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Reviews of Botley Town House

Botley Town House
127 Botley Road, Oxford, England

Reviews

7.2

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 24 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 15 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 11 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 11 out of 67 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 6 out of 67 reviews" "

8.6/10

Cleanliness

7.2/10

Staff & service

7.4/10

Amenities

7.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

4/10 Poor

annette

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
The beds were very comfortable, the property was clean and tidy, and the shower was fine. But it was on the top (3rd) floor - one issue being getting bags up small and narrow stairs, but the bigger issue being the terrible heat and lack of ventilation. We cooked, and it was only springtime. There are no windows that open, including in the bathroom. It was great that there was a fan provided, but there was no fresh air. We cooked. We were also really concerned if there was a fire - there was no way to exit apart from those terrible stairs, and also no visible fire alarm. Security was also an issue as there was also no way to lock the door from the inside - with the lock on the outside any previous tenant knowing the codes could have accessed the property. With all these concerns, especially about safety, we wouldn't stay again.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

8/10 Good

Laura

Liked: Cleanliness
Room very clean as was bathroom.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024

6/10 Okay

Melody

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Charles

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I would like to thank Josh again for his kind help and good understanding! His successful work has greatly added value to this lodging inn.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024

4/10 Poor

Claudia

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
3 beds were clean and comfortable, but we needed 4 beds, and the last was a fold out camp bed. And unfortunately we had no hot water. Not great for a winter holiday. But it was an easy walk to the heart of Oxford and the hosts responded quickly. However, they were not able to sort out the hot water.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Very average
Location was quite convenient despite being approx 15min walk away from city centre. Code entry to the building/room worked without issues (there are no keys). Bed was comfortable and clean, plenty of pillows. The room was pretty big. I did not have issues with sreet noise but noise from other rooms, it sounded like elephants were stomping above me. There was also this weird super loud noise, still no idea what it was (maybe pipes, shower...), that woke you up multiple times. There was also what looked like mold/mildew on the bathroom wall. Wifi was ok. Overall an average place good for one night if you don’t want to break the bank.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2023

10/10 Excellent

Belle

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The property was very clean and comfortable. Easy to get to, about a 15-20 minute walk from central Oxford. It was a little confusing in terms of check-in; I didn't get the code to the door and my room until I reached out myself, but once I did it was very easy. Overall great bang for your buck - cuter and more quaint than a hotel and has a full kitchen with new appliances if you want to cook.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

8/10 Good

Ian

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Sara

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very clean and comfortable accommodation. Great shower. Came with hairdryer which I was grateful for. Great kitchen facilities too. Great stay.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

6/10 Okay

Sahil

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jake

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great little room :)
Pleasant stay, nice little room with erything I needed
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023

8/10 Good

Charlotte

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Conveniently located and really easy check in, with details of codes etc emailed beforehand. Clean and good amenities. Had wanted to try and arrange early check in but found communication difficult - the phone number on Expedia was either incorrect or the booking agent didn't respond, and no response on Expedia messaging either. Did finally get through via email on the day.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2023

10/10 Excellent

Kelley

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

6/10 Okay

Sanath

Stayed 5 nights in Jun 2023

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Argy

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Spacious room suitable for work travel. Second time I have been there and I would stay again
Stayed 5 nights in May 2023

2/10 Terrible

Almaz

Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Lev

Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

2/10 Terrible

Stephen

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Not clean
We turned up to a messy room where the beds had been slept in and the rubbish hadn't been removed from the room as well as no lights working. Videos and Images were sent advised they would refund the money personally rather than through hotels.com but this never arrived. My engineer refused to stay so we had to book elsewhere this evening.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2023

10/10 Excellent

Argy

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Cleaning every day, no keys or key cards (pin machines), good amount of coffees, tea for use whenever I liked
Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Excellent accommodation.
I stayed with my daughter in the family room for one night and it was just perfect for us. The access by key-code was straightforward, the room lovely and clean, the beds comfortable, the bathroom and shower good. There is a well-equipped kitchen on the ground floor for the use of all guests.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Marie

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
The bathroom floor needed a good mopping with Clorox disinfectant. It smells like urine around the toilet at all time because of the way they do their plumbing. The room was very very small for 4 people. No space to move around freely in the room. The staircase is super narrow. Every location in the area looks run down and outdated. We loved the option of having a communal kitchen. All rooms have privet bathrooms that was a big plus. Ugh No parking for your rental car. Instead they direct you to a paid parking lot/ carport to park which is about 1/2 miles away from the property.
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2022

8/10 Good

Mazahir

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A very cute attic flat in Oxford. 5-10 minutes walk to downtown Oxford. Parking is close by. Bus service under the flat. Clean place but small. The kid’s bed is not very comfortable. Nice garden at the back
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

6/10 Okay

Hoi Weng

Disliked: Cleanliness
I don't recommend
We are no so sure of the cleanliness of the place, we found ear plug wrappers and some random sock in the drawer. The place is also noisy close to a main road.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

8/10 Good

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in May 2022

2/10 Terrible

Nikole

Disliked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2022

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
DISSAPPOINTING and MISLEADING ADVERTISING .
The outside of the hotel could be more inviting in appearance,.one can barely see the sign, as it is so tiny and with no light outside by the door .The tiny yard in front of the hotel was occupied with huge rubbish cans and rubble,broken down wall,very untidy and unkept.We could not get into our room,no code was sent .We had to follow up.Front door to enter had no lock,two holes on the door which remained unlocked for night and day.Room was a Deluxe King but far from that description.Bed was satisfactory with clean linen .Bathroom shower cubicle was fairly new and clean with good shower heads and toiletries.However the bathroom was quite untidy . The floor was not swept and mopped ,hair was on the floor and old marks and usage from previous guest was evident. TOWELS were good and clean but were not replaced with fresh ones.Inside the staircase the carpet by one of the rooms was falling apart ,a safety issue that can be to a guest. Breakfast ???pathetic there was none .HOUSEKEEPING and MAINTENANCE needs to get with the programme with the upkeep of the hotel .The OWNER needs to work on the outside appearance of his property it looks shabby.Most of all it is not worth the price per night and the advertising is misleading .
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2022

6/10 Okay

Wan Man Michelle

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
The sound proof is poor . I could hear the sounds of the room 6 walking inside the room . I ended up to wait till Room 6 asleep so that I could sleep and I woke up once they walked inside the room
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2022

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice but noisy
Fabulous room, very clean and easy access. We stayed in room 1 which was right by the front door and the main road, so unfortunately very noisy. Overall it was a very nice room. Noise was the only downside.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2021

4/10 Poor

Leman

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Disappointing
Clean worm room. Very disappointing in the morning no hot water. I work for NHS and needed just a clean place to sleep and hot shower. Left for work not been able to have a hot shower. 😨
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

8/10 Good

Damian

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hidden gem
Doesn't look great from the outside but once inside it is clean and has a shared kitchen that you can use to cook.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

10/10 Excellent

Richard

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Well worth staying at.
Comfortable bed, nice shower. Very well situated for Oxford centre.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
Good and bad features
The building is very unpreposessing with rubbish piled up outside this and neighbouring properties. No host on site so access is via keypad. This could be tricky and i didn't like trying to gain entry late at night, especially as door is right on the street. Access to my room via another keypad. Room very clean and bed comfortable. Toliet / shower v small but v clean and plenty of hot water and good towels. No parking nearby except by taking a chance in residents' area in adjacent street. All in all, while it was quite convenient for where i had to be, it was very expensive for what it was.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

2/10 Terrible

Phil

Business traveller
Disliked: Staff & service
Don’t bother.
On the day that I booked a room, it did not tell me that there was no parking. On turning up late after a long day on the road, there was nowhere to park( even close by). As I had no possibility to park my vehicle, I could not check in. Trying to contact the owners by all the options, I had to carry on my journey and try to find another hotel. It is a terrace house on a main road. Totally useless, unless you are on foot. No refund was given, even thru Hotels.com.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2021

8/10 Good

Rebecca

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great value and more comfortable than expected.
Very helpful staff observing the property. All went extremely well and at a very fair price. The road was a bit noisy, but this cannot be helped and the location is a winner!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2021

10/10 Excellent

Martin

Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2020

10/10 Excellent

Duncan

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great
Very luxurious, lovely place to stay in Oxford
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2020

4/10 Poor

Claire

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Oliver

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great!
Great!
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Initial thoughts were ohhhh. Once we were inside the experience was totally satisfying. We loved the kitchen that was next to room number 3 and the facilities and bed were superb. We had a wonderful time and highly recommend this location.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Margaret

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location
Botley townhouse is spotlessly clean and comfortable. The shared kitchen is a real bonus. Waitrose over the road offers a good breakfast or you can buy something to heat up in the kitchen. It's an easy walk into town or the train station or buses go past the door. This is my second stay and hope to retun next time I visit Oxford.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2019

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location was ok. Not worth paying full price. Walls are too thin you can hear what all the other people in the other rooms are doing. People arrived at 3 and 4 am making lots of noice and screaming, then they did again when they left.
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

8/10 Good

Guillaume

Stayed 1 night in Nov 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Nice place once I got in
Lovely room and facilities but on arrival realised my room had been given to another couple so couldn’t get in initially and had to make calls from the hallway to work out what was going on (no receptionist). Eventually got through to someone who informed me I’d been moved to another room (joined to the kitchen on the ground floor- presumably why the other people had asked to move...) and she gave me the details to let myself in. Room was nice and clean and there was a good, well equipped communal kitchen. My room was right next to the kitchen so was woken up at 5.30am and again at 6.30 by people using it.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

6/10 Okay

Omid, Tehran

Travelled with family, Business traveller
It’s very expensive and small So it’s not worth recommending to anybody
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

4/10 Poor

Jan

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Room comfort
Room 1 (01)
First of all I should say that I hadn’t read the nature of the accommodation properly and did not realise that it wasn’t a small hotel. I had to stay unexpectedly in Oxford, and didn’t book anything till that evening. My main problem was the noise. I was in room number 1 which is right on the main road and there was considerable traffic noise. Room 1 is also next to the front door which beeps as each guest taps in the code and slams loudly as it closes. There is a communal kitchen, also close to room 1, which fellow guests were using at 345am. There was a large groups of young people staying together that clearly regarded the house as their own. On the plus side the room was clean and the bed was comfortable. Shower was new, and towels and toiletries of good quality. I probably would have rated this place much higher if I had a room upstairs. My real gripe is that anyone choosing to stay here should be told about the real downsides to room 1, and then they can decide if they are able to tolerate the noise through the night.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Bonnie

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great location and perfect for our needs. Recommended for sure.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

4/10 Poor

Robin

Business traveller
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Disliked: Staff & service
Attractive modernisation but quite a few snags
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

8/10 Good

Michela

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Even if we stayed just for a night it was a lovely week end. We enjoyed the room and Oxford.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019