Coach Tours with the Personal Touch
Coach Tours with the Personal Touch
Windmill Tours operates escorted coach tours from Suffolk and the surrounding area. As well as planning, organising, and leading tours for clubs and groups such as the WI or U3A, we also offer open tours for individuals to join.
Working exclusively with Felixstowe Travel, we can provide a rich variety of tours and experiences. All with the care, and attention to detail, your holiday deserves.
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Group Tours |
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Would you like your club members to have a group holiday, with coach travel to the destination, accommodation, and excursions all arranged for you according to your requirements? We can take all that off your hands, for any duration and up to 50 passengers.
Planning, reconnaissance, marketing, accommodation, excursions, and travel will all be arranged and undertaken for you. Gill & Viv will then escort your group all the way, leading, guiding and troubleshooting, so you and your members can sit back and relax.
We cover all of the UK, Ireland, and Northern Europe; for example: our past trips include the Italian Lakes, and specialist visits around the WW1 Battlefields and Memorials of Belgium & Northern France. Houses & Gardens, Railways & Canals, History & Art… or an eclectic mixture – nothing is too much trouble.
All you need to do is decide your theme and destination, then leave the rest to us!
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Tours for Individuals |
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If you’re not travelling with a group, take a look at our programme of open tours you can join as an individual. The itinerary will be just as carefully planned for your interest, and fully escorted for your convenience and enjoyment.
In the unfortunate event that your preferred tour is full, you are invited to join the reserves list for first refusal, should any places become available.
A long weekend in Shropshire to include a visit to the Shrewsbury Flower Show (which is much more than just flowers) and Ludlow with its historic Castle. Add some interesting stops as we travel across country and we have a great few days.
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Staying at the Hamlet Court Hotel we will take in the sights of Dublin, the National Stud and Japanese Garden, Newbridge Silverware, Powerscourt Gardens and Castletown House. Along with the stunning scenery of Glendalough this will be a super look at this part of Ireland. As we will be sailing from and back to Holyhead, we will have an overnight stop in Caernarfon before making our way back to Suffolk.
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Staying at the delightful Dunoon Hotel in Llandudno, we will take in the breathtaking beauty of Bodnant Garden, travel on the Mountain Spirit Ffestiniog Railway and be captivated by Penrhyn Castle. All in all a super five day break.
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It’s just a short hop into Norfolk for our Christmassy offering this year. Holkham Hall is a must when decorated for Christmas and we have secured tickets to Thursford Christmas Spectacular. We will also visit Holt which is known for its Christmas displays and lights. We may only be away for a couple of nights, but we’ll pack in as much as we can!
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Day Trips
Day trips have also been requested and so we have the following already in the diary. These are on behalf of a specific group, but there will be places available so do get in touch for details.
Wednesday 31st July 2024
Sandringham Flower Show
£44 per person including coach and admission
(fully booked, reserve list only)
Thursday 29th August 2024
Henstead Exotic Garden &
Somerleyton Hall Gardens
£44 per person including coach and admission
Saturday 12th October 2024
Knitting and Stitching Show,
Alexandra Palace
£44 per person including coach and admission
On the Drawing Board
Advance notice of trips at the planning stage, not yet ready to take bookings (details provisional):
Tours for 2025
2nd - 5th February: Reunion Tour
28th - 31st March: Liverpool City Break
28th April - 2nd May: Gardens of Cornwall
15th - 18th August: Southport Flower Show
13th - 17th October: Autumn in the Lake District
31st October - 3rd November: Bridgewater Festival Parade
27th - 30th November: Belgian Christmas Markets
5th - 8th December: Blenheim at Christmas
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Windmill Tours Travel Club |
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Why not sign up to our travel club? For just £10 per year, you will be the first to know of what is being planned, and enjoy priority booking and discounts on future travel with us.
Contact us for a membership form.
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About Us |
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Gill Denny & Viv Ritchie have over 30 years of experience in the travel industry between them. They worked together for 10 years, organising and leading successful holidays on behalf of the Suffolk East Federation of WIs, before forming Windmill Tours to offer a similar service to a wider audience in collaboration with Felixstowe Travel.
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Windmill Tours is fully compliant with Tour Operator Regulations and holds the necessary public liability insurance.
Company Registration 13980105
Viv, Gill, and Felixstowe Travel driver Lee
…And here’s a BIG shout-out to Gill’s brother Ken for many, many hours of work designing the WT motif & logo, and building & maintaining our website (“You’re welcome!” – Editor).
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Our Partners |
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Windmill Tours is proud to be partnered with Felixstowe Travel, who provide their comfortable executive coaches and excellent drivers for our tours. Click here for the Felixstowe Travel website.
One coach of the Felixstowe Travel fleet