Taxis:

Apart from the cab rank at the station and a couple of others in town you need to phone for a taxi. All hotels, restaurants and pubs will have numbers or will phone for you.

Buses:

The main local operator serving the city centre and suburbs is First Bus Somerset & Avon. Services within the city are usually frequent (every 5-15 minutes) although not always to the timetable. For guidance a one day off-peak ticket on First Bus is £3.40, and up to date route and city centre maps are available on their website.

 More use for the casual visitor are the double-decker open top tour busses that ply a pleasant but contourted route around the city centre at least every 20 minutes. For visitors staying in th HI hostel the (usually) Bright Orange #18 travels the mile or so up the hill, en-route to the University of Bath (NOT Bath Spa University- 10 miles the other side of bath at the end of the Bright Orange route #418). Single journeys on the #18 are around £1 and run until 3am monday-saturday, 12pm sundays.