"Hellish" Route 666 Returns: FlixBus Launches Service in Poland
Three years after the closure of the famous bus route No. 666 to the Hel Spit, this number will reappear on the roads of Poland. The legendary service is being revived by the international carrier FlixBus, writes Euronews.
Photo: FlixBus
The new summer route will connect Krakow with the city of Hel, and the journey itself will pass through Warsaw and popular Baltic Sea resorts. The news of the return of the number 666 caused a stir in the media and among tourists.
The history of this route spans many years. For a long time, the local route between Dębki and Hel was serviced by the company PKS Gdynia. The number became world-famous due to a wordplay: the name of the Polish city Hel is consonant with the English word "hell", and the number 666 in religious tradition is considered the "number of the beast".
Tourists from all over the world hunted for photos with the "bus to hell" and shared them on social networks.
However, in 2023, after numerous protests and petitions from Catholic communities, the carrier changed the number to a neutral 669.
Now FlixBus has decided to bring back the popular brand. The company's management does not hide that the number was chosen deliberately for marketing reasons, as this sign immediately clarifies the final destination of the journey. In addition to the advertising component, the route will meet the high demand of passengers for simple summer routes to the Baltic Sea from major Polish cities.
The bus will run daily throughout the summer season. The journey from Krakow to Hel will take about thirteen hours, and the schedule is designed to avoid traffic jams on the approach to the peninsula as much as possible.
The name of the city of Hel itself has nothing to do with mysticism. Philologists and historians lean towards the version that the word comes from Old Germanic languages, where it meant "dune" or coastal hill. On old Danish maps, this 35-kilometer sandy cape was marked as Heel ("heel") due to its characteristic geographical shape.
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