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Young, Fun and In Love - an Itinerary!

Suggested Short Break Itinerary for the younger couple:

Day One

Arrive in Bath by train in the afternoon Festival Couple (everything is so easy to reach in Bath you can leave your car at home!) and walk or take a taxi to your city centre accommodation. We would suggest:

For a little luxury: The Queensberry, a stunning, contemporary, boutique hotel, tucked away in a quiet residential street just around the corner from the Circus and Royal Crescent. Rooms from £100 a night.

For comfort, value and service: Harington's Hotel, all the style and comfort of a boutique hotel in an excellent location in a quiet cobbled street in the city centre. Rooms from £88 a night.

For quality bed and breakfast: 3 Abbey Green has a central location (just a moment's walk from the Abbey and Roman Baths) and recently re-furbished elegant, spacious and comfortable bedrooms. Rooms from £75 a night.

After checking in and freshening up, why not take a stroll around the city to familiarise your selves and take in the striking architectural beauty? Stroll around the stunning, gothic, Abbey, up the wide, elegant Great Pulteney Street; stop to admire the beauty of Pulteney Bridge and weir, and then finally head up to the Circus and the Royal Crescent to admire the late afternoon sun on the majestic, golden, stone.

Suggestions for this evening include heading over to the Raincheck Bar for a relaxing aperitif, then heading just down the road to either Las Iguanas for some mouth-watering Latin food or to Yum Yum Thai for a delicious taste of Thailand. If you fancy going on for a late night drink then head over to the St Christopher's Inn, which is open until 1am on Friday and Saturday nights.

Day Two.

This morning take a stroll over to the Roman Baths and Pump Room, the city's best known attraction, and find out about the best preserved Roman spa in the world. After your visit cross the Abbey Churchyard to Minerva Chocolate, where you can pick up an exquisite box of handmade chocolates and a bottle of exclusive Champagne (made in France on the estate of the owner, Thierry) as a memento of your trip to Bath.

For lunch try Demuths, Bath's completely vegetarian gourmet restaurant (where even meat-eaters love the food and bright, colourful ambiance), or just next door Tilley's Bistro, where you can enjoy a delicious two-course lunch for only £9.00 per person, or Café du Globe just across the way, where you can enjoy a varied world menu from Mexico to Morocco!

After you finish eating, and the weather is fine, why not take a stroll over to Bath Boating Station and hire a punt or skiff to work off your lunch, or just drift slowly along the river as you admire the beauty of the river?

If the weather isn't good enough or you are feeling a bit too lazy for rowing then why not spend the afternoon wandering slowly around the shops? Bath is home to an outstanding selection of specialist and independent shops, all in a compact, visitor-friendly centre that's a delight to explore. Head to Walcot Street for independent art, craft and design shops, as well as the treasure trove of architectural relics at Walcot Reclamation. For unique gifts, such as hand made pieces of jewellery or hand-blown champagne flutes, visit the glass-blowing studios at The Bath Aqua Theatre of Glass. If gazing at clothes is more your thing then head towards the top of town to Milsom Street and New Bond Street, where you will find a haven of independent, designer and famous names selling the cream of clothes, shoes, bags and jewellery, including Duo, Bath's most exciting independent shoe retailer.

Ideas for this evening include having an early dinner at Green Park Brasserie (three courses for only £9.95, or a curry at the award-winning Eastern Eye, followed by joining The Great Bath Pub Crawl from Lambrettas Bar at 8pm. Lasting around 90 minutes this boozy guide to Bath is just a little bit different! If after your meal you feel you can't possibly drink another thing, then perhaps the Bizarre Bath tour is more up your street. Leaving from the Huntsman pub on North Parade at 8pm, Bizarre Bath tours the weird and wonderful, poking fun at the more eccentric elements of the city. Moles Club on George Street is a real Bath institution (famous bands to have played Moles includeThe Cure, The Eurythmics, Oasis, Blur and Catatonia) and is open until 2pm 6 nights a week if after all this you have the energy to go on and dance!

Day Three

Before you leave today why not take a look at one or two of Bath's smaller attractions? For architecture buffs the Building of Bath Museum tells the fascinating story of how the Georgian city was built, or for art-lovers the beautiful Holburne Museum of Art displays outstanding portraits by Stubbs, Ramsay, Gainsborough and Zoffany, as well as superb English and continental silver, porcelain, glass and bronzes. The Museum of Costume tells the story of fashion over the last 400 years, and currently includes an exhibition of 'Jane Austen - Film and Fashion' which features costumes from many feature films and television adaptations.

After a leisurely lunch (at either the Beaujolais, a French restaurant with a unique atmosphere which offers a two-course lunch for just £10.95, or for something more casual, Seafoods Traditional Fish and Chips which has been offering classic British fish and chips for over 50 years), you will be refreshed and ready to begin your journey home!