Coventry Cathedral - Entry fee and luggage storage

Thanks for the update.

You had a plan. There was a glitch. You were flexible and overcame the problem.

More importantly you enjoyed the cathedral visit, the recital and the scones.

Have you reported these changes to the RS staff? If not, here's the Guidebook Feedback page where you can do so: https://www.ricksteves.com/forms/guidebook-feedback-form

And here are the Guidebook Updates for England, which don't include your information, but do have other changes since the books were printed: https://www.ricksteves.com/europe/england/guidebook-updates

Thank you, Harold and Claudia, for your comments. (I have now filled out an update info form.)
We were traveling between Cambridge and Oxford on a longer trip, with a stay of several days in each town because of musical events we were attending. My goal was to add as much sightseeing to our 17-day trip as I could, since it was not a normal sight-seeing trip. When planning our move from Cambridge to Oxford I searched out coach travel because of the lack of a direct train service between Cambridge and Oxford. (We know about routing through London but we wanted to avoid it if possible; on a previous occasion on this route many things went wrong on the connection in London due to underground closures and late trains. It was painful.)

Anyway, I was thrilled to find an express bus that leaves Cambridge at 9.00 and gets to Coventry in 2 hours flat! That would let us add a sightseeing stop on our move to Oxford. The only problem was that we would have our luggage with us on our visit, and I actually spent a good amount of time during initial planning figuring out what we'd do, including emailing the cathedral (they never answered).

To sum up, I'm glad that the luggage issue didn't derail our visit, since we had a wonderful time there and learned so much, increasing greatly our knowledge about what the English people survived in World War II, and learning that Coventry Cathedral is a major center for peace and reconciliation work, with multiple gifts and monuments given by different groups worldwide in honor of their work. For example, there is a sculpture called Choir of Survivors given by the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany. (Pictures at this blog post: https://shoffmire.blogspot.com/2015/11/coventry-cathedral.html )

We spent about 3-4 hours in and around the cathedral, then consulted our satnav (Google!) and found a decent walking path to the train station - most of which went through pedestrian walkways in the main downtown (no traffic!). We caught our train and were in Oxford in less than an hour, took a cheap taxi to our apartment rental, and were ready for our next 5 days.

For future reference there is the X5 bus between Oxford and Cambridge twice an hour via Milton Keynes, run by Stagecoach. Although it is a considered legally a bus service, and it makes quite a few stops, the vehicles used are coaches, with air conditioning, toilets etc.