This site is really designed for people who want to stay longer than just a few hours. Links on the llp to Hotels and B&B's (bed and breakfast). For those who plan a longer stay there are links also to agents who offer house and flat letting and local Realtors or as we call them Estate Agents. They have much the same status as lawyers have in America so you can see they are well trusted. Someone said that as well as bold, italic and underline there should be a typeface called ironic. It would have been useful just then, Indeed it would have been useful throughout the construction of Windsorsoup. Some people might be irritated by the weak attempts at humour in Windsorsoup. Tough. The web is meant to be fun.
Windsor is close to London but not London; it has its rural side. This events page and the next has examples of a year's events some of them fairly rustic and bucolic (look it up, it isn't rude).
It is certainly cheaper than staying in London hotels, yet is within easy reach of the capital. See the Transport pages.
Windsor would be ideal for people who want a visit with a focus.
Horse racing, the sport of Kings goes back centuries in the area and Windsor would make an ideal base for a holiday for gee-gee fanciers. Windsor Racecourse is on the river. Visit the river page. It has links to the sites of local racecourses. One of the most pleasant trips to the course is on a riverboat.

WINDSOR IN THE WINTER

Windsor Theatre in Thames Street. Stages show all the year round many of them prior to transfer to London. To find out what's on try www.theatreroyalwindsor.co.uk. But around Christmas we always know what's on. The pantomime. Explaining pantomime to foreign visitors is like explaining the rules of cricket to a Martian. Basically though if you are a man and fancy the principal boy and you do not usually then it's not you that's changed. He is a she. Only worry if you fancy the Dame. She is a him.
The stories are few and traditional: they are just a peg on which to hang beautiful costumes, songs and corny jokes. Tramp to old lady at door of cottage.
" Got anything to eat Lady?
Old Lady" Do you like cold rice pudding?
Tramp "Yus"
Old Lady
" Well come back tomorrow its still warm.
Windsor theatre had the same actor, Brian Burden, playing the part of the Dame for thirty-five years, he seems to have retired which is a shame, though the new on is good. Bryan to an American lady in the audience.
"What are you doing over here?
Studying the history of British theatre.
" You're looking at it love.
This years panto, see bill was Jack and the Beanstalk. So Jack was a pretty girl and his MUM was a man. Clear?
Every year a carol service is held on Castle Hill. A military band plays and a congregation sings, magical. But the Queen never comes out with the traditional mince pies. Funny that

Datchet, opposite Windsor castles grounds on the other bank of the Thames is a beautiful little village with the traditional village green and church the village is only marred by the volume of traffic through it. Each Boxing day a traditional mummers play is enacted. The story is ancient and the plot obscure but includes a battle between St George and a mysterious Turk in which St George dies, usually in a puddle of water and is brought back to life by a doctor.
Father Christmas gets in the plot somehow. Great fun. Summer in Windsor here