Travel and Tours

Bath offers a number of walking tours with a difference providing entertainment for everyone. The Bizarre Bath Comedy Walk takes you on a walking tour of the city and is guaranteed to make you laugh. The Ghost Walk covers the haunted sites in Bath and is not recommended to the faint hearted.

Follow in the footsteps of Bath's most famous figure – Jane Austen. Choose from walks, interactive performances or fully themed events at one of the venues where Jane herself would have danced or attended a recital. Enjoy dinner followed by a dramatic reading or performance in the unique setting of Georgian Town House, or visit the Jane Austen Centre to see displays of her life and times.

Bath boasts a diverse range of specialist and Blue Badge guides, who can be booked for themed walking tours or for coach or chauffeur-driven tours. Bizzare Bath Comedy Walk, provides an entertaining and irreverent look at Bath's history and famous characters, while the Natural Theatre Company could add a surreal note to any tour, with their Egghead characters.

For a spooky evening, there are Ghost Tours, where you can learn about the famous "Man in the Black Hat", and ghostly going-on at the Garricks Head and as much haunting as you can take.

Some more unusual walking tour themes also include Bath in the Blitz, American heritage, and the Medical history of Bath. If you prefer to take your time, Bath has a city trail, and we can supply numerous leaflets on different tours or attractions. The Mayor of Bath's Honorary guides also depart every day from the Pump Room.

The city has several open top bus companies providing hop-on-hop-off tours of the main sights and a number of boat tours along the River Avon. For an alternative view of Bath why not experience an exclusive, horse-drawn, open top carriage tour of Bath, a balloon flight for excellent panoramic views of the city or a leisurely cruise of the city in a private chauffer driven limousine?

There are also a number of tours available to help you explore the area around Bath many of which run daily from the city.