National Holidays

My wife and I have been on about 8 National Holidays in the last year. Our last one last week in Octorber 2009 was to Kirchberg in Auatria staying at the lifthotel. OK so it does take two days to get there, but it is a coach trip! You overnight at Mezt in a motel. Not the best motel in France but not the worse. The Lifthotel is a good base to stay at, set on the outskirts of Kirchberg on a deadend valley road it is nice and quite. Our room was of a very good size with a bath and a walk in shower. Note no tea/coffee in room but we took a kettle ect. Meals was good, you help yourself to a packup for lunch. Afternoon tea/coffee and ...  Read the complete review

I've just come back from a National Holidays "Taste of Italy" holiday with my husband and three daughters (aged 13, 11 & 7) and we've thoroughly enjoyed it. Yes there was a lot of sitting on the coach but what do you expect on a coach holiday? The coach was clean and comfortable with reclining seats and a toilet. There were enough spare seats on the coach for us to spread out and have two seats each and we usually stopped for a break every three hours. Our friendly coach drivers Mick and Brian were brilliant. They always drove carefully and gave us useful information when we needed it. Two passengers with wheelchairs were easily acommodated. All 31 of the ...  Read the complete review

I refer to kiwimagic's review of 28/06/09 we went on a different trip but the result was so very similar. We went to Lake Garda, picked up at 06.20 dropped off at Blythe Svcs. Main coach set off at 09.45 we went straight through none stop from Blythe to Dover. I too can't understand why the arrangement isn't for an overnight ferry from Hull to Rotterdam! We had two drivers, the co driver seemed to be more experienced than the 'main' driver; strange? Every inch was on the motorways, all the stops were very short and at the services, expensive and most definately not enjoyable fare. Our driver pretty soon proved himself a bit of a buffoon, jokes that ...  Read the complete review

I have recently been on a National Holidays coach 'holiday' to Italy - it was not a holiday by any stretch of the imagination. It was tedious just sitting for day after day and it has taken a week for my ankles to reduce to size but my legs are still aching. I left from Goole at 6.45 and after a pickup at Wakefield we all changed coaches at Blythe Svcs and then continued to Dover. (Why they did not use the overnight ferry from Hull and have everybody relaxed on arrival in Europe is beyond me). the coach broke down before Dover and we had a 2.5 hour delay until moving into another and catching the next ferry. We continued to be 2.5 hours late the entire way to Hotel ...  Read the complete review

I use National Holidays as my husband and I have started going away for breaks with his parents and they use this company a lot. It also gives my husband a break from driving. We have been on a few and I will tell you about them as we go along. First I would like to tell you about my experience with the company. I think this company offers very good value for money on their holidays. There are a lot of older people that go on these and at 37 I am usually the youngest but you can have a great time and a laugh with the older generation. Jersey- We went to Jersey in 2005 and I have to say I compare a lot of breaks on this! The journey itself ...  Read the complete review