9 Insider Tips for Visiting Bath, England

Alyssa Hollingsworth | November 18, 2015

8. Take Bus 1 to Prior Park—Don’t walk!

Prior Park Gardens is a beautiful 18th Century landscape garden filled with meadows and wilderness and a really awesome bridge. Rick Steve, Samantha Brown, and other travel guides highly recommend it as one of the best things to do in Bath.

What they fail to mention is that it’s at the top of a veritable mountain.

On my first attempt to visit Prior Park, I figured I would walk. It started out level enough, but soon I found myself faced with a steep incline. I powered through it, my weak American legs requiring frequent stops (while an old British couple with their grandkids practically skipped past). I cursed the name of all who had failed to warn me what sort of trek I had begun.

There is a fabulously easy fix to this: Just take Bus 1 from the main bus station. If you ask the bus driver (or anyone on the bus) to help you find the stop, they’ll gladly get you there. In my experience, everyone is so relieved that you’ll be spared the hike that they celebrate your hassle-free arrival as much as you do!

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