Just returned from our first holiday…
Just returned from our first holiday with Alfa travel the 6th coach company we have tried. We are staycationers now unfortunately so are eager to explore our own country and revisit some of the places we took our children many years before we travelled abroad. We travelled to Newcastle through the Burtonwood interchange and were very impressed with the organisation. A little wait on our outward journey and very short wait on our return journey. We thought our driver Paul was excellent. Despite it being his first time in Newcastle and the area, he got us to everywhere we were supposed to be and extra..... He was courteous and had a warm sense of humour we appreciated. The only down side to this holiday was the food at the hotel. Hence the 4 stars instead of 5. We don't have very high expectations for coach hotels to be honest and usually go to a certain hotel group so we know what we are getting but only one hotel in our experience has been worse than this one. The Leonardo hotel Newcastle let down an otherwise excellent break. We will definitely travel with Alfa again and possibly try a leisureplex hotel, we asked lots of people we met about them. If we could book a trip with Paul as driver again we gladly would.