Bath Backpackers

Bath


The showers are scarce, and it's grimy and battered, but this hostel is still on budget travellers' radars for bargain rates, a prime location and a 24-hour 'dungeon' (in truth a sound-proofed basement where you don't have to 'keep the noise down').


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1. Bath Abbey

0.11 MILES

Looming above the city centre, Bath's huge abbey church was built between 1499 and 1616, making it the last great medieval church raised in England. Its…

2. Roman Baths

0.13 MILES

Welcome to one of Northern Europe's most significant Roman sites. Today more than a million visitors a year come to see its historic finds, atmospheric…

3. Pump Room

0.13 MILES

The centre of this grand 19th-century room is filled with tables from the Pump Room Restaurant, but there's also an ornate spa fountain from which Bath's…

4. Victoria Art Gallery

0.17 MILES

Bath's second-most-visited museum has collections that include everything from Turner and Gainsborough to contemporary art. The programme of temporary…

5. Pulteney Bridge

0.19 MILES

Elegant Pulteney Bridge has spanned the River Avon since the late 18th century and continues to be a much-loved and much-photographed Bath landmark (the…

6. Jane Austen Centre

0.36 MILES

Bath is known to many as a location in Jane Austen's novels, including Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Although Austen lived in Bath for only five years,…

7. Holburne Museum

0.43 MILES

Sir William Holburne, the 18th-century aristocrat and art fanatic, amassed a huge collection, which now forms the core of the Holburne Museum, in a lavish…

8. Sydney Gardens

0.44 MILES

On a sunny day, do what countless Bath residents have done for centuries – walk over Pulteney Bridge browsing the shops, then down elegant Great Pulteney…