Coach Holidays

2025 Holidays

A big thank you to all our loyal and regular customers for your continued support and a warm welcome to new travellers. Travel with C&J Tours and travel with friends.

We would like to bring to your attention a few significant changes for 2025.

Firstly, we have moved. Our new address for all correspondence is:
32 Rogers Avenue, Earls Colne, Colchester, Essex CO6 2FF and our new telephone number is 07806 806054.

Secondly, we have had to change the way we securely hold your money for our holidays, which is the reason why this brochure is late in being printed. Your money is still secured through a financial failure insurance though now done through Evolution Insurance Company Ltd (see ‘How is the money I paid for the holiday I book protected? in our Terms of Business). Finally, it is widely expected that during 2025, Entry/Exit requirements will change for non-EU nationals travelling to the EU (see ‘Do I need a passport?’ in our Terms of Business), though at time of printing of this brochure, no firm date for it to be introduced has been set.

At C&J Tours, we understand that your holiday is important to you which is why as a husband and wife run company, we pride ourselves on providing a friendly, quality service where every customer is important. Reputation and reliability are important to us, our company is personal to us. As a company we are not about being the cheapest or the biggest. We are honest, friendly and reliable, offering that something extra which can be lost with the bigger companies. All our holidays feature interesting, well thought out itineraries, with an included excursion programme. When you book your holiday with C&J Tours you are allocated a seat, giving you the opportunity to select a seat to your liking, based on availability. We only use local, convenient pickup points, there are no feeder coaches, taxis or interchanges to worry about and there is no overnight travel. We don’t use fancy sales gimmicks to get bookings and get you to part with your money, just good old fashioned customer care. We don’t do constant cancellations. We may have to cancel the odd holiday, but we will try and operate holidays even if bookings are low that way you as our customer have the confidence to book with us. Your money is safe with us! In accordance with the UK Package Travel & Linked Travel Regulations 2018, all monies paid to C&J Tours for our holidays are fully protected by Financial Failure Insurance arranged through Evolution Insurance Company Ltd.

Then there is our coach, ‘Bethany’ our pride and joy! Bought new in 2017, this top of the range Mercedes coach was built to our exacting specification. We keep it in pristine condition, inside and out. Travel in style and comfort with C&J Tours. Our luxury Mercedes coach is clean, comfortable and reliable and offers panoramic views of the scenery. For your comfort the coach is fitted with luxury seats with extra padding, seatbelts, armrest, adjustable footrests, fold down tables and USB charging points. There is also complimentary WiFi onboard. Our luxury coach also features a toilet/washroom, hot and cold drinks facilities and is air conditioned with a state-of-the-art air filtration system. For your safety the coach is fitted with CCTV, secondary braking systems, lane departure and collision warning systems. As well as being safe our coach is environmentally friendly. Like most coaches today, it is fitted with a Euro 6 diesel engine which emits the lowest greenhouse gas emissions per passenger kilometre than any other mode of modern passenger transport. A coach load of people can potentially take 50 cars of the road. There is also the extra axle on our coach which helps spreads the weight of the coach more evenly on the road. Having just the one coach reliability is a priority for us which is why we have the coach maintained under a maintenance contract with Mercedes.

As with all coach companies we are monitored by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Some of our regular travellers will have been on board when we have checked by DVSA at motorway service areas. The DVSA give each coach company an Operator Compliance Risk Score (OCRS), which is based on a traffic light system. The OCRS is based on MOT pass rates, and both roadside vehicle and driver checks and allows DVSA to calculate the likelihood of an operator being non-compliant. We are please to say C&J Tours are currently listed with DVSA for both vehicle and driver as green – a compliant operator.

Your driver, Dave is approachable, professional and has around 40 years’ experience in coach travel. Let Dave do the driving, no need to worry about which route to take, where to park and the cost of fuel. When possible, Tina will also be onboard looking after you with refreshments. So, why not join us on one or more of our holidays, sit back, relax, travel with friends, make new ones and enjoy the scenery, all in the knowledge you are in safe hands, you are doing your bit for the environment and supporting a local company.

Many of our regular passengers have been travelling with us for years, have become friends and make new travellers with us feel welcome and part of the family. So, if you have not travelled with us before, give us a try. Travel with C&J Tours and travel with friends. We look forward to welcoming you aboard and having the pleasure of your company on one or more of our holidays in 2025.

If you are interested in any of our holidays and want to book or require more information, please contact us on: 07806 806054.

Many thanks,
Tina, Dave & Beth.