Why we still run the coach to Brighton
It is our shortest, cheapest and least glamorous departure, and we have no plans to stop running it. A short piece about who it is for.
The Global Tamil Travel teamPrepared and reviewed in-house
Published 20 January 2026
Updated 20 August 2026
1 minute read
What this guide will help you understand
- Why the smallest trip matters to us
- Who books it, and why they come back
Out at eight, back by seven, eighty-nine pounds. On any commercial measure the Brighton day trip is the least interesting thing we do.
It is also the departure that started the company, and the one a particular group of our customers books four times a year.
Who actually books it
Grandparents with grandchildren, in school holidays. People who have stopped driving. Families where one person would like a day out and nobody else has a free Saturday. A woman who has come on it eleven times and sits in the same seat.
None of them need a travel company to get to Brighton. What they need is for somebody else to do the getting there — the tickets, the parking, the walk from the station, the timing on the way back.
81 years old, travelling alone, and not once did I feel like a nuisance.
That is the whole business, really. The international journeys are more complicated and cost a great deal more, but they are the same thing scaled up: somebody else has thought about it first.
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Prepared by the Global Tamil Travels team in London — the same people who plan the departures and answer the phone. We write these because the questions come up often enough that a proper answer saves everybody time.
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