Can someone recommend an inexpensive BB for this area. Would you find enough to spend two nights in Salisbury?

Hi! I loved Salisbury. The town is wonderful to walk around in. For 2 days, you can tour around the town in a leisurely fashion, see Stonehenge nearby, and really enjoy it. Try to be there on Tuesday or Saturday for the open market in the town square - wonderfull cheap breads and cheeses and meats etc - we made a picnic. The cathedral is amazing, the pubs are fun.

We stayed at the Byways House. It is a very cute B&B on a side street about 5 minutes from the town square. Nice quiet street. You can find it on www.smoothhound.co.uk - type in Salisbury in the town and then scroll down until you see it. It is quite reasonable - especially for the location.

www.smoothhound.co.uk has lots of other options as well - so it's a great resource.

Have fun!
Karen

This helps ...thanks for the web site.

Salisbury has perhaps the most beautiful Cathedral in Britain. Unusually, it is surrounded by plenty of open space so you can really see it all as a whole.

There's plenty to do in the Salisbury area for a couple of days. I've got some photos from Salisbury, Avebury, Stonehenge, Old Sarum at http://pages.prodigy.net.

I won't make a lodging recommendation, since the place I stayed wasn't that great.

The Tourist Information in Salisbury will find you a room for a small fee. If you're not going during peak season you can wait until you get there to get a room.

adrienne

Here is a note I picked out of my England trip report:
On to Salisbury but couldn't figure out how to get to the town center so we decided to skip it. Selected a B&B (Newton's Farmhouse, Whiteparish) on the way out of town (about 8 miles) and that turned out great. Had a little rear cottage room, ground level, parked right in front. Went into the little town of Whiteparish for a great dinner and dessert - a real treat (I think it is named King's Arms or close). Such nice people. It's 9:00 pm now and I'm sitting outside our cottage on a bench and just enjoying the atmosphere. They have a huge backyard with a pool and a horse in the back. The owners are plant/flower enthusiasts so the place is blooming all over. Very rural.

Thursday, June 10 - decided to stay another night; so comfortable in this B&B and give Salisbury another shot. The owners gave us good directions and where to park so it was easy this time. The hardest part of a driving trip is knowing where to park closest to the sites. Salisbury Cathedral was excellent.
I can't say enough good things about this "detour" and B&B to see Salisbury. It's so close and yet so great. If you'd like, I could cut out my trip in this area and e-mail it to you. [email protected]

Oops, didn't remember you asked about price but since I travel "cheap" I'm sure the price was good. One of these days I'll remember to write down what I paid!