Press release: Go Cotswolds are West Midlands Tourism Awards winners
West Midlands Tourism Awards winners Go Cotswolds take home Experience of the Year trophy Go Cotswolds, a leading tour operator based in Stratford-upon-Avon, are the 2023 West Midlands’ Tourism Award winners of the prestigious Experience of the Year award. The family-run business is recognised for their exceptional customer experience, and for – as one judge […]
In the Press: Go Cotswolds win Global Recycling Day competition
Winners of Shakespeare’s England Global Recycling Day 2022 competition eat out at Glynn Purnell’s The Mount A family business in Stratford-upon-Avon which runs guided day tours of the Cotswolds has won an eco-competition launched by Shakespeare’s England. Earlier in the year the regional Destination Management Organisation (DMO) for South Warwickshire ran a competition for its […]
Take a day trip to the Cotswolds from Coventry
“How far is the Cotswolds from Coventry?” Want to know how far is the Cotswolds from Coventry? This is a question we get asked a lot – and the answer is: it depends where in the Cotswolds you want to go, and how you’re going to get there! Coventry Having lived in Coventry for 4 […]
Coronavirus update: Go Cotswolds closed during December 2020
The latest update Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced the next phase of ‘lockdown’ restrictions for England, which are due to commence tomorrow (2nd December 2020). Following the month-long national lockdown during November, tomorrow England will enter a three-tier system, with different levels of restrictions in different regions of the country, according to various criteria […]
Coronavirus update: Go Cotswolds closed during November 2020
Here we go again… In his latest Coronavirus announcement on 31st October 2020, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that a second ‘Coronavirus lockdown’ will be enforced in England starting at 00:01 on Thursday 5th November 2020. As a condition of this lockdown, all non-essential businesses are required to close from Thursday 5th November, […]
West Midlands Tourism Awards winners
Go Cotswolds wins at the West Midlands Tourism Awards! Did you see our tweets and Instagram posts this week? On Wednesday, we booked a babysitter, and threw on our glad rags. Then, we were off to Birmingham for the West Midlands Tourism Awards ceremony! Celebrating tourism in the West Midlands The aim of the West […]
Go Cotswolds goes to the Alcester Food Festival Autumn 2019
Tom and I live in the small Warwickshire town of Alcester (pronounced by locals as ‘All-ster’); a pretty, historic market town just a 10 minute drive from Stratford-upon-Avon. If you’re visiting Shakespeare’s England, it’s well worth a diversion to visit Alcester to learn about its Roman history, take a walk alongside the pretty rivers Arrow […]
Go Cotswolds is Three!
Happy birthday to us, happy birthday to us! Today marks the 3rd anniversary of the very first Go Cotswolds Day Tour. We’ve come a long way since that very first tour in 2014, which had only one passenger! A BIG thank you to everyone who has joined us on our tours so far – it’s been a […]
To be or not to be… tourists in our own town!
Our quest to act more like tourists in our hometown* of Stratford-upon-Avon continued last week as Lisa and I went to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre to watch Hamlet after a pre-theatre meal at The Opposition restaurant. We had a great evening! Having been on a road-trip in the USA recently (see our blog post about […]
Stratford-upon-Avon Home & Garden Show
Stratford-upon-Avon’s reputation as an excellent venue for events and festivals has been further enhanced this year with the addition of the Stratford Home & Garden Show to the town centre. In its second year, the first show took place just outside the town at Alscot Park in 2014, the show will take place on the […]