4 Edgar Buildings, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
Cocktail Bar · 15 tips and reviews
The Telegraph: If up for a nightcap, Bath’s best cocktail bar, Sub 13 (01225 466667; sub13.net), is just three minutes’ stroll away, in stylish, vaulted underground premises.
Historic and Protected Site · 168 tips and reviews
The Telegraph: On weekends, the best time to visit the Roman Baths (adults £12.25, 65 and over £10.75, children 6-16 £8) is soon after they open — later on, there can be queues to get in.
The Telegraph: Enjoy a coffee at Colonna & Small’s (07766 808067; colonnaand smalls.co.uk). Its award-winning baristas prepare speciality brews with meticulous precision.
6 New Bond Street Pl (Upper Borough Walls), Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
Bakery · 4 tips and reviews
The Telegraph: Have lunch at The Bertinet Bakery (01225 445531; thebertinetkitchen.com). Affiliated to a cookery school, it offers outstanding quiches, pasties and custard tarts well worth the wait for a table.
The Telegraph: Tour Bath’s set-piece Georgian landmarks. Start at the Assembly Rooms (adults £2), the marvellously restored prime meeting places for Bath society in Jane Austen’s time.
The Telegraph: The Royal Crescent is the most impressive of Bath’s seven Georgian crescents. The Royal Crescent Hotel (royalcrescent.co.uk) does an impressive, if pricey, afternoon tea (£25). Book ahead.
The Telegraph: Get the evening under way at The Star Inn (23 The Vineyards; star-inn-bath.co.uk), a resolutely traditional, civilised pub with a “death row” bench for its elderly regulars.
6-8 Hot Bath St, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
Spa · 72 tips and reviews
The Telegraph: A two-hour session in the thermal waters of the open-air rooftop pool and indoor Minerva Bath of Thermae Bath Spa (01225 331234; thermaebathspa.com) is very enjoyable.
Ralph Allen Drive, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
Park · 5 tips and reviews
The Telegraph: Walk around Prior Park Landscape Garden, a woodland-bordered valley that sits above a rare example of a Palladian bridge. Nearby parking is tricky: a taxi from the city centre costs around £8.