The worst experience we had was getting from CBR to DTD (as it was in 2014). We were at the bus stop with well over an hour to spare, but while bus after bus came along, there wasn't a single one for DTD. Drivers kept saying they'd put in a call for us. Finally, after over 40 minutes of waiting a bus finally came - but it was half full (clearly diverted as we were located at CBR's first bus stop on the loop). We then got stuck in horrendous traffic. I got more and more depressed as we sat at a standstill watching the hands on my watch ticking round.
We should have got off at the first stop (Market Place) and walked over because on hindsight the 5 minute walk would have been preferable to the further 20 minutes stuck on the bus!!!!
We were a good 40 minutes late for our reservation at Raglan Road, but luckily they kept our reservation (and we weren't charged) even though we still had to wait nearly half an hour for a table. Because of the stress and the lateness and DD having had a major meltdown on the bus before I was able to get her off it, I could have happily just got back on the first bus and returned to CBR! I didn't like our table or the food or the noise or the atmosphere (or DD's continuous grizzling) and it was by far the worst evening I've ever had - and that's saying something!!
And yes, I could have driven over instead of waiting for the bus, but this was during the biggest upheaval of digging up all the car parks at DTD and we would have been stuck in traffic whatever form of transport we'd used.