Whatever happened to day trips?

[Miss Red]

When i was little my parents used to take me to see Blackpool illuminations every october! This would involve getting up whilst it was still dark, walking to a particular waiting point before getting on the old coach to blackpool. On arrival heading straight for the pleasure beach, then the shops, buying crap you will never use again, eating too much candy floss and junk food and walking it off for hours and hours and hours. Then as 8pm approached, the desperate feeling for plain boring food like beans on toast in a backstreet cafe. Just as the sicky feeling from overeating was starting to dissapear, being replaced by a severe leg/back ache, it was then 11pm and time to get on the coach for a long journey home.

Well being the nice parent i am, I thought it would be nice for my daughter to experience the same torture (sorry i meant adventure) as i did lol.

Ive looked around the net to see what coaches depart from stafford - but there doesnt seem to be any!!! I found a booking site for a 3 day trip to blackpool for Oct 2012!!

Anybody know of any coaches that pickup around here? Its not the same if i take the car.

 

[Gadget]

National express do one, gets you there for 7.40 am though and will cost 2 adults 2 kids nearly £70.
G x

 

[bully bully]

London Midland have a day trip offer on between 22/10 and 6/11, don't know if they go to Blackpool though.

 

[henryscat]

Happy Days Coaches http://www.happydayscoaches.co.uk/ then click on Day Trips!

 

[Miss Red]

National express do one, gets you there for 7.40 am though and will cost 2 adults 2 kids nearly £70.
G x

Thanks ive just had a look, its £35 there and only £20 back! I checked the train earlier and that was £15 single and £41.50 return! Dont seem right lol i thought it was only supermarkets that worked pricing like that

Ive just seen it take 4hrs!! where do they collect from timbucktoo? lol

 

[henryscat]

National express do one, gets you there for 7.40 am though and will cost 2 adults 2 kids nearly £70.
G x

Thanks ive just had a look, its £35 there and only £20 back! I checked the train earlier and that was £15 single and £41.50 return! Dont seem right lol i thought it was only supermarkets that worked pricing like that

Family railcard would knock a fair chunk off though.

 

[Miss Red]

National express do one, gets you there for 7.40 am though and will cost 2 adults 2 kids nearly £70.
G x

Thanks ive just had a look, its £35 there and only £20 back! I checked the train earlier and that was £15 single and £41.50 return! Dont seem right lol i thought it was only supermarkets that worked pricing like that

Family railcard would knock a fair chunk off though.

Thats a pretty good idea you have there. Just looked and as far as i can see its only £28 a year, that is a big chunk....oh i just read small print that only gives you a 1/3 off the price - so it would work out same as i would be paying £28 for a once only usage

 

[tek-monkey]

The Daily Mail often run a free 2 month railcard promo, but its not on at the min

 

[tek-monkey]

You tried these?

http://shiretravel.co.uk/shiretravel_daysout.php

 

[The Bubble]

The drugs got stronger

 

[Alan B'Stard]

With the family railcard, I'm sure discount is 50% for kids & 33% for adults. If you buy online over a week in advance, you can get some really good deals.

 

[Mudgie]

Happy Days Coaches http://www.happydayscoaches.co.uk/ then click on Day Trips!

The picture on here is very familiar being just across Derby Street from the Stafford Arms but is that the roof a chapel far right ?
www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/details.aspx?ResourceID=32884&ExhibitionID=32882&SearchType=2&ThemeID=245

 

[Gramaisc]

The picture on here is very familiar being just across Derby Street from the Stafford Arms but is that the roof a chapel far right ?
www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/details.aspx?ResourceID=32884&ExhibitionID=32882&SearchType=2&ThemeID=245

St Thomas's church.

Resource Details - Staffordshire Past Track

Images, documents and views from the past for the area where you live, work or visit.

www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk

Demolished in the early 70s - there was a Great Mills DIY place there for a while after.

 

[Mudgie]

St Thomas's church.

Resource Details - Staffordshire Past Track

Images, documents and views from the past for the area where you live, work or visit.

www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk

Demolished in the early 70s - there was a Great Mills DIY place there for a while after.

Thanks.
So demolished the year before i moved to Stafford.
And I think the Great Mills DIY place became the Stafford Newsletter offices after they moved from Mill Street.

 

[Gramaisc]

Thanks.
So demolished the year before i moved to Stafford.
And I think the Great Mills DIY place became the Stafford Newsletter offices after they moved from Mill Street.

Yes.

I suspect the sale of the site may have been used to finance the new St Thomas and St Andrew church in Doxey.

 

[Glam]

The picture on here is very familiar being just across Derby Street from the Stafford Arms but is that the roof a chapel far right ?
www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/details.aspx?ResourceID=32884&ExhibitionID=32882&SearchType=2&ThemeID=245

FK Me sideways with a baguette Batman! Holy thread resurection!!!

 

[Thehooperman]

Which Batman film was "FK Me sideways with a baguette" a quote from and shouldn't it end with Robin?

 

[Withnail]

 

[staffordjas]

Loved the mystery tours in the 70's from Stafford Station, with a prize for guessing where the train was about to end up.
Ended up in Oxford one time , at least I can now say me & my mates went to Oxford University after a wander around there

 

[staffordjas]

@Mudgie I'm having a walk out along seafront now. Will post a photo of The Corbyn Head Hotel site as it is now when I get home to my laptop ( only way I know how , useless on thus phone). Ypu will most likely be shocked as I was...