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Coach Trip

Season 8 2011

  • 2011-08-29T15:30:00Z on Channel 4
  • 30m
  • 15h (30 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Adventure, Reality, Action
Coach Trip is a travel-meets-reality show where a coach load of Brits set off on a six- week trip around Europe. Stopping off at a wealth of destinations on their way, but confined to a coach, tensions run high when people are forced to spend too much time together. But this is a Coach Trip with a difference, because couples that become just too annoying will be voted off by their fellow coach trippers dropped off at the nearest station and sent home. It's a tough job for professional tour guide Brendon, whose patience is tested daily as he herds 14 people around. There are arguments, parties and travel sickness to contend with all mixed up with some of the most amazing sights in Europe.

30 episodes

Season Premiere

2011-08-29T15:30:00Z

8x01 United Kingdom - London

Season Premiere

8x01 United Kingdom - London

  • 2011-08-29T15:30:00Z30m

International tour guide Brendan is eager to meet his new group of tourists, who spend the first day of their journey in London.

While in the city, they take a ride on the Thames and tackle a pole-dancing lesson.

Later, the fun and games end when there's a shock early departure for one unlucky couple.

2011-08-30T15:30:00Z

8x02 France - Paris (1)

8x02 France - Paris (1)

  • 2011-08-30T15:30:00Z30m

Having travelled to France by train, the tourists take to the streets of Paris, where they attempt to blend their own perfumes.

Then the group all put their best foot forward, learning to walk the runway with Parisian models.

A first new couple also join the trip, but things soon turn sour at the vote and group harmony begins to stray off key.

2011-08-31T15:30:00Z

8x03 France - Paris (2)

8x03 France - Paris (2)

  • 2011-08-31T15:30:00Z30m

Day 3 of the trip sees Brendan and the tourists visiting a French circus school and theme park.

But the fun soon fades when a falling out between two of the tourists means it's a roller-coaster ride all the way to the vote

2011-09-01T15:30:00Z

8x04 France - Epernay

8x04 France - Epernay

  • 2011-09-01T15:30:00Z30m

On Day 4, the coach trundles into the Champagne region of France, where a visit to a grand vineyard is music to the ears of one hard-partying couple.

After sampling the Champagne highlife, it all goes downhill fast as the tourists ride a quarter-mile zip wire. Later, one couple come down to earth with a bump at the vote.

2011-09-02T15:30:00Z

8x05 France - Metz

8x05 France - Metz

  • 2011-09-02T15:30:00Z30m

Day 5 and, after a night's heavy drinking, one tourist is in no mood for the day's task - cooking and eating snails.

Meanwhile, another is caught out trying to manipulate the vote by writing names in flour!

Later, the tourists go kayaking, but spend more time under the water than on it.

2011-09-05T15:30:00Z

8x06 Germany - Baden-Baden

8x06 Germany - Baden-Baden

  • 2011-09-05T15:30:00Z30m

The passengers are joined by a preacher and her husband as they celebrate their departure from France and enter Germany. The day's excursions include a visit to a car museum, but some of the travellers lack enthusiasm for the nation's engineering. They also dress formally for an afternoon watching horse racing, but one couple's enjoyment of bright outfits and shouting meets the disapproval of their fellow tourists.

8x07 Germany - The Black Forest

  • 2011-09-06T15:30:00Z30m

Brendan sends two contestants home early as he aims to bring an end to the late-night partying. Stunned by their team leader's actions, the remaining tourists travel into the Black Forest for a day of archery and fun on a lake.

8x08 Switzerland - Schaffhausen

  • 2011-09-07T15:30:00Z30m

One couple tell Brendan they are not enjoying their holiday anymore, so he tries to keep the rest of the group happy by moving the coach swiftly on to Switzerland. There the tourists take a trip around the Rheine Falls and enjoy an afternoon at a farm, with two new arrivals and some unusual games.

2011-09-08T15:30:00Z

8x09 Switzerland - Zurich

8x09 Switzerland - Zurich

  • 2011-09-08T15:30:00Z30m

No freebie is left uneaten as the group head to a Swiss chocolate factory in Zurich, and it's chocoholic Brendan who's left feeling sickest by the time they leave.

2011-09-09T15:30:00Z

8x10 Liechtenstein

8x10 Liechtenstein

  • 2011-09-09T15:30:00Z30m

The Brits demonstrate how not to cook as they attempt to create a local delicacy in a Liechtenstein kitchen. In the afternoon, Brendan sends them up into the trees and around a rope course.

2011-09-12T15:30:00Z

8x11 Germany - Kempten

8x11 Germany - Kempten

  • 2011-09-12T15:30:00Z30m

It's a confused start to the day for the Brits as they're not sure which country they're in. Brendan hands out the hair nets as group get to work in a German pretzel factory.

2011-09-13T15:30:00Z

8x12 Germany - Munich

8x12 Germany - Munich

  • 2011-09-13T15:30:00Z30m

The group hits Munich where there are tantrums from some about having to do paddle-board surfing on the river.

Its childish giggles all round as the Brits head up a suggestively named mountain in Germany. But the giggles turn to cheers as the group get to toboggan back down.

2011-09-15T15:30:00Z

8x14 Austria - Salzburg

8x14 Austria - Salzburg

  • 2011-09-15T15:30:00Z30m

The group try their hand at classical Mozart singing, before attempting a lesson in break dancing.

2011-09-16T15:30:00Z

8x15 Austria - Wels

8x15 Austria - Wels

  • 2011-09-16T15:30:00Z30m

In the city of Wels, Austria, the group take part in a cook off, and then a chariot race at the local horse-racing track. And a married couple who are antique dealers join the party.

2011-09-19T15:30:00Z

8x16 Austria - Vienna

8x16 Austria - Vienna

  • 2011-09-19T15:30:00Z30m

In Vienna the tour party get a lesson in gold leaf gilding before an afternoon trip to a historic fun park.

2011-09-20T15:30:00Z

8x17 Hungary - Gyor

8x17 Hungary - Gyor

  • 2011-09-20T15:30:00Z30m

The coach heads in to Hungary where Brendan lines up a karate lesson and some wake boarding for the holiday makers.

2011-09-21T15:30:00Z

8x18 Hungary - Budapest

8x18 Hungary - Budapest

  • 2011-09-21T15:30:00Z30m

In Budapest the group experience a nuclear fallout drill at a slightly strange museum. During a trip to a thermal spa in the afternoon Brendan has a close encounter with a masseuse.

2011-09-22T15:30:00Z

8x19 Slovakia - Nitra

8x19 Slovakia - Nitra

  • 2011-09-22T15:30:00Z30m

The group prepares for a day of fantasy and role play in the old kingdom of Slovakia, picking up two fair maidens waiting for them along the way.

2011-09-23T15:30:00Z

8x20 Slovakia - Bratislava

8x20 Slovakia - Bratislava

  • 2011-09-23T15:30:00Z30m

The group goes white-water rafting and then summer bobsleighing in Bratislava. If that isn't enough tension, later on they must vote for who should leave the tour party next.

2011-09-26T15:30:00Z

8x21 Czech Republic - Brno

8x21 Czech Republic - Brno

  • 2011-09-26T15:30:00Z30m

The coach party is joined by two West Country salsa dancers as it makes its way through the Czech Republic. The Brits get a taste of the high life as they learn to use jumping stilts, before spending an afternoon down a local cave.

2011-09-27T15:30:00Z

8x22 Czech Republic - Ostrava

8x22 Czech Republic - Ostrava

  • 2011-09-27T15:30:00Z30m

In Ostrava, Brendan introduces the group to a castle abseil followed by some grass skiing. At vote time, one couple's past comments come back to haunt them.

2011-09-28T15:30:00Z

8x23 Poland - Bielsko-Biala

8x23 Poland - Bielsko-Biala

  • 2011-09-28T15:30:00Z30m

As the coach enters Poland the Brits tour a brewery before Brendan takes his happy travellers for a lesson in local dancing.

2011-09-29T15:30:00Z

8x24 Poland - Krakow

8x24 Poland - Krakow

  • 2011-09-29T15:30:00Z30m

The coach arrives in Krakow and the tourists visit the local salt mine before exploring the city on bicycles.

2011-09-30T15:30:00Z

8x25 Poland - Katowice

8x25 Poland - Katowice

  • 2011-09-30T15:30:00Z30m

Brendan wants the tourists to get a taste of Polish life, so he leads them straight to the kitchen for a lesson in sausage soup and beetroot salads.

2011-10-03T15:30:00Z

8x26 Poland - Wroclaw

8x26 Poland - Wroclaw

  • 2011-10-03T15:30:00Z30m

It's costume time and Brendan gets his Brits dressed up as gnomes in Wroclaw, Poland, as they hunt for the city's collection of little statues.

2011-10-04T15:30:00Z

8x27 Poland - Boleslawiec

8x27 Poland - Boleslawiec

  • 2011-10-04T15:30:00Z30m

The tourists spend the morning at a Polish pottery lesson and the afternoon on a riverboat trip in Germany.

2011-10-05T15:30:00Z

8x28 Germany - Leipzig

8x28 Germany - Leipzig

  • 2011-10-05T15:30:00Z30m

With only a few days of the current tour to go, the last yellow card vote of the trip is due. Paranoia has set in within the group, with nobody wanting to fall at the final hurdle.

2011-10-06T15:30:00Z

8x29 Germany - Berlin

8x29 Germany - Berlin

  • 2011-10-06T15:30:00Z30m

In Berlin, the Brits go straight to remnants of the Berlin Wall for a graffiti lesson. The last activity of the trip is cocktail making, where the tourists raise a glass to reaching the end of the road. But who'll receive the toast as the group chooses their winners in the last vote?

2011-10-07T15:30:00Z

8x30 The Journey Home

8x30 The Journey Home

  • 2011-10-07T15:30:00Z30m

As they pack their bags for home, Brendan and the Brits take a moment to reflect on all the fun they've had over the last six weeks.

Having driven through 10 different countries, and having welcomed over 40 holidaymakers on board, there's been no shortage of hilarity and tantrums on the coach's latest adventure.

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