Coach Hire Booking are now providing executive minibus hire in the Manchester and North West of England areas. We are able to offer very competitive rates for our Executive 16 seater minibus.

Echoing our earlier similar blog entry last year about the Amphicoach, there is now the"amfibus", it is the latest wheeze by Britain's most famous busdriver, Brian Souter, the co-founder and chief executive of Stagecoach Group, one of the world's largest bus and railcompanies.

If it survives day two, it could becomeBritain's first timetabled amphibious bus service.

Souter believes the Clyde service could provea model for amphibious buses elsewhere in the UK. Stagecoach is confident theamfibus can navigate safely through the wash of boats and any other passengerferry which might yet replace the obsolete service.

The bus has been borrowed from its owners, theDutch waterborne tour operator Splashtours, which is planning to run a serviceon Rotterdam's Maas river. Steve Stewart, head of communications forStagecoach, is confident that passengers will have no need of seasicknesstablets on the amfibus's 200-metre trip over the Clyde. At £700,000, theamfibus is roughly three times the price of a standard passenger coach. Unfortunately, Coach Hire Booking won't be offering any similar services in the near future!

More information below 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/feb/08/amphibus-stagecoach-river-clyde 

In July 2008, the city of London introduced the Low Emission Zone. The Low Emission Zone (LEZ) specifically affects older diesel-engined lorries, buses, coaches, large vans  and minibuses having over 8 seats.  Currently, all buses and coaches that have EURO III engines meet the LEZ standard. This is set to change in 2012 when vehicles must have engines meeting the EURO IV standard.

Coach operators that have coaches that are not EURO III compliant need to pay a £200 per day surcharge for entering the LEZ. Typically these are vehicles that are 10 years old or more, but quite often these are still coaches that are well maintained and useable.  The £200 LEZ charge is generally passed on to the passengers which can mean a 40% increase in price for visiting London by coach.  This means that passengers wishing to travel to London by coach need to either pay a premium on the quality of the coach or pay for the LEZ charge. Understandably, this may have an effect on the number of tourists visiting London by coach from other areas of the country.

Another potential impact of this policy is that it encourages coach hire companies to operate more in their own locality, as the potentially more lucrative market for coach trips to London will have reduced.

As part of our new website, we've put together some prices and associated information for coach parking prices for major airports, central London etc.  We did this because we werent able to find all this information in one place and so thought it would be quite useful to provide it.

We'll be publishing the information on our new coach hire website, but in the mean time here are the coach parking prices that we've got together so far:

Hiring a coach in any part of the country can be a pain at the best of times, but hiring a coach in London can be extremely taxing especially in the peak months of May through to August. Whereas other areas of the country have smaller groups of local operators that people see driving about, London has a massive number of visiting coaches as well as those coach operators from London.

This means that people are unaware who their "local" coach operators are. Coach Hire Booking can help by providing people with a single contact point, freeing up time and saving valuable money. We are often able to source coaches much cheaper than the general public due to the amount of work we place with coach operators throughout London and the UK. We'll give you an example of how this can benefit you:

Typically a person will ring 2-3 coach hire companies in London to receive a the best quote - this isnt necessarily the cheapest quote, as the quality of service given to the client is of the utmost importance.

The 3 quotes means that a good 20-30 minutes will need to be put aside to refine the requirements and then to pass these to each London coach operator, and this is even before placing the coach booking. By contacting Coach Hire Booking, we can take the details of your required journey and quickly price it dynamically, in line with current market rates.  We will immediately have quality coach operators available who can do your journey - all without the hassle of a ring around.