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Crusader’s new tours include Paris and more cruises


Samantha Mayling


Crusader Holidays’ latest Britain & Europe by Coach brochure offers 59 new or revised itineraries for 2020, with Wi-Fi rolled out across the fleet. Paris returns to the coach


operator’s programme aſter a gap of several years, but Jersey and Guernsey have been dropped. In total the brochure offers more


than 170 holidays in 15 countries. Te operator claims forward


bookings for next year are already up 2% thanks to its brochure’s early release in the third week of August. Managing director Val Mot


said: “Clients are keener than ever to take advantage of our many tours which offer single rooms without supplement, and to book our most popular holidays to ensure they get their preferred onboard seating. “We are investing in our fleet


with two new high-specification touring coaches, and are rolling out Wi-Fi throughout the fleet.”


Mot said the Channel Islands


were no longer featured because of difficulty in securing group seat allocations. She added: “Te increasingly punitive restrictions on group airline seats sadly make the operation of these holidays no longer viable for us.” Other European breaks dropped


include Ostend weekends, Andorra & Carcassonne and Litle Boats of the Mediterranean tours. However, coach-and-cruise combinations are increasingly


Wi-Fi is being rolled out across Crusader’s coaches


popular and Crusader is offering a record number of nine cruises next year, including a 13-night British Isles Discovery Cruise, from £1,149. Also popular are “long-haul”


domestic tours to destinations in Scotland, and holidays to events such as the Weston-super-Mare Festival of Lights, Normandy Tulip Festival and Kynren show in Bishop Auckland. New tours include holidays in


Norway, Spain, Italy and Scotland. crusader-holidays.co.uk


travelweekly.co.uk


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