Stratford-Upon-Avon Hotels
A stay in a hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon puts you in the forsoothing home of the world’s most celebrated playwright, William Shakespeare. Straddling the River Avon in the Cotswolds, the town is a timeless monument to the Bard where you’re never more than a codpiece away from a chocolate-box Elizabethan timber-framed house.
Stratford-upon-Avon neighbourhoods
This small swan-adorned market town is easily walkable from your Stratford-upon-Avon hotel. The centre of town north of the river, radiating from Bridge Street, is where the main tourist attractions can be found. Further afield – a tour bus ride away – you’ll find Anne Hathaway’s Cottage as well as Mary Arden’s House, the Tudor farm where Shakespeare’s mother was born.
Shopping in Stratford-upon-Avon
If you can elbow your way past the costumed street performers doffing their feathered hats on Henley Street, the gift shops heave with Bard-themed merchandise and other quirky oddments – a bagpipe-playing stuffed toy pooch anyone? There is a good summer farmers’ market in Rother Street for your herb sausages and a flea market on Fridays.
Eating and drinking in Stratford-upon-Avon
The timber-framed black and white restaurants seem to lean into the street to beckon you inside. The pick of the crop is Marlowes, a favourite haunt of Shakespearean actors including Ben Kingsley and Donald Sinden. On Bards Walk, recharge your batteries with an Egyptian mint tea at Bensons. There are plenty of riverside pubs where you can watch the world go by.
Culture and nightlife in Stratford-upon-Avon
Many come to Stratford solely for a Royal Shakespeare Company performance. One of the best-known theatrical ensembles in the world, its past and present luminaries include David Tennant, Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench. The company performs at the Courtyard Theatre while the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre is under construction. Other Shakespeare venues include the Swan Theatre and in the summer the riverside outdoor stage, The Dell. If you’ve had it up to your neck ruff with the Bard, the Orchestra of the Swan stages classical music concerts at the Civic Hall Theatre, and there’s live music and comedy at the former Victorian timber merchants Cox’s Yard.
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