Malmaison Reading
Stylish rooms and a brasserie by the museum
Su questo hotel
Malmaison Reading brings a boutique-chain sensibility to the town centre, four minutes' walk from Reading Museum and a minute from the Station Road tram stop, with stylish contemporary rooms and suites built around a brasserie and cocktail bar rather than a standard hotel restaurant. Air conditioning, room service and full-service laundry cover the practical side of a longer stay, and the pet-friendly policy widens who can travel. It's roughly forty-two minutes from Heathrow by taxi. For a group wanting more design sensibility than the standard business-hotel chains offer, this is the pick closest to the centre. Full-service laundry rounds out the offering for a longer stay, and the design sensibility here beats the standard business-hotel format found at most of the other chain properties covered on this list.
- Air conditioning
- Room service
- Full-service laundry
- Pet-friendly
Il nostro parere
Choose this for a group that wants the location and amenities of central Reading with a bit more style than the Holiday Inn or Novotel down the road. The cocktail bar and brasserie work well for a smaller group's evening; a full society may find the room count tighter than the larger chains. A full society may find the room count tighter than the larger chain hotels covered elsewhere on this list.
- Book the cocktail bar for a group's evening rather than defaulting to a pint at the nearest pub.
- Walk to Reading Museum on a free afternoon given the four-minute distance from the hotel.
- Reserve the brasserie a day ahead for a full group dinner rather than arriving without any notice given.
Perché ci piace
- Stylish contemporary rooms and suites throughout
- Four minutes' walk to Reading Museum
- Brasserie and cocktail bar sit on-site
- Full-service laundry for a longer stay
Perché piace agli ospitiMalmaison gave us more design sensibility than the standard chain hotels we'd stayed at on previous trips, and the cocktail bar became the natural spot for the group's evening debrief. Being four minutes from Reading Museum meant the one afternoon we skipped golf wasn't wasted sitting in the room. The cocktail bar gave our evenings more character than the standard hotel bar circuit we'd tried on past trips.