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Hotel Direct and National Express in coach package deal


Josie Klein


A partnership between Hotel Direct and National Express will allow agents to book dynamically packaged coach breaks. Hotel Direct, which sells through


Co-operative Travel and Hays Travel, already offered dynamic rail packages to the trade, but has launched what it calls the “UK’s first dynamic coach package platform”. Agents can now book a package combining a hotel stay with


National Express coach travel. Tickets to a London theatre show are offered as an optional extra. Return coach travel from


Birmingham, a night’s B&B at the four-star Millennium & Copthorne Chelsea FC Hotel and a ticket to Tina – The Tina Turner Musical on July 18 leads in at £108. Return coach travel from


Newcastle with a one-night stay at the three-star Chelsea Cloisters Hotel and a ticket to Wicked on August 16 costs from £106.


Tina – The Tina Turner Musical


Prices for return coach travel


from Manchester, a one-night stay at the three-star President Hotel and a ticket to Phantom of the Opera start at £132, based on an August 15 departure. Mark Wilson, director of Hotel


Direct, said: “We’re proud to be launching this innovation in association with National Express. Both companies have worked tirelessly for months to achieve this. “It gives travel agents complete flexibility and almost infinite choice.


“Any National Express coach


can now be packaged with any hotel – and we have thousands – and, optionally, any of the 150 London theatre shows, all with a highly competitive package price. “Coach breaks and theatre


breaks by coach complement our existing rail-break offerings and hugely increase the choice, answering the needs of a broader market in respect of budget


and departure point.” hoteldirect.co.uk


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