hi we returned Sunday, and travelled with Goldcrest, the company itself were brilliant, no problems at all. The journey does take along time we got on in Barnlsey, South Yorkshire, it did other pick ups, we caught the bus at 5.45am and arrived 9pm it would have been shorter but traffic was not great, 10 mins before we hit the channel tunnel, we were held up in traffic jam, so we missed our departure time, so had to wait for the next one, but by the time we had a loo break it was pretty much time to get back on the coach to board the train. We had 2 4yr old girls with us, the coach had a loo which was visited frequently lol, a selecion of drinks, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, water, & pop, cheaper than services at only 50p each, the driver had a large selection of disney dvd's snow white etc, we took coloring books and bits to keep them occupied. I would go again with gold-crest the price is right

it is a long journey, but that depends where u live i suppose.