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Chester Hotels
Beyond your Chester hotel 2,000 years of history are slotted within the city’s medieval and Roman walls. It’s the only place in the UK where officially you’re free to slay a Welshman after dark.
Chester neighbourhoods
Within the walls of Chester, streets groan with higgledy-piggledy sloping Tudor buildings and Victorian half-timbered copies. Book a Chester hotel in the centre near the Cross, where the town crier will shout his welcome to busy shoppers along Watergate and Eastgate Street. Northwards is the neo-Gothic Town Hall imperiously glaring across at Chester Cathedral, whose inner sanctum Georgian Abbey Square is a delightful place to stop. The most southerly part of the walled city contains the Castle and the Roodee, Britain’s oldest racecourse.
Shopping in Chester
Chester’s good at shopping – it’s had 700 years of practice. Tiered galleries of shops, the Rows, were built in the centre of Chester centuries ago. The roads spanning out from the Cross are packed with high-street shops, designer numbers, cafés, craft boutiques and city department store grandee Browns of Chester, now a Debenhams. Eastgate has high-street names while smaller shops can be found in the Rows. Interesting curio shops hide down narrow Godstall Lane.
Eating and drinking in Chester
You are just as likely to find yourself eating fennel and pea soup in a crypt as scoffing chips in a Tudor townhouse in Chester. There’s alfresco dining all over the place, but spots by the River Dee are especially lovely in summer. Chester brims with places to worship the amber nectar. At the end of Dark Row slap bang in the centre is cavernous the Boot, one of the oldest pubs in the city dating to 1643. Another cracking option is the 1664-dated Bear and Billet with real fires and a pleasant garden.
Culture and nightlife in Chester
The nighttime crowd descends on the bars and clubs that radiate out from the Cross. You’ll get live jazz, blues and comedy at Alexander’s in Rufus Court or you can take a themed trip – think Abba or Saturday Night Fever – on a ChesterBoat cruise up the Dee.
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