Calico Bar & Eatery
Rooms above a traditional pub, seven minutes from the museum
Su questo hotel
Calico Bar & Eatery puts straightforward rooms directly above a traditional pub, seven minutes' walk from Reading Museum and two minutes from London Street Brasserie. It trades hotel-standard facilities for genuine pub-and-eatery atmosphere downstairs, with free Wi-Fi and a dining area covering breakfast and evening meals without leaving the building. It's roughly forty-one minutes from Heathrow by taxi. For a group that values being in the middle of Reading's pub scene over hotel amenities, it's a distinctive, central option. It trades hotel-standard facilities like a gym or spa for genuine pub-and-eatery atmosphere downstairs, distinctive among the properties covered here and squarely aimed at a group that values location over amenities on the room itself. It's a distinctive, central choice for the trip.
- Free Wi-Fi
- Bar
- Restaurant
- Kid-friendly
Il nostro parere
This suits a group prioritising a central, pub-adjacent evening over hotel-standard extras like a gym or spa. It won't offer the fitness centre or pool found at the business hotels, but the location and downstairs atmosphere make up for that for the right kind of trip. It won't offer the fitness centre or pool found at the business hotels, but the atmosphere makes up for that.
- Eat downstairs at least once rather than heading elsewhere for dinner given the on-site dining area.
- Walk to London Street Brasserie for a change of scene, given it's only two minutes from the door.
- Expect pub noise into the evening if rooms sit close to the bar; ask about room position when booking.
Perché ci piace
- Rooms sit directly above a traditional pub
- Central, genuinely walkable position in town
- Two minutes' walk to London Street Brasserie
- Local atmosphere beats a standard chain lobby
Perché piace agli ospitiStaying above the pub gave us a genuinely local evening feel that the chain hotels elsewhere in town don't offer, and being two minutes from London Street Brasserie meant we never struggled to find dinner. It's not a quiet stay, but for a group wanting to be in the middle of things, that was exactly the point. Staying above a proper local pub gave the trip a character none of the chain hotels elsewhere in Reading matched.