is there anyone on here actually going ?

started going in the 70s never missed a year but haven't been much since early 2000s
it's either too busy and/or i'm getting old
far better watching on the TV now

watching and punting from home  no qing or the khazis no paying over the odds for gnats pish lager and no paying near £8 for  burger  and chips  tea coffee beers at hand and the best views on the telly .good luck irish give us a twirl if  the tv  camera pans onto ya !

for the khazis ^^^

Settee, prime viewing, get up about 7, sausage or bacon rolls, couple glasses Champagne, no drunken idiots, no mass queue for bar or toilet, finish off Champers, pub after last race, repeat for 3 days, pub Friday from around 11am, Heaven, good luck all

15 years Annual Member , stopped when it went to 4 days . Expenses were silly , now start watching about 3pm on recorder , skip the drivel and get last 2 on the laptop . Bliss .

Travelled up today for 4 days, me and the son, in hotel now....not raining yet

feel like fooking off home now after reading this lot

you've got a telly in your room.
Room service aswell,stay there.

I'll be there for 4 days. Wouldn't miss it.

Just going tomorrow, watch the rest on telly. Much prefer Punchestown, to which I go to four days every year. Less queues and grief getting there.
We've chosen tomorrow because it good racing and it shouldn't be too busy.

GL everyone ...

went every year on a works trip from 86 to 98 fabulous atmosphere etc but now tv coverage much better and age catching up, also 2hrs to leave course and get up cleeve hill not so appealing.miss it but now have to cheer them up the hill from the settee have a great week both those who go and all at home theres nothing like it.

Annual member. Staying in rented cottage in one of the chocolate box Cotswold villages. Always a magical 4 days.

Used to go for the week and rent a property near to the course for the week, did that from the late 1990's till 2009 but after 2010 they started charging silly money then i scaled it down to the tues and thurs. Now I only go on the Tuesday unless i have a cert on the other days.

The whole thing is being taken over by the rich that dont have a clue about national hunt racing.

Going to Hexham instead.

In my digs in Gloucester no be in Cheltenham for breakfast with a pint about 10,30 tomorrow, go racing tue/wed ( by far the best 2 days ) travel back to Scotland early Thursday morning be home for 1st race where I will not move from the couch for duration of day! Friday go for a few beers to local & watch gold cup followed by a curry.... the perfect week! Not been to the gold cup since 2006, the percentage of idiots rises significantly on this day! My biggest worry is a 5 day festival, I reckon that would kill it

Good luck to you all
Thought for a minute
I had enrolled into the armchair brigade

7 miles from track in beautiful Bourton on Water Airbnb. Not much rain so far but very windy. Taxi at 9.45 let the festival begin.

I still go every year for every day.

My three mates and I stay at my static caravan 16 miles from the course.
We go for breakfast at The Pheasant in Toddington and then park up on a
private car park at about 11 o’clock and crack the beers open.

After getting our Allways Exacta bets on before racing we then go into
the Best Mate where we base ourselves in the temporary seated stand.
We may have a hip flask or two, and either place a few more bets on
the phone or one of us’ll nip down and place our bets with the bookies.

Then back to the van and a walk into the village booser, or perhaps stay
in and play dominoes with a few bottles of wine.

Superb.

First day report, thought watch first race from ground level down by the pitches, bad idea, between the feckers trying to take your eye out with their umbrella and the coonts intent on throwing their pint over you it was hard to concentrate on the big screen to actually watch the race lol.


Watched the rest from the top of the steps in tatts which was better although you barely had room to fart through each race.


Roksana was the only winner backed and a lucky one at that, but still a good buzz which I needed after Laurina.

One hell of a walk from the course back into the town afterwards, along the way encountering an assortment of buskers, birds dishing out lap dancing flyers, a group from a church handing out free doughnuts and groups of 10 year old kids trying to flog you plates of jammie dodgers.


Great train ride into Bristol where we were lucky enough to share a carriage with a few pissed jocks who I believe thought that the rest of the population were coonts.


Do it all again tomorrow...if we're lucky!!!!