The Royal Hotel Bath

Greetings! This is my attempt at blogging while I am away on a study abroad. For those who haven't heard the rough itenerary, it goes a little something like this: 20 days touring Ireland and Scotland in a coach bus, 14(ish) days hiking the Camino de ...

Our day in Bath began well with a lovely breakfast at the Royal Hotel.  Our hotel is opposite the railway station so double glazing on our windows is welcome to cut traffic noise.  Our room has about 20 ft ceilings and has been refurbished, ...

... .co.uk Check out photos from our trip to Bath: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=123j0hzb.3rrt506v&x=0&y=-n7w75y Check out a video we filmed of the Royal Crescent Hotel and Bath House: ...

So I had the real bath experience today and visited a Spa with a stunning city panorama view. I also spent half an hour inhaling menthol. No mum, I did not smoke. There were 4 steam rooms with different ...

... built by the Romans around thermal pools that surface in the town.  After dinner we caught a taxi back to our hotel and visited a cemetery nearby that has two famous residents buried there. The first is our own Captain Arthur PHILLIP of the ...

... Gothic architecture, fan vaulting. Display in vaults. A parish church where people have worshipped for over 1600 years. 3. No 1 Royal Crescent -This semi-elliptical terrace of 30 grand houses attracted many socialites would rent a house 'for a ...

... and then stand under a huge waterfall shower to cool off, followed by a foot spa. The Open air rooftop pool, The Royal Bath was next and we floated around whilst enjoying spectacular views over the city of Bath and surrounding hills, heaven! The ...

... roundabout) and the Royal Crescent (in a huge, open, green space) – two residential areas with interesting, curving architecture (the Royal Crescent was built by architect John Wood, Jr., in 1767-75).  Previously in the day, the rain had been ...

... after a quick photo op of the Royal Crescent (which Dylan kept calling the Royal Terrace, which was the name of our hotel in Edinburgh). The Royal Crescent has 30 houses side-by-side that forms a graceful arc and was built between 1767-1774. Only the very ...

... there until last year). Then off The Circus runs a street (where we’d scored our park) that runs onto Bath’s most famous street The Royal Crescent.  The original Town House (it was bombed during WWII) was designed by John Wood (not sure ...

... interred below the abbey itself (or have memorials stones on the floors).  We also visited the Royal Crescent area (some very expensive flats and a nice hotel) and went to the Jane Austen museum. We also visited the Costume museum, which ...

... and the Circus. We stumbled upon a travel agency and got the British Airways number from them then continued on to Royal Crescent via the Circus. Very impressive houses and gardens. Walked back into city centre for a Starbucks coffee which we drank in ...

... went back to our room, got our laundry and went and did our washing.  While it was spinning, we walked to the nearby Royal Crescent, the most luxurious of the houses in the city.  It sits near the top of a hill and overlooks a beautiful valley ...

... from Bath, and poked around a little bit before walking up a HUGE hill to see a big round-a-bout called 'the circus' and the Royal Crescent. There was also a huge green space and it was just so pretty! All the buildings in Bath look old (which they are) ...

At hte weekend I decided to leave Dean to his 6am temple visits and go to Royal Chitwan National Park for a couple of days. Dean wasn't too bothered (its a bit expensive!) so I went alone. Most people book a package in Kathmandu but I wanted to do my own ...

I have visited the walking stand-up/magic show Bizarre Bath. Lots of fun! There are no historical facts, no pretentious guides starting every second sentese with "Did you know....". Just 90 minutes of ...

... night in Bath. Bath is amazing and I've posted lots of pics of the Roman Baths, the Pump Room, & the Royal Crescent (a set of buildings where our hotel was). For any of you "Janeites", Jane Austen lived in Bath for a brief period & purportedly hated ...

... day we probably would’ve left then. To sweeten up our 'forced’ third day in the heat we moved to a nicer hotel with pool (thanks to mum who sponsored this ‘luxury’) and spend the whole day on sun chairs taking the occasional dip. ...

... a busker playing classical music on a saw. After this short break we set about the real purpose of our visit to Bath, namely finding Royal Doulton figurines. We struck gold in an upmarket shop by the name of Jolly's where a very helpful assistant devoted ...

... the cycle back with Alex having more chain issues and swapping bikes with Ravi we met up and went for dinner.  The hotel had recommended the restaurant a couple of doors down the street and after a good feed we fond that our waiter was addicted to ...

... gleaned from the info there...The Regent Hotel in Leamington was (at one stage in the 19th Century) the largest hotel in Europe with 100 rooms, but only one bath! Why doesn't that surprise me. :-) Maybe they all had showers (not!) Anyway, back to the ...