stratford upon avon in may

[Guest]

Hi, we looking to go in may, do you have to book a mooring in the basin, are there any charges? NOT looking to go onto the Avon. Cheers.

[lulu fish]

No charges, and you don't have to book.

[Captain Pegg]

You do not book and there are no charges. My guess is that if you are outside of the Spring Bank Holiday week you should be fine. One option is to moor overnight on the approach to Chealybeate bridge and head into Stratford the next morning where you will arrive late morning after folk have moved off and before they fill up again. When I moored overnight at Chealybeate bridge I caught the train into Stratford from Stratford Parkway station.

 

JP

[Martin Megson]

I'm fairly sure there is no booking it's just turn up and hope. I've been twice, once in August, and found a slot both times. They are limited to 48 hrs if I recall correctly and there are no services in the basin so stop on the way down just above lock 52.

[ditchcrawler]

If they are all full for a fiver you can drop down onto the river and moor there overnight,

[Quaffer]

If you want to stay longer than 48 hours,you could use the towpath bollards between bridges 68 and 69 (rather than pass through Bridge 69 into Bancroft Basin) .The Red Lion pub garden backs onto the towpath here and I had a very pleasant 14 days there last May.

[Amber34]

On 19/02/2017 at 20:23, Quaffer said:

If you want to stay longer than 48 hours,you could use the towpath bollards between bridges 68 and 69 (rather than pass through Bridge 69 into Bancroft Basin) .The Red Lion pub garden backs onto the towpath here and I had a very pleasant 14 days there last May.

This information is excellent, thank you. We're currently moored on those bollardsand couldn't work out whether long or short term