Hotel in Detail:
The Holiday Inn Oxford Circus offers a central London location in the village like Marylebone area. A former Edwardian building and featuring marble columns fronting its facade.Bedroom amenities include en-suite facilities, individually controlled air-conditioning, WiFi Internet access, playstation games, modem points, Direct-dial telephone with voicemail, digital TV with In-house movies and games, desk with lamp, Separate Hanging Closet, trouser press, opening double glazed windows, Trouser press, safe, Hairdryer and Tea and coffee making facilities. Executive rooms have a minibar. Some rooms have an iron but all rooms can have an iron/ironing board on request.
Room Service available 6.30 to 22.45 hours. Daily housekeeping.
Dining Options:
Onsite is the Oliver's Restaurant located on the lower ground floor. Dark wood furniture contrasts and a smart purple decor. The restaurant serves traditional English cuisine. Enjoy a breakfast buffet, carvery lunch and a la carte dinner. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lunch is served weekdays only.The hotel lounge bar is the 'Londoner' and located on the ground floor. Here the ambience is relaxed and the bar serves snacks as well as a full range of drinks including cocktails. Open from 10.00 till 01.00. Snacks are served 10.30 till 22.30.
Other Holiday Inn Oxford Circus hotel features include a 24 Hour Front Desk, onsite fitness room and air conditioned Public Areas. Services offered include dry cleaning pickup and laundry, currency exchange, vending machines and a concierge.
Conference and Meeting Facilities are available with 5 Air-conditioned meeting rooms separated by removable soundproof partitions. The largest room can handle up to 200 guests reception style. The equipment here includes 35mm Slide Projector, Flip Chart and Markers, Microphone, modem Lines, Overhead Projector and VCR.
Business services include a dedicated area with Copy, print, fax, Courier, computers with internet access and Secretarial Services.
Hotel Vicinity:
Nearest: Tube Station: Bond Street 281 yards (256 metres), Railway Station: London Marylebone 0.7 miles (1.1 km), DLR Station: Tower Gateway 3.3 miles (5.3 km), Motorway: M1 Junction 1 5.1 miles (8.2 km). An amazing 5 underground stations within 0.5 miles (0.8 km) of the hotel.The Holiday Inn Oxford Circus is located close to Oxford Street (0.3 miles), Regent Street (0.3 miles) and Marble Arch (0.5 miles) making this a great location for shoppers. Its actually 0.3 miles from Oxford Circus which is the junction between Oxford Street and Regent Street. Oxford Street is one of London's most popular shopping areas for tourists where just about every variety of shop and large store can be found with many catering for novelty gifts for tourists. The immediate vicinity is known as Marylebone and Welbeck Street is a side street but can be busy as its a through route to New Bond Street. The adjacent road to the North is Wigmore Street which has some excellent shops and with many pubs and restaurants in the side streets from this road. The hotel is actually on the border of the start of the heart of central London. Walk South and you cross Oxford Street into the upmarket fashion and jewellery shopping are of Bond Street. This leads down to Piccadilly and Green Park which makes up part of the grounds of Buckingham Palace . Walk to the North and you'll find Regents Park within half a mile. A wide open area of park with wildlife preserves and home to London Zoo . Other nearby attractions include the Wallace Collection (0.2 miles), Madame Tussauds (0.5 miles), Museum of Mankind (0.6 miles), Trocadero Centre (0.8 miles), Piccadilly Circus (0.8 miles), and Buckingham Palace (0.8 miles).
Parking: NCP Car Park 50 metres on the same street. (charge)
Bedroom Numbers: 164 / 8 Floors
Check-in: 14.00 (2 pm)
Check-out: 11.00 am
This hotel has averaged a score of 3.55 out of 5 by 2643 past guests
>>>Booking.com (average customer rating 3.6 out of 5 from 1229 reviews)
>>>Tripadvisor (ranked 762 of 1140 for Hotels in London and rated 3.5 out of 5 from 1414 reviews)
Parking:
No parking available.Internet:
WiFi is available in all areas and charges are applicable.Pets:
Pets are not allowed.More hotels from this chain
If your first option for an alternative is again the Holiday Inn chain take a look at these closest alternatives:
Holiday Inn Regents Park Hotel: is 0.5 miles (0.8 km) away, has a guest satisfaction score of 80% and rates start from about £102.
Holiday Inn Bloomsbury: is 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from here, earns a customer rating of 80% and base rates begin at about £102.
Holiday Inn Camden Lock: 1.6 miles (2.6 km), rated at 89% and with rates from around £98.
Holiday Inn Kensington Forum: 2.2 miles (3.5 km), rated at 73% and with rates from around £98.
Compared to other London hotels: This hotel has been rated 71% by past guests. The London average is 79% and the average for 4 star hotels is 80%. Therefore this hotel is below average for its sector (star rating) . Holiday Inn Hotels across the chain average 79% so this hotel is below the average guest rating for Holiday Inn hotels.
Milesfaster ranking: 722nd from 865 London hotels, 23rd of 24 Holiday Inn Hotels, and 310th of 333 four star rated hotels.
Another to Consider:
Also close by and a similar hotel (0.4 miles, 0.6 km) would be the 4 star Doubletree By Hilton Marble Arch,
whose lowest rates start at about £177 and which has a 79% guest satisfaction rating. The Doubletree By Hilton Marble Arch also offers: free WiFi.
If you are looking for something a bit cheaper then take a look at the Treehouse Hotel London. 0.3 miles
away (0.5 km), gaining a satisfaction rating of 90%
from its past guests with base rates starting at about £179 (theres free WiFi too). Would you prefer to go with something that has scored higher in guest satisfaction ratings? If that is what your after then the 5 Star Langham Hotel London seems like a possible option. The Langham Hotel London is only 0.2 miles (0.4 km) away. The Langham Hotel London has an extremely high guest rating of 95%, one of the best rated London hotels.
Local hotels analysed:
The fifty hotels that are closest to this location (57/59 Welbeck Street, W1 postcode) which we list extend for a 0.6 miles (1.0 km) radius. They are made up of 23 five star hotels (average rating 88%), 22 four star hotels (average rating 82%), 3 three star hotels (average rating 76%) and 2 two star hotels (average rating 60%). Top 4 star hotel is Holmes Hotel London at 92%. Top rated of the local hotels are The Beaumont London (5 star) and also the Connaught Hotel (5 star) (both joint top with 99%).Base Rates: Base rates can indicate the lowest available rates for a particular hotel. This is a good general guide but as base rates do not account for special offers and one off deals they can only be a rough guide.
For the nearest 50 hotels in the area we have base rate data on 49 of them. The average base rate for all the areas hotels is £223 per night. From a low of £55 at Hallam Hotel (2 Star, 54%) and the highest rates top out at £739 at Marriott Grand Residences Mayfair (5 Star, 90%). The following are the averages for each star level: Five Star average: £329, Four Star average: £137, Three Star average: £62 and Two Star average: £67.
Summary:
Using our in-house algorithm we rank hotels based on guest ratings and weighted for related factors we rank Holiday Inn Oxford Circus Hotel 46th of 50 area hotels and 21st for the 22 four star hotels in the area. We rank the hotel 12th of 49 (8th of 22 four star hotels.) for base rates. We rank this hotel based on rates and also review scores to place it 26th of 38 of all the closest hotels in terms of value for money (Montcalm London Marble Arch was top).
Comment: Renovated 2002.