Departures
Opposite page: Bath Cathedral; Above left: The Pump Rooms;
Below from top: Roman Baths; The Duchy; Royal Crescent;
On a Shoestring The Combe Grove Manor Hotel Address: Brassknocker Hill, Monkton Combe, Bath, BA2 7HU Tel: 01225 834644 Email:
meetbarcelo@barcelo-hotels.co.uk Web:
www.meetbarcelo.co.uk The Combe Grove Manor Hotel sits in 69 acres of private gardens and woodland just three miles from the centre of Bath, with impressive views of the Limpley Stoke Valley. The 18th century hotel has 42 guestooms, two restaurants and a Country Club, with gym, swimming pools, tennis courts, sauna, steamroom and 16-bay driving range. The hotel’s largest meeting room is located in the Garden Lodge and caters for up to 90 delegates theatre-style. The Manor House has three attractive meeting rooms with features such as open fireplaces, original plasterwork and Georgian bay windows. Day passes for the Country Club can be arranged for delegates.
Wired Up The Royal Crescent Address: 16 Royal Crescent, Bath, BA1 2LS Tel: 01225 823333 Email:
info@royalcrescent.co.uk Web:
www.royalcrescent.co.uk This is probably Bath’s best-known hotel, set in the prestigious Royal Crescent. Heritage it may have, but the hotel is no slouch when it comes to modern technology. The hotel bills The Montagu Room as ‘perhaps the most stylish conference room in the whole of Bath’ and says ‘the plasma screen could even be confused as a wall-mounted work of art’. It overlooks the hotel garden and has capacity for 18 delegates in a boardroom layout or 40 theatre-style.
The Sheridan Room has room for ten in a boardroom set-up or 20 in theatre-style. The smaller Library room has room for ten diners. Wireless broadband is available in all meeting rooms.
Small but Perfectly Formed The Duchy Townhouse Address: 5 Edward Street, Bath, BA2 4DT Tel: 01225 464238 Email:
laura@laurastownhouseapartments.co.uk Web:
www.theduchybath.co.uk This historic Georgian townhouse – once owned by Prince Charles – is located just off Great Pulteney Street and sleeps up to 16 guests, making it a suitable venue for small group events and for entertaining clients too. The impressive Drawing Room leads to the beautiful ‘Withdrawing’ room, while a large kitchen leads into a formal dining room and through French doors into a landscaped garden. Catering staff and/or a chef can be hired in.
Bath Info
There are regular rail services between London Paddington and Bath Spa stations, with a journey time of 90 minutes. Services from the north are via Bristol Temple Meads. By road, it is around two to two and a half hours from London on the M4, or two hours from Birmingham on the M5. The nearest airport is Bristol which operates services to/from Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Dublin, Belfast, Leeds-Bradford, Newcastle and the Isle of Man, among other destinations.
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