Beech House Hotel
A redbrick townhouse with proper gardens
Su questo hotel
Beech House offers traditional rooms inside a redbrick townhouse, with a public lounge and gardens giving it a quieter, more residential feel than the roadside and city-centre chains covered elsewhere. It sits nine minutes by taxi from Reading Museum and a minute's walk from Southcote Road, with free Wi-Fi and free parking covering the essentials. It's roughly forty-six minutes from Heathrow by taxi, a touch further out than the more central options. For a group that wants somewhere calmer to unwind after a long day than a busy business hotel. It's further from the centre than most of Reading's hotels, but for a group wanting somewhere calmer to unwind after a long day on the course, the gardens and lounge do genuine work that a busy chain hotel simply can't.
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free parking
- Accessible rooms
- Kid-friendly
Il nostro parere
This is a good pick for a smaller group wanting a quieter, more residential stay over the buzz of a central chain hotel. The gardens and lounge genuinely add something; it's further from the centre, so weigh that against a group's appetite for driving into town for dinner. It's further from the centre, so weigh that against a group's appetite for driving into town most evenings.
- Use the gardens for a quiet evening rather than driving into town every single night of the trip.
- Budget slightly more transfer time to and from central Reading given the further-out, quieter position of this hotel.
- Book breakfast if available given the character of the property; it suits a slower morning before golf.
Perché ci piace
- Redbrick townhouse with genuine character throughout
- Gardens for a quiet evening outdoors
- Public lounge for unwinding after golf
- Free parking and Wi-Fi both included
Perché piace agli ospitiThe gardens gave us somewhere genuinely restful to sit after a long day walking eighteen holes, a contrast to the business-hotel lobbies we'd stayed in on previous trips. It's further from the centre, but for a group wanting quiet over convenience, that trade-off worked in our favour. Sitting in the gardens after a long day walking eighteen holes did more for us than any hotel bar could.