AFC Bournemouth’s away travel is excelling thanks to Excelsior Coaches.

The Cherries Travel Club is an integral part of AFC Bournemouth and allows fans of all ages to travel in safety to away fixtures.

The Cherries travel Co-ordinator Neil Vacher commented ‘Our away supporters provide the team with excellent support throughout the season and in return we aim to offer them the highest possible standard of coach travel available. This season we look forward to travelling with Excelsior Coaches, the only regional operator to be awarded the ‘Coach Marque’ accolade by the Confederation of Passenger Transport. I believe they will provide us with a service of the highest quality and am sure that our supporters will enjoy travelling on Excelsior’s modern fleet of coaches.’

Ken Robins, owner of Excelsior Coaches confirmed that “all businesses who book coaches for ongoing contract work have a ‘duty of care’ to those being carried. This duty of care can be fulfilled in one of 2 ways. Either the individual or business has to professionally ‘risk assess’ the operator themselves or they appoint an operator already risk assessed by the Confederation of Passenger Transport through its Coach Marque scheme. Excelsior Coaches are the only local area Coach operator to achieve the Coach Marque accolade and so, Bournemouth Football Club, one amongst many professionally run businesses in the greater Bournemouth area, see Excelsior Coaches as their ‘coach operator of choice’”.

Both AFC Bournemouth and Excelsior Coaches hope that this is the start of a strong partnership– that will prove to be a springboard giving both organisations the ability to explore other opportunities such as transport to and from AFC Bournemouth events and accommodation packages for visitors to the Fitness First Stadium.

To find out more about Excelsior coaches and their partnership with AFC Bournemouth please log on www.afcb.co.uk or www.excelsior-coaches.com or call AFCB on 01202 726300 or Excelsior Coaches on 01202 652215