A stag party stuck in Amsterdam owing to airport delays embarked on a 230-mile journey.
Alex Sisan, 29, traveled to the Dutch capital with 13 of his buddies on Thursday and spent two days drinking and viewing the sights.
On Saturday, the boys were intended to go home to Gatwick Airport, and they even arrived at Schiphol Airport five hours before their flight was scheduled to depart.
However, their easyJet flight was cancelled at the last minute, requiring them to find alternate transportation to their home at Worthing, West Sussex.
According to The Mirror, they decided to take a train to Calais, France, and then take a ferry to Dorset.
On their trip, the boys realized that according to health and safety regulations, pedestrians are not permitted to board the ferry, but cyclists can.
Fortunately, the group was stopping in Brussels, Belgium, and Lille, France, so they scrambled to find bicycles to buy in the limited time they had in each city.
They haggled with secondhand businesses and looked for a decent price on Facebook Marketplace.
By the time they concluded their stopover in Lille, except one of them had found a bike, but the pals faced still another difficulty, in keeping with the theme of the trip.
They found out that travellers on the train to Calais could only bring fold-up bikes with them.
As a result, the companions had to scramble to hire taxis to bring them to their ship, which cost €350 (£299) each.
The boys somehow arrived with one hour to spare and made their boat.
The 14th boy, who had been unable to obtain a bicycle, persuaded a generous couple to allow him to travel across the Channel in their car.
By Sunday morning, the entire group had returned to the UK, however tired.
Alex said that ‘Looking back, the experience was so stressful and like something from a movie or a Top Gear challenge’.
‘But it was so much fun and a brilliant story that I will be telling at the wedding, and hopefully to my kids –and then their kids!’
EasyJet reactng to the stuaton apologized and promised that they would be reimbursed for “any reasonable expenses.”
It comes as airports and airlines throughout the UK have been wracked by chaos in recent weeks as personnel numbers have failed to keep up with the increased travelers.
According to aviation data provider Cirium statistics (via BBC), 305 of the 10,662 flights booked for the Jubilee weekend were canceled, affecting thousands of people.
Realistically, the chaos will last for a while before things begin to improve.
‘This is about as bad as it will get,’ Jet2 CEO Steve Heapy told Travel Weekly on May 31. ‘I think everything will start to improve from here.’