York or Bath
 

We will be in London in October and enjoy a lot of walking, history, nightlife.

We are in our 40's.

Should we take a day trip to Bath or York?

That is like asking San Francisco or Seattle? You will many different opinions and all would be right.

Both cities are wonderful. Bath is a little shorter train journey. York has a little more to see. Both would totally fill a day trip.

More people do Bath as a day trip - but the high speed train makes York just as doable.

As for history - flip a coin. Bath has the Romans, York has the Vikings.

Walking - Bath has many lovely parks and gardens, York has the complete medieval walls you can walk on almost around the entire city.

I have been to both cities many time and you really can't go wrong with either one.

This probably didn't help much - but they are two of the loveliest cities in the UK.

A "day trip"? Won't that be one loooooong day? How many hours by train to either? Back the same day? How much "walking, history, nightlife" can one accomplish in such a short period of time?

How 'bout Oxford or Cambridge? Much closer to London, either makes more sense to me. One can't do justice to York or Bath in a few hours; that's not a good idea.

Or, why not make it a two-day trip? Then you'll get some nightlife in.

Actually Tuck - it is about 1.5 hours by train to Bath, about 2 hrs to York, about 1 hour to either Oxford or Cambridge - so all would easily work as a day trip. Especially in the Summer when it is daylight until very late.

Bath, but mainly because it is closer. But then again it is so elegant.

Hi:

We did a day trip to Bath last October & enjoyed it. Basically hope the morning train (they leave every 30-45 min), tour the city & hop back on an evening one. We purchased our train tickets online (from Canada) to be picked up at the station in London, so got an extremely good discounts for the advance purchase & while had to indicate which train each way once we got there they 'didn't care' which one we took (& no additional fee).

We also purchased the '1-Day Bath Pass' online (which we picked up at the tourist info booth in Bath), whic then gave us 'free' access to virtually all of the sites, the GuideFriday (?) tour bus, etc.

Well worth the trip.

Z

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York in a heartbeat but then I would want to add at least a night there and do the "ghost tour" around the walls.(There is so much to see and do there that I do not know if a quick day would do it justice but I quess it would "wet your appetite"?)Walking the walls of York,the York Abbey,the inexpensive shopping compared to London,etc.are just some of the reasons that I would choose there.Have fun!

After going to both several times as I lived in England - York is, no question, the better place to visit. But, I agree, with several others, that to do York in one day - including travel - is not worth trying.

Thank you to everyone for your input. Since we got a package to bath and stonehedge we are going to take this daytrip.
We will save York for our next visit to England.

I've been to both cities, and like Bath much more than York. Bath is more pleasant to walk around in, and will also probably have much better weather during your visit in October. York gets colder, rainier, and gloomier than Bath.