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Hi,
I have always taken pot luck on flights & accomodation / hospitalty etc
Hire a motobike, or jeep & generally look & meet the locals.
I could not be doing with "Though sall be on the coach at 9:00 am, to visit a Greek ruin"
It would steer me mad.
OK for the less adventourous amongst us, everything time-tabled etc, but what a waste of time, when you could be learning the local language & customs, by just getting lost in a different country.
I dismay sometimes at folks, especially Brits, of which I am one, getting into buses to be taken to a deck-seat, or a local tourist market.
No, hire a minibus with bald tyres, and head for some god-forsaken village with a dozen partially drunken crowd of mates.
Or a big motorbike around the Greek Islands on dodgy ferries.with a girlfeind (now my wife).
Gods, have we lost a sense of travel, does everything have to have an itnery ?
No.
What do you reckon ?
Bob
8 Dec 2008, 2:25 pm | click here to read more
Does anybody want to share a minibus to Leeds from Liverpool? We have a 16 seater minibus and it's 180 quid return including driver, therefore the more people that arrive the cheaper it will be. At the moment there's 6 of us so there's 10 spaces.
It's better than getting the coach as apparently the coaches drop you off miles away from the venue.
Let me know!
7 Aug 2007, 5:09 pm | click here to read more
I am thinking of hiring a minibus or coach depending on the amount of people, to go to a football game. There would be a few of my mates on the bus and then I'd be selling the other spaces to people who I may not know. If the coach or minibus was to be involved in an accident which injured any of the passengers, would I be to blame, or would the driver or company the minibus/coach was hired from be to blame?
5 Nov 2009, 8:35 pm | click here to read more
MM Ltd hires out coaches and drivers to local businesses. Showmagic Ltd hired a minibus & driver from Mm. The minibus crashed due to driver negligence, injuring several passengers and damaging computer equipment. M has refused to accept liability and points to the clause written on the back of the sales document it had given to Showmagic
"Mm do not accept any liability whatsoever for loss no matter howsoever caused'
5 Feb 2008, 11:26 am | click here to read more
is my 16th in just below 2 weeks and i don't know what to do for it!
i want to go to a theme (thorpe park, alton towers) with every my friends but don't no how to receive there, if anyone has any links to cheap minibus websites ( i live in Oxford) that would be helpful
Also can you give me some other ideas on what to do like going to a theme park /water parkk thanks
yh im a girl, the aviater picture and name kate might hve been a slight clue!
5 Aug 2008, 5:21 am | click here to read more
my family have a restricted coach op licence so we can run 2x minibuses over 9 seats, how many can i run with 8 seats?? we have 5 at monment 2 of them are 16 seaters the other 3 are 8 seaters can we buy more?? and do we have to tell vosa? regards graham
4 Jun 2008, 5:26 pm | click here to read more
Hi,
During the easter holidays, me and a group of my friends are planning to go to Alton Towers. This would be on Monday 6th April and we would like to leave from Walsall. I would like to know what would be the cheapest and fastest way to receive there. We have thought about buses, coaches, and getting a minibus from a cab company. If we caught the bus, It would take 3 hours to receive there, I have looked around the internet for coaches, day trips etc. but I can't find any so if you know any good websites I could look at, that would be useful. We were going to split the price of the minibus between us, but I don't really know how much this would cost? We can't really receive lifts from anyone because most of our parents will be at work. If you have any other ideas, I would be grateful.
Thank you :)
28 Mar 2009, 2:37 pm | click here to read more
Mentioned this in another answer, but as I hate it so much, I thought I'd ask a question about it!
Has anyone ever seen a bus, in the M4 bus lane?
I have travelled past it hundreds of times, at different times of day, and on different days of the week. And have yet to ever look a bus. The occasional coach, minibus and cab uses it, but the level of traffic on it is not significant enough to justify its existence (in my opinion).
Whereas the level of traffic in the other two lanes, which are often queued, now thats another matter. Wouldnt a 3rd lane be rather handy to steer in at that point?
Now I dont ever steer down the M4 at rush hour, so maybe there's a few buses around then. But that still surely cannot justify having it as a bus lane 24/7.
Rant over! Your comments please!
25 Jun 2008, 8:12 am | click here to read more
Im going to Germany with my school on the 30th of June and we are going mostly on coach but partly on Ferry, I have been ''Travel sick'' on cars/minibus' but i haven't ever been on a ferry, so i don't know if i will be sick but what do you recommend for the coach and possibly ferry that could cease my sickness?
Sorry if it dosen't make sense, i'm a bit sleepy today.
21 Jun 2008, 12:11 pm | click here to read more
an agency accepts bookings from 50 people for seats on a coach. the probability that a customer who has booked a seat on the coach will NOT turn up to claim the seat is 0.08, and may be assumed to be independant of the behaviour of other customers.
determine the probability that, of the customers who have booked a seat on the coach:
a) two or more will NOT turn up
b) 3 or more will NOT turn up
the agency accepts bookings from 15 customers for seats on the minibus. the probability that a customer who has booked a seat on the minibus, will not turn up to claim the seat is 0.025, and may be assumed to be independant of the behaviour of the other customers.
calculate the probability that of the customers who have booked a seat on the minibus one or more will NOT turn up.
could someone please explain what to do please?? i keep gettting reaaaaaally tiny answers lol any help much appreciated :D x
18 May 2008, 9:56 am | click here to read more
an agency accepts bookings from 50 people for seats on a coach. the probability that a customer who has booked a seat on the coach will NOT turn up to claim the seat is 0.08, and may be assumed to be independant of the behaviour of other customers.
determine the probability that, of the customers who have booked a seat on the coach:
a) two or more will NOT turn up
b) 3 or more will NOT turn up
the agency accepts bookings from 15 customers for seats on the minibus. the probability that a customer who has booked a seat on the minibus, will not turn up to claim the seat is 0.025, and may be assumed to be independant of the behaviour of the other customers.
calculate the probability that of the customers who have booked a seat on the minibus one or more will NOT turn up.
could someone please explain what to do please?? i keep gettting reaaaaaally tiny answers lol any help much appreciated :D x
18 May 2008, 5:32 pm | click here to read more
have to have them in cars ,coaches taxis and minibuses............
15 Aug 2007, 3:00 pm | click here to read more
we want to go alton towers but i dont no where to search or look on the internet or anything like that. We live in chard, somerset. so please if anyone knows any coaches or cheap minibus (chauffer driven).please help me !!!!!!!!!!
there will b bout 15 of us!!!!
14 Jun 2007, 10:16 am | click here to read more
Write an expression for m the number of seats in minibuses and m and c for the number of seats in m minibuses and c coaches.
13 Jul 2009, 7:16 am | click here to read more
A minibus can carry 20 passengers and a coach can carry 70 passengers. A total of 250 pupils are to be taken on an excursion. Write the numver of minibuses as x and the number of coaches as y.
12 Oct 2009, 6:14 am | click here to read more
A big convoy of mini-buses travelled from Limerick to Croke Park for the rugby match last weekend. When starting out from Limerick, every of the coaches carried exactly the same number of passengers. However, on the way to Dublin, 10 coaches broke down, and in order to accomodate every of the passengers from these 10 coaches, each of the remaining coaches took exactly one extra passenger. After the match, before returning back to Limerick, the organisers found that a further 15 coaches had broken down. However, everyone was once again accommodated, and, on the way back to Limerick, each mini-bus had exactly three more passengers than it had when leaving Limerick in the morning.
How many people travelled to the match on the minibuses?
12 Feb 2007, 4:36 pm | click here to read more
A big convoy of mini-buses travelled from Limerick to Croke Park for the rugby match last weekend. When starting out from Limerick, every of the coaches carried exactly the same number of passengers. However, on the way to Dublin, 10 coaches broke down, and in order to accomodate every of the passengers from these 10 coaches, each of the remaining coaches took exactly one extra passenger. After the match, before returning back to Limerick, the organisers found that a further 15 coaches had broken down. However, everyone was once again accommodated, and, on the way back to Limerick, each mini-bus had exactly three more passengers than it had when leaving Limerick in the morning.
How many people travelled to the match on the minibuses?
12 Feb 2007, 4:27 pm | click here to read more
Mr Smith owns minibuses and coaches.
Each minibus has 12 seats.
a) Write an expression, in terms of m, for the number of seats in m minibuses? .......
Each coach has 48 seats.
b) Write an expression, in terms of m and c, for the number of seats on m minibuses and c coaches? .....
12 Apr 2008, 7:31 am | click here to read more
There are 2 curling clubs that are 25 minutes away from my school (its an every guys school (no need for a girls team), and we have minibuses that could transport us) My friends and I want to stat a curling team, but we don't know how to go about it (Other than ask someone to coach us and receive school approval). Ice time at clubs is limited and expensive, and we were wondering if there is good off-ice practice to do?
1 Mar 2010, 5:23 pm | click here to read more