Start from 36 curated places around Cheltenham, GB, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Le Champignon Sauvage
The long-running Michelin-starred restaurant in The Suffolks, where one chef has cooked French-rooted modern dishes for over three decades. It is a special-occasion room with a famously good bread course and a much-loved cheesecake. Best for a long, considered dinner when you want the town's most serious cooking.
Prithvi
A small, refined Indian restaurant doing tasting-menu Indian cooking with British produce and serious technique, not your standard curry house. The intimate room and layered dishes make it a destination for a nice dinner. Best for a special evening when you want Indian food plated like fine dining.
Trails & outdoors
Pittville Park
The town's largest ornamental park, a flat figure-of-eight around two lakes with the Pump Room as a backdrop, popular for the weekly parkrun and easy family strolls. No hills, plenty of cafes and a big play area. Best for a gentle loop, a picnic, or a pram-friendly walk.
Leckhampton Hill and Devil's Chimney Circular
A short, sharp escarpment loop from the Leckhampton car park up to the Devil's Chimney rock and along the open hilltop with town laid out below. Around two and a half miles with one steep pull and big payoff views. Best for a quick leg-stretch with the best vista close to town.
Things to do
The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
The town's free art gallery and museum, best known for an internationally important Arts and Crafts collection alongside local history, archaeology and a decent cafe. It is the obvious rainy-day stop in the centre. Best for an hour or two indoors, especially with the Arts and Crafts rooms.
Everyman Theatre
A lovingly restored 1891 Frank Matcham theatre, all gilt and red velvet, staging touring drama, dance, comedy, opera and the big Christmas pantomime. It is the town's main stage and the building alone is worth the ticket. Best for an evening out with proper old-theatre atmosphere.
Landmarks & sights
Pittville Pump Room
The grandest Regency building in town, a columned 1830 spa hall modelled on an Athenian temple a mile north of the centre. You can walk into the domed auditorium for free when no event is on, and the mineral spring still runs from the ornate pump. Best paired with a loop of the surrounding park and lake.
Montpellier, Cheltenham
The town's most handsome quarter, a grid of Regency villas, independent shops and the famous Montpellier Walk lined with caryatids, the stone maidens standing in for columns between the shopfronts. It is where locals bring visitors to wander, browse and stop for a drink. Best on foot, drifting between the gardens and the side streets.