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Driving up from London on Friday morning and wondering if anyone knows any good spots to grab breakfast en route? I’m assuming most places in Cheltenham itself will be busy so is there anywhere near that’s recommendable for a nice fry up?
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Dunno Ben but looking at the bit in the Racing Post about the food prices, I reckon have tea and toast before you go, then get brunch as late as you can and fire as much of a feed into yourself as your belly will hold to see you through.
Cheers for the response mate, shant be eating too much first thing as I’ll be leaving mine around 7 and can never eat much at that time in the morning so had planned to stop somewhere at around 10ish to grab something. Like you said I don’t want to eat the crappy overpriced food at Cheltenham so a big breakfast should see me through!
Come on lads and ladies someone must know of somewhere! Don’t want to have to resort to a dodgy £4 fry up that tastes worse than a school dinner.
Or is my assumption incorrect that the cafes in central Cheltenham will be too busy to get a seat in?
Ben- I go from London to Cheltenham by train and always have a full English at my local greasy spoon before I leave.
I appreciate you said you can’t eat much early in the morning, but it’s best to get as much as you can into you before you reach Cheltenham, because everywhere you go will be a) rammed and b) vastly overpriced.
As a matter of interest Gladiateur I have been thinking of going by train one day next year.
Is it really £61 return and what time do you have to leave?
Glad cheers for that, probably best to find somewhere en route about 30mins from Cheltenham then I think.
Chestnut – me and a mate got the train from London almost a decade back, we didn’t leave much earlier than when we drove though, can’t remember exactly but think I left mine around 8ish and got on the train at I think it was Kings Cross around 9am.
I go to a place called the shutters which is about 10 minutes drive from the course.
Does a monster of a breakfast for a tenner but I would imagine you’d have to book because it’s mad popular. It’s in a village a couple of miles from track. Gutherington or something like that it’s called.
2 bacon, 2 sausage (decent sausages as well not the 37% meat **** you get on bad fry ups) black pudding, mushrooms, beans, a muffin, 2 eggs and tomato. Does me until well after the last race. Thank Christ because the crap on offer at the track is ghastly!
Sounds perfect Tizzard i’ll try giving them a call, the saussages really do make a fry up I agree they have to be nice!
@chestnut- best to book in advance for the cheapest deals. Tickets are available three months before your date of travel and go quickly for race day trains.
I catch the direct train just after 09:00; there are others where you have to change but I prefer the convenience of not having to do so. I book the 20:00 return train, which gets back to Paddington at 22:00.
I think the standard fare is about £100 return but not entirely certain; I go in first class, to avoid the pissed-up masses on the journey home. It can get quiet unpleasant when people have had a losing day and too much to drink.
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