Market House (Hotel)
A rooftop terrace three minutes from the museum
About this hotel
Market House trades the standard business-hotel formula for industrial-chic rooms built around street-food stalls, a bar and a rooftop terrace, giving a golf group somewhere with real evening atmosphere rather than a generic lobby bar. It sits three minutes' walk from Reading Museum and a minute from the Kings Road tram stop, right in the centre of town. Air conditioning and a pet-friendly policy cover the practical side, and it's roughly forty-two minutes from Heathrow by taxi. It's the closest thing to a genuinely social evening base among Reading's more central options. It's the closest thing to a genuinely social evening base among Reading's more central options, built for a group that wants the hotel itself to be part of the night out rather than just a bed.
- Air conditioning
- Bar
- Restaurant
- Pet-friendly
Our take
This suits a younger or more social group who want the evening to feel like an event rather than a wind-down at a chain hotel bar. The rooftop terrace and street-food stalls are the real draw here; groups wanting a quieter, more traditional hotel feel should look elsewhere. Groups wanting a quieter, more traditional hotel feel should look toward the business hotels covered elsewhere instead.
- Head to the rooftop terrace on a clear evening rather than defaulting to the standard hotel bar.
- Try the street-food stalls for at least one dinner rather than the usual restaurant menu.
- Walk to Reading Museum on a rest afternoon given the three-minute distance from the hotel.
Why we love it
- Rooftop terrace for genuine evening atmosphere
- Street-food stalls beat a standard menu
- Three minutes' walk to Reading Museum
- Pet-friendly policy welcomes the whole group
Why guests love itThe rooftop terrace turned our post-round debrief into an actual evening out rather than another hotel bar, and the street-food stalls covered a dinner night that felt genuinely different from the carvery circuit elsewhere in town. Being three minutes from Reading Museum meant the trip's downtime never felt wasted either. The rooftop terrace turned an ordinary Tuesday night into the best evening of the whole trip without any real effort.