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Guildford's main train station lies just over the river west of the town centre; the bus station is between the town centre and the train station, at the foot of North Street. The county's main tourist office is at 14 Tunsgate opposite the Guildhall (May-Sept Mon-Sat 9am-5.30pm, Sun 10am-4.30pm; Oct-April Mon-Sat 9.30am-5.30pm; tel 01483/444333, ). Guildford's cheaper accommodation options are all some distance from the town centre and include the homely Atkinsons Guest House , 129 Stoke Rd (tel 01483/538260; £40-50), with en-suite rooms, ten minutes' walk up the A320 Woking road. Plusher lodgings can be found at the Jarvis Guildford Hotel , 253 High St (tel 01483/564511; £90-110) and at the timber-beamed, 500-year-old Angel Posthouse and Livery , 91 High St (tel 01483/564555; £150-200).

The High Street area offers a fairly routine range of eating options - Café de Paris at no. 35 (tel 01483/564555; closed Sun), a busy French-style brasserie in a listed building, offers three-course meals from around £14 - while Olivo , at 53 Quarry St (tel 01483/564555; closed Sun), is an innovative focacceria serving delicious regional Italian dishes, housed in the town's sixteenth-century dispensary. Guildford's better pubs include the King's Head in Quarry Street, with a courtyard and inexpensive meals, and Ye Olde Ship Inn , the town's oldest hostelry, on Portsmouth Road.