A Jumbulance is a unique, specially-designed coach ambulance, which provides safe and comfortable transport for travellers with disabilities and illnesses.

Across took delivery of a new Jumbulance in 2017. Costing £400,000, this latest addition to our fleet is dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, and joined our 2012 vehicle dedicated to Saint Bernadette.

Our standard Jumbulances are used to transport groups from the UK to Lourdes each week between Easter and late October.

Each vehicle will clock up to around 1 million miles during their 10 years of service. It costs £100,000 to keep one Jumbulance on the road for one year.


Across organises pilgrimages of a lifetime to the Catholic Marian Shrine of Lourdes in South West France for those needing special care.

People who are sick and disabled (whom we call VIPs) are taken to Lourdes, accompanied by a doctor, nurses, a priest and helpers by Jumbulance: a unique vehicle with ambulance status, specially constructed to carry our VIPs.

Priority is given to those in terminal illness, those with progressive diseases and those whose medical conditions make it impossible or impractical to use conventional means of transport.

Across aims to enable the pilgrims to participate in a spiritual experience, while also enjoying holiday activities and the company of others in changed surroundings.