Cheltenham Festival 2009 – Tickets & Accommodation Guide
Cheltenham National Hunt Festival
If you haven’t already nailed yours down, there’s still plenty of time to get your tickets for the Cheltenham Festival 2009 – Horse Racing’s Greatest Show on Earth!
Cheltenham Festival 2009 runs from Tuesday 10th March to Friday 13th March 2009 (a lucky day for someone!) this year, you can view the Cheltenham Festival 2009 Race Schedule here.
Cheltenham Festival 2009 Tickets
There are tickets available for each day of the 2009 Cheltenham Festival through Seatwave, the Fan to Fan ticket Exchange. Seatwave offer a ticket guarantee too, so you can buy with confidence from them up until pretty close to event time (check the terms though before ordering super-lat-minute!).
Click here to see the full Cheltenham Festival 2009 list with Seatwave.
- Cheltenham Festival Tuesday 10th March 2009 Tickets – From £48 Each (Best Mate Enclosure) – Champion Hurdle Day
- Cheltenham Festival Wednesday 11th March 2009 Tickets – From £48 Each (Best Mate Enclosure) – Queen Mother Champion Chase
- Cheltenham Festival Thursday 12th March 2009 Tickets – From £35 Each (Best Mate Enclosure) – World Hurdle Day
- Cheltenham Festival Friday 13th March 2009 Tickets – From £48 Each (Best Mate Enclosure) – Gold Cup Day
You can also get tickets from The Jockey Club online – just click here.
Once you’ve got the tickets for the 2009 Festival though, its time to think about getting there and back, and where to stay!
Cheltenham Festival 2009 – Getting There
Getting to the Festival is relatively simple by road or rail. The racecourse is situated on Evesham Road on the Northern outskirts of Cheltenham – the town has a railway station, Cheltenham Spa, which is around a couple of miles from the course – a short taxi ride (you might want to be there SEVERAL hours before racing if attempting any vehicular access!), or longish walk.
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The train is one of the easiest ways to get there, and there are a number of services from London (so obviously plenty of connectors!) which will get you to Cheltenham well in time for the racing – and save you the hassle of getting a room nearby too – though you will miss out on a lot of the buzz, which is legendary if you stay in or around Cheltenham!
Get train tickets to Cheltenham early from TheTrainLine and you can get cheaper tickets!
Cheltenham Festival 2009 – Hotels & Accomodation
Getting an hotel in Cheltenham around Festival time is a bit of a nightmare – book early to avoid a last minute mad-dash of epic proportions, or take your own camper van, caravan or tent!
For those of you who enjoy your home comforts a little more, your best bet is to grab an hotel or a B&B for the duration of your stay – below we’ve got some excellent links to find last minute hotel rooms in and around Cheltenham which are still available:
- Cheltenham hotels from Hotels.com during Festival Week (please note that these may be some distance from Cheltenham due to (lack of) availability!
- Holiday Inn Gloucester (5 Miles) still available through Expedia.
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Laterooms Festival Week hotel and B&B Accommodation – still rooms available! Grab them now while you still can – click here
Once you get your Cheltenham Festival tickets, room and train tickets bought and paid for, its time for the all important winners to pay for it all… that’s where we’ll come in – to (hopefully) bag you a hatfull of winners to see the week through – check back with Systemlays UK in Cheltenham Festival 2009 week to see all of the tips and selections.
If you are going to Cheltenham, have a good one. If, like us, you’ll have to make do with watching it on TV, then here’s to another tip-top Festival.
I cannot wait for Cheltenham Festival 2009!
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