The city itself is grand, elegant, and confident. It exudes an air of aloofness, and you feel privilidged that it allows you to walk its neatly kept streets. The majestic semi circle of Regency houses in the Royal Crescent stands proudly overlooking neatly manicured gardens. The intruiging little streets that lead to the river are well kept, and orderly, but still entice you in to find whatever hidden gems lurk within. Even the river itself seems to flow in an orderly fashion over the weir beside the imposing Pulteney Bridge .

The baths themselves are equally elegant, with the warm green waters almost inviting you in, and the nearby abbey was the venue for England 's first King, Edgar, to have his coronation.