Coach Holiday News

The festive holiday is always a great event with Shearings Holidays and they are now offering customers the opportunity to book their 2008 Christmas or New Year Celebrations at 2007 prices.

Join friends old and new and celebrate away from home with stunning locations across Britain. Superb hospitality, great entertainment and traditional fayre will guarantee you a festive treat!

If you haven’t visited Europe at this time of year then you have missed something glorious. Discover new towns or revisit your old favourites across Europe – from the Tyrol to Lake Como, from Prague to Bruges, Shearings are sure to have something to suit your taste.

There is also the opportunity to book your visit to the European Christmas Markets. With prices from only £209 this is a fabulous way to spend time Christmas shopping in the traditional and festive atmosphere of these famous markets.

These holidays and more are now available at coachholidays.com. But beware - to take advantage of these great prices, holidays must be booked before 29th February 2008.

Coachholidays.com is pleased to announce that Consort Travel will be joining our website.

Based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Consort Travel (Glade Travel Ltd) is now in its 25th year of operating holidays. They offer a vast choice of coach tours, air holidays and cruise packages, and their 2008 collection is their biggest and best yet. They have picked out the best destinations and scenic journeys to delight their customers and over the years have built a reputation for providing superb quality and outstanding value for money. As well as Spring, Summer and Autumn tours they also offer a fairly extensive Christmas programme. Pick up points are offered throughout Scotland, England and Wales.

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Holidaymakers aged over 55 can put a spring in their step by booking an Easter or spring break with Grand UK Holidays.

The over-55s specialist operator offers great value for money with its four-day Easter breaks from just £154.23, and five-day spring short breaks, also from £154.23.

For the Easter holiday period, there is still availability in seven UK locations, from the sunshine resorts of the south coast to magnificent Snowdonia and beyond. With all coach travel and sight-seeing excursions included, as well as half-board accommodation, evening entertainment and free insurance, these bargain breaks won’t break the bank.

All Easter breaks depart on Good Friday (March 21) and return on Easter Monday (March 24). The hotels available are Grand UK Hotels in Llandudno, Skegness, Kendal, Sandown, Bridlington, Blackpool and Torquay.

Customers can also meet like-minded people and enjoy an affordable spring break with Grand UK Holidays’ range of spring short breaks, from £154.23 for five days. The perfect tonic to recharge your batteries, these popular short breaks are available at seven hotels in scenic touring locations around the UK. Departure dates are throughout March (except Easter weekend), and the price includes all coach travel, half-board accommodation, two sightseeing excursions, evening entertainment and free insurance.

For bookings call 0845 330 3747 or see www.coachholidays.com

Coachholidays.com are pleased to announce the inclusion of the 2008 tour programme from Wessex Continental.

Wessex Continental Travel, based in Saltash near Plymouth, operate tours from the Avon, Devon and Cornwall areas via the Plymouth Ferryport. Pick ups for most coach tours start in Bristol and follow a route down to Plymouth via the main towns.

As well as sightseeing tours to France, Spain and Portugal, John Hill the owner of Wessex Continental is keen to point out their specialist programmes of Wine Tours and Jazz Tours, which are quickly becoming some of their most popular events.

As John says “Yes, we also run wine tours and have been doing so for over 25 years. The Tour Director who travels with these holidays is Stephen Barrett, the well known broadcaster and writer and wine lecturer. The tours shown are our public programme but are in no way the complete picture. We are happy to arrange a wine tour to any destination.”

A programme of holidays featuring Jazz at the hotel (and on the ship) started about 15 years ago with a visit to Cantabria in Green Spain - the area of Spain stretching from the French border at Bayonne, starting with the Basque Region and continuing through Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia eventually finishing at the northern border of Portugal. As the popularity of these tours increased Wessex Continental made a second departure to Brittany in Spring and in 2008 a third, longer tour has been added, to Portugal.

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Leading operator Leger Holidays has been awarded the title of Best Coach Operator for 2008 by UK travel agents at the prestigious national travel industry Globe Awards in London.

Peter Raynor, retail sales director, who received the award from radio and TV personality Mark Lamarr, said, ‘It’s a fantastic achievement to win the award for the second year running and demonstrates the relationship Leger has developed with travel agents’.

He added, ‘We would like to thank our all agents for their support, in particular WA Worldchoice and coachholidays.com, who are Leger’s number one agent in the UK’.

Peter Bowles and Penelope Keith boost interest in historic hotel

Fancy following in the footsteps of Audrey fforbes-Hamilton and Richard DeVere?
Fans of the classic series To The Manor Born are in for a treat with the BBC1 special this Christmas Day – and they can also experience life in the manor with over-55s specialist Grand UK Holidays.

Its ‘Somerset Hideaway’ holiday is based in Cricket St Thomas – the house which famously features in the television series as Grantleigh Manor.
Now a Warner Historic Hotel, the Grade II listed building features a heated pool, sauna and fitness studio as well as evening entertainment in the Pavillion Cabaret Room.
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