Thanks for the info CestLaVie.

Wow, the Baths sound well and truly ruined! Does anyone know if the Theme-Park Style one-way system and ticket office is an all year round thing? Or just at peak times of the year / when all the lovely cruise ships are in town?

Presumably you could still swim round to Devils Bay and walk back through. Or drop weaker swimmers off at Devils Bay by RIB and pick them up at the other end.

Having enjoyed the Baths back in the day we said 'never again' a few years back when it became too mad. But...last January we had the place to ourselves and it was magic once more. This year we will have first-timers with us...so had kind of resigned ourselves to returning so they could see the place. Beginning to have second thoughts though now!

Any news on the construction of the gift-shop at the end of the trail? I've always thought that was what was missing from the place. Perhaps they could add a giant stair-lift into their plans so you could just sit down at one end and then be whisked through the boulders without having to waste any precious calories?