It may or may not be best in terms of time, but it is certainly not the best in terms of convenience or cost. You may be a train fanatic but that is no reason to give bad advice.

thursdaysd - what is bad advice about saying yes take a direct bus from Heathrow to say Bath and then recommending a train to go to London?

I totally miss why this is bad advice - you are suggesting to take a bus back to London? Now that is bad advice as trains are much faster and can be really cheap - buses are probably cheaper but can take much longer Bath-London. Trains take 1/5 hours buses 3.25 hours -youseriously recommending a bus? Trains are also infinitely more comfy than any bus IME.

Now please what is my 'bad' advice?

Sorry, thought you were talking about taking the train via London TO Bath etc. There was no reason to suggest taking a train FROM Bath, that had already been mentioned.

There was no reason to suggest taking a train FROM Bath, that had already been mentioned.> Didn't see that and still don't! And so what if so?

OMG another argument amazing it took so long.

To be clear we are ONLY interested in towns we can get to FROM LHR not places we need to get to London first. And I think we have settled on Bath.

newtome Taxi2flight was expensive but it gave us the opportunity to easily visit Stonehenge which was worth it to us. We could have taken a Mad Max tour from Bath that included Stonehenge but by visiting it separately we could focus our day tour on the Cotswolds. I hope you enjoy Bath, we had a lovely visit there.