I'm thinking about our next holiday, around September or October 2013, and we are thinking of going to England. We have already been to Scotland and we loved it, but now we decided to check England. I need help in checking holiday inn express orlando where we can base ourselves. holiday inn express orlando Now to start with we are a couple, no children, aged 30 and we like museums, cities, culture, castles and nice landscape. We use buses and trains to travel around. Now, I will fly to London Heathrow and back from London Heathrow, according to flights I land at London heathrow at around 9.30am UK time. I am thinking of the last 5 or 6 days to spend them in London and do 2 day trips from there...your help is here: What other 2 bases I can use and I can even do nice day trips from there? So London definitely, then I need to other bases...I'm ready to take a 3hr train from London after the flight to start from the North. remember that I will be using buses/trains for day trips. Can you help?
If I was going to suggest a single activity to spend several days doing it would be to leave your suitcase at a hotel in Oxford, pack a day pack with essentials and 1 change of clothes and set off downstream holiday inn express orlando (in the direction of London) on the Thames Path along the beautiful and historic holiday inn express orlando river and stay in B B's in riverside towns and villages along the path. Walking in England on the beautifully marked paths is one activity in which you can participate that can be done easily and better than anywhere on the planet. The available guides and maps are superb and you can choose to stay in humble guesthouses or beautiful country house hotels. holiday inn express orlando I go back every year and can't get enough.
I've suggested the Thames Path in particular because of the ease of following it and the beauty of the landscape as well as the particularly nice towns and villages with lots of choice of places to stay. But if a different sort of landscape appeals to you more there are paths, long and short, covering the entire country. There's loads of information online.
If you are interested in Yorkshire do a search here for Morgana - she lives in the area and I believe has posted many times about how to do day trips from York using public transport. Its a lovely area of England!
Thanks, for your replies. nice to hear that I could include York as a second base. What about Birmingham as another base..Like that I will go down from York to Birmingham to London? Your suggestions are welcome.
I wouldn't holiday inn express orlando use Birmingham as a base. It's not the nicest of places. York is a great shout. You could head west and also use Bristol as another base, but that's some distance - train and scenery would be nice though!
Hi plastic_paddy, so what location do you suggest instead of Birmingham, that is centrally located (apart from York and London), as I think York and London will be my 2 bases and now I'm checking for the 3rd base.
Except London, I see no advantage for visitors to base themselves in big urban places. For me that would include Bristol as well as Birmingham. I think York, Oxford, London would be a good combination. Oxford is entertaining itself and towns in the Cotswolds as well as Thames-side towns are easily reached holiday inn express orlando by bus and train from there. I find it easier to get around from smaller cities rather than the big ones providing they have regular services and these do. If you wanted to be farther south than Oxford I'd choose Bath rather than Bristol, much prettier.
York is in East Yorkshire - closest holiday inn express orlando to the A1. And the East Coast Mainline. It therefore follows that location 2 should also be on or close to that same York-London axis. Therefore, and by way of a contrast to big city London and tourist dominated York, Stamford.
It's very picturesque and historic, there are good restaurants and excellent lodgings. Burleigh holiday inn express orlando House is but a hop and skip away (5 mins in a taxi) and Peterborough, for its magnificent and oddly overlooked, Cathedral not much further on the train. Beyond P'boro it's 40 mins into Cambridge for all sorts of Gothic and Perpendicular delights.
Your third base could be Bath. Should holiday inn express orlando be lots of tours from there as well as buses and trains. With our car, we went to Wells, Glastonbury, Stourhead holiday inn express orlando Gardens, Longleat House and nipped holiday inn express orlando into Wales, driving holiday inn express orlando up the pretty Wye River valley holiday inn express orlando to Tintern Abbey.
But I'd also consider Oxford. No reason to reject it just because it's near London. There are several museums, the colleges. And you can do a lot from there, in addition to walking the Thames path. Woodstock and Blenheim aren't far. We did a daytrip by train to Winchester, a town full of history.
Question: Some friends suggested Manchester instead of York, what do you say, or are they different from each other? Remember holiday inn express orlando that what I'm after is somewhere centrally based to take 2 day trips to outer nice cities/town, no need to see mountains, but I don't want a dull base.
As different as night and day. York is one of my fab towns, lovely historic holiday inn express orlando centre, easy day trips into the Yorkshire countryside, railway museum that is awesome, lovely church. Manchester is a much larger, former industrial town, much destroyed and rebuilt in modern post-war architecture. One of my least fav places in England.
What about flying into heathrow and takIng a bus to Bath...you can do day trips to Salisbury and Stonehenge, wells etc. Then train to London and see London. Then train to York for the rest of the time then fly home from Manchester airport?
One or two somewhat 'different' holiday inn express orlando suggestions being made of where you should base yourself. I think some responses are putting you in the best place geographically or practically but these places are often not what springs to mind for a tourist new to the area.
So, first 2 bases ready (York and London). Now I'm deciding on the other base..its a fight between Bristol and Bath...Bristol looks to be more central especially for trains, while Bath although holiday inn express orlando it looks nice, I'm worried that its not central especially for trains, also I ready that there are too few restaurants in Bath...correct me if I'm wrong.
Bath is about 10 minutes from Bristol on the train so there's holiday inn express orlando no reason holiday inn express orlando whatever to stay in Bristol when you could be enjoying Bath. And it'a very popular place so, yes, you're wrong, lots of restaurants.
Another way to manage the same trifecta w/o the open jaw flights would be to land at LHR and take the Express coach to Bath. Stay 3 nights (inc Mad Max day tour). Then early train to York and stay 2 nights - 3 nights if you take a later train.
I beg to differ - lots to see and do in Bristol which is not just a tourist venue but a proper living city with loads of history, culture and restaurants. and you can do Bath by train or bus as a day trip.
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