"tedious trip" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a long, boring trip. For example, "The endless hours of driving made our cross-country trip a tedious one."
A really good hotel can make even the most tedious business trip worthwhile.
The parallels between Dana and her dad really never had much juice, nor did Dana's tedious road trip with her boyfriend.
WORLD TRAVELERS (Saturday) The voyagers are children 4 to 7, who are invited to go to distant lands — no tedious plane trips required — in a program of stories, games, music and puppetry hosted by Barbara Frankel, a music educator.
In my teens, my own Saul Steinberg view of the city began at the southern end with the World Trade Center (where I used to go on tedious class trips in grade school) and jumped north to St. Marks Place (where I shopped for used records), then to a friend's apartment in Stuyvesant Town, and finally, taking up the bulk of the frame, the swath that ran from Times Square up to 96th Street.
But three years ago, he began to find his trips tedious.
He even makes the case for scooters working well in London — arguing the sprawl of the city amps up the utility because there are so many tedious last mile trips that people have to make.
Remember how awful and tedious long car trips were when you were a kid?
There is a sequence in a camper van where Elliot drops acid, distilled here into color-dripping C.G.I. kaleidoscopy: as tedious as every other trip committed to film.
Even pragmatists who admit that most of their trips are tedious loops to and from work often hold tight to the idea that having that car means they could go anywhere, any time -- even if they rarely do.
