sovamo

Could someone please advise the best way to get from Stratford-upon-Avon to somewhere Cotswolds? Not any place in particular, just in the area – whichever is accessed by bus the easiest. We’d like to take an early morning bus after a night in SUA, rent bikes and explore Cotswolds for one day. Thank you!

PalenQ

https://www.rome2rio.com/s/Stratford...ow-on-the-Wold

or put in any major Cotswolds town.

flanneruk

PQ's managed to choose a truly hopeless foreign website and a Cotswold town with no direct public transport links from Stratford. As an answer to your question, it's about as useless as an Uber taxi from an airport.

Rome2Rio's the kind of "concept" designed to sound good in an elevator pitch to a Silicon Valley VC (who, by definition, thinks public transport's for losers). Like its peers: an underlying grasp of how the industry actually works is a distraction to these wannabe Masters of the Universe.

Trivialities like ensuring accurate timetables don't matter compared to the serious issue of getting a few billion paper valuation.

Britain's properly updated, (and blissfully free from the malign influence of vulture captialism) public transport website is traveline.info. For spider diagrams of public transport from Stratford: http://www.escapetothecotswolds.org....inghere/north/

The centre for connections from Stratford is Moreton in Marsh, though Chipping Campden is a much prettier place for a one-day meander or base for local walking.

The Cotswolds really aren't suitable for touring by bike. Unless they're really experienced cycling in our kind of terrain with our kind of traffic, bikers are a danger to themselves and to us. The area is designed for walking, driving, horseriding or getting public transport through.

Above all for walking.

janisj

>>The Cotswolds really aren't suitable for touring by bike. <<

That is what I've been <i>trying</i> to tell the OP on other threads -- he's nothing if not persistent

sovamo

thank you guys for a sound advise and for making me laugh! Well OK I get it. the roads are not suitable for biking. But them guided tour advertisers will make you believe otherwise! I'm not a very able bike rider by any means so now all I have to do is convince my party to drop the idea and stick to walking.

janisj

>>I'm not a very able bike rider by any means so now all I have to do is convince my party to drop the idea and stick to walking.<<

You could let them ride and you take a nice scenic walk and meet them afterwards -- either back at the station, or in A&E (the emergency room )

Dukey1

When you GET there, watch out for that person dressed in those absurd looking rubber boots who has draped himself in a British flag and stands in the middle of the road shouting about how stupid Americans are. The smell of the sheep dip on the boots will tell you in case the flag fell off.

PalenQ

and that bloke will have the flanner pooch with him no doubt -unless dog choked on a plastic bag?

But flanner lives in the Cotswolds so take very seriously his comments (except on stoooopid Americans)!