BATH TOURS

SUGGESTED BATH TOURS

 

Bath Highlights Tour - 2 or 3 hours

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Ideal for first-time visitors to Bath with limited time. The walking tour includes the city's major landmarks – Bath Abbey, Pump Room, Spa Quarter, Pulteney Bridge, Queen Square, Royal Crescent, Circus and Assembly Rooms – and much else besides, including a bit of Jane Austen and her links with Bath.

 

You'll finish with a very good understanding of what makes Bath special. The three-hour version can go into a bit more depth.  

 

Bath In Depth Tour - 4 hours or a whole day

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With more time, consider booking a half- or whole-day tour. As well as showing you everything covered in the Highlights Tour, I can guide you around the Roman Baths (maximum 6 in a group for a guided tour) and Bath Abbey.

 

With a full day tour, there should also be time to visit other museums such as No1 Royal Crescent, maybe go into Jane Austen in more depth, or perhaps explore off-the-beaten track areas, as described below in the Pulteney Estate and Five Crescents tours.

 

I'll include carefully-chosen stops for coffee, lunch and tea.

 

Spa/Medical History Tour – 2 hours

 

This entertaining and informative walking tour looks at Bath’s 2,000 years as a leading spa destination. You’ll learn about the city’s natural hot springs and the waters’ supposedly therapeutic properties. You’ll hear stories about about Bladud the mythical founder of Bath, and how rich and poor came to Bath seeking cures from bathing in and drinking the thermal waters.

 

The tour will also cover bathing practices through the centuries, explore historic almshouses and hospitals linked to the baths, and reveal details about a doctor who invented a healthy biscuit in the 1700s that is still on sale today!

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Five Crescents Tour - 2 hours

 

This largely off-the-beaten-track route around Bath's hilly northern side takes in five of Bath's seven Georgian crescents, each a curving wonder in honey-hued Bath stone, as well the Assembly Rooms and Circus.

 

Magnificent views across Bath, and sometimes sheep, await.

 

Pulteney Estate and Beyond Tour - 2 to 3 hours

 

Another away-from-the-crowds itinerary, focusing on the area of Bath on the eastern side of the River Avon.

 

The walk takes in Bath's fascinating, unfinished Georgian New Town, especially its centrepiece, magnificent Great Pulteney Street. It continues through Sydney Gardens – elaborate pleasure gardens in Georgian times – along a scenic section of the Kennet & Avon Canal, and up on to the meadows of Bathwick Fields, with glorious view over the city.