Uk coach holidays

RAS

If you want to look at coach trips, start with a 3 day one which involves 2 nights.

Personally I'd recommend using trains, booking a decent hotel and day tripping from there. A lot of bigger places will also have local companies that do trips to sites otherwise off track withing easy range. 

If you go to Scotland, do look at Citylink buses. Basically coaches, on major routes, with loo stops and really good drivers. Often multiple buses per day. At the challenging end you could go to Oban across to the Hebrides, public transport to Stornaway, and Ullapool down to Inverness.

By train, Edinburgh to Inverness, the Kyle of Lochalsh line then over to Skye. Either Citylink from Portree or Broadford to Glasgow, or bus from Broadford to Armadale, ferry to Mallaig and train to Fort William or Glasgow. I'd be inclined to do the first spending time at places like Applecross on the way out and stopping overnight somewhere on the way back and if you like try the circuit later.

Just be mindful that accommodation needs sorting early and take midge hoods if you go to the west coast.

Or base in Whitby with good buses up and down the coast, as far at Middlesborough to the north, Filey to the south and inland to Malton. 

And think capsule wardrobe.

saajan_12

Savvy_Sue said:

What I do remember mum saying is that there could be a lot of packing and unpacking, so choose carefully. Not so bad if you go for one where there's 3-4 nights in each hotel, but moving on each day got tedious. Fairly sure I'd organise my clothes in daily packs, and grab and go, but that means everything must be non-crease, and the pre-trip packing could take a while to sort out. 

I think too that the expectation was that they would carry their own cases in and out each time. 

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The thing with day packs is you then can't mix & match the same bottoms with different tops for multiple days, without breaking the grab & go aspect. Plus between toiletries, shoes, chargers, etc there's often plenty you need every day that you're still opening up the whole suitcase. 
Source: tried once to pack in 2-day mini bags inside a main suticase and not load/unload my whole suitcase from the car on a roadtriip, but found there was way too much nick nacks only I'd be going in and out for. 

twopenny

Good point Ras made.
There are train holidays too.

Packing I found with foreign tours I had everything like toiletries in a bag I could roll out and roll up again, everything in pockets so easy to see if you'd re packed everything.

But some coach tours will just go to one stop with day trips from there.

Savvy_Sue

saajan_12 said:

Savvy_Sue said:

What I do remember mum saying is that there could be a lot of packing and unpacking, so choose carefully. Not so bad if you go for one where there's 3-4 nights in each hotel, but moving on each day got tedious. Fairly sure I'd organise my clothes in daily packs, and grab and go, but that means everything must be non-crease, and the pre-trip packing could take a while to sort out. 

I think too that the expectation was that they would carry their own cases in and out each time. 

!

The thing with day packs is you then can't mix & match the same bottoms with different tops for multiple days, without breaking the grab & go aspect. Plus between toiletries, shoes, chargers, etc there's often plenty you need every day that you're still opening up the whole suitcase. 
Source: tried once to pack in 2-day mini bags inside a main suticase and not load/unload my whole suitcase from the car on a roadtriip, but found there was way too much nick nacks only I'd be going in and out for. 

Ah well, I'd expect to wear the same trousers on multiple days, so the 'spare' trousers might be kept separate (memories of a zip breaking on a weekend away without a spare pair!) so each pack would be top plus socks and pants. 

But I know exactly what you mean. We often do 2-3 nights to see family either end of a 'proper' holiday. I go to great pains to pack clothes for each end separately, in packing cubes, in a small bag, so it's just wash bags and nicknacks needed all through. But somehow I ALWAYS manage to be missing a pair of pants or socks. Maybe I've just put the wrong cubes in each bag ... And I find packing takes me quite a while, even though I have spares of many nicknacks which never get unpacked!

Murphybear

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81842032#Comment_81842032

I’ve not used them but have some friends who use them a lot and praise them to the skies 😺

BadBookkeeper

Jones Holidays based in North Wales do some pick ups at Chester services if you could travel there by car to join the coach. They have an itinerary for each day of the holiday for day trips or days at leisure.

spydon007

Alfa holidays are fantastic. https://www.alfaholidays.co.uk/

Andi5

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6650956/uk-coach-holidays

We have used Lochs and Glens for several years and can highly recommend them. Plenty of comfort stops. They own all of their hotels, the rooms are always clean and well presented, the food is plentiful and excellent. The staff are brilliant, nothing is too much trouble. On one holiday my Brother in law took ill, the staff were marvellous and took care of everything.