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Etiquette On Coach Tours
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Am going on a coach tour of southern Spain later this year with Riviera Travel. Has anyone used them, and what is the etiquette on the coach for seating?
First come first served?
Haven't done a coach tour before and don't want to put my foot in it.
First come first served?
Haven't done a coach tour before and don't want to put my foot in it.
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See link and scroll down to how are seats allocated https://www. rivieratrave l.co.uk/abou t/faqs
15:03 Sun 25th Jan 2015
See link and scroll down to how are seats allocated
https:/ /www.ri vieratr avel.co .uk/abo ut/faqs
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I went on a coach tour last year - not with Riviera but with another company. Seats were allocated in advance. In my experience of coach tours (I will NEVER do another one, but this was for my aged grandad), once seats are allocated everyone sticks to them. And then everyone develops a siege mentality against the coach firm. And then you all sit in the bar and get shedded.
Self and spouse did Trafalgar in US and in Canada couple of years ago. Seats were pre-allocated with a daily rotate clockwise each day. If you ride in a double-decker avoid the front row up top as there will likely be nowhere to put your toes.
Riviera www site makes no mention of gratuities - which is perhaps good. With Trafalgar we were asked to pay same, on a per day basis, when booking.
Enjoy the trip.
Riviera www site makes no mention of gratuities - which is perhaps good. With Trafalgar we were asked to pay same, on a per day basis, when booking.
Enjoy the trip.
When we went on one, the guide announced that it was by rotation, ie everyone moved back two seats every day.
On our coach the people who'd been at the back on the first day, got to the coach early and sat in their new seats at the front. Everyone else then complied and moved two seats back every day.
On the other coach, the people who'd been at the front on the first day got there early and sat in the same seats. Everyone else was very British and refused to complain in public (although they all moaned bitterly in private) so they all ended up sitting in the same seats every day. The guide did nothing to enforce the issue.
On our coach the people who'd been at the back on the first day, got to the coach early and sat in their new seats at the front. Everyone else then complied and moved two seats back every day.
On the other coach, the people who'd been at the front on the first day got there early and sat in the same seats. Everyone else was very British and refused to complain in public (although they all moaned bitterly in private) so they all ended up sitting in the same seats every day. The guide did nothing to enforce the issue.
Reads like an incompetent guide in the latter case. In both my earlier mentioned tours the guides placed 'Today's seating passsenger names' card in a space at front of the luggage rack above each 2-seats, before anyone boarded, each day. If anyone sat in the wrong seat there were 48 others to help a recalcitrant passenger read the name card and to move along elsewhere pronto. "Shift your butt - that's my seat", kind of thing worked very well for from the second day's boarding everyone got the message.
Go Trafalgar - they're better organised.
Go Trafalgar - they're better organised.
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