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Bristol Hotels
Check into your Bristol hotel and wind through 17th-century streets and modernist reclaimed dockyards to discover the city treasures, from Brunel’s SS Great Britain to its 21st-century Explore At-Bristol centre.
Bristol neighbourhoods
The city’s heritage is most concentrated in old Bristol around College Green and the cathedral. Head south from your Bristol hotel to the Floating Harbour where you can inspect the SS Great Britain and join the lunching throngs at the water’s edge. The old working port has been beautified but still retains its salty seadog feel. Further west is posh Clifton, its Georgian terraces housing pricey jewellers and fancy boutiques. Take a stroll over the Clifton Suspension Bridge for cityscape views and the Avon Gorge. At busy Broadmead you can satisfy your shoppers’ lust among high-street favourites and department stores.
Shopping in Bristol
The streets around shopping central Mall Bristol are clogged with fashion fripperies, homeware must-haves and gadgets, but the buying bugs bites way beyond Broadmead and Cabot Circus. Trendsetters, record shop junkies and retro diehards love Park Street and Whiteladies Road where picking up something unique is de rigueur. There’s a similar feel in Gloucester Road where second-hand sets the pace. In Clifton Village splash some cash like the natives do at chi-chi specialist and antiques shops, delis and jewellers.
Eating and drinking in Bristol
You can pay top dollar at a classy establishment like Casamia in Westbury-on-Trym, eat in a microbrewery or chow down after hours alongside Bristol’s off-duty chefs at the Mayflower Chinese restaurant. Bristol’s closeness to the countryside means it’s strong on local foods, and organic outlets dot the city. Real ale drinkers are spoilt for choice – try the popular Orchard Inn close to SS Great Britain if you want to bump into the team behind Wallace and Gromit.
Culture and nightlife in Bristol
For West End shows, musicals, comedians and ballet, take your seats at the grand Victorian Bristol Hippodrome. The Tobacco Factory is known for its Shakespeare, as well as serious and comic theatre and experimental dance. Britain’s oldest working theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, shows classic theatre, from the Bard to Beckett. You’ve got 13 screens of movie gold at the Showcase Cinema de Lux at Cabot Circus and world movies at the Watershed Media Centre and the Arnolfini.
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