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Vanbrugh House Hotel

4.0 star property
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Front of property
Fireplace
Premier Suite | Terrace/patio
In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk
Property entrance

Reviews

8.6 out of 10
Excellent

Popular amenities

  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Breakfast available
  • 24/7 front desk

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20-24 St Michaels Street, Oxford, England, OX1 2EB
  • Place, University of Oxford
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • Place, New Theatre Oxford
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • Place, Oxford Castle
    ‪3 min walk‬
  • Airport, Oxford (OXF)
    ‪16 min drive‬
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Standard Double Room, Accessible (Disabled access) | In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Standard Double Room, Accessible (Disabled access)

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Standard Double Room | In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Standard Double Room

8.4 out of 10
Very good
(23 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Superior Double Room | In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Superior Double Room

9.6 out of 10
Exceptional
(5 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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Superior Twin Room | In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Superior Twin Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(13 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Single Beds

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Premier Suite | In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Premier Suite

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful
(2 reviews)
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

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In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Single Room

8.6 out of 10
Excellent
(4 reviews)
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Single Bed

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In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Accessible Standard Double Room

  • Sleeps 2

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Designer toiletries, hair dryer, bathrobes, towels

Superior Twin Room

  • Sleeps 2

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In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Superior Double Room

  • Sleeps 2

Premier Suite

  • Sleeps 2

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In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Standard Double Room

  • Sleeps 2

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In-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished, desk

Standard Single Room

  • Sleeps 1

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About this property

Vanbrugh House Hotel

Hotel with a 24-hour front desk, steps from University of Oxford
Concierge services, a 24-hour front desk and a front desk safe are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include multilingual staff assistance. Housekeeping is available once per stay.
Vanbrugh House Hotel offers 22 accommodations with MP3 docking stations and a safe. This individually decorated and furnished accommodation includes desks. Flat-screen televisions come with satellite channels.

Bathrooms include baths or showers, bathrobes, designer toiletries and complimentary toiletries. Guests can surf the web using complimentary wireless Internet access. An iron/ironing board and hairdryers can be requested. Housekeeping is provided once per stay.

Vanbrugh House Hotel's great location gets high marks from our customers. During your stay, you're just a quick walk from University of Oxford. Enjoy features like free WiFi in public areas, plus breakfast (surcharge) and concierge services.
  • Free WiFi
  • Continental breakfast served daily for a fee
  • Amenities include a front desk safe, multilingual staff and a terrace
  • Guests have great things to say about the location and the helpful staff
  • Steps from University of Oxford and 10 minutes on foot from Thames River
Vanbrugh House Hotel offers its guests a terrace, multilingual staff, and concierge services. Public spaces have free WiFi.

This 4-star Oxford hotel is smoke free.

For a fee, guests can enjoy continental breakfast on weekdays from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM and at the weekend from 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • No on-site parking available

Food and drink

  • Continental breakfast available for a fee 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM on weekdays and 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM on weekends; GBP 20 for adults and GBP 20 for children

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Housekeeping (once per stay)
  • Multilingual staff

Outdoors

  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • No lift
  • Well-lit path to entrance

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided

Bathroom

  • Bathtub or shower
  • Designer toiletries
  • Dressing gowns
  • Hair dryer (on request)
  • Private bathroom
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV with satellite channels
  • MP3 dock

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Electric kettle

More

  • Desk
  • Heating
  • Individual decor
  • Individual furnishings
  • Iron/ironing board on request
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; check-in end time: anytime
Minimum check-in age - 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM

Special check-in instructions

Guests must contact the property in advance for check-in instructions; front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
To make arrangements for check-in please contact the property at least 72 hours before arrival using the information on the booking confirmation
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed, but service animals are welcome

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
  • Cots (infant beds) are not available.

Payment types at the property

Important information

Optional extras

The fees and deposits listed below will be charged at the time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Fee for continental breakfast: from approximately GBP 20.00 for adults and from GBP 20.00 for children

This may not be a comprehensive list. Fees and deposits are subject to change and might not include tax.

You need to know

This property is managed by a professional host. The provision of housing is linked to their trade, business or profession.
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards and cash
To arrange for check-in, guests must contact the property at least 72 hours prior to arrival using the information on the booking confirmation. Guests must contact the property in advance for check-in information. Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property.
If you cancel your booking, you'll be subject to the host's cancellation policy. In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, property booking services are not subject to the right of withdrawal.

We should mention

  • This property welcomes guests of all sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTQ+ friendly).

Property is also known as

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Vanbrugh House Hotel Reviews

Reviews

8.6

Excellent

Rating 10 - Excellent. 561 out of 1000 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 256 out of 1000 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 95 out of 1000 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 58 out of 1000 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 30 out of 1000 reviews

9.2/10

Cleanliness

9.0/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Amenities

8.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Anne, Franklin

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
I never write reviews but this place is exceptional! The staff was fabulous! The rooms are wonderful. Totally worth the money. Close to everything you want to do in Oxford. We upgraded to the room with two tubs and huge shower. The amount of space is hard to come by in UK and worth every penny. Wonderful mix the old with new, very well done. Great cafes very close. I would go out of my way to stay here again.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

6/10 Okay

Lucy

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Staff were friendly. Location brilliant. However bedroom was dated and simple - did not look like the nice room photos used in their marketing. Bed very hard. The bathroom smelled of damp and had black mould in the grout and silicone, and radiator was rusty and dusty. Felt like a very overpriced stay.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Leela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very comfortable and excellent service.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

4/10 Poor

Kathryn

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

8/10 Good

Tonya

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
More lights. It was pretty dark in the room.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Maria

Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Stuart

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Pleasant staff in a superficially stylish but rather tired hotel: scuffed painted furniture, black-mould on blobby mastic in the shower, poor water pressure, shower control not fully functioning... Nice things like Nespresso machines, with biscuits and real milk, let down by mugs too big to fit under the machine's spout. Doubt I'll ever stay there again.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Everything about the trip was excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2025

2/10 Terrible

Andrea

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Dreadful overpriced and run down hotel. The staff were most unhelpful, the furniture was cheap and tired, the bathroom so small that a very slim person like me felt cramped. Hairdryer with very short cable, no sockets in the right places, TV not working, the constant banging of the front door.
Frayed bathrobe
Tired furniture
Run down
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

simon

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Saba

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
There is construction taking place Nextdoor. Our room faces the Union on the first floor which was a very nice view but the windows were incredibly thin and we could hear everything as if we were standing outside. Woke up one morning to a VERY loud garbage truck and sound of glass shattering due to the construction. The room was nice and the staff was very kind and friendly. I did not have a fridge in the room but the staff was more than helpful with storing milk (for my child) in the fridge and bringing it up to me when needed!
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

David

Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2025

4/10 Poor

Trevor

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

katrina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Room and service was fantastic
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Nadya

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lots of shops & restaurants within a 200m radius. Large shopping center less than 5 min walk and close to Oxford sights. Clean, friendly staff. Room has coffee, tea, fridge & a large bathroom. Rooms are functional but plain.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Christopher

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities

Comfortable but limited

This is a small hotel in a central location. My standard room was small but comfortable, although a little cold overnight. It was perfectly fine, but the price was a little much for this kind of place, which had no real facilities. The breakfast was expensive and very limited. There was a lot of noise and clutter in the corridors from early on when the cleaning began (from about 7)
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Faye

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Really helpful and lovely staff. Told at check-in that we had breakfast included but told the opposite at breakfast. Other than that, a lovely stay.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

8/10 Good

Simin

Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

2/10 Terrible

Anthony

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Probably one of the worst stays I’ve had in a hotel ever. The biggest things include poor service, no hot water, and no water pressure. There were multiple other little things that went wrong within our room as well. Also, when I was about to leave they tried charging me 20 £ a day for having a second person at breakfast. The breakfast deal is a complete rip off. On multiple days I only had a cup of tea but they still charged me an exorbitant amount for 2 people. I recommend staying somewhere else.
Stayed 7 nights in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Jan

Liked: Staff & service, amenities
Renovations nextdoor very noisy.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Lauren

Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2025

6/10 Okay

Evan

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Location was great but hotel was just adequate. There was major construction next door that started at 6:30 am and went all through the day. There is no public space to receive guests. The bathroom is barely functional with no shelves or hooks to hold toiletries. The shower was hardly a drip and hot water was scarce.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2025

10/10 Excellent

Geoff

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2025

8/10 Good

Dominic

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2025

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2025

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