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Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire

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Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire Motel in West Oxfordshire District

Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire Motel in West Oxfordshire District

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8.3Excellent

(1,454 Ratings)

"It’s becoming one of our favourite places the way it looks like a castle"

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8.3 / 10.0

Excellent(1,454 Ratings)

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About this motel

Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire is a 400 year old coaching inn that features a bar, restaurant, and free parking.

Amenities at Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire

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Map of West Oxfordshire District

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Nearby attractions

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens

Stratford Butterfly Farm

National Trust - Stowe

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Top rated by guests

8.3Excellent

(1,454 Ratings)

"It’s becoming one of our favourite places the way it looks like a castle"

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Don't miss out! Price and availability may change

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8.3 / 10.0

Excellent(1,454 Ratings)

Motel in West Oxfordshire District

Reasons to book

Guests love it hereGuests give this property a top rating

Great price for your budgetOne of the lowest cost properties in the area

Book with confidenceWe partner with the top travel sites so you know you're getting a great deal on the perfect rental

Map of West Oxfordshire District

city location on map

Nearby attractions

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens

Stratford Butterfly Farm

National Trust - Stowe

Available Rooms

About this motel

Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire is a 400 year old coaching inn that features a bar, restaurant, and free parking.

Amenities

Business facilities

Things to know

Additional fees to expect

Cleaning & other feesWe include all stay related fees in the Cleaning Fee line, which may include cleaning, property manager, resort, tourism and other stay related fees. All Booking.com properties are professionally cleaned after each stay.

Booking feeNo booking fees, easy credit card payments.

Service feeThis helps Booking.com provide a safer and more secure booking experience.

TaxesTaxes on accommodation such as Occupancy Tax, VAT, or GST. May also include tourism fees.

Customer support

Customer support is handled by our partner Booking.com

Ratings and reviews

8.3 / 10.0

Excellent(1,454 Ratings)

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8.0 / 10.0

Excellent value for money.

The staff were all very friendly and attentive. Very comfortable bed, spotless ( if not a little ‘tired’ ) room and full bathroom. Food in the restaurant at night very good. My husband chose from the English menu, I chose from the Asian menu. Both dishes very nice. Good choices for breakfast and plenty of food.

Operating the TV in the bedroom was ridiculously complicated. The Sky box positioned under the dressing table needed the remote control to be pointed under the table directly to the box, pointing the control to the TV didn’t work. So changing channel needs a physical movement , ie get off, or out of the bed, to operate TV I would have really liked a fresh banana at breakfast to have with my porridge but these are not provided.

7.0 / 10.0

Would be hard to recommend to others but we had a pleasant time

It was classical looking Had modern amenities

The room was cold when we arrived and took a long time to heat up It was scruffy looking and look tired

8.0 / 10.0

Amazing value, great pub/restaurant

Perfect location for Blenheim Palace

10.0 / 10.0

Fantastic place , fabulous food, excellent staff

It’s becoming one of our favourite places the way it looks like a castle

Theirs nothing to not like

10.0 / 10.0

Stayed overnight. Managed to get there in time for dinner, which was very tasty. Slept in a comfortable room with plenty

Friendly staff. Comfortable rooms. Excellent food.

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8.0 / 10.0

Very friendly staff and good atmosphere

Breakfast was very good and plenty of it, restaurant served very good food,

Nothing

9.0 / 10.0

Great place to stay

An excellent pub hotel in a wonderful location, very close to Blenheim Palace. Great food and lovely staff, would definitely recommend as a place to stay.

10.0 / 10.0

Paul Colchester

Friendly staff, excellent food, easy check in and out .The staff went over and above to ensure everything was good.

Na

9.0 / 10.0

Food is excellent

Clean and comfortable

Twin bed moves if put together!👎

9.0 / 10.0

Lovely place for attractions if a tourist. Great for attendance at funerals like us!

Great full english breakfast, well kept real ale, always large helpings

Internet opening times didn't gel with actuals as we arrived on a v cold winter Sunday

10.0 / 10.0

Excellent!!

Sturdy's Castle provided an excellent stay. Clean, comfortable and warm. The room was brilliant as was the food in the bar. I would recommend this hotel for service, location and all services.

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7.0 / 10.0

The reception/ restaurant area were lovely. Great staff but room wasn’t clean enough. Mould and worn carpets. Staff

The staff were very nice. A decent breakfast.

The rooms weren’t the cleanest.

10.0 / 10.0

Hospitable, very well run and superb breakfast with a delightful lady chef. Thank you

Location, staff and room all excellent

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9.0 / 10.0

Very convenient as very near to Blenheim Palace

Rooms were outside but very nice and everything we needed nice big room. Roast dinner and breakfast was very good

Big room lovely breakfast

8.0 / 10.0

Great value accommodation in a fantastic spot for Blenheim and Oxford

a great location for Blenheim Palace and Oxford, Sturdy castle was excellent value, a fantastic find. It's a small country Inn, 3 miles outside of Woodstock but it has a bus stop right outside the inn, so getting into Oxford is a breeze. Only half an hour into the centre of Oxford, with buses running hourly. The Inn itself has a fantastic restaurant and we really enjoyed the Indian food on the menu. If visiting Blenheim there is free parking in Woodstock from where you can walk into the Blenheim Park. The bedrooms are comfortable with a bath and powerful shower. So, all in all, hghly recommended.

The only downside was that there weren't any comfortable armchairs to sit in at the bar/lounge. It is very much set up as a restaurant. After a day of walking/sightseeing, this would have been very welcome. But I wouldn't let that put you off, otherwise excellent value for money accommodation.

6.0 / 10.0

The stay was ok

It served Christmas lunch

The shower was dirty. Christmas lunch was not good value and not very nice!

9.0 / 10.0

Lively comfortable hotel, great staff, ideal place to visit Blenheim anx ZOxford.

Fantastic choice for breakfast. Comfortable beds. Friendly staff. Very welcoming

There was nothing not to like.

7.0 / 10.0

Experience was greatly improved by the excellent Indian meal we had at the hotel in the evening -

Breakfast was good and the Indian meal we had in the evening was excellent

Room was a little tired, could do with a bit of a facelift but adequate for our stay

7.0 / 10.0

Staff where very help , great location

Very helpful, lovely breakfast , easy to find

Up stairs , metal stars case outside , with decking down as a path way , was very slippy especially with the frost - when booking ask for a downstairs room

10.0 / 10.0

A home away from home

Staff, atmosphere, food, available parking, warm room (winter).

10.0 / 10.0

Bot hole for Blenheim at Christmas

Warm cosy room with all the amenities 👍😎

N/A

10.0 / 10.0

I would recommend this property 100%

Very clean, super food, very friendly staff. Location was perfect.

Nothing

9.0 / 10.0

Loved it!

We stayed here last year and we enjoyed it tgst much we came back this year. Lively conduction, great staff and fabulous food!

8.0 / 10.0

Very comfortable stay

Very comfortable stay

Nothing

8.0 / 10.0

Convenient for our visit to Blenheim

Breakfast

Noise from room above Noisy fan in bathroom

10.0 / 10.0

Great place to stay, would recommend to have an evening meal there.

Room, clean, comfy bed and duvet, quiet. Dinner, excellent meal, friendly, efficient staff. Good value for money. Breakfast, little choice if you didn't want a cooked breakfast but cooked breakfast was lovely.

No one about when I checked out. Left key on reception desk.

9.0 / 10.0

Enjoyed our 2 night stay.

The room was comfortable. Plenty of parking. Breakfast and evening meal were excellent. The staff were friendly and helpful. Great location for Blenheim Palace.

3.0 / 10.0

Won't be returning

Location was great beautiful building food was good.

Rooms very dated huge gaping under door which left a draft. Management attitude was awful and staffing levels inadequate for amount of guests.

10.0 / 10.0

A very comfortable stay with excellent staff

We were welcomed by extremely friendly staff. We ate dinner twice in the restaurant both meals were freshly prepared and well cooked with a selection from a comprehensive menu of traditional "pub cuisine" and Indian food. The breakfasts were equally good with the cooked food freshly prepared to order. Overall it was a very comfortable stay in a very relaxed atmosphere

Nothing really

8.0 / 10.0

Excellent

The room was really good with everything you need, the breakfast was really good, and the restaurant food was very good, overall it’s is a very nice comfortable place to stay with friendly helpful staff

Not applicable

9.0 / 10.0

Pleased with facilities, staff,

Quick to respond to enquiries. Good food, good service and nice place.

Nothing

9.0 / 10.0

Friendly, helpful staff and overall good value for money.

Friendly, helpful staff and overall good value for money.

10.0 / 10.0

Wish we had booked for longer

Really nice place, great staff, fantastic food. Nice cosy place to stay

Nothing

8.0 / 10.0

Well worth the stay

The place was very inviting and friendly with a large free car park. The rooms were a decent size with a good shower but the bed for my wife and I was very uncomfortable with bad pillows. The restaurant was very good with lovely food and fair prices. Easy access in and out of the pub.

We were in the lower floor and the noise from the room above was to noisy but that could have been deliberate . We were not comfortable with the pillow choice and bed.The heating in the room was not working.

6.0 / 10.0

Pleasant overnighter in a historic building, but could be a gold-mine for the right business-owner.

Well situated, and despite being set back on a busy road, within 5 mins of Woodstock/Blenheim, is quite quiet. The majority of rooms are in a modern two storey, courtyard complex behind the inn. Ample parking, a little pot-holy. Generous rooms, large shower. Serves bar food and a indian restaurant. Presentation wise, it's a nicely maintained and presented hotel/restaurant with seemingly a lot of land under utilised With such a space I was surprised to not see that fully explored, with outside dining etc. The space to me seemed like it is positioned to be a hugely popular family carvery pub or event venue.

We booked the stay due to its close proximity to Blenheim and other areas of interest for us. As we had event tickets that evening we wanted to eat promptly but were the told that the kitchen didn't reopen until 5:30pm. Ordinarily a reasonable time, but it meant we had to make quick alternate plans in a busy area that we hadn't scoped out. I can't remember seeing anywhere that they stopped serving bar food, and almost sure it said, 'all day dining.' You will need to pre-order breakfast the night before, which is okay, just a little odd. I think this is often done for efficiency, and maybe they don't have a big kitchen staff, but it's so uncommon now it slightly annoying if you're having to think what you'd like the day before. Bar staff are spread between Reception. It wasn't busy but the responsiveness in check-in wasn't the best. No warm welcome, not rude, just business-like, and that works in the Board Room, not necessarily the Hospitality trade. Rooms are clean and quiet, if a little on the colder side but we didn't want to mess with the radiators being only one night. It's a decent place, but it's such a competitive industry now where you can get so much more. I wouldn't stay for more than a day or two because it's really not the place you can sit back and relax in.

5.0 / 10.0

It was a very good price & location was good

The roast dinner was very good . The staff were friendly

The room was tired & could do with redecorating

9.0 / 10.0

Good place to stay

All

Nil

10.0 / 10.0

Cool calm and peaceful well run hotel and the food amazing

Well run plenty of helpful staff

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7.0 / 10.0

Food and staff are good, but rooms dated.

The breakfast was very nice, and the staff are very friendly and helpful.

The rooms are fairly dated, especially the bathrooms. The room I stayed in had a very uneven floor in the bathroom (spongy in places) which was all a bit odd, so it felt like it may give way! The toilet was also coming away from the wall in some areas. The room was clean though. I also had to plug a stray cable in to get the TV working. However as I say the people and the breakfast was very nice.

9.0 / 10.0

Relaxing, safe, good food and drink.

The staff were gentle and polite and very helpful. The room was quiet being away from the road and well appointed with 2 chairs. The breakfast’s where lovely, and there was a good choice for evening meals. The was a couple of cask ales available which was really nice. Parking was easy.

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FAQs

Is parking included with this motel?

Parking is not specified as an available amenity at Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.

Is there a pool at this motel?

We didn’t find pool listed as an amenity for this motel. It may be worth double checking if a pool is important for your stay.

Is Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire pet friendly?

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What amenities are available at Sturdy`s Castle - Historic Coaching Inn near Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire?

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