Caledonian Travel are a coach tour operator who specialise in Scottish departures to destinations in UK and Europe. For twenty years this successful Scottish company has offered breaks to many destinations, including old favourites Paris and Liverpool and new additions, such as Prague and the Black Forest. Most of these have a full compliment of inclusive excursions and entertainment in the evenings.
Caledonian Travel offer a network of twenty five departure points from all over Scotland. In Glasgow they also offer a home connect service with door to door pick ups and transfers to the main tour coach. With a fleet of modern coaches, experienced drivers and a system that takes care of assisting with their passengers needs, including dietary and disability requirements, travel to your destination is comfortable as it can be.
There are a selection of brochures to look at as well as an up-to-date website and a committed Glasgow-based reservations team waiting to answer any questions you may have.
Groups are also welcome as Caledonian Travel have a dedicated groups department who can help set up tailor-made itineraries from arranged departure points. They also provide their groups with promotional materials, free places and the advice of the Groups Manager.
This trip was not as advertised!
My husband and I as well as my parents booked a tour to Killarney in Ireland with Caledonian Travel. We were picked up in Ayr and the coach was early. We did have reserved seats but they were hard and uncomfortable and DID NOT recline. There was also very little leg room (I am 5’10″) and had crushed knees on this journey. Our driver, Peter, was a lovely guy who loaded the bags for us. He apparently worked for Parks of Hamilton though and not Caledonian Travel. The bus was the most uncomfortable one I have ever travelled in.
Our trip was advertised as a 5 night trip. The first night being in Dublin and having a morning there before travelling on to Killarney at lunchtime. The reality was that our first night was in a lovely hotel 30 miles outside Dublin and there was NO planned trip into the city at all. We set off for Killarney at around 9 am. This was very disappointing and a lot of people were not happy at all. Poor Peter had to endure all the complaints (and there were a lot). The rest of our tour was as expected and I have reviewed the hotels at Trip Advisor (Eviston House Hotel and Park Plaza Hotel).
My complaint is that part of this trip was to experience a wee bit of Dublin AS WAS ADVERTISED in the brochure and we didn’t get to do so. I would have preferred a more basic hotel IN Dublin and the chance to see a bit of the city rather than in a lovely 4* hotel 30 miles away! Basically, if the company weren’t going to stop at Dublin, why did we not travel all the way to Killarney in one go as we did on our return? I would suggest that Caledonian Travel revise their website and brochure to reflect the true intinary for this trip.
I would like to stress before finishing that Peter (our driver) was a lovely guy and he did give us some commentary on the places we travelled through with the odd joke here or there.