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Royal Ascot

Hospitality at Ascot, from a restaurant table to a private box, with lunch, afternoon tea.

Tue 15 Jun - Sat 19 Jun 2027

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Opening Day

The first day of the meeting traditionally opens with the Queen Anne Stakes and the Royal procession down the straight mile.

Choose your hospitality

Royal Ascot hospitality, from the Furlong and Pavilion restaurants to The Lawn Club, The Gallery, the Village restaurants and private chalets and boxes.

What’s included

Included as standard

  • Car parking pass

    One pass per two guests booked. Standard size vehicles only (7 seater and below).

  • Race cards and racing newspapers

    Race cards and racing newspapers available throughout the day.

  • Tote betting facilities

    On-site tote betting facilities available throughout the day.

  • On-site management team

    Imperial Corporate Events team in attendance throughout Ascot Racecourse.

  • Singing around the bandstand

    After the final race, guests are invited to make their way to the bandstand for the traditional Royal Ascot singing.

  • Resident tipster

    On hand through the racing.

What to expect

Your Royal Ascot experience starts here

The Royal Procession down the Straight Mile

The Royal Procession down the Straight Mile

Royal Landaus enter at 2pm daily, sent off by the National Anthem as the Royal Standard rises over the grandstand. Tradition begun by George IV in 1825.

Royal Ascot Gold Cup

Thursday's Gold Cup, Ascot's oldest race

Trawlerman gave the Gosdens the 2025 Gold Cup, William Buick up. John Gosden ended the week sharing top trainer with Aidan O'Brien, five winners apiece.

The Royal Enclosure dress code

The Royal Enclosure dress code

Morning dress and top hat for men. Formal daywear with a hat at least 4 inches across for women. Doorstaff at the enclosure gate enforce it.

Bandstand singing after the last race

Bandstand singing after the last race

Daily tradition in the Queen Anne Enclosure: racegoers gather at the bandstand once the card is run to sing through the British songbook, top to bottom.

Eight Group 1 races across the 5 days

Eight Group 1 races across the 5 days

From Tuesday's Queen Anne to Saturday's Jubilee Stakes: 18 Group races, 8 of them Group 1, run by 500 of the world's leading flat horses.

Sunny day at Ascot Racecourse

Ascot Racecourse

18°

Mixed with showers

H: 23°L: 13°

Our best tips

Weather

Ascot lands in the UK summer, so expect high teens to low twenties. Pack a light jacket for the odd chilly hour. If the weather turns, your suite has plenty of indoor space to watch the racing from.

Gentle reminder

Royal Ascot draws 300,000 guests over five days, so expect traffic. Gates open at 10:30am, the Royal Procession rolls at 2pm, and the first race is off at 2:30pm. Arrive early; you'll want time to settle into your suite before the off.

Dress code

Dress codes differ by enclosure: smart daywear in Windsor, no straps in Village or Queen Anne, full morning dress in the Royal Enclosure. Hats or headpieces are expected for women, jackets and ties for men. Stag and hen kit is off the table.

Be aware of

A pint at the racecourse will set you back around £7.60. Our bookings include drinks at your table for the day, plus lunch (set-course or buffet, your call). Worth knowing before you start counting rounds.

Getting you on track

With Imperial Corporate Events

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Completely hands-off from start to finish

Tell us what you're after and we'll plan the rest. All you have to do is show up.

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Tasting menu
Restaurant reservation
Birthday surprise
Flight upgrades
Trip extension
Champagne on arrival
Spa treatment
Private chef
Anniversary cake
Helicopter transfer
Private tour

Add personal touches to your trip

Make a request and our team will do everything they can to make it happen

On-site team

Your host is on site with you. One person, one number, the whole day.

Seamless booking process

Pick the experience, pick the tier, pick the day. Your account manager handles the rest.

Getting around

Getting around Ascot

Pre-book a fixed-time car the night before

Book a local car with a fixed time and a named meet point away from the gates, because Uber supply collapses on race-days.

Bray is the dining village to know

The Thames village just west of the course is the area's dining destination and makes a strong base for a free evening.

Hold for drinks until the pickup crush clears

We time your car for the hour after the last race, once the exodus has thinned and pickup near the gates stays clean.

What our guests say

Don't just take our word for it

I have booked royal ascot with this…

I have booked royal ascot with this compnany for the last 3 years and they are amazing, great service and quick response to my questions. Its a great experience

TERRI D28 Jul 2026

Excellent Service as ever with Imperial…

Excellent Service as ever with Imperial Events. Royal Ascot 2026 done properly. Zach was also a great help in teeing up the day.

Ben B07 Jul 2026

I attended Royal Ascot The Village…

I attended Royal Ascot The Village enclosure for the 2nd year running. The whole day was 5 star. The food the drink, the afternoon tea and location was absolutely first class.

Neil S04 Jul 2026

Ascot was excellent as usual the…

Ascot was excellent as usual the service would benefit from some on site personnel to direct you to where you need to go, the event didn’t really feel special in anyway over a standard ticket but we did get was good. The service in the restaurant was a bit chaotic

Mark25 Jun 2025

We had a wonderful day at Ascot last week on the 17bJune

We had a wonderful day at Ascot last week. Our table for 8 people was perfectly positioned and the service, food and wine were excellent. I have booked again with Amanda who was , as always, extremely helpful.

JAN W25 Jun 2025

Ascot Races

A fantastically well organised event, everything ran smoothly with no issues or concerns. Simplistic entry into the event with what can only be described as top tier staff that were wholly professional, courteous and welcoming! A massive shout out to Jordan Knibbs for her support in ensuring my enrolment for the event was very easy and in no way time consuming, she was on hand to ensure there were no problems on the day too! A great day had by all!!

Pip29 Jul 2024

Frequently Asked Questions

The Royal Family attend all 5 days of Royal Ascot, from Tuesday to Saturday

Five days, Tuesday to Saturday.

Smart dress, with specifics by enclosure. We'll confirm exactly what's expected in the enclosure your booking covers when we walk you through the booking.

Enclosure access for your chosen day, hospitality at a range of options from The Lawn Club through to a Private Box, and dining inside that. We tailor the rest around you.

Yes. You pick your day across the five, and we match it to your preferred hospitality, from the Furlong Club or Pavilion Restaurant through to a Private Box.

As early as you can. The better hospitality options at Royal Ascot, particularly Private Boxes and Village restaurants, go months ahead, so give us a call and we'll secure what's still available.

Royal Ascot 2027 runs Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 June at Ascot Racecourse. Ladies Day is Thursday 17 June, the day of the Gold Cup and the largest royal party of the week. The other four are Opening Day on the Tuesday, Prince of Wales's Stakes Day on the Wednesday, Coronation Stakes Day on the Friday and the finale on the Saturday.

At Ascot Racecourse on the High Street in Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7JX. It sits west of London and close to Windsor. Ascot station is a seven-minute walk from the gates, on a path away from the road. Trains from London Waterloo take about 53 minutes. Race-day traffic is heavy whichever way you come, so we book your car for a fixed time at a named meeting point and time the return for the hour after the last race.

The last race is off at 6.10pm. The card starts at 2.30pm and runs seven races through the afternoon. The Royal Procession comes down the Straight Mile at 2pm, before any of them. Once the card is run, racegoers gather at the bandstand in the Queen Anne Enclosure and sing through the British songbook, which keeps the course busy into the evening. We confirm the exact race times for your day as soon as Ascot publishes the card.

Seven, which makes 35 across the five days. Ascot added a seventh race to each day in 2020 and made it permanent the year after. Eighteen of the 35 are Group races, the top classifications in European flat racing, and eight of those are Group 1.

Anyone can go to three of the four enclosures. Windsor, Queen Anne and Village are all open to the public, and the days we arrange sit in the public enclosures. The fourth is the Royal Enclosure, and it is not sold at all. You either join it or you go as a Member's guest. Joining needs two existing Members to put you forward, each with four years of their own attendance behind them. Children under ten are not admitted to the Royal Enclosure on any day, and the Tuesday there is Members only.

Bags are searched at every gate, so travel light. Only the Windsor Enclosure lets you bring a picnic in, and that carries a limit of one bottle of sparkling wine per adult. Nothing of your own goes through the gate into the Queen Anne, Village or Royal enclosures. On a day with us there is no need, because your table is set for the whole afternoon. We send Ascot's current list with your booking so nothing gets turned away at the gate.

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Ascot Racecourse grandstand on a Royal Ascot meeting day

The history of Royal Ascot

Royal Ascot has run since 1711, when Queen Anne mapped out a course on heath she'd found riding from Windsor. Three hundred years on, every day still opens with the monarch's procession down the Straight Mile at 2pm, and the racing card still pulls 350,000 over the five days. The Gold Cup is the headline; the procession sets the tone.

Horses racing at Royal Ascot
Ideal for horses to gallop at full stretch
Queen AnneFounder of the course, on first seeing the heath in 1711
Horse and Jockey at Ascot
Every moment spent on Frankel's back is a special moment. He is amazing and had all the others cooked at halfway.
Tom QueallyJockey, after Frankel's eleven-length Queen Anne Stakes win in 2012
1711

Queen Anne founds the course

Michael Dahls painting of Anne, Queen of Great Britain

The London Gazette carried news of the fixture on 12 July 1711; Doctor, owned by the Duke of St Albans, took the opening £50 plate.

Queen Anne discovered the heath while riding out from Windsor Castle and ordered a course laid out by William Lowen. The London Gazette announced the meeting on 12 July 1711. Doctor, the winner of that opening £50 plate, was owned by the Duke of St Albans.

1807

The first Gold Cup

The Ascot Gold Cup by James Pollard

Now the meeting's headline race, run over two and a half miles on the Thursday of the week.

The Gold Cup was first contested on the third day of the meeting, the slot now known as Ladies Day. Its current distance is 2 miles 3 furlongs 210 yards, roughly 4,014 metres, making it the longest of the meeting's major races.

1811

The Royal Enclosure dress code takes shape

Engraving of Beau Brummell from a contemporary miniature

Beau Brummel's influence on the Prince Regent gives the enclosure its rules: morning dress, top hat, and a hat with a four-inch base.

Brummel, a close friend of the Prince Regent, decreed that well-dressed men should wear waisted black coats, white cravats and pantaloons. The current rules still echo his template: men in grey, navy or black morning dress with top hats, women in formal daywear with a solid-base hat.

1825

George IV starts the Royal Procession

Portrait of King George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence

Royal Landaus down the Straight Mile at 2pm. The pattern still holds every day of the meeting.

George IV established the procession in 1825, and the monarch and royal family have travelled down the Straight Mile in royal Landaus each day of the meeting ever since. The 2pm timing has held for two centuries.

1957–1982

Lester Piggott's eleven Gold Cups

Lester Piggott aboard Apalachee returning at the Curragh, 1974
Photo credit: PawneeseLicence: CC BY-SA 4.0

Piggott wins the Gold Cup eleven times across twenty-five years. No jockey has come close since.

Piggott took his first Gold Cup at Royal Ascot in 1957 and his eleventh in 1982. Across those twenty-five years he posted more Gold Cup wins than any other jockey in the race's history, a record still standing more than forty years on.

2012

Frankel wins the Queen Anne by eleven lengths

Frankel in the winners' enclosure at Ascot after winning his final race, the Champion Stakes
Photo credit: Koc91 at English WikipediaLicence: CC BY-SA 3.0

Frankel opened Royal Ascot on 19 June 2012, defeating Excelebration by eleven lengths in the Queen Anne Stakes, a race renamed in 1930 to honour the racecourse's founder.

On 19 June 2012, Frankel went off in the meeting's opening race and beat Excelebration by eleven lengths in a winning time of 1:37.85. The Queen Anne Stakes had been renamed in 1930 to honour the founder of the racecourse, three centuries on from her first meeting.