Cotswold Grange is one of the best hotels in Cheltenham from which to explore this celebrated, beautiful Regency town with a vibrant cosmopolitan ambience created by year-round festivals and special events.
Cheltenham Festivals
Cotswold Grange is the first choice of all Cheltenham hotels as a base for the Cheltenham Folk Festival in February each year. A midwinter folk event to "banish the winter blues".
Cotswold Grange is a Cheltenham hotel that will provide a comfortable base from which you can enjoy the wide range of workshops, where you can learn the techniques behind various instruments and musical styles from the performers themselves. As well as the broad range of concerts, workshops, ceilidhs and children's activities there is a market place with stalls selling everything from jewellery and clothing to musical instruments.
Cotswold Grange is one of the best hotels in Cheltenham from which to enjoy the annual Jazz Festival. Performers such as 2008's Eartha Kitt and Van Morrison play alongside wonderful musicians from local schools. Music from Maceo Parker and Jerry Dammers and songs from Gwyneth Herbert are examples of the quality of musicianship attracted by the Jazz Festival.
Based in a variety of venues, from the vast Centaur Hall to more intimate locations such as the Pillar Room, the Cheltenham Jazz Festival grows every year.
Over 15,500 tickets were sold in 2008, bringing many visitors flocking to Cheltenham hotels and with demend as high as this, early booking is essential for the next exciting Jazz Festival.
Described by Lord Robert Winston as "Undeniably and undoubtedly the best Science Festival in this country", the Cheltenham Science Festival smashes barriers every year, with 19,000 tickets sold in 2008.
Select accommodation at Cotswold Grange, one of Cheltenham's most friendly hotels, to enjoy a programme which can read like a 'Who's Who' from the scientific scene: Richard Dawkins, Tony Robinson and Robert Winston have all presented programmes at the Festival.
The festival is a unique blend of cutting edge debate, mind-expanding explorations for young adventurers and alternative angles to view the big issues. Keen science buffs can do no better than read up on their new theories at Cotswold Grange, one of the most festival-friendly hotels in Cheltenham.
Cotswold Grange is one of the most ideal hotels in Cheltenham from which to savour the exciting menus on offer at the Cheltenham Food and Drink Festival.
The Fine Wine Theatre enables guests to raise a toast with leading specialists explaining what to look for in wine and the traps to avoid. At the end of their sessions guests will know how to taste and describe wine, how to open a bottle properly, how to serve and store wine, how to buy good wine every time, how to match wines with food - and lots more!
After an indulgent day, what better than to retire to the convivial bar at Cotswold Grange to unwind in some of the most welcoming hotel surroundings in Cheltenham
The Festival emphasis is on the sustainable, the ecologically-sound, environment-friendly, and the organic. But it is also about fun - a celebration of eating and drinking, and of those who grow and produce our food and drink. A supremely pleasurable weekend - lots of lovely things to eat and drink and loads of interesting events, can be enjoyed with a base in one of the most agreeable hotels in Cheltenham - the Cotswold Grange. What could be better!
Cotswold Grange is the ideal Cheltenham hotel from which to immerse yourself in the annual Music Festival, for over 60 years the nation's favourite celebration of classical music.
Every single note of every single concert in this Festival strives to explode the dry, dusty, complex image that some people have of classical music. This classical music is vibrant, welcoming, absorbing and very much alive!
As an indoor festival the Music Festival does not depend on the vagaries of the British weather- and the comfortable surroundings of Cotswold Grange, one of the most conveniently placed hotels in Cheltenham, make a well-appointed retreat from which to savour sounds you have enjoyed at the various performances.
Cheltenham Cricket Festival is the longest running Cricket Festival on an out ground (Festival Ground) in the world, started by James Lillywhite in 1872 and being played in the grounds of Cheltenham College. No other Cricket Festival in the world has been played on the same ground for that length of time and no other cricket festival in the world lasts for twelve days or more.
By 1878 the annual Cheltenham game had proved so popular the College Council gave its permission for the occasion to be extended to two matches, and so the “Cheltenham Week” had arrived.
In 1898 W. G. Grace, who played for Gloucester County Cricket Club, played his last Festival matches at the age of 50 and scored his last century for Gloucestershire at the College Ground.
The Cheltenham Cricket Festival continues to be held each year at the Cheltenham College Ground, amongst the magnificent college surroundings, not far from Cotswold Grange, a superb Cheltenham hotel from which to enjoy your cricket.
August is the month for Cheltenham’s Ballroom Dancing Festival and Cotswold Grange hotel in Cheltenham is the place to stay to enjoy the glamour and sequins at Cheltenham Town Hall.
Imagine yourself on Strictly Come Dancing and strut your stuff or watch the professionals sweep the floor in a swirl of choreographed action and when you are worn out, put your feet up in the most comfortable hotel in Cheltenham!
With a proud reputation for its gatherings of award winning writers, world-renowned thinkers and international star names The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival always fans literary debate and discussion. It’s not uncommon to find Man Booker Prize winners alongside the finest classically trained actors and top class comedians appearing in company with leading political figures.
2007 was a hugely successful year, with audience figures up by 10,000 including substantial growth of the children’s festival, Book It!
The Festival includes two fantastic family fun days and a bustling festival village, all in all offering an exciting range of events with something for everyone over ten packed days.
Curl up undisturbed with a book you’ll enjoy in your welcoming room at Cotswold Grange, an excellent choice of Cheltenham hotel for sampling the delights of the annual Literature Festival.
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