Cheltenham sign in those who are going!

I'll be there, all 4 days.

Oh yes, l'll be there Monday through to Saturday, got 10 mates going down this year, 5 of us all week the rest come down on the Wednesday night. Not sure how we'll all fit in the house we rent!!!!
Got 3 1/2 weeks left in the desert them l'll return to the UK to look forward to the best week of the year.

Yes, i will be there in the same spot.

tuesday and wednesday, cant wait

I'll be there Monday thru to Saturday!rent a flat for the week.
Been going for 16 years& yes I cannot wait!!

me and my crew do the tuesday great anticipation and imo tues is best days racing.bring it on!! im like my kids in the run up to christmas

Oh yes can't wait either no place like it on Earth

,daughter may be hopefully getting tickets for the tuesday from her work,....fingers crossed ,touch wood ect,ect,ect will know for sure in the next 2 weeks !

I'll be there on the last day, losing my Cheltenham virginity

we go the Tues and Weds every year.in the tatts, but next year might upgrade to club.  We went in club for trials day last week and thought it was great.  Not sure if it's worth £30 extra though. 

We go down on the Monday, get hammered and nearly always miss the Supreme - will try to cut
back on the monday abit this year.

always do the guiness tent experience, always entertaining, never forget when youlneverwalkalone won for jp mc and i reckon the whole tent was on apart from me, they nearly lifted the roof off with a loud rendition of the famous song!

always do the guiness tent experience, always entertaining, never forget when youlneverwalkalone won for jp mc and i reckon the whole tent was on apart from me, they nearly lifted the roof off with a loud rendition of the famous song!

the 4 days for cammy

well im a member so going all week for the first time even braving fri!!! starting to buzz about it now

All four days

Not missed a day for 15 years now

Stating in Stow, Monday thru' Friday, for the first time and am keen to find out wht fun there is to be had there!

Cutting back this year so just the Tues/Weds - best racing imho and haven't missed a champion hurdle since Hors La Loi....

go monday night, then tuesday wed & thursday.
Home to watch on the box friday

5 weeks to go

Travelling down Mon evening, going Tues & Wed and then heading back Wed night. Thurs off work to watch from home and recover. Guinness Tent before racing then Tatts for the start, right opposite winning post

Monday Royal Oak, Prestbury preview night, Tue, Wed, Thur in club, come home Thur night and have Gold Cup day in the pub with a dozen or so racing muckers.
Will not go Gold Cup Day again unless they reduce capacity - saw Imperial Commanders Gold Cup from the betting ring in the rain and couldn't get near under cover for the mass of bodies.

im going the thurs n friday. cannot contain my excitement!!

Yisssssss Tuesday Weds for me,if yer on course im in members at 10.35 with a pint of irish black stuff sat on the stairs outside Mill house bar looking over towards cleeve hill,come and say hello

as always monday - thursday stomach pumped on friday

as always monday - thursday stomach pumped on friday

Just Tuesday this year. Gutted. Got the rest of the week off work but too much other stuff on in the evenings and will be watching it in the Lady of Mann in Liverpool on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

a crowd of us are going to benidorm to watch cheltenham .
a better way to drown youre sorrows imo

Marychain, I'll be in the Lady of Mann or Rigbys on the Friday as well.

Small world!!!!

going down for the week mibbi even uttoxeter on sat on way bk home ,maybeee.

Happy Days! I'll be in there with a gang of 30 somethings. Come and say hello!

Going down Monday and leaving Saturday last year went down on the Sunday and did the preview evening won club tickets for the Thursday. This year doing just Tatts and probably get Guinness grand stand seats for Gold cup save getting crushed

I'll be there for days 1 and 2 this year. Will be running a busy bookies on the last two days unfortunately.

Just 3 days this year,cannot wait now stay in Cirencester.
Gold Cup at home as working that evening,but imo Friday is worst days racing.

dont know what you see in it,cant get a drink,cant see a race and cant get a bet on.wouldnt go again if you paid me

Am there for all four days this year. 2011 was the first time I'd done the whole lot and my best friend and I vowed we'd do the whole week from then on. Have a nice little hotel in Bristol booked up this year. Will meet my mate at the track good and early on the Tuesday. We'll go through last minute news and put together a placepot perm, have a good bite to eat in the car park, a pint of Guinness or two, and await the roar.

Echoing what a lot of other people have said, but this four days is the absolute pinnacle of my year. Have been living in Canada for three years now and this week is the one that I always make it back to the UK to be a part of. Couldn't afford to return for Christmas six weeks ago and make Cheltenham, so that was an easy decision to make.

The next few weeks drag on and on and on, but by God the feeling you get when you rock up on that glorious Tuesday morning and literally smell the optimism and excitement is truly the stuff of dreams.

Duffy you going wrong enclosure mate you can see everything from where i stand,put bets on before mate on-line/betting shops and drink in pub from 10.00 am, no need to drink on-course after few morning/lunch. 
Then celebrate in evening after a few winners easy!!!

might see you there longchamps

Love the anticipation and the racing Tuesday & Wednesday. Thursday's card is poor by comparision and as others have mentioned, Gold Cup day is a nightmare. For the past few years I have left immediately after watching the main event.

The Festival has been my favourite week of the year for decades, so much so that I found a job in Cheltenham in 1990 and came to live here. Best decision I ever made!

All 4 days again, travel down Monday home Saturday, first year staying in central cheltenham got fed up with trains buses and unreliable taxis.

Roger

Stow is ok but not exactly buzzing stayed there for four festivals until 2010, best pub is the Queens Head (food and beer, Donnington brewery just down the road), the Kings arms is good also, normally get a late one in there, also the Eagle and Child is quirky and worth a visit.

If the old butchers restaurant is still there that's worth a visit also.

tue with the wife in club/members
fri with 51 mates in best mate stand

both great days but fri tends to  get messy and stuggle to watch the last two races without dribbling then hit the bars/lap dancing  in town

cant wait went paddy power meeting broke even but had the best day ever been going 8 years

Going with 3 others on the Thursday and then with just the one on the Friday.

Staying over with brother in Birmingham so its trains back & forward, unless we miss the last train (has been done) ;)

Off all week so watching the first two days at home.

Never bet on course, always able to use betfair in the morning or on course....bookies tighten everything up as the day goes on.

Heavy drinking day on the Thursday will probably mean a bet in the charity race but also a slower one on the Friday.

Been going for years, various days or whole week, but this week its just the two.

Cant wait!!!

Orson

Thanks for the heads up

Heard good things about most of those pubs and The Old Butchers Shop - can't wait!

Tuesday and Wednesday as always.

A casual glance through this thread shows fewer than I expected people going for all 4 days.

Okay there is a recession and some have cited poorer quality racing on some days and the jam-packed Somme-like nature of the course on the Friday but Ive always assumed that everyone ring fenced this entire week and was down in the Cotswolds for the duration?

Yes, the top-quality of racing is the biggest and most important factor, but the chance to be away from reality - either by yourself or with a gang of mates - for the week is a huge plus too.

No phones, no nagging, no one wanting a piece of you. Just you, horses, 60,000 like-minded souls, your favourite tipple and food and no one telling you how to live your life or making expectations of you other than you turn up and pay homage.

No criticism of those not going for all 4 days. Just an observation....

Agreed Roger, l had to turn down a job because they wanted me to work during Cheltenham. My wife looks forward to her 2 week holiday and Christmas break but even she knows this is the only week of the year that l look forward to.

Tues, Weds. If it goes well then Thurs too. Not been to Gold Cup day since The Fellow. Far too busy.

Agree with the sentiment Roger, but unfortunately its the drinking that kills it for me - never know when to say no....!! Used to do the old 3 days every year, but when it went to 4 it ruined me - maybe I shouldn't have done Stratford on the Monday first....

Tues, Weds, Thurs with mates....back home Thursday night. Back up Friday with my 10 year old lad who will have gone sick for the day from school...  This will be his 4th Gold Cup. I'm sure he'll thank me when he's older, for the road i've sent him on...!!

Roger,
If staying in Stow then you must call into the Plough at Ford which only a couple of miles away.Best place to go after racing.It will be full of racing people including me for 4 days.

Be there tuesday wednesday this year, 5 of us, recover on the thursday while checking in the family (briefly), fridays the worst day as nearing the end with only 364 days to go till the next one

362, my mistake.

4 days in the Club enclosure; going to to do the week properly by heading to Sandown on the Saturday and Stratford on the Monday.

On a random note; does anyone go from Buckingham/Milton Keynes area? Just if anyone does a wee bit of a car share maybe in order... Save a quid or 2 on diesel!

I'm there Tuesday, Best Mate stand, like the atmosphere in there. Train down, first can opened at 07.30.

Usual plans for me. Going for the week with two others. Staying in Bishops Cleeve. Golf on monday.

Thurs in Best Mate, other three days in Tatts. Not missed a day since I started going in '95

Grocerjack

That's the place at the bottom of Jonjo's gallops isn't it? Always have a pint and a pie in there at some point over the week. You're dead right about the racing folk in there too.

Viking

You live in Buckingham? I grew up and went to school there. Walked the earth a while and have now ended up back in Aylesbury! Can't help out with the lifts unfotunately as I'm staying over in a hotel for the Festival.

Coming down to Birmingham on the Monday, train through on Tuesday, walk to Montpelier Wine Bar have a pint, walk to another bar (possibly Tailors), then stroll up to course. Train back to Birmingham at night, then fly home on Wed. Watch Wed racing when I get home, watch Thursday at home, then out on Fri to a few bars for the Gold Cup. Can't wait

Roger I live in the lovelly town that is Bletchley, but go through Buckingham on route... I drive myself, but with fuel prices atm, 4 days driving is gona cost a wee bit of £££.

Where abouts are you staying? Was looking at staying in Bristol and getting the train into Cheltenham.