Your Bristol City Centre hotels

The most lively and largest city in the historic West of England, Bristol waterside location combined with its historic buildings, quaint districts, maritime heritage and other tourist attractions have made the city the fourth most-visited in the United Kingdom. Whether it history, culture, festivals, alternative attractions, superb dining, a plethora of shopping opportunities, tours to spectacular natural attractions or vibrant nightlife, Bristol has it all. 

Over the last 10 years, the dining scene in the city has expanded beyond belief, resulting in some of the finest restaurants in the West Country opening their doors to great acclaim. Upscale eateries featuring well-known chefs as well as fashionable gourmet haunts have all been welcomed here, both by residents and visitors to the city. A contributing factor to their ongoing success has been the renovation and conversion of many historic harbour side properties to retail and entertainment use, giving a charming heritage setting for the new ventures. Others are located in the city centre, giving a less glamorous view but providing great cuisine at value-for-money prices. 

Each of the city’s districts has its own unique charms; and each has a good number of eateries specialising in cuisines form all over the world. Traditional pubs are set in Clifton Village hilly, cobbled lanes, serving British pub grub including Sunday beef roasts accompanied by Yorkshire pudding, lashings of rich, brown gravy and fresh, locally grown vegetables. Local beers and the West Country famous strong ciders are the perfect drink for the occasion. For visitors preferring continental dishes, Clifton’s many bistros are just the thing for Italian and Spanish dishes with a choice of wines. 

If your Bristol City Centre hotels is where you’d like to have breakfast, there are numerous coffee shops and cafes in the downtown district waiting to serve you with a Full English, pastries, American breakfasts, a Continental or anything else you fancy. 

Lunch is a big deal here, with many cafes, bars and eateries serving reduced-price lunchtime menus at half the cost of the same meal in the evening. Others advertise all you can eat buffets featuring Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Thai or Italian cuisine, all mouth-watering and great value for money. For summer visitors, many bistros and bars supply outdoor seating, taking advantage of the regions generally balmy summer weather.

After a delicious lunch, many visitors head for the city central shopping district for a few hours relaxing retail therapy. Here, too, Bristol wins out with two major shopping malls, daily markets and rows of high-street names as well as upscale department stores. Both in the centre and in the cities other districts, literally hundreds of stores and shops make for a shoppers paradise. Glamorous Cabot’s Circus is the number one mall, opened three years ago and home to House of Fraser and the upscale Harvey Nichols beloved of London high society crowd, with its rival Broad mead offering a good number of famous high street names including the cash-strapped fashion favourite, Primark. 

Broad mead is the city’s original mega-mall, holding more than 400 shops and department stores, with a huge Debenhams at its heart, surrounded by famous-name shops and boosted by the Galleries shopping centre with its fashion-themed stores and cut-price clothing outlets. The American-style Cribs Causeway Mall is located just out of town on the M5 motorway, boasting 150 shops and outlets, a 15-eaterie food hall, coffee shops and ice-cream parlours as well as a multi-screen movie centre. The Clifton Arcade holds a treasure trove of antiques, jewellery, ceramics, old books and collectables as well as an art gallery and coffee shop and, for UK visitors who can’t survive without a visit to Ikea, there’s a huge store on the outskirts of the city!