Coach firm Lucketts offers special rates to help beat the winter blues

Coach firm Lucketts Travel is offering schools, businesses and groups in Portsmouth special rates to help them beat the winter blues.
One of Lucketts' fleet of vehiclesOne of Lucketts' fleet of vehicles
One of Lucketts' fleet of vehicles

The company is providing special prices for private hire in January and February, giving customers the chance to travel in style (and warmth) with a little extra money in their pockets.

Group sales and marketing director Paul Barringer said: ‘January is synonymous with cold weather and keeping the purse strings tight, so we’re pleased to be able to offer these special rates. It forms part of our commitment to giving local groups and organisations access to our award-winning service at great value.’

School trips and corporate travel are just two of the services included in the special rates. The offer also extends to Lucketts’ VIP coach, which can be hired by sports clubs, groups and businesses for that added ‘wow’ factor.

The sleek and state-of-the-art coach is the only vehicle of its type in the region and boasts its own Neff kitchen, five flat-screen HD TVs complete with Sky and the option of an on-board host. It’s popular with the players of Portsmouth FC, who travel to all of their away games on the coach.

A wide range of other vehicles are available for private hire, ranging from people carriers and mini buses to 70-seater coaches.

Lucketts Travel has an unrivalled reputation for personal service, as well as the highest levels of safety and compliance. It takes the maintenance and safety of its vehicles so seriously that they are all maintained in-house and it’s trusted by the DVSA as part of its Earned Recognition scheme.

Paul adds: ‘That’s an increasingly important point for customers booking coaches, particularly schools. High profile stories about coach firms running unsafe vehicles or drivers going over their hours have made people more switched-on to demanding the highest levels of compliance. We are proud to lead the way in that area not just locally but nationally.’

Lucketts Travel has been a part of the Portsmouth community since it was founded 93 years ago. It’s one of the biggest independent coach firms in the UK and proud to remain family-owned.

Among the local groups and organisations that rely on Lucketts Travel to get them from A to B are Portsmouth FC, HSBC and Bay House School in Gosport.

To find out more, call Lucketts on 01329 823755 or visit www.lucketts.co.uk