traffic depending but I could never understand why if we got to Portsmouth at 7:45, the driver would drop off passengers at the Port, then at Gunwharf and then Southsea. Surely it is more logical to drop off Southsea passengers first, then Gunwharf, then the Port and head to the final destination at Fareham. Also they never ran an earlier enough service, the earliest Hover to meet a coach was 8:15. If you work in London as I do, there should have been an earlier one. Also they reduced services in the summer and move the 6pm coach from London to 6:15. So you had no chance of getting the Hovercraft. I often got off at Gunwharf to catch the Fast Cat. not surprised it is stopping but they only have themselves to blame.

Unfortunately, my experience of using the service from Southampton was not good. We were made to wait at Victoria while the driver finished chatting and having a cigarette. Consequently we were late arriving back in Southampton and had to run to catch the Red Jet, only just making it as they were closing the doors. I also used the Southsea route, but ended up waiting for ages in Southsea on both legs of the journey. Nice coaches, though!

Greyhound didn't do themselves any favours with the combined Hovercraft / coach ticket from London.
I gave up after the evening services were often late, resulting in the Greyhound rolling up to Southsea a few minutes after the 8pm cross-Solent service had left, resulting in a wait of nearly an hour.
We had booked to meet those 8pm crossings, so the wait was not a good start to our Island visits.

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