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As a local, for me venturing down to Royal Birkdale to spectate the Women’s British Open will be no big bother. If I’m taking the family we’ll drive, if I’m on my own I’ll walk. But if you are venturing to the Southport vicinity to experience the benefits of the Ricoh Women’s British Open in July and August, where are you going to reside? Based on my local knowledge, here are a handful destinations worthy of consideration. If you are interested in any of these hotels they are all bookable over the internet through a reliable website. It is a site I have used already and with the majority of hotels you do not pay until arrival and virtually all will allow you to abandon your reservation right up to the day of arrival. So if the summer weather turns bad and you change your travel plans, you are not losing out on hotel outlay. The Royal Clifton, a associate of the Best Western chain of hotels, is a large hotel overlooking the Kings Gardens. This sizeable hotel is not too far out of the action down at Royal Birkdale, being located at the Birkdale end of the centre. It is out of the way of the chief shops, but not too far to walk into the centre for loads of shopping! Over the road are the popular Kings Gardens, allowing for an evening walk round the gardens and the Marine Lake. There is plenty of parking on site and more pay and display outside. An excellent base if you are wanting to drive the short distance to Royal Birkdale. An additional decent alternative of hotel at that end of Southport is the Prince of Wales hotel. This hotel with Victorian features is sited on Lord Street, where a lot of the shops are. It is at the quieter end, but easily walkable to all of the most important shops. Once more this hotel has plenty of on and off street parking and if you want to drive to Royal Birkdale, or if you are as eager to walk as I am and you want to walk it, just turn left onto Lord Street out of the hotel gates, keep following the road as it becomes Waterloo Road through Birkdale and about 2 miles from your hotel is the golf club. Easy by car or by taxi. One more exciting and long standing hotel is the Scarisbrick Hotel. Right in the center of the shops together with its own bar, restaurant and night club, it can be a active place. The hotel information do refer to parking, but I would not know where this is. Potentially around the back of the hotel. But if you are traveling by public transport and would like a lively hotel, here is the one for you! While we don’t know yet where the endorsed public parking will be, there is an area by the golf course that is used for parking for Southport’s recognized flower show, and I expect that this might be called into action for this event. I do not think they are anticipating the visitor levels experienced when the men take their turn to play in Birkdale. But assuming car parking is close at hand, driving from any of the Southport hotels will only take minutes.
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Keith works for Eighteen Holes, which includes plenty of information as regards Hotels for Ricoh Womens Open and lots more information.
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