Like in a bad dream

Baltic Express from Labyrinth? NEVER!!!! For "whatever you call a yacht, so it will float," Tourist (at least look in the dictionary, figures!) Labyrinth company, fully justifying its name, arranged an unforgettable New Year's trip through the capitals of the Baltic states. So, a few intimate details:

- instead of the promised branded train, a six-car rattletrap, collected from the bottom of the barrels of all non-ferrous metal reception points, departed from the Leningradsky railway station.

-instead of the SV declared in the ticket, we were given something like a double compartment. The kit includes: washed linen with spools, a talkative conductor with Don Juan manners and stories about how he heroically fought the frozen contents of the dry closet, the sounds of the movie being watched from the compartment of the conductors. Therefore, probably, the toilet in our SV carriage was from the time of the New Economic Policy and the first five-year plans (what kind of bio-conveniences are there).

And he worked when the conductors wanted it.

- most of the trip was not spent in cities, but moving on this rattletrap from city to city and looking for where to stick after the check-out. (For example, our trip departed from Riga at 10 p.m., and the check-out was at 12.00. And what should a poor tourist do "in the fields under snow and rain"?)

- In Riga, the miraculous employees of the company could not decide what to do with the luggage of those who a) go on a sightseeing tour of the city, b) go on an excursion to Jurmala. How this issue was resolved, only the Labyrinth knows. And in Tallinn, these miracle workers mixed up the number of buses and their numbering.

- Our divine express arrived in Vilnius at 03.45. The wonderful virgins from the Labyrinth informed us that the train would stop until 9.00 in the sump near the Vilnius railway station. When asked how to perform hygiene procedures all this time, the maiden replied that the situation was being resolved.

And then wait until 14.00 check-in. Come on, people of the Labyrinth, answer me this difficult question. There was a minute to think.)

- This was the last straw in the bowl of our patience with a friend. We stayed in Riga for another 1.5 days, extended the hotel for this time, took plane tickets (thank you, Aeroflot!) and, not reaching Vilnius (I can’t say that we regretted it very much) returned to Moscow.

- Moral: who read to the end, saved money and nerves. Good luck to all!

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