While some are excited to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, others said the fanfare is poorly timed. Read more at straitstimes.com.
will include a royal procession through central London, a celebrity-studded concert at Windsor Castle, and a national holiday on May 8, as well as street parties across the country.
According to booking app Hopper, they are also more expensive – round-trip airfares from the US to London over coronation weekend averaged US$733 in mid-April, 21 per cent higher than a year earlier. Ms Lana Bennett, chief executive of Tours International, a British company that runs special interest tours, said US visitors showed high interest in its six-night coronation tour, which Ms Higgins Horwitz is joining and was sold out by February.Ms Laura Aveidi, a youth fitness instructor living in Houston, was disappointed to find out that her family vacation to London, which she booked last July, coincided with the festivities.
“They just don’t have the interest this year,” said Mr Ralph Iantosca, a Texas-based travel adviser, who only has one client visiting London that weekend. “The ones that did have the interest don’t want crowds.” “I have a lot of respect for the monarchy,” he said, adding that he also attended Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in September 2022.
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