Singles Christmas Coach Trip - Recommendations Please

I don't celebrate Christmas so have no experience of Christmas coach trips but I did go on a 5 day trip with Shearings/Leger in 2021 and my only comment is - Never Again!

Sending you sympathy.

Witzend. Shearings did indeed go bust in Covid, but were bought out by Leger Holidays. The Shearings coaches are the more basic ones, and their holidays are cheaper I think.

Shearings now seem to be more of the ‘bargain basement’ coach holiday. We have recently returned from a Leger trip, we have done several with them, and others on the same trip who had used Shearings recently were not very complimentary.

You will pay more for a Leger holiday, but think it would be worth it.

Just to clarify, we have used Shearings in the past, but think they have gone downhill.

I wish you well too and hope you find a nice way to spend Christmas.

Thank you silverlining48. I am so sad I'm starting to wonder if I should be making plans, but some of these trips are already sold out. I live in Kent so think I will go to the south coast. Thanks.

I am sorry about your friend

I hope you find somewhere nice to go for Christmas.

I just googled ‘Christmas coach holidays U.K.’ and Shearings came up - funnily enough I thought they’d gone bust during lockdowns, but it would seem not.

It’s a long time ago now, but I once did a Shearings holiday to the Shetland Islands with my mother, and although was initially sceptical, we were extremely impressed with them.

From all I’ve ever gathered, there are usually quite a few singles on such coach holidays.

A friend in a similar position to you told me that there's a difference between 'singles' trips and 'solo' ones. Singles apparently is for people looking to find another partner and solo is for people who just happen to be going on holiday on their own. She'd not realised that until she went on a singles holiday

A friend would recommend spending the Christmas break at a hotel in the south coast.
Personally I quite like spending the break on my own (my kids spent alternate Christmases so I got used to it). I also dislike the idea of spending it with other people's families, kindly meant invitations are very nice to receive, but not for me.