u3a

Canterbury & District

Holidays & Outings

Planning a u3a Outing
Status:Active, open to new members
When: Details of future Holiday and Outing events (where available) are shown below,
Cost: Please refer to the event information.

Outings

We run a series of day trips each year, usually by coach, and usually departing from Canterbury Bus Station.

In 2026, we are planning to run a follow-up visit to Maidstone with a river cruise in summer, a trip to Rochester in the autumn, and a trip around Greenwich with a river and coach tour around the London Lights in the run up to Christmas.  

 Please note these are for members only.

Holidays

Each year we organise a couple of (usually) 5 day residential holidays to explore various parts of the country. Our holidays include tours of places of cultural interest (Historical Houses and Gardens, Museums etc.) as well as opportunities to explore towns in free time. Transport is by coach. We invite one or two member travellers to research the places that we are visiting and give a short presentation on the coach.

The Canterbury u3a holiday working group are developing itineraries for 2026 as follows:

11th - 15th May : West Sussex - Sold Out

14th - 18th September : The Cotswolds

Details to follow in due course.

The working group continue to seek an individual or couple who can manage the administration and lead the group during each holiday week.

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Forthcoming events

14th September 2026
to 18th September 2026
Holiday
PLEASE NOTE This holiday is now sold out. The Cotswolds covers a huge area – almost 800 square miles running through five counties – Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. Each area has its own identity, and yet all contain those defining features: golden stone and rolling hills, the ‘wolds’. Our tour takes us to iconic Cotswold towns and cities, a beautiful Norman abbey with […]
Cost: £712 pp

Forthcoming events

9th July 2026
9:15 am - 4:00 pm
Outing
As promised we will be returning to Maidstone, the county town of Kent, this year  on Thursday 9th July.  We will be going by coach  with some time browsing the county museum followed by a 3 hour river tour on the Medway with a fish and chip lunch included.  The cost is £55pp. The museum is based in an Elizabethan mansion on St Faith’s Street, […]
Cost: £55
Booking Required
25th September 2026
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Outing
Do join us for a relaxed trip around historic Rochester
Cost: £45
Booking Required
20th November 2026
12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Outing
For our Christmas outing this year we are going to Greenwich for an afternoon of Christmas shopping and/or self guided sight-seeing followed by a Thames pleasure boat hour cruise to Westminster and coach trip round this year's London's Lights and a fish a chip supper in a restaurant.  The Outing will be on the Friday 20th November and the cost will be £65 Greenwich has […]
Cost: £65
Booking Required