How to survive coach transfer in hot country?

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I've developed travel sickness as an adult and coaches are the worst. I didn't really think about the transfer when booking. DH suggested a private transfer but tbh it's funny money and I'd rather spend it on the actual holiday.

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Get some Queezibics - they are biscuits for seasickness with a massive amount of ginger in them. They were selling them on a particularly horrible boat trip I went on a couple of years ago. They work.

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Just get Stugeron. Seriously.

Wristbands may also help.

They helped me in the car as a passenger when I was pregnant.

My father thought they were new age codswallop and as I was showing him, when we had just arrived at our destination, I moved one and promptly had to scramble out of the car to throw up!

He was convinced afterwards that they worked!

Ask the travel agent or hotel (if you have one) to reserve you a seat at the front of the coach and tell them why. It helps. Focus on the horizon ahead.

You can get air mister type fans, or just a small electric handheld fan would help,

Another Stugeron recommendation here! They're fantastic

Just pay for a taxi. It's worth it for your holiday. If you won't spend money on your own wellbeing what do you see as more important than you potentially being ill on a coach and then feeling rotten for the first day of your holiday?

Take some travel sick tablets I don’t understand why you wouldn’t try them. They work. I have awful travel sickness, can’t sit in the back of the car, can’t even look at a map or my phone for 5 seconds ( as a passenger obviously ) without feeling sick, but take a pill before travelling and it helps.

Looking straight ahead helps me too, I have a hand held fan, water, facial spray and a plastic bag, like a pp said just knowing it’s there helps.

Definitely get some travel sickness pills. DH gets sea sick but he took stugeron for a catamaran trip on our last holiday and they really helped. They did make him feel a bit dopey though, so try them at home first.

I understand that sometimes part of the cause of travel sickness is that your motion senses in your ears tell you you're moving and your eyes tell you you're sitting still. On boats, trains and long coach journeys I try to sleep, or at least keep my eyes shut - this seems to help.

You can buy Phenergan over the counter in pharmacies - it's stronger than Stugeron and is primarily an antihistamine but is also used a a travel sickness remedy and a mild sedative. You can take up to 2 at once, I usually take 1/2 of one tablet which makes me quite drowsy

Get to the coach as early as poss to try and get the front seat. If it’s occupied, ask whoever is sitting there if you could because you suffer severe travel sickness, always worth an ask and people are generally sympathetic. Agree with other advice re water, mints and a sick bag. You can get bracelets for travel sickness if you don’t want to take pills.

Seconding the stugeron recommendations - I can't think why you haven't tried them before if you get travelsick, they really help! I take them whenever I go on a potentially problematic journey just to be in the safe side, they can make you a bit sleepy but that's all to the good if they mean you doze off for a bit. Also you can get anti sickness chewing gum which is pretty effective, and I love those really strong ginger sweets you can buy in Holland & Barrett.

Stugeron are the bollocks. Travelling anywhere used to be hellish for me but with them I can even read maps and look at my phone when I'm in the car if I want to!

Is there an option to upgrade to an interim transfer with a max of four or five stops?

If not, I'd suck up the cost of the private transfer. What's billed as an hour and a half can easily turn into double. I swore I'd never do another coach transfer after that precise scenario happened to us a few years back and I don't know how I avoided hurling down the aisle. Although even that might not be foolproof if the transfer operator decides they're "not running" that service when you get to the airport. .

I'm so glad I've found this thread and learned about which pills to take.

If you go hot, try to somehow have a couple of ice packs & cold flannels if you can (I've no idea how after a flight) but also travel bands and as little liquid, but as much boring food, such as bread, as possible in your stomach. Liquid sloshes and isn't good. No looking anywhere but out of the front window.

“Will get tablets and hope they work.l

Why wouldn’t they?

It is a drug that prevents travel sickness, numerous fellow sufferers have told you how effective they are.

Have you not thought to use them before?

And if you are determined to be sceptical you will think yourself into feeling ill.

Is this an anxiety issue?

Seriously Kwells are great. My Dd's friend was horrendously and unexpectedly travel sick in my car. Her mum mentioned she can take Kwells and next day on even longer journey she was absolutely fine. I used them regularly in Florida on several of the known von-inducing simulator rides and didn't once feel remotely queasy.

Op with travel tablets I’d try them out before hand to check you’re not allergic to them first.