About Sweet Shop Science
Dive into the delicious science of sweets with Diatom Dave from Fun Science Cheltenham.
Discover what makes some sweets so toe-curlingly sour, fabulously fizzy or like a silky spiderweb!
Sweeten the morning/afternoon by making your own confectionery with chemistry and physics, as well as using candy to create human biology through delicious (and slightly gross) edible models.
Price includes one adult and one child. Additional child tickets £8 each.
Get ahead of your Festival reading and visit the Waterstones Cheltenham Science Festival bookshop and support Cheltenham Festivals with every purchase.
Getting Here
Parking
Limited parking at the hotel is available at £3.50 an hour for the public, with other nearby parking found in Rodney Road (GL50 1HX), St Georges Road (GL50 3DT), Royal Well (GL50 3DS) and Regent Arcade (GL50 1HN). There is also a regular bus service from Cheltenham Racecourse Park and Ride car park to the centre of Cheltenham.
Rail & Bus
The hotel is a 25-minute walk from Cheltenham Spa Railway Station, where a taxi rank is also located outside the station along with local bus services.
Stagecoach bus services stop nearby on the Promenade with the Queen’s Hotel a 5-minute walk away. For further information on Cheltenham bus services, please visit stagecoach.com.
There are bike racks located nearby at Imperial Gardens should you wish to visit the venue on your bike. Please note that anyone wishing to secure their bike at one of the bike racks does so at their own risk.
More infoAccess
The Queens Hotel has a step free entrance, and both the Regency Suite and Victoria’s are located on the ground floor, with accessible toilets located in the hotel. These event spaces do not have a hearing loop.
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