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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
Currently we are 9 to 11 students. I would like to know my best option to receive to Alton towers (leaving sat and returning sun). Train price to Uttoxeter or nearby station is currently around £85+. I think a mini bus or a coach would be a better choice but im not sure. Can someone suggests me their preferable option and if possible refer me to a cheap minibus hire in newcastle. I would be very grateful and you'd be helping me a lot. Thanks.
31 Oct 2011, 7:27 pm | click here to read more
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?v=qsX3DVVdTzo
Here's the link to a video showing my old 1 GB Alba MP3 WMA player. It bit the dust for good on Monday. I tried everything. I inserted a new battery (which was fully charged) and nothing happened. I'd had it since 2007. I was going to dispose of it in a waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling facility but instead I remembered the good times that it and I had been through. Listening to it on the coach on the school field trip to Ypres, Belgium in 2008, listening to it on the school minibus on my way to the field trip in Portsmouth last year (which took 90 minutes to receive there and longer to receive back because I was stuck in traffic because somebody drove a VW Scirocco into the central reservation) and listening to it riding the bus and sliding into some girlies who sat next to me when the bus made sharp turns. I buried the now-despised MP3 player and put some stones around the place where I buried it, thinking it a crappy practice recycling it. The plastic casing being made into the casing for a crappy ballpoint pen. The copper removed from the circuitboard and made into a telegraph cable. The metal connectors made into razorblades. The LCD screen being probably used to make a calculator. The rubber flap over where you insert an SD/MMC card being used to make a tyre or worse, a carpet underlay. Is the sort of thing that should happen to a gadget that has a gigabyte of memory and 1,000,000 petabytes of memories when it croaks? I thought not. I did manage to salvage some chilly stuff prior to the burial. The sticker on the back that says 'I AM THE STIG' is now on the back of my PSP 2000. I decided to hang onto the Micro-SD adaptor and the Micro-SD memory card, since the Micro-SD memory card is the one that came with my mobile phone. I also removed the wrist-strap and that evening I drove to Argos in my car and bought a 2 GB Sony WalkMan, which I attached the wrist-strap.
30 Jun 2011, 5:02 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
I would like to open a tiny company to hire for tiny trips and journeys carrying passengers to local attractions or day trips.
Eventually I would like to expand and use mini busses to coaches (which I know I need to obtain a PCV licence) but in the mean time can start tiny scale with a 7/8 seater whilst advertising and building clients and collecting and saving money in order to pay for the PCV training and licence. does anyone know about this?
The service that I would be providing would be almost like a tiny tour bus.
for maybe old peoples Holmes or youth clubs or anyone who is interested on going to local attraction with a tiny group of friends or family but don't want to take a train, bus or cab, or if they do not want to or are unable to steer themselves, they can chillout.
I would make bookings to local attractions, collect the tickets for them and also collect them from their chosen destination. So every they need to do tell me where they want to go, what time to pick them up, hop in my 7 seater and entrance tickets and travel to and from the attraction would be sorted.
So its a transport hire /events organising agency/ company. Is it legal to buy a 7 seater and charge people for these services?
28 Jun 2011, 10:02 am | click here to read more
I know they keep lives in traffic accidents but if people want to die then why do we care? The people that don't want to die obviously would wear their seatbelt, even if the law didn't require you to do so. I've even travelled in a vehicle with busted seatbelts before. The vehicle I have travelled in was a 1995 Ford Transit minibus and every the seatbelts were shot so I had to sit there with no seatbelt on. Thankfully it was a school minibus so I was able to complain to the headteacher (and even the caretaker didn't do diddly squat). Also cab drivers don't have to wear seatbelts but just as I've seen cab drivers that don't buckle up I have seen cab drivers that do buckle up. There is even a law in the UK saying that if your car wasn't fitted with seatbelts when it left the factory (like one made before 1961) then you don't have to have them fitted but if you do have them fitted then you must use them and not remove them. Buses and coaches sometimes don't have seatbelts either, but if they do then obviously you have to wear them (even though I've seen people that don't and on a coach trip to Thorpe Park two years ago in the Summer I didn't bother). So why is it illegal? I wear my seatbelt but there are people out there that don't. If they want to die then surely it's up to them.
27 Jan 2012, 11:58 am | 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
ive got by one receive one free vouchers for the park so i dont want a coach and admission package.
any names of coach/ minibus hire companies are much appreciated thanks :)
24 May 2010, 2:41 pm | 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
Sometimes when I ride in a minibus, bus or coach what happens is girlies sit next to me and we end up sliding into each other as the vehicle makes sharp turns. Could it be that as passengers, we are forcing the sliding motion? Or could it be the driver? I feel a lot of G-Force as it happens or could that just be adrenaline from what is going on? Sometimes when that happens I look to the front of the vehicle the driver turns the steering wheel very rapidly, and occasionally the gear lever is still in the third gear position (the driver drifts round the bend with the clutch engaged and drops it into second after the corner). Which is the case? Could the driver be responsible for this or am I?
This has happened once in a minibus with nearly every its seat-belts busted and many of times in buses and coaches that weren't even fitted with seat-belts in the first place.
21 Jul 2011, 11:40 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, 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
We're going away in august and need to receive to the airport. There are 13 of us and i would like to know what you think the best and cheapest way would be.
One option is to receive a book a minibus with a driver. Would mean we don't have to sort out a driver, but oculd be expensive.
Also we could hire a minibus, and then receive someone we know to steer us down. This would probably be cheaper but would be a bit unfair on the driver, but we would pay them a bit of money.
Also we could hire out a coach, but i think that this would be too big and it would be easier to receive a minibus.
Also we would need to be picked up again but last time we did that with the same company.
So which way would be better/cheaper, and does anyone have any idea of prices?
Cheers
I should probably add it's about 100 miles between where we live and the airport
16 May 2011, 9:35 am | 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
A conversation with friends resulted in us wishing to create a car of suitable size (possible VW camper, minibus or tiny coach/bus) which could contain a Pegasus engine from a Harrier Jump Jet. The wheels would be removed and the nozzles would be in this location. What we would like to create would be a vehicle which has the capabilities to hover at around 2 -3 ft off the ground and "steer". Would this be possible with the right amount of money and technical experience? What would be needed to keep this thing working?
Haha, no we weren't high we're just a group of nerds that have far dreaming thoughts.
No, we obviously don't have the money or technical experience. It's merely hypothetical unless one of us ends up as a billionaire (unlikely).
13 May 2011, 3:20 pm | 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