LOOKING FOR A COACH TOUR FOR 4/5 DAYS IN ENGLAND - COMPANY NAMES NEEDED

[windsor26]

I have not been able to find on google etc anything except day tours and I want a 4/5 day tour with hotels and etc included   and recommendations please

[John Bull]

Mebbe you've been using the wrong search words?

Try something like "coach holidays in the UK".

 

The big national players in the UK include

https://www.shearings.com/coach-holidays/uk

https://www.leger.co.uk/uk

(Leger & Shearings are part of the same group)

https://www.johnsonscoaches.co.uk/holidays/

https://www.majestictours.co.uk/

Those big coach operators can take you on any of their tours from any of their hundreds of pick-up points - you are collected by a coach which might be heading out on a tour to anywhere in vaguely the right direction and taken to one of a number of large motorway service areas, where you are switched to "your" tour coach (which will have started from elsewhere). Those tours tend to be available any week in the season. The flexibility comes at a price -depending on the locations of your start point & your vacation hotel the first and last days will probably be taken up with travelling.

If you book from a London location it will be easier because of the number of coaches which start in London.

 

There are also local tour operators. They don't tend to use transfer coaches, tho they might use their own minibuses for outlying pick-up points up to about 20 miles away.

For Southampton, best-known are 

https://www.angelaholidays.co.uk/

https://www.lucketts.co.uk/holidays/summer-holidays/

I've driven UK tours for both of these operators, they provide good value and tour groups are very friendly, ending up as almost one big family. The majority of passengers are retired.

Because these regional operators are essentially providing holidays for a local market, the problem is likely to be tying together a tour which appeals and a date which suits. 

(If you are flying or porting elsewhere, respond with the location - and mebbe dates - and I can suggest local operators)

 

The vast majority of coach tours are based at a single resort hotel, with day trips from the hotel to local sights. .Accommodation is almost-always on a half-board basis, coaches are normally 44 - 49 seaters, always air-conditioned, with bathroom, no-smoking, sometimes with wi-fi.

 

JB 🙂

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[Chickadee910]

When we were in Scotland we went with Rabby tours they were great.

[windsor26]

Thank you all for your advices  I will get investigating during the next few weeks for a tour in 2023  Yvonne

[caripoo]

Maloney and Kelly...we just used them for a chauffeur tour of Ireland for 19 days.....And we used Abercrombie and Kent in France for 3 weeks....BOTH excellent

[Lanz]

In November, we are using International Friends, Tours, Transfers and Hotel included.  They get excellent reviews and have been excellent in responding to requests and queries.

[windsor26]

Thank you all