From famous Bath treats and locally made drinks, to homewares, books and vouchers for special experiences – we’ve got Christmas gift ideas for all the family from local businesses.

Bath Experiences | Food & Drink | Homewares & Interiors | Jewellery & Fashion

Bath Experiences

Christmas Spa-rkle

Spoil a loved one to a future spa day or short break with a voucher from one of Bath’s luxurious spa hotels. You can also book vouchers for packages at the Thermae Bath Spa, Britain’s only natural thermal spa; for sensory, all-natural treatments at Lush Spa Bath; and for mind-body therapies at The Soul Spa.

Don't miss some excellent Black Friday offers at The Bird, Homewood and Bishopstrow Hotel, including 25% off all dining, spa and stay vouchers.

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Book a Memorable Local Experience

Choose from hundreds of local experiences on Yuup's website, all of which make a fun day out with a loved one, or the perfect thoughtful gift. Knowm someone who'd like a go at making pottery in a brewery, foraging in Chew Valley, making their own bespoke gin, or spending the evening at a wine & cheese tasting? You can gift an experience, or purchase gift vouchers for your loved ones to choose their own experience.

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Paddywax Candle Bar also offer gift cards for their candle pouring workshops, as do The Bath Flower School if you have a green-fingered friend or family member! Or treat someone to a night of laughter or music with vouchers for Komedia Bath.

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Tours with a difference

Bath Adventures run a range of themed tours around the city throughout the year, including river trips, Bridgerton & Music tours, Prosecco trips and even a Ghost Hunters Silent Disco! You can purchase gift cards to treat someone to a day out in Bath that they'll never forget - even better if it's for a birthday or hen do present!

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Flying in the Air

For a unique and memorable experience, you can’t beat a hot air balloon ride. Buy a flight voucher and arrange a time for them to take you on an incredible adventure over Bath, topped off with a glass of champagne.

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For the Literature Lovers

If you want to buy someone a book set in Bath, the Westcott Chronicles of Bath is a thrilling series set in the city, spanning different time periods and drawing on Bath's rich history and heritage.

Image: The Westcott Chronicles of Bath

• Six books with a Bath connection

Unwrap Adventure 

Treasure Hunt Bath offers vouchers for their self-guided adventures around the city. Combining puzzle solving, sightseeing and interesting facts and stories, it's a great way to explore Bath for visitors and locals alike. 

Brewery tours and brew days

Bath has its fair share of breweries where you can either buy gift sets of locally-made beer, or vouchers for brewery tours and brew days where you can have a go at making your own beer! Bath Brew House offer both tours and brewing experiences, while Electric Bear Brewing Co. have gift sets and tour dates available.

• Breweries, distilleries and vineyards near Bath

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Relaxing massages

Ally Massage are selling Christmas gift vouchers for mobile massage and facial treatments, for your loved one to have a luxury spa experience in their own home (treatments can be booked for Bath and the surrounding areas).

Bath Holistic Massage offer a range of treatments, including pregnancy massage care, aromatherapy massages, deep tissue massage and Swedish massage.

A Gothic Gift Card

The perfect present for bookworms that isn't a book, a gift card for Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein can be used on tickets as well as their escape rooms or Body in a Suitcase Challenge. You can also visit their shop for a range of gift items, perfect for the gothic literary lover and the Franken-fan, plus quirky stocking fillers.

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Foodie Experiences

Bath is home to some fantastic cookery schools, whose gift vouchers make the perfect present for keen cooks. Check out The Bertinet Kitchen Cookery School for bakers; Pasta Laboratory for pasta-making courses; Simi's Kitchen for Middle Eastern catering and cooking classes; and Bev's Waffle Workshop for an afternoon of sweet treats.

Take in Bath’s sights together with some of the city’s finest food and drink on a Savouring Bath tour. Choose from three themed food tours, including 'Food Heroes,' 'Guilty Pleasures,' and 'Local Flavours.' Private tours are also available. 

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If you're after a classic Bath foodie experience, take a look at the Searcy's Christmas range, including vouchers for the wide variety of afternoon teas available at The Pump Room Restaurant and much more! 

For Water Babies

How about a paddleboarding or kayaking experience? Adventure experts Original Wild offer gift certificates for sessions on the River Avon.

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Discover Jane Austen's Bath

Treat the Janeite in your life to a gift voucher for a one-day guided tour of the city with Strictly Jane Austen. Their walking tours bring Regency Bath to life and provide a unique and fascinating insight into Austen's life and times.

Make Your Own Glass Bauble

Join a Bath Aqua Glass glassblower for the unique chance to craft your very own glass bauble, from gathering molten glass to shaping with specialist tools - you can then choose to give your bauble to a loved on or keep it to decorate your own tree! Gift vouchers for their glass-blowing experiences are also available.

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The Bath Gift Card

The Bath Gift Card is accepted across the city at museums, hotels, restaurants, bars, shops and many more places. It’s the perfect flexible present, which hard-to-buy-for friends can use on their next day trip to Bath.

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Food and Drink

Tree-mendous Sweet Treats

A Bath staple, you can now have world-famous Sally Lunn buns delivered direct to your door. Visit their website to order yours by post for next day delivery, or send as a gift complete with a card and handwritten message.

Flourish Foodhall stocks gifts and nibbles from local suppliers who offer the best quality produce in an environmentally friendly way.

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Oh Christmas Brie

As well as their creamy signature cheese, Bath Soft Cheese has a variety of other cheeses, chutneys, crackers, ciders, wines and hampers available from their Kelston café and online shop.

Cheese lovers are also spoilt for choice with the gifts from renowned cheesemonger Paxton and Whitfield, from an artisan cheese advent calendar to hampers stuffed with luxurious treats.

Choose from a range of hampers, sumptuous wines and top quality groceries from The Newt in Somerset online shop.

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Tempting Tipples

To toast Christmas, Independent Spirit of Bath stocks a stellar mix of local and international brews, while gift packs from breweries Electric Bear Brewing Co. and Abbey Ales contain beers freshly brewed in the city. 

For wine enthusiasts, take your pick from the kaleidoscope of seasonal wines at The Great Wine Co., sourced from boutique estates around the world.

Independent Spirit of Bath stock a huge range of whiskies, gins, craft beer and cocktail ingredients, as well as gift cards from £10.

The Bath Gin Company distil their gin from 11 of the finest botanicals – choose from Classic, Hopped Rhubarb or Orange Sloe Gin or buy all three in a unique gift pack.

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Homeware & Interior Inspiration

Deck the Halls

Browse a wide range of gifts, home décor, kitchen & garden wares, luxury Christmas food, pet care, art, candles, soaps, wellbeing products and more at Flourish Home & Lifestyle.

Buy a range of stylish plants and gifts for garden and home at social enterprise The Urban Garden, a true feel-good garden centre! They only buy natural and sustainable products, they don’t sell peat-based compost, and they minimise the plastic leaving their Garden Centre.

Choose a piece of art to hang at home from The Woolverton Gallery. Their collection features landscapes, portraits, abstracts and figurative paintings, full of passion and colour. 

Buy exquisite glass products from Bath Aqua Glass, including glass angels, stars and baubles for your tree, plus jewellery and vases all made in the Bath workshop by skilled craftspeople.

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The Museum of East Asian Art sells products from Japan and Tibet, as well as local makers. Choose from greeting cards, scented candles, and even hand puppets!

Add a touch of calm to your loved ones' homes with gifts from Breathe Out Now, such as aromatherapy essentials, books on mindfulness, and Tibetan singing bowls.

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Best-known as a Christmas decorations shop with signature range of hand painted glass baubles, Other Lovely Things also make beautiful gifts for Mothers Day, birthdays, anniversaries and more.

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Jewellery and Fashion

Bring some sparkle to a special person in your life with stocking fillers and classic diamond pieces from local award-winning designer Wylde Jewellers. Pop in for a glass of mulled wine or champagne while the store consultants talk you through their range. 

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Honey Willow craft meaningful everyday jewellery by hand, which can be personalised for you and your loved ones – the perfect unique gift from Bath.

The Silver Shop of Bath sells beautiful gifts for men, woman and children including watches, jewellery, trinket boxes, soft toys and photo frames, while independent boutique Icarus Jewellery offers unique, elegant and handmade pieces made from high-quality silver.

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Icarus Jewellery is an independent silver jewellery shop which offers a great selection of handmade unique designs, as well gift cards which can be purchased on their website. They also offer UK and international shipping.

More Bath gift inspiration:

• Bath at Christmas
• Independent shops in Bath
• Give the Gift of Bath