A new coach service that will take you from London to Scotland while you sleep is set to launch this summer.
Budget buses will link the capital with eleven major Scottish cities for as little as £15 per ticket, ferrying passengers to Glasgow or Edinburgh in less than eight hours.
Ticketholders can unfold their seats into bunk beds and as well as being provided with a toothbrush, coach company Megabus offers up a complimentary onesie to snuggle up in during the journey.
Today Megabus owners Stagecoach showed off its new £5m fleet of ten specially-designed vehicles set to provide more than 1,700 beds between Scotland and London every single week.
The double-deck coaches boast 53 ‘luxury leather seats’ seats that convert into 42 beds.
Megabus offers complimentary refreshments during the ride as well as a sleeper kit which includes an eye mask, a toothbrush and toothpaste.
In addition, passengers will also be given a choice of a blanket or a onesie to sleep in during their journey.
Prices on the new services will range from £15 to £60, with customers able to make the trip from London to both Edinburgh and Glasgow in seven hours and 50 minutes.
Cheap sleep: The coach's leather seats can be converted into bunk beds offering travellers some comfort during their overnight journey
Happy nap: Stagecoach Group Chief Executive Sir Brian Souter demonstrates the comfort of the bunk beds as he announced the launch of the new service today
Blink and you'll miss it: As well as (almost) getting the recommended eight hours of sleep, a journey between London and Edinburgh includes a toothbrush and a chance to make friends with the people on the bottom bunk
Stagecoach Group Chief Executive Sir Brian Souter, who proudly showed off the new Megabus onesie said: ‘It used to be just popstars that had beds on board their tour buses, now everyone can benefit from a comfortable, great value overnight journey.
Travelling in style: Stagecoach Group Chief Executive Sir Brian Souter shows off the Megabus onesie in the new MegabusGold coach
‘You can go to sleep in one city and wake up in another ready to start the day without having to pay extra for an expensive hotel room.’
Although Stagecoach hopes to have passengers scrambling to get their hands on the tickets, overnight coach services are nothing new in the UK.
Albatross Sleeping Car Co. regularly took 12 passengers at a time between London and Liverpool in 1928, and Land Liners Ltd operated a double-decker night service between London and Manchester in the late 1920s.
Specially designed and manufactured by Van Hool in Belgium, the new Megabus sleepercoaches will operate under a new MegabusGold.com brand.
The first of the new coaches will replace existing vehicles on the current overnight route between Glasgow and London.
Sleepercoach services will link London with Aberdeen, Aviemore, Cumbernauld Dundee, Dunfermline Edinburgh, Falkirk, Ferrytoll park and ride in Fife, Glasgow Inverness and Perth.
All routes on the sleepercoach network are expected to be launched during the summer and will be operated through the Scottish Citylink joint venture between Stagecoach and international transport group ComfortDelGro
Time to sleep: The new MegabusGold coaches will launch this summer
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