Bristol Airport to Cheltenham Racecourse Transfer

Flying into Bristol for racedays at Cheltenham Racecourse — the home of jump racing at Prestbury Park? BristolRide meets you in BRS arrivals with a name sign and drives the 53 miles to the gate in around 1h 19min, timed to the start, at a fixed price agreed before you board.

Cheltenham Racecourse at Prestbury Park is the home of jump racing — the Festival every March, the November Meeting, and fixtures from October to April. Cheltenham Racecourse is 53 miles from Bristol Airport via the M5, A40, in Cheltenham. An event day changes the maths on every other way of getting there: trains and shuttles run full, the taxi rank at the airport empties, and the roads around the venue close hours before the start. A pre-booked private car is timed backwards from the start, drops you at the closest open point, and — this is the part that matters — comes back for you afterwards at a fixed price, when nothing else will.

The route runs via the M5, A40, around 1h 19min in normal traffic for the real 53 miles. On racedays the last mile is the slow part: Festival week in March — allow well over an hour extra on the M5 and A40 approach, and expect the Evesham Road to be closed to through traffic. Your driver knows the closures and the agreed pickup point is chosen for it. The fixed price covers the whole journey, whatever the traffic does.