(16 Mar 2017, 4:52 pm)Jimmi wrote Owing to the way things have worked out with today's outing, I have had to use the X21 between Durham and Newcastle and back to Durham now. My problem with this is with the seating layout on the Castles Express StreetDeck's, I utterly detest the tables with the four seats together as on almost every journey there will be either one or two people at a table of four and sure enough when it's busy but not too busy, do people ask them to move? No! They just sit next to yours truely who is sat where there is only two seats together and for some reason the legroom where some of these seats are is not very good especially where the floor goes up on the inside seat and of course without fail the person who sits next to me each time is someone who wants both seats (people of all shapes and sizes BTW), so I begin to feel a bit claustrophobic.
Seriously, this makes me hate using the X21, unless a different branded bus appears, always hope and pray for a OmniDekka or President to turn up but sadly I never have any luck.
I know some of you will disagree with everything that I have said here but this is how I feel when I use the X21 with these StreetDeck's and is partly why I often opt for the X12 instead despite the longer journey time. Does anyone get where I'm coming from?
I hate the window seat on top decks. Having to twist to put my feet on the floor leaves me in a lot of pain.
That said, I sat on one of the wheel arch seats on an E400 on the X34, on Saturday, and there was a ruddy great big bolt right under my right foot. My feet have been bad enough, lately, without that sort of nonsense.
I had the dual discomfort of a window seat on the Pronto and this, once. Plus the guy was definitely rocking the Lynx effect (ie badly disguised inadequate bathing with enough body spray to choke a giraffe). I developed a need to use my phone with my elbows sticking out to the side.
