Best time to arrive at Badminton on the saturday?

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I am planning on taking OH to Badminton this year, he has never been so i decided it would be best to go on saturday as he wont want to watch dressage
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I normally go on friday so dont have a problem getting in about 10am but i figured i need to be there earlier than that for saturday.
Does anyone normally go on saturday that can give me an idea of the best time to arrive?
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Yes, but what do you call early? It will take us two hours to drive up and i was thinking of leaving home at 6am
 
Neither! We always come up the A350 to chippenham then take the B4039 across motorway, straight to Badminton.
 
Hello. I'm also going to Badminton on the Saturday. Me and a friend are heading there from Surrey. I'm now quite concerned having read these posts, will it be better to try a slightly longer route on some back roads if I can work out a way rather than heading down the M4?

Sorry for hijacking your thread - am getting a bit worried!
 
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All my advice is - Avoid JCN 18 of M4, like the plague, unless you like traffic jam and become a cartographer
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If you aim to get to Badminton by 8am you will get in fairly quickly on all routes - leave it to 10 and you can queue for hours.

The M4 route is probably the quickest direct route so I would stay on there if you don't know the back routes as some are turned into one way streets for traffic on the Saturday morning and if you end up on one of those you could be really stuck.

I used to live just over the Severn bridge and if I left at 7.30 I could get into badminton grounds by 8.00
 
Thank you - will just set off ridiculously early then. Have worked on a trade stand there before and know how horrendous it is to try and navigate round the back roads near Badminton village - but then we had priority passes so it was easy once we found the entrance
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The shopping opens pretty early on Saturday get there for 8 am and then get yourself a Bacon Sarnie and a Coffee or better still if your Mum is 86 get her to make you a large Ginger cake with lemon icing and bits of stem ginger on top and take a flask of coffee (but not your mum) with you and then sit in the boot and drink your coffee and eat your ginger cake then shop and then have your Bacon Sarnie
 
Aim to get off at Junc 17, cut through Chippenham, Yatton Kennell etc, and over to Badders that way, you come in at the bottom far end of the cross country (near 2nd water), you can then make a decision to either park at that end, or drive further up to the car parks nr the trade stands
 
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