>>Any hotel . . . recommendations<< What is your budget?

>>Any . . . restaurant recommendations<< What sort(s) of food/budget?

The Baths will fill a morning or afternoon. The Pump room is attached to the Baths and is a nice place to eat -- but and even BETTER place for afternoon tea.

Bath Abbey is not to be missed and is next door to the Baths.

Perhaps the Fashion Museum/Assembly Rooms.

The Royal Crescent/#1 Royal Crescent/ and Royal Victoria Park

Sally Lunn's

the Thremae Bath Spa if you want to spoil yourselves

We liked the Kennard hotel: http://www.kennard.co.uk/
Lovely owners, good breakfast, easy walk to the center of Bath over Pulteney Bridge.

So many places are booked! We finally managed to book a room at the Apsley. It's about a 30 minute walk into town center, but it gets good reviews. Mad Maxx was also booked, so we reserved a Cotswold Tour with Lion Tours.

Any restaurant recommendations would be welcome. We usually spend $75-$100 for dinner for two. Many thanks again.

Sandra

We stayed at the Crystal Palace Apartment in May and absolutely loved it:

https://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/cry...00f6e39814335a

A unique monument just outside Bath and overlooking the city the weird Sham Castle, built - read about why it was built!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sham_Castle

https://www.google.com/search?q=bath...w=1745&bih=864

If you trek out there the view over Bath is also neat. For hikers this 6-mile circular footpath is so sweet:

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/bat...h-skyline-walk

OP may not have time for it but others going to Bath and who like to ramble (British for walking on public footpaths)

Thank you, Mellen, for your apartment recommendation.

PalenQ, the walk looks wonderful, but how steep is the terrain? We do 6 mile walks around Chicago, but the terrain is very flat and we have 70-year old knees :)

A perfectly flat and, I think, idyllic walk is along the Kennet & Avon Canal between Bath and Bradford-on-Avon, a very pretty small town and a great place for lunch. From Cleveland House in Bath to Bradford, about 7 miles and includes the very interesting Avoncliff Aqueduct which the path crosses. You can return to Bath by bus or train. Or, obviously, the reverse.

Janis mentioned the fashion museum, I just wanted to add it's one of my favorite things in Bath plus the Assembly Rooms are gorgeous and so Jane A.

https://www.fashionmuseum.co.uk

This may have been mentioned, another great Regency experience:

http://no1royalcrescent.org.uk

You'll also find that Bath University has a major USA section including some amazing American quilts (I came all this way....)

PalenQ, the walk looks wonderful, but how steep is the terrain?>

I did not do the entire 6-mile walk which climbs up to the sham of a castle and circles it -I just went up and back down from Bath - it was a gentle but significant climb but not long.

Site link says "moderate" - hard to tell what 'steep' means to any one person. You could take a bus up and walk down.

>>PalenQ, the walk looks wonderful, but how steep is the terrain? <<

>>-I just went up and back down from Bath - it was a gentle but significant climb but not long.<<

As I remember it there are some very steep bits plus steps.

My daughter and SIL leave on Sept. 2nd for the Cotswold's. Going with 3 other couples.

They will do the walk from town to town and have a company to handle the luggage.

I suggested to my daughter to stay a night at Thornburg castle and we gave them a gift certificate for dinner.

Then it's on to Bath.