England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Andover
Andover is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 51,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Andover, with about 87 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- SOU31 km · Southampton Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Andover
Andover ( AN-doh-vər) is a town in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The town is on the River Anton, a major tributary of the Test, and lies alongside the major A303 trunk road at the eastern end of Salisbury Plain, 18 miles (29 km) west of the town of Basingstoke.
The town's largest employer is the Ministry of Defence. RAF Andover was opened on Andover Airfield, to the south of the town, during the First World War and became the site of the RAF Staff College.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Andover
See
- Andover Museum and Museum of the Iron Age
- Danebury Iron Age Hill Fort
- Army Flying Museum
- Hawk Conservancy Trust
- Longstock Water Garden
- Ludgerhall Castle and Cross
- Whitchurch Silk Mill
Do
- Finkley Down Farm
- Rooksbury Mill Local Nature Reserve
- Thruxton Circuit
- Anton Lakes
- Dever Springs Fly Fishery
- Leckford Estate Fishing
- Westover Farm Fishing
- Bombay Sapphire Distillery
- Black Chalk Vineyard
- Wallop Wheels and Wings
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Andover
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Andover hotel | 87 | 4.5/5 443 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Andover
21 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| The Angel Inn | 1.2 km | |
| Blue Lion Inn | 14.8 km | |
| George And Dragon Public House | 6.7 km | |
| Hawk Inn | 6.8 km | |
| Kimpton Down Inn | 9.4 km | |
| Prince of Wales Hotel | 11.6 km | |
| Star And Garter Hotel | 1.4 km | |
| Station Hotel | 1.7 km | |
| The Barleycorn | 16.3 km | |
| The Crown Inn | 11.7 km | |
| The George Hotel | 1.3 km | |
| The George Inn | 6.2 km | |
| The George Inn | 10.5 km | |
| The Greyhound Inn | 15.1 km | |
| The John Russell Fox | 1.4 km | |
| The White Hart Inn | 12.3 km | |
| Walnut Tree Inn | 7.2 km | |
| White Hart Hotel | 1.5 km | |
| Fifehead Manor Hotel | 12.0 km | |
| Manor Farm B & B | 16.4 km | |
| The Globe Hotel | 1.4 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Andover
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Andover are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; December is the wettest, with about 92 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Andover: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Southampton Airport (SOU), about 31 km from the city centre in a straight line; Bournemouth Airport (BOH, 55 km) and London Heathrow Airport (LHR, 75 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Andover is on the major A303 trunk road at the eastern end of Salisbury Plain, 18 miles (30 km) west of Basingstoke. It is 20 miles (32 km) NNW of Winchester, 35 miles (56 km) north of Southampton and 65 miles (105 km) WSW of London. The M4 motorway, to the north, can be reached by way of the A34 trunk road, which continues to Birmingham; or via Marlborough, Wiltshire. Andover station is on the London Waterloo to Exeter line.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
SOU · Southampton Airport
BOH · Bournemouth Airport
LHR · London Heathrow Airport
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Andover
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Andover: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Andover?
By published guest score: Travelodge Andover (4.5 / 5 · 443 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Andover?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Andover are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; December is the wettest, with about 92 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Andover?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Southampton Airport (SOU), about 31 km from the city centre in a straight line; Bournemouth Airport (BOH, 55 km) and London Heathrow Airport (LHR, 75 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Andover?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Andover
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.