Hotels near Somerville College, Oxford

The hotel is very beautiful near the hotel, the boss and his wife are also very enthusiastic

very nice boutique hotel with a good bar and restaurant below. The room nice, clean, minimalist but good furniture and decent shower. Only one complaint - if you are not a fan of capsule coffee (and I am definitely not) and you just want a cup of tea, it's a pain to have to google the coffee machine to work out how to use it when just a simple kettle would have been fine. Just 4 for the location because of the chaos at the Botley road bridge which is going on till this time next year at least! Lovely breakfast menu with good service.

I booked this hotel for a weekend get away foe me and my partner. It was an early birthday treat, i advised the hotel this upon booking and they were fantastic enough to put a banner up and left a few little goodies for her which was amazing, very nice touch. The hotel staff were friendly, polite and courteous. Would definitely look at booking again in the future if we are down that way again.

I required somewhere to stay that would be local to an early appointment that i had on Monday 13th November. Having searched local B&B's etc and checked out a number of reviews The Conifers Guest House appeared to fit the bill. The booking was through *********** and once confirmed i was also advised that my room on the day had been upgraded. The room was ground floor to rear of the main property namely Number 10. Unfortunately the room central heating did not work and hot water took an age to come through. The room upgrade was in fact what i would call a family room with a single and double bed plus a kitchenette so all in all large enough for a single person stay. The only heating i could find was that of a small oil filled radiator and took some hours to warm the room up. Unfortunately the toilet and shower cubicle room was very cold. The room overall requires updating at best but as a single man staying just one night it was just about tolerable. If this was a free upgrade it leaves me wondering what was i upgraded from ???

I was recommended to come to this place and it was the best decision ever!! Place was lovely and food was more than great!! I came with my mum and a friend and my mother was the whole dinner saying that the food was more than great!! Which I’m really happy to make that decision. Also just to mention how great and helpful was Alfonso with his recommendations and his knowledge about the plates and allergies and how Kasam was making amazing cocktails that he also choose for us. I will come again for sure!!

The only good thing about the tower house is the location, very central for everything. But it goes downhill from there, managers are non existent, very difficult to get hold of by phone and extremely rude and uncaring. The photos on their sites are of the two rooms they keep tidy for publicity and even they are not great. We arrived and had to phone, took several attempts for them to answer, they gave us code to keybox, let ourselves in, totally unmanned reception so had to phone again about which room we were in as no one was there. We were told that two rooms shared a bathroom which would have been ok but in reality The only bathroom is on the top floor with four flight of stairs and shared between 6 other rooms! So as you can imagine it was terrible to try and use the shower/ toilet as it was always occupied but we didn't really want to use it as it was so dirty with mould, mildew etc. We were in The little blue room, a small double but it wasn't a double bed but a queen size one so very small. There was a sink in a very dark alcove with no light as it was broken. The room itself was very dirty, stained carpet and bedding, dirty curtains, marks on walls, holes in the walls, large mark on one wall with holes where the bed head had been fixed to wall! Overall a very unkempt dirty room. The whole house had a feeling of disrepair, neglect, dirty, as if the owners couldn't be bothered. So sad to see a grade II listed building kept in such a condition. Feel that they just wanted peoples money and are uncaring of the condition of the house. We were not the only ones with similar complaints and concerns about broken and dirty rooms. When we complained we were told that it you don't like it then leave! We are writing to Oxford council ref the state of a listed building and the owners attitude towards visitors and contacting the other sites where they are listed to make people aware.

I am rating this five stars because of the price point. Oxford is a very expensive city, and I was able to stay five nights on quite a restricted business budget in July. My room was clean and the location is near to Oxford Station. There are some quibbles: i) The room had no desk or sofa even though it was a good size. This was fine because I was travelling alone, but it meant that I had to work on the bed. ii) There is no staffed reception. You get texted a code to the back door before you arrive. After that, you pick up keys to your room and front door from the dining room table. I did not get this text (I was booked in through work) but there were telephone numbers on the front door to ring. It all works fine, but the feeling of never meeting a staff member (and no-one being in charge) is a little bit odd. iii) Breakfast is basic. It is served on a single large table in buffet style and everyone sits around it. This was a bit OTT for a misanthrope like me. iv) I think some of the rooms are better than others. There are some near the front door which are probably a little bit on the noisy side. v) There is no air con, although there are fans. Again, this is normal for the price point. I do recommend it though. It is good value, clean, and my room was nice.

This small hotel in what once must have been a grand private semi-detached house is quietly located in leafy St Margaret’s Road opposite the entrance of St Hugh’s college. The stop for the Oxford city sightseeing bus is near and it is easy to get to the city centre by bus or on foot (15 minutes or so if walking). The nearby area of Jericho is interesting too and worth taking a walk along the canal. Can’t speak for the rest of the hotel of course but our room on the ground floor was large and comfortable with coffee/tea making facilities, biscuits and a mini fridge. There are five car parking spaces and two EV chargers which sadly don’t work (a member of staff said they have never worked). There is car parking in the street too. I don’t know what it is about bathrooms in hotels of this type but often, as in this case, the shower while extremely powerful was difficult to get to the right temperature and the water was very slow to drain away, while spots of black mould on the sealant should be dealt with; but that’s a relatively minor concern as it was otherwise spotlessly clean. The hotel, while very clean, could do with a spruce-up inside and I think that might be happening as there were swatches of carpet samples in reception. Breakfast is certainly adequate, served in the conservatory overlooking a large garden mainly laid to lawn - top marks for good coffee!. We dined at Gees, a very good restaurant about six minutes down the Banbury road towards Oxford (see separate review). Overall a happy stay, kind and pleasant staff very eager to help.

This hotel is in a great location, close to the train and bus stations. The check-in people were very friendly and let us leave our suitcases when we arrived before check-in time. They gave us a helpful detailed map of the major sights to see. When we returned to check in, they had already put our suitcases in our room upstairs. Our room was quiet and clean and came with a fan. The staff also let us store a sandwich in their refrigerator. Overall, a great stay for a reasonable price. I would definitely stay there again.

Why give full marks, first we arrived, there are staff enthusiastically help us with luggage, we live on the 3rd floor, the room is large up and down, the front desk staff is very warm to help us park, breakfast is free and paid, pay attention, If you don’t choose breakfast on the order, don’t be afraid. He also has breakfast for everyone. It is bread ham cheese milk coffee tea juice. This is free. The location is very convenient. It takes 8 minutes to walk to Christ College, which is the Harry Potter Magic Canteen. Go to the Ashmolean Museum within 15 minutes. Super convenient! The picture is a two-point paid breakfast, 13 yuan.