Disclaimer: I'm not much for chain hotels... I prefer a bit more character, or better yet a service…read moreapartment or flat rental... with a friend or two they are often the same price, if not cheaper, than a typical hotel. Not being a huge football fan (shoot me, I know), I'm not sure I'm as enamoured with this hotel as most. That said, it's definitely not a bad place to stay if in the area. For a typical hotel this place really does tick most of my boxes... the aircon in the rooms works a treat, the black out curtains actually block out all of the exeternal light, there is a small fridge in the room for your own drinks and snacks, and the rooms themselves are spacious... complete with a desk and extra chairs. Even not being a football fan, I must admit that the view into the stadium from the onsite restaurant is quite cool... I believe some rooms have a view as well, so obviously this can be a huge plus. The breakfast here was on par with what you would expect, but extra props for the eager willingness to make eggs however you wanted them. I can't speak to the dinners as I didn't have the chance to try them. The only odd negative can be the sheer size of the hotel as it wraps around the pitch... my particular room was hilariously far away from the entrance which proved a bit of an annoyance when after a long day my keycard no longer functioned... it was nearly soul destroying knowing my bed was just there on the other side of the door with no way for me to get to it. Based on my disclaimer I'm going with four stars personally, as I certainly wouldn't be upset staying here again, but if you're a football fan or if you generally prefer hotels such as the DoubleTree Hilton then I doubt you'll find much fault.

Quite possibly the nicest hotel I have ever stayed at! Huge, modern rooms that more resemble…read moresuites! If you are a football fan expect to be impressed with your own private balcony view of the pitch! All rooms have a mini-bar, although you have to ask for it to be stocked. Food was excellent and breakfast even more so amazing. The best part of the whole visit, was having a warm double chocolate chip cookie shoved in my hand by the receptionist at check in! Downsides is it can be pricey when you go direct to Hilton, however check out some of the booking sites like LateRooms or Lastminute to get the best deals. I paid £70 for a night in a pitch side room. Expect the prices to rocket wherever you buy from on match days!

Food was cold. I ordered rare lamb which was grey and cold . 2 rosettes embarrassing! Meat and…read moreplate was cold. Potatos were thrown in the fryer, nothing was seasoned, gravy was liquid. Yorkshire puds were massive - airy and thin and crispy for some reason. Really bad food. Service was good.

This hotel is so beautiful OMG best customer service…read more Everyone is so sweet!!!! I had a hotel buyout for my wedding and was blown away with how amazing they were so helpful.... I will be back definitely and I'm sure my guests from California had a trip of a lifetime!!!!!

Yummy food. Lovely warm fire. Was about 16 pounds for an egg salad sandwich, glass of wine, a…read morebowl of soup and a pint. Was very delicious if a bit pricy.

The best hotel i have ever stayed at. Staff were really…read morehelpful, and friendly. The room was well equipped. It had tea making facilities with fresh milk in the fridge, along with bottled still and sparkling water. The room also had really cosy arm chairs, which were where i spent most of my time doing work! :( The bathroom was spotless every morning with Molton Brown toiletries. The only downside was that the tv didnt have freeview. The restaurant is incredible! We had dinner there one night. Although slightly expensive, the food was amazing to more than make up for it. I had haloumi with med veg for starter which was covered in soy sauce, and was divine! The main was sea bass with crushed potatoes. They were lovely, but i couldnt work out why they were purple? Breakfast was continental with fry up options available. I was just in love with their white granary toast! The woman who would serve us every morning was lovely and by day 3 knew my order by heart and would bring them over without me asking. It was simple, but a very personal touch. Definitely would go again if i was ever in the area!

I love this carvery!! Weird you may say coming from a vegetarian!…read more When we visit we just order the carvery veg and you get it for the price of a kids meal. They do other dishes for veggies but I never have them. They do veggie gravy which is very nice. Yummy yorkshires and stuffing. For meat eaters you get the choice of gammon, turkey and you can have either or a mix of the two. They serve seasonal veg and their menu changes after 7 in the evening they add red cabbage, potatoes in butter and garlic and a few other treats. A lot of there veg is buttered but if you are a vegan they will especially steam you some veg and leave it unbuttered. I have always found the service really good and friendly. I would say avoid it on a Sunday as it gets really packed or go for a late roast. There is good parking all round with quite a number of disabled spaces. Yum Yum I could eat it now!

Delicious carvery, excellent portion of sides and the meat was outstanding. Even my pint of Stella…read morewas chilled to perfection!!!

This is the old black and white timbered building in the main street through Wendover. It is fairly…read morenewly open having been recently refurbished and been taken on by new management and now seems to be doing really well. Basically it is a cosy hotel with a stylish gastro type pub element downstairs. The interior is very much old world styling with stripped wood floors and creaky stair cases. The food that they serve is also top notch and very much worth trying. Menu choices are exceptional and the portions are large. I would recommend the burger if you're feeling hungry.

I couldn't rave about this place enough!! The service is absolutely unmatched. The staff are…read morefriendly and very professional and on top of everything. The rooms are so lovely and the food is pretty good too. The food is a bit expensive but my boyfriend and I came for a valentines trip and didn't mind splurging for the occasion. Each room takes you back in time and you really feel like you're in downtown abbey or the crown. It's such a beautiful place and I will 1000% be back!!

We ate there believing the food was meant to be good. This place is meant to be two rosettes…read more Service was good. Food was very blah considering. Very disappointing. I certainly would not recommend it at all to dine. Maybe for a drink? I have NO idea how they got two rosettes! I gave it 2 pointed fir ambiance.

What an amazing couple day holiday stay at the old bank hotel centrally located on high Street in…read moreOxford. This is my second visit to the hotel, and I splurge this time on a room called the room with a view. An amazing patio of more than 500 ft.² greet to you as you walk into the room outside floor ceiling windows and doors. The room is super tech savvy with almost all functions controlled from a panel on the wall next to the desk. This includes automated lowering and raising of blinds for the floor ceiling windows, as well as closing and opening full length draperies for the same. The bathroom is super spacious with double sink vanities in a large walk-in shower. This would be a wonderful room for anyone to celebrate the holidays in. It's equipped with a super comfy king size bed, and down comforter. There's also two couches in the room, facing the large picture windows and a small round table with two chairs for indoor dining. But the patio is unreal and includes a larger outdoor dining table for four and two large chase lounges. What makes this room so spectacular is the views of Saint Mary's church and the whole of Oxford University. Aspires of Oxford are magical and at night it's absolutely spectacular. Everything about this hotel is five star from the service the moment you check in until you check out. Room service is fast and efficient as is maid service in the mornings. Included with the room is a fully stocked mini bar and wine refrigerator. that's updated daily. You're also given a large platter of super fresh fruit, that is also refreshed daily. There's a hot pot for making tea and a really nice coffee pod machine that makes espresso. The wall opposite the bed sports a large flat panel TV. Location of the old bank hotel is prime real estate in the center of high Street in the middle of shops, pubs and restaurants. Cross the street and you are immediately on the grounds of Oxford University a wonderful place for exploring. Can't say enough about this hotel, the physical aspects, the service, and the location. I will always choose this place when I'm in Oxford.

This is easily the best hotel in Oxford and one of the best hotels I've stayed in Britain. I had a…read moresmaller room, but it was anything but claustrophobic. The design is excellent, a beautiful desk and chairs and tables--modern and tasteful. They keep everything impeccably clean. The art collection is stunning. The bath spacious, even in my room for one. The staff are friendly, knowledgeable and charming. Coffee and tea are abundant. The lounging areas--a snook in the rear of the hotel--is a great place to prepare for the day. The food is excellent. The hotel sits on Oxford's High Street, right across from the towering All Souls College. Old Bank is a perfect hotel. I can't wait to stay there again.

Really disappointed with the hotel. We have stayed around five times previously and had booked a…read morehotel stay, dinner and breakfast with use of facilities. Today we have gone to book our spa treatments to be told that the spa is not included. This was not clear at all and we even contacted them a few weeks ago to book treatments for the Spa day and were told that we would be able to book on the day with no mention of the fact our stay did not include the spa. Furthermore, the FAQ specifically on our booking mentions that the heat and ice experience are not recommended for pregnant people, which would indicate it was included. We have tried speaking to someone, have offered to pay extra to be told no. It's a 2 1/2 hour drive for a hotel stay for over £200 and due to the rudeness will not be going and will be contacting our bank. Really disappointed. This is the same package we have booked over the previous 5 years. I would not recommend and they have lost a faithful customer!

Very nice indeed, but the spa was much too busy. We went on a Sunday. We did the overnight spa…read moredeal which was rather good for £89 each if sharing a room, which includes B&B, buffet lunch, 3 course dinner and a 25 minutes treatment. A single supplement is a whopping £60. It's a large hotel with a very strange system of room numbering and a maze of corridors on two floors. If you expect your room starting with a '4' to be on the fourth floor, then you will not find it as there is no fourth floor, it is all on the second floor, and the numbers do not go in any order, luckily the number signage is very good or you would end up all night going round and round! The Whisper Area with hanging chairs and water beds was a lovely area to relax in, except it was spoilt by the heavy footfall and people laughing and talking as the spa was much too busy. The Heat and Ice was an experience, although did not see anyone doing the Ice experience! Again this area is too busy, the jacuzzi was packed and you had to wait for everything like the hot seat, the stone bed (didn't do anything for me), the foot spa, and the sauna, steam, crystal rooms were all very full and felt quite uncomfortable with too many bodies. I did not go to the pool area which was on a different level, as it was jammed packed with bodies. The treatment waiting area was much, much nicer, as less people and quiet. I had the body massage which was excellent. The buffet lunch was average, salads and cold meats. We had the last sitting at 2pm so the food was not as fresh as if you had the first sitting and mostly had ran out. The dinner was much better, waiter service and I absolutely loved my Orzo Pasta starter with sun dried tomatoes, artichoke, red pepper coulis. It was absolutely delicious. Wish they did it as a main as it was just not enough. For mains I had the braised brisket of beef, which came as a large block, looks weird and it was much too salty. It came with herb crushed baby potatoes which was perfect and delicious, roast shallot, a couple of leaves of kale and red wine jus. I had to ask for more kale since it was very bland, it helped me to eat the very salty beef otherwise, I would not have been able to eat it! For dessert, I had the maple and pecan sponge, tonka bean ice cream. Alas, the small scoop of ice cream was almost liquid by the time it came, and the maple syrup was much too sweet for my taste. So a very hit and miss meal. The buffet breakfast was very good, with plenty of choices, from black pudding to hash browns, scrambled eggs, the whole works for the hot choices, and Continental for the cold. All in all a relaxing time spent for a friend's special birthday. Missed the little details though in the rooms, no little bottles of body lotion or shower cap. If you forget to bring, these are really useful, and I had to buy flip flops for the spa, as I forgot my own! But it came with a nice holdall. May be visit again during week days when it is less busy and go out to eat!

My time at the Travelodge was splendid. It was the first place I slept, upon entry into the UK. I…read morestayed for approximately one (1) week. Staff were courteous, helpful and left me with an overall great impression. The Travelodge is clean, modern, located next to amenities such as Shell Gas Station, the "BIG" Tesco, Costa, and a Burger joint. It's about 3 minutes drive away from the town centre or a brisk 20 min walk. It should be noted that the Travelodge is also just a few minutes walking from the University of Buckingham Law School.

Buckingham Travelodge is very clean, quiet and in an ideal location. Close to the Tesco bus stop on…read morethe X5 route from Cambridge to Oxford via Milton Keynes and a fair walking distance from the town centre. Staff always seem willing to help. Not sure what they do about breakfast etc as Little Chef/Burger King next door has closed down. Relatives always stay here when visiting and have never had any complaints.