Here are some ideas for coach tours to events and themed short breaks in the UK and on the Continent during 2010. Operators featured on this site offer excellent value all inclusive tours, including entrance tickets to most at prices which are often less than the ticket itself!
• X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing: These shows go on tour in the
early part of 2010 with performances in major centres across the country
including London, Manchester, Birmingham., Sheffield, Newcastle and
Nottingham. Many coach operators offer tickets and travel to the shows
• Theatre trips: Hit shows such as Sister Act, Jersey Boys, Billy
Elliot, Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You and Hairspray – and many bmore – are
all featured in touch programmes with your local coach operator. Packages
include travel and tickets at special rates.
• Horse racing: You can go by coach to the Cheltenham Festival in
March, Aintree Grand National in April, Epsom Derby and Royal Ascot in July
or the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in early October. Tours also feature major
race meetings at Newmarket, Chester, York. Goodwood and Sandown Park.
• Grand Prix motor racing: You can go by coach to major Grand Prix
race meetings including those in Monaco, Spain, Germany, France and Belgium
with a specialist tour operator with tickets to the race and practise day
included in the price you pay.
• Garden Shows have a huge appeal whether its Chelsea in May, BBC
Gardeners World in June, or in July Hampton Court and Tatton Park in
Cheshire.
• Battlefield Tours: Visit the Battlefields of Europe – and other
parts of the World - including WWI battlefields such as Flanders Fields, The
Somme and Passchendaele and WWII battle sites across Europe such as the D-Day landings and Arnhem.
• Edinburgh Military Tattoo for three weeks in August. Coach companies
have a huge range of tours which include tickets to the tattoo.
• Blackpool Illuminations from September through to the beginning of
November, are a hugely popular attraction with coach groups.
• Christmas Markets: Get in the festive spirit on a tour to one of
hundreds of Christmas Markets in the UK and on the Continent. Can you insert this piece as a highlighted box somewhere in the middle with pic?
Oberammergau 2010
Miss this year's Oberammergau 2010 Passion Play and you will have to wait
ten years for the next. This incredible spectacle involving a cast of 2,000
people from the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, high in the Bavarian Alps, began life in 1634, after plague swept southern Germany. The tiny village escaped with little loss of life and, as a result, they pledged to stage the passion play every ten years to thank God for his mercy.
The play tells the story of the resurrection with spectacular stage sets and
the backdrop of mountains. Starting in the afternoon, the story unfolds
until dusk, with a generous break for dinner. When you're not watching the
amazing story – translated into English in the programme – you can wander
Oberammergau's pretty streets and enjoy the gorgeous alpine murals painted on their walls.
It's the perfect holiday by coach. The Bavarian mountain scenery is fabulous
viewed from a coach window, high above the walls and traffic and the area is studded with attractive villages which, from spring onwards, bathe in swathes of alpine meadow flowers.
There's a coach holiday company near you going to Oberammergau. Just search for your holiday on this website.
