Spotlight on .. City & Village Tours

will continue into 2024, include Bury St Edmunds and Fullers Mill Gardens

City & Village Tours marked its 35th Anniversary this month The London-based company has always offered coach-based day trips led by top notch Blue Badge Tours in London, South East, South West, East Anglia & the Midlands Company founder Gyll King said:

“Our first groups were made up of retired people who’d been born in the Edwardian era and danced in their youth to Big Band and Swing. Now our folk are of 1940s & 1950s vintage & they danced to rock and roll and Motown. But there’s always been one constant – it’s still a lottery when it comes to hips and knees so we still design our day trips and holidays for people who like to see a lot without walking too far.”

Following two very historic years for the Monarchy, visits to the State Apartments at Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle are popular with groups this summer and Christmas when extra apartments are open at a festively decorated Windsor Castle and there are far fewer tourists. New destinations in 2023, which

In the past decade the company has added coach holidays in the UK to their portfolio as well as Matinee Lunch Shows with live entertainers, from the well-known and loved Cockney Matinee to an ABBA tribute, Dixieland Jazz and Murder Mystery set in Ancient Rome New for Autumn and Christmas 2023 groups and coach operators can book a Country Legends Show plus refunded all customers within a month, something made possible by the operation of a separate account for customer monies Since the pandemic, to give group organisers and coach operators complete peace of mind over members and customers’ monies the company has formalised this arrangement and all payments are now made into the Protected Travel Trust and the company cannot touch that money until you’ve had your trip a new Golden Oldies 50s, 60s & 70s Show The shows are held at The Tereza Joanne in the Royal Docks, five minutes from the Brick Lane Music Hall The Seaside Sundowner – a new Live Music show on the Thanet Coast is up and running and coming for 2024 there will also be Matinee Lunch Shows at new venues in the SouthEast and East Anglia.

When the lockdowns came the company had and come home. What is unique about the new arrangement is that this isn’t just money for coach holidays, which is of course, a legal requirement under the Package Travel Regulations: The company extends this cast iron payment protection to their day trips and Matinee Shows too as they crack on with their next decade in group travel. www.cityandvillagetours.com