Good B&Bs in Glastonbury

This may not be helpful, Sue, but it's hard to know where to begin. Glastonbury has many: look online? The main difference is between 'normal' ones, and those that are overtly New Agey with maybe courses, run by "earth mothers", etc., LOL.

You can stay at Chalice Well, which is amazing, BTW. The ancient floorboards are very creaky and it's not en suite, but you meet other people for sure and share a kitchen open to cook in: check out Chalice Well itself maybe: you just pay a minimal annual fee as a member, then can stay in their unique rooms. The place itself is then free to you.

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Thanks V, I will look into Chalice Well (no pun intended:D). I have searched online and, as you say, there are loads to choose from. That's why I really wanted some personal recommendations.

Thanks for your help though:)

At Chalice Well, it is not so much private as you have you own room but there's a vague "communal" air to it, since you share kitchen and bathrooms. TBH what I most recall is how creaky the floorboards are: if anyone takes one step, you hear it all over the building. It does have a meditation room at the top, mind you. It's also right across from the Tor.

Apart from that, yes, lots of places as it's one way people make money and survive there. I can't think of a particular place that leaps to mind.

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I like Shekinashram - I've stayed there the last two times I went to Glastonbury - didn't make it up for the morning meditation. The food is vegetarian and good. Nice people too.

Here's their link so you can look for yourself.

Love Binah
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Tell you what, Sue. I did an online search like you to go there last year. It was hard to really know where to trust would be truly good. So if it's your kind of thing, look up the Travelodge chain. We stayed at one a few miles away, just off the motorway. It was only a shortish drive from Glastonbury, SW of it, and with Travelodge you do know what to expect, anyhow. Without looking up the chain online myself right now, I may recall that Glastonbury might have its own, but quite a lot more expensive than those just a few miles away?

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Enjoy your stay! Apart from Chalice Well, I've only ever stayed at 'normal' B & Bs at Glastonbury. I've sometimes wondred what the overtly New Agey ones are like. 🙂 Some are right opposite Chalice Well. It's just my way, but their spiel put me off, with all the massage and events on offer.

What Glastonbury really and seriously lacks and always has, very strangely, is a good variety of eating places. I've organised conferences there, and food is a nightmare: it's so hard to book in for even just 15 or so people to eat together. Last time there, last year, there was one small Indian (eating place, not person!:)), some tiny private establishments you only find online, the pub-place by the central cross, and then otherwise you just end up eating cream buns in a cafe. I would have thought, given the number of visitors, this is a real market gap waiting for somebody to slot into...

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the reason for going to Glastonbury may well be to experience some kind of 'new agey' vibe....personally, I find Travelodges to be horribly soulless. Let's face it, 'new agey' doesn't have to carry negative connotations in the way that Venetian implies. I know Glastonbury can present itself in a somewhat OTT way in terms of crystal shops etc but it really is a place of great power and infinite possibilities. The Chalice Well is magical...I hope you find somewhere beautiful Sue and that you have a lovely time. Do let us know.

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Thanks all for your replies. Actually we won't be going until a bit later on this year and, sorry to disappoint, but we are going to a wedding there and probably a Travelodge may well be the answer. I don't think there will be much time to visit and do new agey type things although if we get a chance to look around we will.

What Glastonbury really and seriously lacks and always has, very strangely, is a good variety of eating places... you just end up eating cream buns in a cafe.

I suppose you mean eating out in the evening? That might be awkward for larger groups.

I've always thought of Glastonbury as being one of the best places to eat out as there are so many exclusively vegetarian places. I especially like the [DLMURL="http://www.welcometoglastonbury.co.uk/2008/04/blue-note-cafe-glastonbury.html"]Blue Note Cafe[/DLMURL] and [url]Rainbow's End[/url] that have quite a few vegan options.

There's a Travelodge in Street, just outside Glastonbury. They can be very cheap if you book ahead online, depends whether you want atmosphere or not, and whether you'll be spending much time there. I don't think they have a meditation room and joss sticks will set off the sprinklers.

Thanks all for your replies. Actually we won't be going until a bit later on this year and, sorry to disappoint, but we are going to a wedding there and probably a Travelodge may well be the answer.

That could be the answer, then. You know what you'll get. Some Glastonbury B&Bs seem a bit tacky. I'm assuming that what I found last year will normally apply: that the T/L in Street (I always chuckle at the road to it: "Street Street" isn't it?) costs more than one a few miles out on the motorway. Though, alas, as Barafundle points out:

>>>I don't think they have a meditation room and joss sticks will set off the sprinklers.

🙂 Maybe none of that will be true of T/Ls in fifty years from now, and you'll be expected to rise at 5.00 AM for hatha yoga, who knows?

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I hope Sue won't mind me "hijacking" her thread for a moment, as it seems logical to keep all things Glastonbury together.

I've always thought of Glastonbury as being one of the best places to eat out as there are so many exclusively vegetarian places. I especially like the [DLMURL="http://www.welcometoglastonbury.co.uk/2008/04/blue-note-cafe-glastonbury.html"]Blue Note Cafe[/DLMURL] and [url]Rainbow's End[/url] that have quite a few vegan options.

Yes, it's no problem for one or two people, or a family or small group, Graham But over a span of many years I've had to help organise three semi-large events there, where 25-40 people had to eat twice a day together. It's been incredibly difficult. Our worst experience was in what I think is the only Indian place there? Having allocated a full two hours for a meal break (since you normally have to walk to-from Chalice Well, our venue, if in numbers), many of us were still unserved after 1 3/4 hours when others had finished! Mind you, if you have Chalice Well as a venue, you can maybe use the kitchen to cook for everyone. Ah - but I just remembered: they don't like you to do it (it's meant only for people staying there), so I must confess we did baked spuds last time and a buffet in secret. (Ashamed smiley!)

Since I might well have to do such an event again, any ideas, anyone, where you can easily book 20-40 people in? Glastonbury eateries tend to be so small. Sue, is the wedding reception happening in the town, may I ask, and where? Ta.

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Since I might well have to do such an event again, any ideas, anyone, where you can easily book 20-40 people in? Glastonbury eateries tend to be so small. Sue, is the wedding reception happening in the town, may I ask, and where? Ta.

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Can't help with your eventing I'm afraid V. The wedding is a small affair with a wedding breakfast being held in a marquee in the garden of the house. (no room for a knees up:p)

OK, but thanks, Sue.

"Knees up"? Given the place, that must be some traditional or tribal occult/ esoteric practice that helps raise kundalini, right?

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