Coach Trip - Good or Bad?

We have been twice with Lochs and Glens. It is a bit regimented with timings etc. but the food is generally good and the hotels lovely (L&G have their own hotels, 8 in all). What I really like is that each coachload of passengers are from a specific part of the country, so there is none of this spending hours going round half the country picking people up, which is what we have experienced with Leger.

Has anybody booked a coach tour for this year? I have booked two with my local company. Pickup is just a mile from home. Both are for five days. The first one is to Scotland after Easter.

Hello I'm thinking about taking a solo holiday this year. Any advice re coach trips welcome. I'm 77 so looking for a company catering for seniors. I've heard that Leger Luxuria coach trips are good. Read mixed reviews about Shearings. Advice please.

About 12 years ago I accompanied my Mum on a Crusader coach holiday to Warners at Cricket St Thomas. The journey to the hotel took a long time because we had to keep picking people up on the way.

Apart from that, though, it was a lovely holiday. We had two or three day trips, which were also very enjoyable, and Warner Holidays do provide nice accommodation, food and entertainment (at least they did then, I assume they are still reasonably OK).

I don't know if this holiday company still exists but our experience was pretty good.

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The other option is to go by train. There are lots of organised train tours, some steam train, in Scotland. Probably more expensive than coach however but you can move around whilst travelling.

I was think about the train. I've often planned in my mind some train journeys through picturesque places, including Scotland.

I realised that I didn't report back on our trip in September, as promised. We did enjoy the holiday, but not the journeys. For us, it was too long on the coach, even with regular stops every 2 to 3 hours. There were several pick up points in the first 2 hours. For us, we would fly to Scotland and then pick up a coach tour there. I noticed that Titan holidays did a trip like this. Depending on where your starting point is, bear this in mind. Good luck.

We recently did one round West Australia. Lovely people but such huge distances which made me realise what a vast state WA is. Like 700 km most days. Wouldn’t do it again but we saw some fantastic things. Not long enough to chill out and explore,though, which I found annoying. In other words they tried to pack too much in - so watch for that.

We've only done one and hated it. We went to the Isle of Wight and the only excursion we wanted, Osborne House, wasn't covered, so we had to make our own way there so we hired a car for the duration of the stay and did our own thing. The hotel was dire, as was the food and the "turn" wasn't our thing at all. We moved to a good hotel after the first night. So we only used the coach as transport there and back. Never again, complete waste of money.