How to prevent carsickness on winding mountain bus routes
Winding mountain roads with elevation changes trigger severe motion sickness and nausea during bus rides. This makes long-distance travel on routes like Podgorica to Žabljak miserable and difficult to endure.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1taking Dramamine
- 2renting a car instead of relying on public transport
- 3staying on the coast rather than visiting winding mountain routes
- 4Staying outside near the front of the boat
- 5Choosing boat operators with smaller capacity or calmer departure locations
- 6Taking Bonine instead of Dramamine to avoid severe drowsiness
- 7Bringing warm layers to combat cold ocean weather
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“how bad would it be for someone who gets carsick on bus rides, particularly on winding roads with lots of elevation changes?”source ↗
“Whale watching will likely be COLD. C-O-L-D. I got the beginnings of hypothermia because I underestimated it.”source ↗
“The Podgorica-Žabljak route is indeed known for being winding, so motion sickness is a real issue.”source ↗
“I'm very sensitive to motion sickness and haven't had an issue on their boat as long as I stay outside (they have an interior seating cabin for those who want it) and near the front.”source ↗
Where this came up
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