The Rose Bowl
By Car
The Rose Bowl is just off Junction 7 on the M27, after coming off the junction follow the A334, the ground is sign posted from there.
Parking
There is ample parking for domestic games for £7 a car (weather permitting, the car parks are on grass). For Twenty20 games extra parking is available close to the ground.
By Train
Hedge End
The station is a 2 mile walk from the ground. Station info from National Rail.
Southampton Airport Parkway
There are buses from Southampton Airport Parkway to the ground (stop at Moorgreen hospital). You need to go to the bus stop outside Platform 1, don't cross the road. The Station is 4 miles from the ground. Station info from National Rail.
By Bus
The bus service from Southampton Airport Parkway is now the Black Velvet A.
It's operated by Black Velvet Travel Mon-Sat until 6pm, with buses every 30 minutes from the Station to Moorgeen Hospital.
Evenings Mon-Sat the route is operated by First (who will accept return tickets). With buses from the Ground to the Station at 17:50, 19:14, 20:28, 21:28, 22:28 (as of Feb 24). So there should be buses after the latest finish (Floodlit Pro40 games are due to end at 22:20).
Sundays has a service run by Stagecoach. From the station to the ground there are buses every hour from 9:00 to 12:00 & 13:35 to 16:35. Return buses finish at 17:00, long before the finish of any games.
The website is www.velvetbus.info and pdf timetable
Use First Southampton service 8a from Southampton Railway Station and Southampton City Centre (Note that scheduled bus services into Southampton City Centre will finish before the end of floodlit matches)
Entrances
Via Marshall Drive from Botley Road (B3035).
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Taxis
May's Bounty, Basingstoke
By Car
From M3
Leave M3 at Junction 6. Head towards Basingstoke. At the first large roundabout (Black Dam), take a left turn A30/A339. Follow road (under bridge), towards next roundabout (Hackwood Road) and take the third exit towards ’Fairfields’. Take the first turning on the left, round the Lamb Inn into Cliddesden Road. Take the second turning on the right into Fairfields Road. Basingstoke and North Hants Cricket Club is at the end of Fairfields Road.
By Train
Basingstoke
Walk down the steps infront of the station and go through the town centre into Festival Place, walk straight through Fesitval Place and come out of the doors between Madhouse and Rymans. Walk up the hill and turn right at the McDonalds, go straight from there and cross the road onto Victoria Street, turn left and walk until you get to the crossroads and walk up Council Road to the ground. Station info from National Rail.
By Bus
The Jazz 1 and Jazz 3 both stop at the bus stops outside the Train station, there is a stop on Winchester Street close to Bounty Road, alight there and follow Bounty Road to the ground.