{"id":273047,"date":"2025-07-18T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273047\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T21:30:24","slug":"flower-show-attendees-complain-of-coach-rage-and-travel-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273047\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower show attendees complain of &#8216;coach rage&#8217; and travel chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Susanne Clegg said she had left her house in Sheffield at 09:30 BST, but was still waiting at the coach stop at midday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described how two different queues had formed at her stop, and &#8220;it all kicked off&#8221; between them when only one bus arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen coach rage before today,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edana Guest, from Penistone, said the RHS had advertised coaches as arriving every 15 to 20 minutes, but it was &#8220;definitely not happening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The last one was half an hour ago, it&#8217;s only one bus, and they&#8217;re full when they get here.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She raised concerns about those with mobility issues being made to stand at the station, and felt the event had not been worth her money &#8211; with all-day tickets costing \u00a335.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I doubt the RHS will care, I can&#8217;t imagine we&#8217;ll get any kind of refund or anything at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It makes me feel disappointed and angry, but I&#8217;ve not come here to be angry, I&#8217;ve come to have a nice day looking at gardens &#8211; so it&#8217;s a pity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When she arrived at the show after three and a half hours of travelling, she said there were exhibitions she missed because she did not have time to see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susanne Clegg said she had left her house in Sheffield at 09:30 BST, but was still waiting at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-273047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114876372011473193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}