DEDICATED GUIDES

Just You Holiday Director as your host & Specialist Local Guide

3-STAR HOTEL

4 nights in a 3-star hotel

10 INCLUDED MEALS

4 breakfasts (B) 2 lunches (L) and 4 dinners (D) including a welcome drink

LOCAL FLAVOURS

Enjoy a pub lunch in Coln St Aldwyns

ESSENTIALS

Transportation on excursions and porterage

ALL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED l Walk through three of the Five Valleys in the Cotswolds l Enjoy a walking tour of Bath l Visit Lacock Abbey l View Arlington Row, one of the most iconic sites in the Cotswolds and walk to Bibury l Enjoy a picnic and a pub lunch l Visit Bourton-on-the-Water - known as the Venice of the Cotswolds

Your itinerary

DAY 1 ARRIVE COTSWOLDS

Make your own way to your hotel. This evening enjoy a welcome drink with your travel companions. Dinner is included at the hotel this evening (D)

DAY 2 FIVE VALLEYS

Walk 12km/7.4 miles - 4 hrs

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before a walk through three of the Five Valleys in the Cotswolds. Starting at Painswick, famous for its 99-yew-tree churchyard, the annual clypping ceremony and feast featuring Puppy Dog Pie. We walk through the old weavers suburb past an impressive mill building before visiting the tiny former textile village of Slad, immortalised in words and on film as the former home of Laurie Lee, author of Cider with Rosie and other classics. The route then crosses the valley to Bisley, before dropping down through the alpine village of Chalford, home to the studios of Damien Hirst. Next head into the Golden Valley which is home to the Thames and Severn Canal - a regency water canal. During your walk, you will enjoy an included picnic lunch. Return to your hotel for your evening meal. (B,L,D)

DAY 3 BATH AND LACOCK ABBEY

YOUR HOTEL

STANTON MANOR HOTEL ★★★

Steeped in history and listed in the Domesday

Book the hotel, once owned by Lord Burghley, Elizabeth 1’s Lord High Treasurer, was rebuilt in 1840 and retains the original fireplace in the galleried hall.

The hotel has since been beautifully and sympathetically restored offering the rare mix of historical ambience with a homely and welcoming feel.