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To play devil's advocate:
The key is immersion. Last time I did hexcrawl, I took my group on a May weekend hiking. We were going through a hill-land in the total backwater of my country, and after striking camp and feeding, we played a hexcrawl that was set in a hill-land. Even if we wrapped it for the rest of the May and first week of June, the hike get them into the mood and proper immersion, so everyone was into it and we had our own in-jokes for it, too.
I did something similar few years prior (but just basic exploration, no hexes) when I organised with my then-group a sailing cruise in a lake system interconnected by a set of half-derelic canals. We were playing a river exploration scenario, so they weren't even questioning stuff lke "You get into water-weed, roll d3 to see how many hours it took you to get free from them", because we had this sort of shit to deal with on a regular basis, sometimes more than once per day.
But yeah, running hexcrawl straight, with just people sitting around the table means you are risking boring everyone to tears. Either get people into actual, immersive environment, or get fucked.

t. /out/ raider