Travel

we have just been retired 8 months and now want to travel overseas possibly to uk. and ireland..

Travel

Posted by: melchel

17th Nov 2010 07:12am

hi we have just been retired a few months and now would like to possibly go and look at the uk especially ireland.. havent checked out the travel shops as yet.. but am looking at maybe march to june next yr.. we are feeling quiet well and reasonably relaxed now so want to do it before our health maybe starts to fail us.. so any ideas.. on travel.. i think i would prefer a tour bus scenario..as i do not drive.. and think that hubby would also like to take in the scenary as well as myself. without having to concentrate on driving especially in another country.. has any one in cafe world experience organised tours.. are they rushed from daylight to sunset.. or time to take it all in.. would like some info before the travel people tell us all the sales blurb. happy to hear from all your aussie travellers.. as we have never been out of oz..


pep
  • 19th Nov 2010 08:46pm

We are in the stage in life where I am retired and mu husband takes long service leave of 6 weeks a year for the l;ast two years and have done the travel bit the last to may,june with coach touring the last two years and doing a third one next june.They are organized so you dont drive,no cooking,no decisions to make what to do today,its all organized for you.We went with Insight tours.the coaches have removed seats out of the coach and spread the others out so as to have much more leg room.Every other tour group still have 53 seats in them and Insight and scenic tours only have 40.We did london and 9 countries in europe last june ,the days wer wake up calls at 6am and on the bus the pace was a bit rushed sometimes but we were warned and expected this so it wasnt a big surprise.security was fantastic they looked after our luggage at all times and even helped out at the ATMs throuout the complete tour as they can be very tricky insome parts.Be sure to pick a tour that spends multiple nights in each city ,then you get a break every second day from big trips in the coach.drivers are not allowed to drive the coach more than 2 hours without having a 20minute break so you do get a break and they are strict with the rule as police spot check all the time with them and have monitors built into the coach .touring is graet if you like it organized for you and all you have to decide on is if you want fish or meat for dinner or both.Dontgo if you like a lot of free time to yourself,but do expect to meet a lot of interesting people from around theworld and the uk and europe is like a great big history wonder of the world.


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