Travel Info

Getting around the Festival

Bath is a small city and easy to get round on foot, but it’s also well served by city buses into the evening.
Larkhall (Rondo Theatre, New Oriel Hall) is on buses 6A&7, and not at all far from the no.3&13 (ask for Grosvenor Place).
Burdall’s Yard is an easy walk from the centre, but also on bus routes via London Road, eg. 3, 13.
Bath University is on regular buses U1 & U2 but NB. the timetable changes half-way through Fringe time and is much reduced thereafter.
The Hop Pole is also an easy walk but if you’re on the buses there are plenty going that way, 39, X39, 19, & all the 4s.
To get to Radstock on a Sunday you need bus 174.

Getting back late

Trains run back to Bristol late, at minimum frequency about hourly, until just after 1am, except on Sunday when it’s 23.35. The last train to Chippenham, Swindon, and on to London leaves at 22.55 every night; on Saturdays it’s 22.45 but there’s a 23.44 to Chippenham & Swindon, on Sunday 22.43. You can get back to Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury & Frome till 00.04 on a weekday, and 23.24 on Saturday, and to the first 3 of those at 23.44 on Sunday, but Frome is ignored at the weekend when the last train is 21.07. Check engineering work and timetable changes if you’re aiming for the last one of the night.

Buses to Bristol via Saltford & Keynsham run all evening at least hourly till 02.10 (except Sunday, at 22.55), and there are now night buses to the suburbs from Bristol city centre. Buses run to Bradford & Trowbridge till 23.15 every day except Sunday (20.22); and to Frome at 23.15 except for Saturday when it’s 23.25, but don’t even think about it on Sundays – what is it with Frome and Sundays? You can head back to Radstock & Norton and even Paulton or Wells at 00.10 except on Sundays when it’s a pretty decent 23.10; Box, Corsham & Chippenham get a late bus on weekdays at 23.10, and 23.20 on Saturdays; Melksham & Devizes get a 23.15 on weekdays, 23.20 Saturdays, but don’t be getting flighty ideas of gadding about from out in the countryside on a Sunday oh no…

Bath Tourist Information

For information about where to stay and what to do during the day in Bath (apart from going to FAB fringe art shows and supporting our advertisers and sponsors, natch) your one-stop for all the information you could need is Bath Tourist Information. And for extra convenience, Bath Box Office is in the same building!
p: Bridgwater House, 2 Terrace Walk, Bath, BA1 1LN, 9:30-5:30 Mon-Sat (10-4 Sun).
t: 01225 614420
e: tourism@bathtourism.co.uk
They have an informative website at www.visitbath.co.uk