Guildford

By bus

National Express (http://www.nationalexpres...) serve Guildford with express bus UK English:coach services from around the country; advanced ticketing is necessary. Note that they serve a stop called Guildford Park Barn, which is a slightly out-of-town location near a Tesco supermarket. You will need to catch a local bus or taxi if you can find one to take you into Guildford.

By bus

Guildford is served by many bus routes from Woking, Aldershot, Godalming and other local places. Prices can be fairly expensive and buses can be unreliable particularly after 6.30PM.

The main bus station, which is the terminus for all routes heading into Guildford, is on Commercial Road off the bottom of North Street. From here, one can pick up details about bus services and buy cheaper long term tickets.

By plane

Guildford is well served by London's collection of airports. For travellers coming directly to Guildford, the most convenient in reducing order of convenience are:

Heathrow Airport

(http://www.baa.co.uk/main...) is about 40 minutes drive along the M25 motorway and the A3 trunk road. Alternatively it is linked directly to Woking rail station by the RailAir (http://www.railair.com/) express bus service.

Gatwick Airport

(http://www.baa.co.uk/main...) is about a hour's drive away via the M23 northbound, M25 clockwise and A3 southtbound roads. There is a through train service to Guildford from a rail station in the airport terminal complex, running twice an hour and taking less than an hour.

By train

Guildford main line station is served by commuter and regional train services from many different directions, including two routes to London one fast via Woking, the other slow via Cobham. The fast services continue southwards to Portsmouth. Guildford also lies on the the line from Reading to Gatwick Airport; beyond Reading, services to Oxford and Birmingham may be accessed, and via Gatwick, connections to Brighton and Kent.

From London, you should travel from London Waterloo station and catch a train whose first stop after Woking is Guildford there are several of these an hour, the travel time will be about 35 minutes. There are also a limited amount of Portsmouth bound trains that go non stop to Guildford. There are other stopping services from Waterloo via Cobham, but these take so much longer it isn't normally worth considering them.

There is a smaller station called London Road Guildford, which is the penultimate stop on the line from London via Cobham.

Train times can be found on the National Rail Planner (http://www.nationalrail.c...) or by calling 0845-748-4950 from anywhere in the UK.

By car

Guildford is served by the A3 trunk road which runs from London to Portsmouth. It is about an hour's drive from central London.

If you are visiting for the day by car, consider using the Park & Ride site at the Spectrum leisure complex just off the A3 southbound, or the site on the Old Portsmouth Road at Artington on the way to Godalming and catching the dedicated express bus from these locations.