Hotel · Bicester
Holiday Inn Express Bicester
A Holiday Inn Express on Bicester Gateway Business Park at the southern edge of Bicester, near Bicester Village and the M40, with 149 rooms, breakfast in the rate, dinner every evening, pets welcome and electric-car chargers.
Dog-friendly · EV charging
A practical base for a Bicester Village day or a night off the M40: breakfast is in the rate, dinner is served every evening and pets are welcome. It sits on a business park, though, a short drive rather than a walk from the town centre, and parking is extra.
- Good: Hot buffet breakfast included in the room rate
- Good: Dinner every evening, 5.30pm to 9pm, with a children's menu
- Good: Pets welcome, £30 per pet per stay
- Good: Five electric-car chargers in the car park
- Worth knowing: No air conditioning, the hotel says
- Worth knowing: Parking is £7 per 24 hours for guests
About
Holiday Inn Express Bicester is on Bicester Gateway Business Park, off Wendlebury Road at the southern edge of Bicester, close to the M40. IHG, which runs the brand, places it near Bicester Village and five minutes' drive from the town centre, with Bicester North and Bicester Village stations each about ten minutes away by car.
There are 149 rooms on four floors, eight of them accessible, and some connecting rooms. Rooms have a TV, free Wi-Fi and blackout curtains, and a hot buffet breakfast is included in the rate. The Great Room Lounge, opposite reception, serves dinner from 5.30pm to 9pm: curries, pizzas, burgers and pies, with a children's menu and a 24-hour menu. The hotel says plainly that it has no air conditioning.
The car park has 100 spaces and five electric-car chargers; guests pay £7 per 24 hours with a code from reception. Pets are welcome at £30 per pet per stay, booked in advance. Prices change nightly: when we read IHG's site on 14 November 2026, a double for one adult on the night of Tuesday 1 December cost £137 on the Best Flexible Rate, refundable until 30 November.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast · Dinner
- Rooms
- 149
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Accessible rooms · Dogs in rooms · Parking · Wi-Fi · Events and meetings
- Parking
- Car park of 100 spaces with five electric-car chargers. Guests pay £7 per 24 hours with a code from reception; the public rate starts at £14.
- Without a car
- IHG puts the town centre five minutes away by car, and Bicester North and Bicester Village stations each about ten minutes' drive.
Photos
The hotel at dusk 
Reception and the lobby 
A double room with a sofa bed 
A meeting room
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Premier Inn Bicester 0.9 km away
- Cecconi's, Bicester Village 0.9 km away
- The Double Red Duke, Bicester Village 0.9 km away
- Ottolenghi, Bicester Village 0.9 km away
Sights nearby
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Bicester Village
Sight · Historic building · Bicester
An open-air designer outlet on the south side of Bicester, with more than 150 boutiques on pedestrian streets, open seven days a week since 1995. It has its own station, with trains from London Marylebone and Oxford, and the old town is a short walk away.
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Alchester Roman Town, near Bicester
Sight · Monument · Bicester
The buried site of Oxfordshire's largest Roman town, south-west of Bicester, and of the legionary fortress before it, dated by its gate timbers to AD 44/45. A scheduled monument under private farmland, with nothing standing above ground.
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St Edburg's Church, Bicester
Sight · Church · Bicester
Bicester's Grade I parish church, grown from a Norman church with a central tower into the big Perpendicular church of today. Inside are brasses from about 1500, Georgian monuments by Scheemakers, Wilton and Westmacott, and a Morris & Co. window of 1866.
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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.