This was an easy read focusing on two young women, Emma and Mel, going on a coach trip with Emma’s grandmother. They thought it was going to have younger people on the trip but it was all old people. Mel wasn’t a likeable character so that frustrated me. Emma deserved a better friend. At the end they did learn a lot about the older generation and had a sweet ending.

Thanks Netgalley for the ARC.

Emma is not the most organised of people and when she forgets to give her friend Mel something important, she berates herself on how useless she is. To make it up to Mel she says that she will take her to Edinburgh for her birthday and then promptly double books herself with accompanying her widowed Grandma on a couch trip to the same place. Luckily Mel decides it will be fun to go on the trip as well, but isn't prepared for all of the other people on the trip to be at least twice her age.
Their first impressions of the group are not good and the feeling is mutual. However as the trip progresses and things happen to challenge prejudices it appears that they can at least tolerate each other.
This is a feel good book that is easy to read and enjoy.

This is a fun holiday read and I finished it in one day. It gives a good feel for this type of holiday, and the descriptions of places visited have made me want to go there. I warmed to the characters by the end but for the first part I found Mel, in particular, quite rude and irritating. Having read many novels with over sixties main characters, it was disappointing to have negative stereotypes used here.

When Emma messes up things between Mel and her boyfriend on valentines day she is put under pressure to make up for it on Mels upcoming birthday. She arranges a birthday suprise but then double books after promising her Grandma to accompany her on a coach trip after the death of her grandad. The story then develops into a tale of friendship, ageing and the differences but also similarities between different generations.
I loved the characters and the story was a nice easy relaxing read. There were some funny moments and it was all good natured and light hearted fun. I would thoroughly recommend this book.

It was a great read to see the mix between the older and younger generation! I really enjoyed the narration of the story. Loved the characters as well.

would like to thank netgalley and the publishers for letting me read this book

where to start with this one

a disastrous valentines meal goes wrong for all the wrong reasons and then you try to plan a girls weekend away only to find you have now agreed to go on a coach trip to edinburgh with your gran and its the same weekend...

with a coach of oaps the coach trip begins ...

a coach full of strangers with two 20 years old with mistrust on both sides but its an illuminating journey of discovery

a fun read....with some sad parts

Emma has messed up her friend Mel's valentines night surprise and is determined to make up for it.
Her Gran was supposed to be going on a coach trip with her husband to celebrate their golden Wedding. However, her Grandad died so Emma is taking his place and Mel is going with her.
What can go wrong - two young girls on a coach trip with a coach full of older people!!!

Two young women go on a coach trip with one of their gran's. They're fish out of water and a bit resentful that the coach is full of oldies however they gradually come to realise that the older people are human too.

What I liked: I liked the way the characters developed, both young and old and came to an understanding of each other.

What I didn't like: Nothing. It was a pleasant, enjoyable read. Not my usual genre but as I was about to go on a group trip I thought it would be the ideal book to read. I definitely recognised many of the characters in my travel group!

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

After Emma manages to ruin her friend's Valentine day surprise she decides to take her for a trip to Edinburgh to make up for it. The only problem is that she had already promised to take her grandmother there to scatter her grandfather's ashes.
This is a book that grew on me, initially I wasn't sure but as the story developed I was drawn into it. My wife and I went on a coach trip a few years ago, albeit we went to the USA, so much of this I could really relate to. On that trip there was a wide age range (I'm nearer in age to the older members of the group), but I can see how two young women could struggle to relate to a much older group. It was good to see how they gradually drew together, which I'm sure would happen in real life. One incident did make me add a First Aid app to my phone, a good reminder of how useful this would be. With plenty of humour, a touch of romance and some sadder moments this book is something different to enjoy.
I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher through Netgalley, however this did not influenced my review of the book.

Lovely book Emma forgets her best friend Mel's birthday again. Her grandma is going on a coach trip to scatter her husband's ashes. Emma and Mel go along on the trip and discover it's all pensioners on the trip.

Brilliantly written, full of humour with laugh out loud moments .Young meet old on a coach trip to Edinburgh. Prejudices and pre-judgements are aired and discounted.

Hmmmmmm a bit stereotypical at the start and I did wonder where it was going. Quick easy read and the quirks of different generation's. Thank you netgalley for the advance copy

This was a simple, fun, easy and quick read. The perfect type of book for your holiday, beach, pool kind of read. This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and I would read more of their work. The book cover is eye-catching and appealing and would spark my interest if in a bookshop. Thank you very much to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

3.5/5.

I loved the premise of this book but I didn’t gel with the writing and didn’t love the main character. Something about her didn’t feel right and I didn’t love the friendship.
Unfortunately I couldn’t finish the book.

I wasn’t sure I was going to like this book after reading the first few chapters - I felt the views the younger characters had about the older characters were stereotypical and vice versa. But as the story progressed and the characters grew to understand one another better these changed. If you feel the same after a few chapters, it is worth persevering. I liked the lead character, Emma, though she deserves a better friend than Mel. I’ve visited most of the places the coach trip went to and I felt that the author described them well. Overall, a heart-warming story. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you for allowing me to review this book.. It is perhaps not my usual choice, but after recently reading a few thrillers and suspense novels I welcomed something more light hearted. I admit that I thoroughly enjoyed the story and found it quite amusing at times. Emma and Mel are 2 women in their late twenties who accompany Emma's nan on a coach trip to Edinburgh. They had some preconceived ideas about what the other passengers would be like. As the journey progresses, some live up to their ideas and others make them rethink these ideas. I felt the author was very compassionate in her writing and many of the characters had hidden depths. Although I've never done a coach trip, i know others who have and many of these passengers were not dissimilar to some described to me.
I can recommend this book as a good light hearted story.

I dont really know what to think about this book. I'm a little prejudiced, being one of the oldies, but it did seem to me that the two girls were totally without understanding or interest in the fact that these 'oldies' had lived amazing lives. Emma and her friend came across as very judgmental and very quick to criticise. Thinking of my own grandchildren, about the same age as the two girls, they simply have never been like Emma and Mel. There are young people who are empathetic and understanding and I dont feel that was allowed here.
I enjoyed reading the story, but felt no great pull towards the characters or the plot.
Thank you for the chance to read this book and to review it.

A fun, heart-warming feel good book. The dynamic between all the characters was really fun although at times some of the characters were slightly annoying (however I think that may have been intended). I wasn't blown away by this but it does make a nice cosy and quick read.

A real laugh a minute story. All the characters are so real and the situations are totally believable.
Em is chaotic and has ruined her flat mate Mel’s Valentines fate night, now it is Mel’s irthday and she is hoping to redeem herself but nothing goes as she plans.
A coach trip with the old folk was not quite what she expected and it certainly turned out even better during their hilarious journey to Edinburgh.
I look forward to reading more by this very talented author.

The Coach Trip was a ‘read now’ offer from NetGalley. At first, I thought I’d made a mistake in accepting it and it was just silly chick-lit. Then I found half an hour had whizzed by while I was reading it and decided it couldn’t be that bad. Scatty Emma double books herself for a coach tour with her recently widowed Grandma and a weekend away with best friend and flatmate Mel. They decide to combine the trips and join a party of old people on a coach tour of northern cathedrals and castles. Really, what are these young women like? They’re in their late twenties yet totally prejudiced against the ‘old people’ (apart from Grandma) and so ignorant, they don’t even know that the country didn’t always use decimal currency.

Old people, they find, are rude, fussy and miserable. As the tour continues, they have a complete change of heart, finding (gosh!) that old people may have had interesting lives and are perhaps miserable because of tragedies and the annoying decrepitude that comes before they’re ready for it. So, the girls learn some life lessons as well as some interesting facts about old buildings.