Where to stay in Bicester: hotels, pubs with rooms and a boat

For a night in Bicester itself, the Littlebury Hotel on Kings End is the one independent hotel we can point to, with breakfast included and its own car park, and Travelodge Bicester on Pioneer Square is the budget choice without a car. By car, the Holt Hotel on the Banbury road has 87 rooms and a restaurant, and the Fox at Souldern has four rooms over a village pub. If you want more choice, stay in Banbury, about 13 minutes from Bicester North by train on average.

How we chose: we list only places whose own website showed them taking bookings or trading in 2026 when we checked in November 2026, and nothing here is paid for. Nobody from the guide has stayed in them for this page. That leaves a short list. Prices change by the night, so the ones we give are what we saw for one date, as a guide only.

In Bicester

The Littlebury Hotel is a family-run hotel on Kings End, just west of the town centre, run by the McKeon family since 1959. It has 35 en-suite rooms, from singles to family rooms with a king-size and a single bed, and every rate includes a full English breakfast. An accessible room is available on request. The town centre and Bicester Village are both within walking distance, and it has a large private car park, so you can leave the car for the day. The bar has live music on Saturdays, and dinner is served every evening except Sunday.

Travelodge Bicester is on Wesley Lane, off Pioneer Square, in the middle of the town, under half a mile from Bicester North station and within walking distance of Bicester Village. It has family, accessible and pet-friendly rooms, and reception is staffed around the clock. Travelodge sends drivers to nearby car parks: the Cattle Market, about seven minutes' walk away and free from 6pm to 8am, or Sainsbury's on Pioneer Square, free from 7pm to 8am. The only breakfast is Breakfast to Go, £6.95 a person. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by noon. It suits a train trip from Banbury or London with a night for the shops.

Premier Inn Bicester is on Oxford Road, the A41, at the southern edge of the town, half a mile from Bicester Village by the chain's measure and about a mile from the centre. It has family, interconnecting and accessible rooms, a lift and a car park on site at a guest rate, and up to two children eat breakfast free with a paying adult. Dinner was not offered on the two November nights we searched, so check for your date. It suits a drive in from the M40 and a day at the Village better than an evening in town.

The Crew Rooms are four rooms and suites inside Bicester Heritage, in the Power House of 1926 on the old RAF technical site, each named after a station commander. Two are en-suite doubles and two have kitchens, the largest sleeping four. There is free parking but no breakfast or meals, no pets, and bookings go only through Red Kite Stays, with a cleaning fee on top of the nightly rate that matters for a single night.

At the M40

Travelodge Bicester Cherwell Valley is at the Cherwell Valley services on junction 10 of the M40 at Ardley, about 4 miles north of the town. It has limited free parking, first come first served, a 24-hour coffee shop in the services, and family, accessible and pet-friendly rooms, the accessible ones on the ground floor, as there is no lift. Rooms were from £28.99 for the night of Sunday 15 November 2026 when we checked. It is a motorway stop, not a place to stay for the area, but it is the easiest bed for a late arrival, or for an early start at Bicester Heritage or Silverstone.

On the Banbury road and in the villages

The Holt Hotel is an independent hotel of 87 rooms in an old coaching inn at the Hopcrofts Holt crossroads on the A4260, just outside Steeple Aston, between Banbury and Oxford. Bicester Village is about 15 minutes' drive by the hotel's reckoning, and as a partner hotel of the Village it passes on discounts to its guests. Rooms run from singles to family rooms for four and the Blenheim Suite with a four-poster. It has a bar, a restaurant that welcomes visitors as well as guests, and two electric car chargers (email ahead to check one is free), but it takes no pets. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 11am.

The Fox Inn, in Souldern, has three doubles and a twin, all en-suite, above a village pub licensed by 1784, near junction 10 of the M40. It puts itself within 15 minutes of Bicester Village and 20 of Silverstone. Dogs are welcome in the bar but not in the rooms, and the pub is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, so ask what that means for a stay. Rooms are booked through Booking.com, linked from its site, or by phone.

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A narrowboat from Lower Heyford

Oxfordshire Narrowboats hires holiday boats from Heyford Wharf on the Oxford Canal at Lower Heyford, about 6 miles west of Bicester, for 2 to 12 people. The season runs from mid March to the end of October, with start days on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and short breaks as well as week-long holidays. The first pet goes free, and each further pet is £30. Its own route notes put Banbury about 6 hours' cruising away and Oxford about 7, each way, so either is a weekend there and back. It is the one way to stay in this country that is a holiday in itself, and Kizzies is the café on the wharf.

Or stay in Banbury

Banbury has more beds, more places to eat and a direct train to Bicester North, so it is often the better base for a few days. Whately Hall, a 71-room hotel in a seventeenth-century inn in the middle of the town, is the obvious choice. South of Banbury, the Unicorn on Deddington's Market Place has seven rooms, four of which take dogs, and the Great Western Arms by the canal near Aynho has four. For a special night, the Killingworth Castle at Wootton, near Woodstock, has eight rooms and a kitchen with three AA Rosettes. Pubs with rooms near Banbury has the rest.

Which to choose

For Bicester Village by train, the Travelodge on Pioneer Square, or the Littlebury if you want a hotel with breakfast and a bar. For the Village by car, the Littlebury, for its car park and the walk in, or the Holt for its partner discounts and a restaurant, or the Premier Inn, half a mile away by its own measure, with a paid car park. For a Scramble day at Bicester Heritage, the Crew Rooms on the site itself, or the Littlebury or the Travelodge in the town, and book early for the spring Super Scramble. With a dog, the pet-friendly rooms at either Travelodge, or the Unicorn at Deddington, since the Fox and the Holt do not take dogs in the rooms. For the countryside, the Fox, or a boat from Lower Heyford.

What we left out

The Jersey Arms at Middleton Stoney, now a bed and breakfast, has no website of its own that we could find. A few hotels at Chesterton and Wendlebury, just south of the town, are outside the area this guide covers. If you run a place to stay in or near Bicester that is not here, tell us.