Easy Bus

We booked a ride on the 23:00 bus from Luton to Liverpool st. There were at least 12 people waiting for the bus at the designated station. The 23:00 bus did not arrived, nor the 23:30 or the 00:00. We had to share an Über with other angry passengers. They don’t have anyone at the desk in the terminal, there is a phone number on the ticket but no one picks up and don’t even bother to check their website for emergency contact or any number for enquiry because all there is is a form to fill in.
Appalling service, one of the worst I’ve seen.

It was relatively convenient and cheaper than a taxi or bus/​train combo. As mentioned by Rach K. you can get the tickets for £2 each way if you book early. It is also nice that you can theoretically take the next bus (within an hour of your booked time) if you miss yours or take an earlier one if you show up with too much time to spare. I took the route from Luton to Liverpool Street. For the drive back, the pick-​up point is right next to Spitalfields Market so it’s a great place to get last-​minute souvenirs, eat some food, and empty your bladder before leaving. The only reason I didn’t give it the last star is because 1) our driver back to the airport seemed a little confused and arrived almost 10 minutes late. Turns out he thought he was the 2:40pm instead of 2:30pm. No biggie but we were getting a little worried. 2) You must PRINT A PAPER TICKET YOURSELF. You cannot use a reference number or display it on your phone. They actually old school it and tear off the bottom half of the ticket.

Never again.
First time was at midnight coming back from Luton — the easyJet flight I was on was delayed. Because it had been delayed more than an hour, the woman at the counter would not accept my bus ticket, insisting that easyBus couldn’t be responsible because of course easyBus and easyJet were not the same company… right.
Tried to take easyBus from Earl’s Court to Gatwick another time in the afternoon. Buses were delayed by over an hour — there was a huge backlog of passengers waiting for a shuttle to the airport. Trip took us 1.5 hours on little country roads, and, guess what, we missed our easyJet flight.

Yay!
I love easybus. If you book early, you can get your tickets for really cheap (£2) and it’s the best way to and from get from the smaller airports (because of course you can take the tube when you fly into Heathrow). The trip takes about an hour (depending on traffic) and there are a few stops in the city to catch the bus/​be dropped off. It’s so much more economical than taking a taxi.

Easy bus was incredibly. easy! We bought tickets online to ride from Victoria to Luton and the hardest thing about the adventure was just finding where we would be picked up from the station. (And thank goodness our tickets were equipped with maps!) God forbid you arrive a little early, as we did, they’ll still take your ticket and you can avoid waiting in the cold.

Easy Bus was, well, easy! And affordable, for that matter. And right on time. And clean. And have I mentioned easy? ‘Cause it was really easy.
Serving Gatwick, Stansted and Luton, (effectively my worst airport nightmares as far as location goes), I was less than optimistic about EasyBus and my wee-​hour journey to a faraway airport. However we were picked up exactly on time before the tube started running on Thursday morning from a clearly marked stop near Baker Street, and then dropped off right outside of our ticketing counter at Stansted Airport in the exact amount of time estimated online. Only good things to report there.
Coming home this evening was just as easy and efficient. I must first mention that am as sick as a dog. (Apparently galavanting through Portugal in the cold and miserable rain is not what the doctor ordered for a «relaxing» 4-​day weekend. Whoops.) Lucky us, our flight was over 40 minutes early and we breezed through Gatwick Airport, but unlucky me, our bus tickets weren’t valid for another two hours. Turns out the fine folks at EasyBus implement an hour grace period on each side of your reservation time, and even if you’re waaaaay early or late, they’ll squeeze you on the bus if there’s an extra seat. My sniffling, coughing, pale face lit up with joy when I actually found some smart customer service in action here in London. Go on, EB!
Sure it’s double the time, but at a fraction of the price this is definitely a smart (and dare I say, easy) way to get to and from London’s most obnoxious airports.