Homestays in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Clean, convenient and nice to have a kitchen to make some food and store milk

Very very basic. Very little care taken in general. Room was ok but small and stuffy. Decor run down . Corridors cramped and shabby. Desk was unmanned, had to buzz to get staff over road from their “ sister “ hotel. They seemed disinterested. Little local knowledge. Walls paper thin. When i left in the morning , I walked out into a building site - the whole section , including the front door , had been sectioned off workmen - who shouted at me for not wearing a hard-hat 😂 would have been nice to get a heads up from the hotel this was happening. You get what you pay for , and this was cheap , but I won’t be staying again. Recommend avoiding

Stayed here for 1 night as it was close to the 02. Very limited car park on site do had to park on the street. Should have turned around at the front door which was very uninviting. Green fish tanks in the hallway and bags of stuff. Went through to the back room to check in. Absolute bomb site, paperwork and junk everywhere. Chinese man took payment and showed us to our room. Room was freezing as all the windows were open. Probably to get rid of any lurking smells. Checked the bed first, bedding was actually crisp, white and clean. Curtains were all ripped, furniture needed replacing, mattress was too small for the bed so had a bit gap where you could see cardboard covering the slats. Bathroom was somewhat clean but needed a major redo. When we returned after our night out we struggled to get in the front door. The key doesn’t fit right. During the night the front door rang so others obviously had the same problem. My partner turned over a couple of times when he got into bed and felt the slats give way so he spent the whole night frozen to one spot in case he fell through the bed. I slept quite well considering. Didn’t bother with the shower the next morning was safer to wait til I got home. Left the keys on the bedside table and got out fast. Will definitely not be staying here again. Feels dirty, unsafe and needs major improvement. Only good point was the location was 5 mins walk to the 02.

The only homestay booked in this trip is a little distance from the center of Oxford Town. It takes about 20 minutes to walk. There is a separate yard to do the parking lot. It is very difficult to park at Oxford. Breakfast is done on site, there is also self-service, and the service brother is very good. The location of the front desk is not very clear, the room is on the highest floor, there is no elevator, the stairs are narrow, it will be very difficult to carry heavy luggage, and the bath water adjustment is not very good.

I like this English-style house. The room has a large bed (1.5 meters) and a small bed. It is very good. The radiator is not open, but the room is still very warm. The towel rack in the bathroom is heated and the towels are warm. Warm. The open space of the room is barely open for two 26-inch suitcases. Bottled water is provided, along with three cups of hot cocoa and coffee. The breakfast is good, the bread is also baked, warm, very good. The room we stayed in was on the 2nd floor, and a small yard view was visible outside the window. The hotel is some distance from the university campus. We go to the campus or go to eat, all by car. The Oxford town is still very big.

The hotel is situated in a quiet residential area, about 20 minutes walk to city centre and you will walk past a lot of magnificent buildings including Keble College. There are only 11 guest rooms and the hotel is really warm and cozy. The room was very clean and the staff was very welcoming and helpful. The breakfast was served in the observatory, which was beautiful and amazing. There were a lot of books around and you could take one with you! The breakfast was mainly continental but there was also some hot food such as scrambled eggs, tomatoes and beans. It’s included in the room price, so very good value for money. On-site free parking as well. Overall we had a very enjoyable stay. Only one minor issue was that you could hardly adjust the temperature of the shower water (we booked two rooms, one had that issue, the other one was normal) and it became hotter and hotter as time went by.

Although the furniture in the room is a bit old, the layout of the wire socket is not beautiful, but the owner's service is in place and responsive. The breakfast was also good. The host also reminded us that if we want to finish the meal at eight o'clock, we can go to the restaurant at 7:30 to save the waiting time. There is a large collection of masters in the restaurant that are worth watching. The host is a Chinese couple, who has a convenient conversation and also pointed us to a delicious Chinese restaurant.

3 adults traveling on a short trip from London. I booked this property as they had a room for 3 adults, rather than booking two hotel rooms. Description also stated it is a short walk to town and seconds from the car park. Pros - property is clean and fairly comfortable. Beds harder than I'm used to but that's me. Bathroom small but clean and looks fairly new. We were happy for the fan. TV has 2 remotes, one of them for Netflix. Could not get that to work. We had enough towels for everyone. Cons - yes, we had room 6 which has two beds for three adults. But it's at the top of two flights of very narrow steep steps. Real pain to get luggage up and down. Walk to town is closer to 20mins. That's not that close to town for someone who walks with a cane. Carpark - not seconds away. It is a 14min walk (we timed it). No description of what car park to use. We really had to do some detection work to figure it out. Parking next to property has a 90min limit and is a shopping parking lot. Do not book this property thru a third party such as BedsOnline. To get the codes to get into building and room, the email is sent to booking email which in our case was BedsOnline. Our travel agent had to do a big last minute scramble to get that email for us. We almost could not stay here and it would have been quite the scramble to get another hotel. The contact for this property sent us one email after our first inquiry to her, but then would not reply to our further emails. I showed them our voucher and asked for assistance but was totally ignored.  So I could not report to them that the toilet seat is very very loose and I almost fell. Front of property has trash cans and bags and is not very welcoming.  Some flowers in big flower pots would be a nice touch. While the room was very clean and fairly comfortable, with new windows, there were some issues in the bathroom, such as no place to put soap in the shower, no hooks to hang clothes. Over all, honesty in your description would have been very appreciated. Really can't give it more than 2 stars.

Very comfortable stay, cheerful greeting on arrival, large quiet room, very clean bathroom, kitchenette a useful addition. Recommend booking direct for the free breakfast served in your room. In walking distance of shops and restaurants in Summertown, and easy bus trip to Central Oxford. Free parking outside. Would definitely stay again.

Clean, convenient and nice to have a kitchen to make some food and store milk

Very very basic. Very little care taken in general. Room was ok but small and stuffy. Decor run down . Corridors cramped and shabby. Desk was unmanned, had to buzz to get staff over road from their “ sister “ hotel. They seemed disinterested. Little local knowledge. Walls paper thin. When i left in the morning , I walked out into a building site - the whole section , including the front door , had been sectioned off workmen - who shouted at me for not wearing a hard-hat 😂 would have been nice to get a heads up from the hotel this was happening. You get what you pay for , and this was cheap , but I won’t be staying again. Recommend avoiding

Stayed here for 1 night as it was close to the 02. Very limited car park on site do had to park on the street. Should have turned around at the front door which was very uninviting. Green fish tanks in the hallway and bags of stuff. Went through to the back room to check in. Absolute bomb site, paperwork and junk everywhere. Chinese man took payment and showed us to our room. Room was freezing as all the windows were open. Probably to get rid of any lurking smells. Checked the bed first, bedding was actually crisp, white and clean. Curtains were all ripped, furniture needed replacing, mattress was too small for the bed so had a bit gap where you could see cardboard covering the slats. Bathroom was somewhat clean but needed a major redo. When we returned after our night out we struggled to get in the front door. The key doesn’t fit right. During the night the front door rang so others obviously had the same problem. My partner turned over a couple of times when he got into bed and felt the slats give way so he spent the whole night frozen to one spot in case he fell through the bed. I slept quite well considering. Didn’t bother with the shower the next morning was safer to wait til I got home. Left the keys on the bedside table and got out fast. Will definitely not be staying here again. Feels dirty, unsafe and needs major improvement. Only good point was the location was 5 mins walk to the 02.

The only homestay booked in this trip is a little distance from the center of Oxford Town. It takes about 20 minutes to walk. There is a separate yard to do the parking lot. It is very difficult to park at Oxford. Breakfast is done on site, there is also self-service, and the service brother is very good. The location of the front desk is not very clear, the room is on the highest floor, there is no elevator, the stairs are narrow, it will be very difficult to carry heavy luggage, and the bath water adjustment is not very good.

I like this English-style house. The room has a large bed (1.5 meters) and a small bed. It is very good. The radiator is not open, but the room is still very warm. The towel rack in the bathroom is heated and the towels are warm. Warm. The open space of the room is barely open for two 26-inch suitcases. Bottled water is provided, along with three cups of hot cocoa and coffee. The breakfast is good, the bread is also baked, warm, very good. The room we stayed in was on the 2nd floor, and a small yard view was visible outside the window. The hotel is some distance from the university campus. We go to the campus or go to eat, all by car. The Oxford town is still very big.

The hotel is situated in a quiet residential area, about 20 minutes walk to city centre and you will walk past a lot of magnificent buildings including Keble College. There are only 11 guest rooms and the hotel is really warm and cozy. The room was very clean and the staff was very welcoming and helpful. The breakfast was served in the observatory, which was beautiful and amazing. There were a lot of books around and you could take one with you! The breakfast was mainly continental but there was also some hot food such as scrambled eggs, tomatoes and beans. It’s included in the room price, so very good value for money. On-site free parking as well. Overall we had a very enjoyable stay. Only one minor issue was that you could hardly adjust the temperature of the shower water (we booked two rooms, one had that issue, the other one was normal) and it became hotter and hotter as time went by.

Although the furniture in the room is a bit old, the layout of the wire socket is not beautiful, but the owner's service is in place and responsive. The breakfast was also good. The host also reminded us that if we want to finish the meal at eight o'clock, we can go to the restaurant at 7:30 to save the waiting time. There is a large collection of masters in the restaurant that are worth watching. The host is a Chinese couple, who has a convenient conversation and also pointed us to a delicious Chinese restaurant.

3 adults traveling on a short trip from London. I booked this property as they had a room for 3 adults, rather than booking two hotel rooms. Description also stated it is a short walk to town and seconds from the car park. Pros - property is clean and fairly comfortable. Beds harder than I'm used to but that's me. Bathroom small but clean and looks fairly new. We were happy for the fan. TV has 2 remotes, one of them for Netflix. Could not get that to work. We had enough towels for everyone. Cons - yes, we had room 6 which has two beds for three adults. But it's at the top of two flights of very narrow steep steps. Real pain to get luggage up and down. Walk to town is closer to 20mins. That's not that close to town for someone who walks with a cane. Carpark - not seconds away. It is a 14min walk (we timed it). No description of what car park to use. We really had to do some detection work to figure it out. Parking next to property has a 90min limit and is a shopping parking lot. Do not book this property thru a third party such as BedsOnline. To get the codes to get into building and room, the email is sent to booking email which in our case was BedsOnline. Our travel agent had to do a big last minute scramble to get that email for us. We almost could not stay here and it would have been quite the scramble to get another hotel. The contact for this property sent us one email after our first inquiry to her, but then would not reply to our further emails. I showed them our voucher and asked for assistance but was totally ignored.  So I could not report to them that the toilet seat is very very loose and I almost fell. Front of property has trash cans and bags and is not very welcoming.  Some flowers in big flower pots would be a nice touch. While the room was very clean and fairly comfortable, with new windows, there were some issues in the bathroom, such as no place to put soap in the shower, no hooks to hang clothes. Over all, honesty in your description would have been very appreciated. Really can't give it more than 2 stars.

Very comfortable stay, cheerful greeting on arrival, large quiet room, very clean bathroom, kitchenette a useful addition. Recommend booking direct for the free breakfast served in your room. In walking distance of shops and restaurants in Summertown, and easy bus trip to Central Oxford. Free parking outside. Would definitely stay again.

The breakfast was very good, the hotel's homemade oat croissant soft aromatherapy, full of praise. The accommodation environment is very quiet, I like this one very much!

The talkhouse was a really homely accommodation right outside of Oxford. The room was exactly like the pictures. The staff were incredibly helpful and I must say the showers is probably one of the best I’ve had in the uk. (Proper water pressure,temperature and drainage so I’m not swimming in my own filth). Also have a drink or dinner at the pub, it’s seems to be a popular favourite amongst the locals as well. One thing to note for light sleepers, the rooms are side by side so you might hear your neighbours & it is right by the road so you’ll be able to hear vehicles at busier times.