Premier Inn Reading Central hotel
Central rooms with meeting space built in
About this hotel
This Premier Inn sits in the heart of Reading, seven minutes by taxi from Reading Winter Wonderland's site and five minutes' walk from Crown Street, putting a group within easy reach of the town's restaurants without a taxi each evening. Contemporary en-suite family rooms and meeting rooms cover both a straightforward golf trip and a hybrid one that mixes golf with a work agenda. Parking costs extra rather than being included, and air conditioning and a bar restaurant round out the essentials. It's roughly forty-two minutes from Heathrow by taxi. It's a solid central pick, with the one real trade-off being paid parking rather than the free lots found at Reading's outer Premier Inn properties further from the centre. It's the more central choice in the cluster.
- Air conditioning
- Bar restaurant
- Business center
- Accessible rooms
Our take
Pick this for the central position over the pure price of the room; being five minutes from Crown Street beats a cheaper M4-edge Premier Inn for a group that wants to walk to dinner. Paid parking is the one real trade-off against the free-parking properties further out of town. Paid parking is the one real trade-off against the free-parking Premier Inns further from the centre.
- Budget for paid parking here rather than assuming it's included as it is at Reading's outer Premier Inns.
- Walk to Crown Street for dinner rather than driving; it's five minutes and avoids a post-round parking hunt.
- Book meeting space ahead if the trip is mixing golf with any work agenda for part of the group.
Why we love it
- Five minutes' walk to Crown Street itself
- Central position for easy evenings out
- Meeting rooms available for mixed trips
- Family-sized en-suite rooms across the property
Why guests love itBeing five minutes from Crown Street meant we walked to dinner every night instead of driving, which felt like a small thing until day three when nobody wanted to get back in the car. The paid parking was the one surprise cost, but the central position more than made up for it once we were settled in. Walking to Crown Street every night instead of driving became the trip's small daily win once we'd settled in.