By water bus into Windsor
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WATER BUSES should be used to ferry tourists into Windsor while their coaches park on the outskirts of the town, Christopher Jennings, director at the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board, told the members of the Windsor and Eton Rotary Club.
Mr Jennings felt that a positive step should be taken to ease the pressures caused by two million tourists visiting Windsor every year. He said that in five years visits to the State Apartments had increased by 56 per cent. Mr Jennings' plan to make coaches park in the Windsor racecourse and transfer passengers to boats to visit the Castle appears superficially attractive, writes Noel Miller.
But what he did not say was that coach party facilities in the town have been made decidedly less attractive and more expensive for the in creasing number of passengers. In the past years under-cover coach parking facilities at the Windsor Railway Station and pick-up and dropping-off facilities at the Riverside have been withdrawn.
Mr Jennings also did not appreciate that time is an important factor for many coach parties and extra time taken loading and unloading into river boats is just not on for many half-day and longerdistance coach tours to Windsor Castle.