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May 20, 2025 13 mins
We’ve missed the ASHES for 22 years ! 🏉You don’t want to miss the next one - it’s the most anticipated international series in decades 🔥

-Rugby League Coach is hosting an Ashes Tour to the UK 🇬🇧

This bonus podcast inludes an interview with travel agent Phil Rae

It’s the BEST VALUE tour you will find 💯

The hotels are excellent, all internal transport is covered and there will be plenty of rugby league and non footy events for you to attend at your leisure !

Wherever you are in Australia or NZ, we can get you there !

Contact details for enquiries and bookings can be found at this link 👇

https://courses.rugbyleaguecoach.com.au/events/ashestour

Places are STRICTLY limited and we have a deadline to meet for group discounts so please act quickly or risk missing out !

You can also email Lee at admin@rugbyleaguecoach.com.au to discuss-
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It really is a GREAT package with everything included, great hotels and tickets for the first two tests.We leave on the 19th October and will be back home by the 4th November

Get in touch - you don’t want to miss this !
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm just here with mister Philip Ray. Do we call
you Philip or phil Is? Is it Philip on a Sunday?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah? Philip by my mum, but yeah, feel good.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Phil is the boss of Born Travel and I have
been liaising with Phil to put on a very big trip.
You can do the honors, Philip.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeah. I've been working with Lee exclusively the last six
weeks or so filling out a very exciting trip for
all the listeners on the podcast. Will be taking quite
a few people over to the UK for the Ashes Test. Now.
I believe it's the first Ashes Test for rugby league

(00:50):
played in the UK since two thousand and three? Is
that wrong?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Two thousand and three?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah, so so yeah, good couple decades since we've been
over there.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Definitely the most eagerly anticipated international series in rugby league
for a long time, and if you ask English people
in particular, it's the most anticipated series full stop. So
the I will go in at this juncture and say
that we've got tickets for the first two tests, but

(01:22):
that was my part of the deal. I've also got
some very firm arrangements with several identities in British rugby league.
There'll be numerous little visits to clubs if people want
to do that as well, and as certainly if we

(01:42):
have some coaches who come with us, we can certainly
work out some best practice sharing and sessions with English
coaches and whatnot. So that's the rugby league stuff, I suppose.
So the first two tests, the one at Wembley and
the one at Everton. If people are wondering why there's
no Headingly Test in there, honestly, nineteen thousand seats or

(02:05):
something like that, Phil at that ground and it's sold
out in about three hours, so there was no chance
there was buckleish chance of getting tickets for that. Yeah,
and the trip everyone will be back in Australia anyway,
to New Zealand or wherever they're coming from. They'll be
back to watch the third Test anyway, just in case

(02:26):
people switch off from this podcast because they don't want
to listen to the detailed philm some of the trip
up in one minute.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
So what we've got, We've got you flying from anywhere
in Australia. We've got the group. It will be officially
departing from Sydney, but we can leak you up to
connect through Sydney flying Emirates through Dubai with a short
connection flying it into Landing. From there you'll be picked up.
You'll be driven all the way through to a stunning
property in South Kensington. Minute walks to the Naturalhistory Museum,

(02:56):
easy access to get into Central Landing. We've also we
did two private tours for you. One will take you
through to the pubs of London and also to the
streets of London, so you get to get a bit
of history, a bit of background and a couple of
plants as well. So after that we'll be then going
to Webley on Saturday the twenty fifth of October I
believe the date is, and we'll be flying into London

(03:18):
on the morning of the twentieth, so you have one
full week in London as well as a couple of
activities to fill you in. From there, we'll be driving
you all the way up to Liverpool where we've got
again some absolutely stunning properties in the heart of Liverpool.
We've got a trip out to the Lakes District included
as which is in northern England, as well as a
Beatles tour which you give you a bit of history

(03:39):
around the Beatles, which is liverpools where they came from.
Plenty of other things to do around Liverpool, but also
on the first of November we'll be going to Everton
Stadium and watching the second Test. We've got the last
few seats for that as well, and we've pretty much
sold taken those last few. You'll be flying out of

(04:01):
Manchester and includes all your transportation from Manchester as well
to Manchester Airport again with Emirates, with the short connections
through Dubai, flying back into Sydney on the third of November.
So the whole trip is about two weeks. Everything is
taken care of except for some meals, but you've got
all your accommodation, you transport, all your some tours in

(04:21):
both London and in Liverpool, and all your airfas as well.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I haven't got the ghost to tell you went well
over a minute then, because that was such a good overview.
I think the key thing I want to get across
at this juncture, and you will be able to add
a bit more flavor to this. I asked you to

(04:47):
come up with a trip where the customers, the travelers
weren't locked into having to do something. But we're doing
this tomorrow. We're doing this in the afternoon. We're doing this.
I wanted it to be very flexible and we've achieved that,
haven't we absolutely.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
So you've had the tours go for two three hours
in a day, you're not going to be taking much
of your time up.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
So they don't have to go, do they They don't
have to go on those tours.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
No, they're optional, they're included, and it's just something for
you to give you some ideas if you knew to London.
But you've got five days, six six full days in London,
six full days in Liverpool where there's some activities planned,
but you can take that as much as you like.
You can do as much or as little as you want,
and I'm here to help with that. As well Born Travel,

(05:34):
we specialize in luxury, high touch experiences and travel travel arrangements.
So anything that isn't on the list that you wanted
some assistance with, that's just the conversation that you have
with myself and the.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Team hit them with the price.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
This is the best bit. So all of that, even
just if you said two weeks in London, not including
all of those things and flights for six and a
half grand per person, you'd be screaming at it. Six
and a half thousand per person, including all of the flights,
all of your transport on the ground, all of the
tickets to the games, all of the accommodation, all of
the activities, and some meals both in all destinations as well,

(06:12):
for six and a half thousand per person. Now that
is based on twins share. If you are a single traveler,
we can and you don't mind sharing, we can match
you up with individuals that also wouldn't mind sharing. That
would be But if you just want your own room,
your own privacy the whole way through, you're looking at
about nine and a half as strained dollars per person,
So six and a half if you come in as
a two per person you get in private room, then

(06:34):
everything is all for you, or nine and a half
if you were to go as a single traveler. If
you did want to share, then just let us know.
We'll work through it and we'll work with you on
it as well.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Unbelievable deal now non defun well, a non refundable deposit
is two thousand dollars. We will work with people who
want to pay installments and things like that, won't We
just we have to be strict in terms of certain times.
Can you paint a little bit of a picture for
that for people?

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Of course, So just when you know that you're happy
to go, the price is available at the moment, it
is based on sales, but we are looking at a
two thousand dollars deposit. That's all we need to secure
that your place on the tour, and that would lock
in all of your flights, all the things I've mentioned,
absolutely everything. So from that, if you what we would
need is then final payments won't be until the thirtieth

(07:26):
of August, so you've you've got three months where you
can slowly chip away at the total balance, or you
can keep it in your account and pay the balance
at your convenience. As long as it's all paid for
by then, then we're all happy to go. That's all
I need.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Brilliant the bits that I can add on right. So
of course, first of all, if there's any coaches out
there listening to this and you want to do some
coaching with me while we're over there, I can soult that,
no problem. I will probably have to do with the
odd seminar or something like that over there, and there's
a chance to maybe commentation on the games. That's another issue,

(08:02):
but I'll laugh to ask my travel agent to help
me with even though only family live up North, I'm sure,
I'm sure I can find accommodation. One of my best
mates is actually the media manager for the Kangaroos. That's great,
so we will probably in the second week when we're
up North, well maybe even the week in London too,

(08:24):
we may be able to get some Kangaroos to come
and have a night with us. And I mean we
probably won't get him on the drink, but you get
what I'm saying. But Chris is also is also very
keen to do a night and call it on the
piss with Chris because he's a former Curry Mail and
Channel seven rugby league journalist, so he's fully immersed in

(08:47):
rugby league. He's moved on to a different world now
in his daytime job, but he's still the Kangaroo's media officer.
So that's one thing. I've had a verbal confirmation from
Ten O'Connor and Barry McDermott, who are the two Sky
TV presenters and commentators over in the UK, they're going

(09:08):
to put a night on for us as well, so
we've got plenty, particularly up north, and there's a couple
of clubs that are keen to host us and I'm
sure we can manage that. So how can people, I
mean people know how to get hold of me Rugby
League Coach dot com dot au or at Rugby League
Coach on most socials apart from X which is at
our old coach on the net. There's a link on there.

(09:30):
Now there's a Google sheet, but they can also call
you an email you but if you want to talk
through the Google sheet with them and the email and everything.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, So what we're going to do if you have
interest in this, it's best at email us directly. We'll
give you all the details we have our posters and
all the all the collateral that we share with you
after the podcast. The email address though, if you would
like it now, it's Team t e a M at
Bourne Travel b O r N t R A b

(10:01):
e L dot com. Do are you? You can also
call us on one three hundred six nine eight one
three three or ship me a text. 'll give me
a call on my mobile which is four eight zero
eight zero zero zero nine eight. All this information will
be provided so you don't need it, but it's good
to have on the podcast as well. On the Google form,

(10:22):
we will be requiring some additional information that will provide
you when when you've got some interest. So yeah, it's
mostly just personal information so that we can lock you
into the trip and get and get you. Your place
is secured and it's.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Also important that any contact made with us non non
no obligation is he I mean you can they can
get in touch with us, ask more questions and absolutely well,
just know that once you've paid two thousand dollars you'll
go into England's you on that place? Now, my last
question before I'll let you on your merry way, is

(10:56):
he going to join us, mate?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
I'd love to let me get a part of the
life that it's it's certainly something that's on the list.
I'm a big regul League regby union fan as well,
but we get over there every year for rugby union,
so it's an exciting time for regularly. Yeah yeah, yeah,
I love to get over and I reckon you need
to hear get through all those beers as well, so.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
We could have an England versus Australia drinking to contest.
I mean yeah, that's the other thing too happy for
families to come as well. It's not going to be
necessarily be a pistol, but if people want to get
piss we can certainly do that and I am partial
to a bit of that. And of course it's my
home country so well be able to particularly when we
get up north in particular, I'll be able to tell

(11:41):
people what to do and where to do it because
Liverpool is not far from Manchester and Leeds and Newcastle
is a couple of hours away, so people can do
what they want. Really well, we're not we're not buttlings
or buildings. No people know what bulltings means over here.
I'm trying to think of some It's not a Kon

(12:02):
Tickie tour necessarily.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
No, not at all. And this is the thing like
we we've created and Taylor made this whole experience with
the idea that we want to give you the freedom
to pick and choose the things that you do while
on the ground, but also have a really great set
of an experience that you're going to be able to get.
If you just booked us what you've got, there'll be
nothing wrong with what we've booked. It's an amazing itinerary

(12:25):
with some beautiful properties and some great inclusions. However, if
there was something else that you wanted to do, that's
separate to that. It's a simple conversation with myself and
the team and we can we can figure out exactly
what you want to do. If you want to spend
a week in Paris and then head straight across into
into London for the for the game, absolutely fine, there's
not Europe is a big place. The world's your oyster

(12:47):
in a sense, and Europe is well you can cover
off in a lot of different places as part of
that what we want to do.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
So sorry, I was going to say, people can upgrade
the flights if you want to through you and.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Everything is everything. Treat this as if this is this
is your itinery that you can pick and choose the
things that you like and don't like in it, and
we want to make it as good as it can
be because there's a lot of people out there who
don't want to change it. But it's also this is
your holiday, so we want to make sure it's a
great experience from start to finish.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Sounds good, Just go through your contact email again.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
If nothing else, Yeah, So it's team t e A
m at orn b O r N Travel t R
A v e L dot com dot.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Au send him an email or send me an email.
If you're listening to this, you'll you'll have heard my
email forty five thousand times before, so I won't repeat it.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Thanks a lot, Phil, no worries, thanks for having me Lee,
and yeah, look forward to helping you with this trip.
Would be amazing
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