Self-catering · Bicester
The Crew Rooms at Bicester Motion
Four en-suite rooms and suites in Building 82, the 1926 Power House on the Technical Site of the old RAF Bicester, now Bicester Motion, each named after a station commander and booked only through Red Kite Stays.
A bed inside Bicester Heritage itself: a night in a 1926 RAF building among the classic-car workshops, handy for a Scramble. Two are simple en-suite rooms and two have kitchens. No breakfast or meals are provided.
- Good: Inside the old RAF Bicester Technical Site, in the 1926 Power House
- Good: Free parking and Wi-Fi; Freeview in every room
- Good: Bowen-Buscarlet has a full kitchen and a washing machine, and links to Rotheram
- Worth knowing: Booked only through Red Kite Stays, with a cleaning fee on top of the nightly rate
- Worth knowing: No pets and no smoking
- Worth knowing: No breakfast or meals: Betts and Duclos have only tea and coffee things
About
The Crew Rooms are four places to sleep inside Bicester Heritage, the old RAF bomber station on the north-east edge of Bicester that Bicester Motion now runs. They are in Building 82, the Power House of 1926, which generated the site's power; Bicester Motion says the 'Christopher' machine of The Imitation Game was installed there. Each is named after a station commander.
Bowen-Buscarlet, the largest, sleeps four and has its own entrance, an open-plan kitchen, dining and sitting room with a cooker, dishwasher and washing machine, lit from above by a roof lantern, and a double bedroom. Rotheram has a galley kitchen, a double bed and its own door onto the lawn, and can be linked to Bowen-Buscarlet. Betts and Duclos are en-suite double rooms with tea and coffee things, high ceilings, steel beams and three large windows facing a 1926 hangar. Every room has a shower room, Freeview and Wi-Fi, and parking is free.
Bicester Motion takes no bookings itself: all go through Red Kite Stays. When we read Red Kite's site on 13 November 2026, Betts cost £74 for the night of 1 December 2026, plus a £65 cleaning fee. Pets and smoking are not allowed.
The details
- Rooms
- 4
- Features
- Parking · Wi-Fi
- History
- Building 82, the Power House, built in 1926
- Parking
- Free parking, Red Kite Stays lists.
Photos
The Bowen-Buscarlet suite 
The Betts room 
The Rotheram room 
The Duclos room
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Sky Wave Gin Distillery, Bicester Motion
- Everyman Driving Experiences at Bicester Heritage 0.2 km away
- Clip 'n Climb Bicester 1.9 km away
- Mizu Japanese Izakaya, Bicester 2.0 km away
Sights nearby
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Bicester Heritage (RAF Bicester)
Sight · Historic building · Bicester
The technical site of RAF Bicester, which Historic England calls the best preserved of the bomber bases built in the RAF's expansion from 1923, now home to firms restoring historic cars. Its listed hangars and workshops open to the public on event days such as the Scrambles.
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Bure Park Nature Reserve, Bicester
Sight · Nature reserve · Bicester
A local nature reserve of 8.4 hectares on the north side of Bicester: meadow, young woodland, hedges and scrub along the little River Bure, with a pond that holds great crested newts. Free, small and local, a ten-minute walk from the town centre.
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Bicester Market Square
Sight · Historic building · Bicester
The old market place at the centre of Bicester, where the town's market was granted in 1239, lined with listed houses such as No. 47 of 1698 with its oval-windowed tower. The Friday market is on Sheep Street beside it, and the square is due to be remade.
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Garth Park, Bicester
Sight · Common or park · Bicester
Bicester's town park: about 9 acres of lawns, specimen trees and formal beds round Garth House, a Victorian hunting lodge given to the town in 1946. It has the 1732 bell of the old Town Hall, a bandstand, a café and play areas, a few minutes from Market Square.