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[clan chieftain]

As I have never had a passport abroad would be out. The wife was going on about maybe having a 5 or 7 day coach tour holiday.
I dont fancy it much as I like to come and go as I please on holiday and you might get stuck with some a@@@holes for a week.
Has anyone on here been on coach tours.?
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[V8 Nutter]

We went to Italy on a coach, that was very tiring.

The first time we went to America we went on a coach tour. The problem was you couldn't stop and look at the things you wanted to, everything was too organised

[Bitumen Boy]

It's not something I can see myself being tempted by anytime soon. I'll tell you what I've heard of a few times, though - people booking these coach holidays with no intention of travelling on the coach, they drive down in their own cars. Seems to be done by the wealthier (though obviously not all that wealthy) pensioners. It baffles me why anyone would do that, but maybe it's a way of getting a hotel cheaper than on the open market.

[Geoffp]

We've been on at least coach holiday every year for about 20 years and can recommend it, especially for European Holidays. We've been all over most of Europe and you can get to see the highlights of the different countries. Some of the journeys can seem quite long, it would be even longer from Scotland , Italy takes two days for example, but coaches are more comfortable than cars for long journeys and you tend to have decent stops along the way, eg Rheims, Chartres, etc. We haven't come across any riff-raff amongst the other passengers yet, but I suppose they don't do tours of Classical Italy or the Chateaux of the Loire Valley You can get away if you want to, we once spent a beautiful day by an Austrian lake where we were the only British people in the whole town.

You can get to know a country better and stay at more interesting independent hotels if you go by car, we've been to Belgium and Holland, but you are likely to cover more by coach, and being dropped off in the centre of Rome or Monte Carlo is certainly more convenient Just get the passport and try it while you're still young

Geoff

[ukdave2002]

Not for me , being stuck in a coach and having to stick to someone else's schedule, not my cup of tea

I'd rather take my own car book a ferry and a couple of Campaniles or Formula 1 hotels, in France (cheap) and go around Europe where you fancy, booking the hotels on a day by day basis, or plan a trip and book them all in advance, they can be cancelled on the day if you (or the better half!!) change the itinerary, or find a place you want to spend more time at.

Dave

[Peter_L]

Always road trips by car for us. We love the freedom.

Some years back we were leaving a hotel about 6am, and passed a lady who was enjoying a smoke just outside of the lobby.

As we waited for the valet to bring the car, she asked if we were driving or coaching. When we said driving, she said, that this was her first and last coach trip.

"I swear that if I have to spend many more days listening to folk complain that it is too hot, too cold, want to stop at the washroom or talk on the cellphone,......... they are driving me crazy. I think I will steal one of these chairs from the hotel and tie to the roof of the coach and go sit up there"

[pigtin]

[47p2]

Forget the coach, jump into the Marina and head up the west coast, visit a few of the islands and relax.
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[colwyn500]

Larry, ignore all of the above.

1. Do get a passport for the first time ever; better get one for your wife too.

2. Look up cheap holidays in the Greek islands; start with Corfu, Lefkas or Kefalonia. Ignore Crete, Rhodes, Samos or Lesvos.

3. Book a holiday for June or September (both preferably).

4. Don't book "all inclusive", eating out is cheap and not wrapped in formality in comparison with this country.

5. Get there and do exactly whatever you want to!


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[emmerson]

Classic Range Rover and Royale caravan for me, two or three months at a time.

Roll on April!

[Riley Blue]

Larry, ignore all of the above.

You don't need a passport to have a thoroughly enjoyable holiday, Great Britain has so much to offer and - if you're like us - you'll enjoy it all the more if you travel in your own time at your own speed.

We've never done a coach tour, it just doesn't appeal but what we do (we're members of English Heritage) is pick a part of the country we don't know too well and book a self catering cottage more or less in the middle. Then it's a week exploring the places we want to see. We often don't leave before 11 o'clock but spend a leisurely day wandering round castles, abbeys, country houses with lunch out and dinner back at the cottage.

That's our choice, yours may be different but there's so much to see in Britain - and we've just renewed our passports too!

[clan chieftain]

I dont fancy it myself and I agree with Riley541. I dont think I would fancy an organised holiday.
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[gillberry]

Simon hated the idea of a coach holiday but we booked a four day trip to see the WW1 war graves and he surprised himself he could not get over how relaxing it was, he always drives and did not like the idea of it but he even fell asleep on the coach , we have done a few more now over the years mostly to places of interest we are not sit on the beach people but never further than Holland so not a bad journey and only for about four days then if you do not get on with people you are not stuck with them for long. We always used crusader and have never had a bad trip well organised and interesting
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