Bath on Ice returns to Royal Victoria Park (BA1 2NR) in November 2026, but that is all the operator has confirmed: as of late August there are no published dates, no prices, no session times, and nothing on sale. Any prices you see elsewhere online are almost certainly last season's. Next door, Victoria Falls Adventure Golf is open now at £7.50 an adult round.
That first paragraph is blunter than we would like, but it is the most useful thing anyone can tell you about Bath on Ice in August. Several sites are carrying confident-looking ticket prices and opening dates for the coming season. We traced them: they lead back to pages that are now dead, and the figures match last season's pattern. Until the operator publishes, nobody actually knows what a 2026-27 ticket costs. We checked the operator's own site, bathonice.co.uk, and its booking system on 22 August 2026, and this page reflects exactly what they say, which is not much.
What's confirmed and what isn't
| Question | Status, checked 22 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Is it coming back? | Yes. The operator's site says "Returning November 2026" |
| Exact dates | Not confirmed by the operator |
| Prices | Not published anywhere by the operator |
| Tickets on sale? | No. The booking system shows no dates |
| Location | Royal Victoria Park, BA1 2NR |
| Sessions and age rules | Not published yet |
On dates, there is one hedge worth passing on: a national tourism listing on VisitBritain gives 14 November 2026 to 4 January 2027, but the operator itself has not confirmed dates, so treat that as provisional. It fits the usual mid-November to early-January pattern, and no more than that can honestly be said.
The trap: recycled prices from last winter
If you search for Bath on Ice prices today you will find specific figures presented as current. Be careful. The operator's own site is a holding page with no prices at all, its tickets page does not resolve, and the booking system has nothing on sale. The prices circulating on other sites survive only in search snippets from pages that have since been taken down, and rink prices have moved between seasons before. Budgeting a family evening on a number from the wrong winter is exactly the kind of small holiday ambush this site exists to prevent. When real prices appear, they will appear on bathonice.co.uk first, and we will put them here.
Practical advice in the meantime: join the operator's mailing list on bathonice.co.uk, or start checking the site from late September. On-sale usually comes well before opening night, and the sessions that vanish first are the ones everyone wants, which brings us to timing.
When to actually go
Here is the planning judgement, and we flag it as judgement rather than a fact about a timetable nobody has published: a temporary rink in a Christmas city sells out its December weekends while weekday daytime sessions go begging. The crush is Saturdays and Sundays in December, when the rink queue merges with the Christmas Market crowds. The quiet slots are November, before the market machine spins up, and weekday daytimes throughout. If you can skate on a Tuesday afternoon in late November, you will share the ice with a fraction of the Saturday crowd, and you will not be paying the market-weekend premium on parking and everything else either.
If your trip is pinned to the market itself, read our Bath Christmas Market guide and treat the rink as the evening leg: market by daylight, skate after dark.
What this season looks like, per Visit Bath
The operator's holding page says nothing about the season itself, but Visit Bath's live listing, which we read in full on 22 August, sketches it out: student nights, limitless skate sessions and themed days are planned; the heated, undercover Moguls Alpine Bar returns with wood-fired pizza, mulled wine and hot chocolate; and Glow Golf runs after dark, booked in 15-minute start windows, with the course taking about 1 hour 20 minutes. On getting there, the same listing notes the rink is a short walk from the centre, the nearest car park is Charlotte Street, and the park and ride buses stop next door during the Christmas Market period. All of that is Visit Bath's account rather than the operator's, so hold it lightly until bathonice.co.uk goes live.
What is not published yet, anywhere: children's age rules, skate-aid hire prices, session lengths and any peak and off-peak split. We will add them when the operator does.
The smart plan: the off-peak double bill
The rink sits in Royal Victoria Park next to Victoria Falls Adventure Golf, and that adjacency is the best trick in this piece. The golf course runs year-round in daylight, and in winter it runs Glow Golf in the evenings; a round is £7.50 for adults and £6.50 for kids, prices we verified for our own adventure golf guide this year. So the good Bath winter afternoon is not a Saturday rink queue: it is a quiet weekday, 18 holes as the light goes, then skates, then something hot in the Alpine Bar. Same postcode, no queueing, and the only part of it you cannot yet price is the ice.
FAQs
When does Bath on Ice 2026-27 open?
The operator has confirmed only "Returning November 2026". One national tourism listing gives 14 November 2026 to 4 January 2027, but the operator has not confirmed dates, so treat that as provisional. Check bathonice.co.uk from late September.
How much are Bath on Ice tickets?
Not published yet. The operator's site carries no prices and nothing is on sale, and the specific figures on other sites trace back to dead pages and are almost certainly last season's. Wait for bathonice.co.uk; we will update this page when real prices appear.
Where is Bath on Ice, and where do you park?
Royal Victoria Park, Bath, BA1 2NR, a short walk from the city centre. Per Visit Bath's listing, the nearest car park is Charlotte Street, and the park and ride buses stop next door during the Christmas Market period.
Can you still play adventure golf in winter?
Yes. Victoria Falls Adventure Golf, next to the rink in Royal Victoria Park, runs year-round in daylight at £7.50 adults and £6.50 kids, and per Visit Bath's listing Glow Golf runs after dark in the rink season, booked in 15-minute start windows.
When is Bath on Ice quietest?
Nothing about this season's timetable is published, but the pattern of a temporary Christmas-city rink is reliable: December weekends are the crush, November and weekday daytimes are the quiet slots. Book the unpopular hour and you will have a better time on the ice.
We will update this page the moment bathonice.co.uk goes live for the season with real dates and prices.