Bristol Airport to Bath

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As the title states I am going to Bath via Bristol airport on Saturday. There are a few ways to make the transfer but the easiest seems to be via a big green double decker bus, "Air Decker", owned by the Bath Bus company. Has anyone used them? Are they okay.

I can get a bus to Bristol, train Bristol to Bath but getting on one bus seems a more simple option.

Advice welcome.
 
If you are not renting a car obviously then the airdecker will be your easiest option.

I have never used them, but we have something similar here called railair and it does reading town center to Heathrow. its pretty good
 
Bus direct to Bath. Just getting to Temple Meads for the train can take up to an hour from the Airport at the worst times of day. Whereas it's only about 45 or 50 minutes direct to Bath from memory.

Note done it in a few years but that used to be my experience of it. Bristol Airport is in a rubbish location.
 
Thanks for the comments. I've booked the Air Decker, £20 return. I'll be there early, too blinkin early, on the Saturday, leaving on the Sunday so hopefully traffic shouldn't be too bad. Saying that it is my first time in Bath so I may be eating my words. At least there are no changes involved.

Weather is due to be good, looking forward to my first visit, seeing it at it's best.
 
Its a fab place Neil. You need to have a good few days there sometime whilst your daughter is there. Its not a big place, and a pig in a car at the wrong time.
 
Hobbit said:
Its a fab place Neil. You need to have a good few days there sometime whilst your daughter is there. Its not a big place, and a pig in a car at the wrong time.
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I'm going down with her to have another look at the city and university. Fly down silly o clock on Saturday, back on Sunday afternoon. We will have a day and a half to have a good look around both. All on foot once we are there so the traffic shouldn't impact on us.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I'm going down with her to have another look at the city and university. Fly down silly o clock on Saturday, back on Sunday afternoon. We will have a day and a half to have a good look around both. All on foot once we are there so the traffic shouldn't impact on us.
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LT the university is primarily at the top of a large steep hill! But a decent bus service available!
 
IanM said:
Bath GC (Sham Castle) is close to the Uni! (worth a peak)

Great City to study in, rugby ground by the river, lots of bars and great historical sites! Tell her to stay at home and go yourself! :)
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Played there Sunday course could be great but at the moment in my view its not in good shape, knee high rough and greens that are iffy at the moment
 
pendodave said:
Haha. My daughter is at bath, I suggested she got a bike until I first encountered that hill....
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Having been there I can now also chuckle at your suggestion :D. They should put in a constantly moving ski lift open 7am-9pm, charge £2 a journey.

Just to tie this up in case anyone else looks to do this journey. We took the Air Decker bus from the airport directly into Bath. Pick up is directly outside the airport, clear and obvious where it is. They drop you off outside Debenhams / the train station in Bath, again obvious where it is. I booked online as it was cheaper, they also currently don't have contactless option so you would need cash if paying on the day. The buses go in either direction every half hour. They were bang on both ways. The journey takes an hour and a quarter and that is where the fun ends. They use old double decker buses, the roads were windy, the journey jerky. I came off as green as the buses paint job :sick:. I don't travel well and this pushed me to the limit. If you don't have travel sickness issues then it is slow but fine, if you do then avoid. If my daughter chooses Bath, and gets the grades, then it will not be an option I would take again!

As others have said Bath is beautiful. For any Northerners, it is is like Harrogate turned up to 11. We saw it on a sunny weekend, a Jane Austen weekend with people dressed up, it could not have been more English and gorgeous. Lovely place for a weekend away. For someone living in Northumberland.............I hope my daughter chooses one of her other options :LOL:
 
rulefan said:
Has she got Lancaster on the list?
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Funnily enough, yes she has. She didn't originally but I suggested we go to the Open day. It ranks well, ranks very well for her subject so I said it was worth the day out. We both really liked it, it surprised us. The campus was lovely, buildings were good, the layout nice, the feel of the place excellent. The course speech was good so all in all it ticked a lot of boxes. I suspect it will not be her number 1 choice but it may well be her back up one. I asked her the day after where she stood with it and she said if that was where she ended up going she would be very happy still. That is good enough for me.

Was it your old stomping ground or do you know people there?
 
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