Caerleon Roman Baths

PricingFree with English Heritage membershipEH memberFree entryNon-member£5.80

EH members: half price, then freeInfo

Half price, then free, for English Heritage members

This place is cared for by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment service. English Heritage members pay half the standard admission during their first year of membership and get free entry once they have renewed. Show your current membership card at admissions.

Cadw's own members, and Historic Scotland and Manx National Heritage members, get the same arrangement in reverse.
Bring the card itself: joint and family memberships admit the named holders only.
Most Cadw sites are unstaffed and free to everyone; the arrangement matters at the staffed castles, abbeys and houses that charge.

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Entry

Non-member prices

Adult£5.80

Junior (aged 5 to 17) or student£4.00

Senior (aged 65 and over)£5.20

Family (2 adults and up to 3 children)£18.60

Family (1 adult and up to 3 children)£12.80

Pricing details

Standard walk-up price for 1 September 2026 to 31 March 2027; booking online saves 5% (non-refundable). Blue Light Card holders and HM Armed Forces and veterans get 10% off on the day. Disabled visitors and one companion enter free. Cadw's £1 ticket is available online to people on Universal Credit and other named benefits. The amphitheatre, barracks and museum are free. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

Students must show photo ID; under-5s free. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

Children under 5 are free. English Heritage members: half price in your first membership year and free after your first renewal, on showing a valid card (named holders only). Cadw members free.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

The baths are entered through the Bull Inn car park at the front of the building on the High Street: a privately run pay and display with about 20 spaces, payment required within 10 minutes of arrival and charges applying to all users, including the accessible bays the access guide mentions (Cadw's page says there are none). No tariff is published by Cadw or Newport City Council, so the charge is recorded as unknown. Cadw's own free option is the council car park on Broadway beside the amphitheatre, opposite the National Roman Legion Museum, with accessible bays and public toilets with accessible cubicles at the bottom of the coach park; from there it is a level pavement walk with dropped kerbs and a short cobbled stretch after the zebra crossing. Newport City Council also lists free bays on Cold Bath Road by the barracks.

Driving pin: the Bull Inn car park at the baths' entrance, 23 m from Cadw's own map marker, with the entrance door at the rear left of the car park as you drive in. By road: B4596 to Caerleon from M4 junction 25 westbound or 26 eastbound.

By rail: Newport, 6 km, on the Cardiff to London, Manchester and Liverpool lines. By bus: routes 27, 28 and 28B from Newport, or 29 and 29B between Newport and Cwmbran. National Cycle Network route 88 passes 165 m away.

About

Caerleon Roman Baths, Baddondy Rhufeinig Caerllion, preserve the bathhouse of Isca, the fortress of the Second Augustan Legion founded about AD 75 and one of only three permanent legionary fortresses in Britain. Inside a modern cover building on the High Street you walk on decking over the remains of the immense natatio, the open-air swimming pool that held more than 80,000 gallons, where film projection sends a Roman soldier diving into the water again, then past the hot and cold rooms, the hypocaust heating and a drain channel that still carries water, with replica finds and a marble basin bearing a gorgon's head. Reviewers praise the animated projections and interactive panels and recommend the illustrated ISCA booklet, though one found the information thin. Cadw's free amphitheatre, the most complete in Britain, the only Roman legionary barracks still on view in Europe and the free National Roman Legion Museum are a short walk away. Tips: the baths have no toilets, and there is free parking on Broadway.

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Caerleon Roman Baths10:00 – 17:00last admission 16:30

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open daily all year 10am to 5pm, last admission 4.30pm. Closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January. Cadw says the quieter times are later weekday afternoons in school terms. Check the National Roman Legion Museum's own opening times before combining the two.

Terrain level 1, accessible: the whole visit is undercover on a level, well-lit wooden slatted walkway over the remains with one short slope at the rear; not suited to slender or high heels, and narrow-wheeled wheelchairs and prams may find turning tight (a folding wheelchair can be borrowed). Reduced lighting with ambient sound, silent films, lighting effects and projections; three audio points, Braille guides in Welsh and English, induction loop, touch-screen games and replica Roman items; a social story is available on request. Keep sunglasses and keys safe over the pool. No toilets or baby changing inside the baths: public toilets are by the amphitheatre and an accessible toilet is in the free museum next door. Gift shop with guidebooks, exhibition and video presentation, free Wi-Fi; no cafe. Drones are not permitted.

Cadw's free Caerleon Roman Amphitheatre (about 300 m, open 10am to 5pm in summer and 10am to 4pm from October to February, may close when waterlogged) and Roman Barracks (about 400 m, open in daylight) need no ticket and are separate places; the baths' staff cover them.

Photo: The Roman natatio, the fortress baths' swimming pool, lit by a projected swimmer under the timber roof of the cover building at Caerleon. Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caerleon_Roman_Baths,_The_swimming_pool_-_geograph.org.uk_-_8232129.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.