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Just Go! takes fans to walk the cobbles as Coronation Street opens new set to public Coach breaks to Britain’s most famous TV street now available to book Photos: ITV Just Go! Holidays (03332 342125; www.justgoholidays.com) has launched Coronation Street – Walk the Cobbles short breaks to the new set of the hit ITV soap. An exciting 90-minute guided tour of Britain’s most famous TV street is the highlight of the two- and three-day trips, with the chance to see up close the new external sets of this top TV show, including the Rovers Return, The Kabin, and Underworld. Coronation Street moved to its new home in MediaCityUK on Salford Quays in Manchester in 2014. The set was painstakingly recreated, apart from a few tweaks to meet the demands of high-definition television. Now ‘Weatherfield’ is once again welcoming visitors keen to follow in the footsteps of their favourite soap stars. Guests can choose from a two- or three-day trip, with pick-up points across the country, price £139 and £199 per person respectively, based on two sharing. The two-day itinerary also visits Chester, while the three-day trip offers free time to explore Manchester. Return coach travel and dinner, bed and breakfast at selected hotels is included. A two-day trip is also available through sister company Omega Breaks (03300 130016; www.omegabreaks.com), also priced at £139 per person, including time in Manchester and Liverpool. Just Go! offers hundreds of pick-up points up and down the country for coach travellers and the Club Class Home Collection service, from £90 per person, can take care of the arrangements from door to door on many trips. It has also created a 'Single Traveller' collection of holidays to a range of destinations in the UK, Ireland and Europe, where guests travel with other solo travellers and have no supplement to pay. To book, call 03332 342125 or visit www.justgoholidays.com; or call 03300 130016 or visit www.omegabreaks.com Follow Just Go! Holidays on Facebook at facebook.com/justgohols and Omega Breaks on Facebook at facebook.com/OmegaHols KEEP IN TOUCH WITH TRAVELTAPPERS NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING HERE. To download high-res images (where we hold them) please go to: bit.ly/TraveltappersPressImages. For further information or to arrange press trips, email: [email protected]. Alternatively, contact Simone Kane on 07811 161839 and [email protected] or Kate Simon on 07939 526109 and [email protected]. Traveltappers is a trading name of Little Black Book Creative Ltd. Notes to editors: Just Go! Holidays and Omega Breaks are part of the JG Travel Group (JGTG), which focuses on bringing the freedom of travel to more than 130,000 older people across the UK each year. The group exists to make travel easy, affordable and fun by offering to take care of the arrangements from door to door. All brands within the group seek to innovate and provide inspiration through an interesting and engaging range of value-for-money tours, from short breaks and classic seaside-resort holidays to heritage tours, events and European escapes. As the only recognised travel partner of the Historic Houses Association, JGTG supports Britain’s heritage and uses this knowledge to inspire travellers from the US to explore the history of the UK, Ireland and Islands under the Albion Journeys brand. The new group has a turnover of more than £35 million. JGTG also supports Mary’s Meals, a UK-based charity with the vision that every child receives one daily meal at their place of education. The charity works in 14 underdeveloped countries across the world. JGTG was founded in 1996 as The Coach Holiday Warehouse, becoming Just Go! Holidays from 2011, and JGTG in September 2017. Since 2016 it has been backed by Kings Park Capital, a private equity firm specialising in investments in the leisure sector. [ENDS] .

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