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Where to stay in Bicester
Bicester is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 37,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Bicester, with about 142 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 2
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- LTN54 km · London Luton Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Bicester
Bicester ( BIST-ər) is a market town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of Oxfordshire, England, 11 miles (18 km) north-east of Oxford. The town is a notable tourist attraction due to the Bicester Village shopping centre.
Bicester has a traceable history of over a thousand years and was recorded in the Domesday Book. Like Banbury further north, it is experiencing growth and prosperity from its proximity to the M40 motorway linking London with Birmingham via Oxford. The English writer Flora Thompson based her popular Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy on the area north-east of Bicester, encompassing the nearby villages of Juniper Hill, Cottisford, Fringford and Hethe.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Bicester
See
- Bicester Heritage
Do
- Vue Cinema
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Bicester
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 Bicester hotel | 67 | 4.6/5 512 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Bicester Cherwell Valley M40 hotel | 75 | 4.0/5 1,733 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Bicester
35 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Holt Hotel (Oxfordshire) | 12.2 km | |
| The Manor Country House Hotel | 6.7 km | |
| Bell Inn | 0.2 km | |
| Cromwell Lodge Hotel | 22.2 km | |
| Elephant And Castle Hotel | 21.7 km | |
| Globe Inn | 22.0 km | |
| Kings Arms Hotel | 0.4 km | |
| Plough Inn | 6.2 km | |
| Roebuck Inn | 24.8 km | |
| Six Bells Inn | 0.5 km | |
| Swan Inn | 22.0 km | |
| Swan Inn | 0.5 km | |
| The Bear Inn | 22.0 km | |
| The Bell Inn | 17.1 km | |
| The Bell Inn | 10.1 km | |
| The Cartwright Arms Hotel | 12.7 km | |
| The Fox Inn | 0.6 km | |
| The Holcombe Hotel | 15.0 km | |
| The Old Auctioneer | 22.2 km | |
| The White Horse Inn | 14.2 km | |
| Unicorn Hotel | 14.8 km | |
| Whately Hall Hotel | 22.2 km | |
| Wheatsheaf Inn | 22.0 km | |
| White Hart Inn | 0.3 km | |
| White Lion Hotel | 22.0 km | |
| Ashlea Guest House | 21.5 km | |
| Avonlea Guest House | 22.6 km | |
| Banbury Cross B&B | 22.1 km | |
| Banbury Moat House Hotel | 21.8 km | |
| Bicester Hotel Golf and Spa | 3.7 km | |
| Easington Guest House | 21.6 km | |
| OYO Unicorn Inn OYO Rooms | 14.8 km | |
| The Chesterton Hotel | 2.8 km | |
| The Dolphin Inn | 22.3 km | |
| Unicorn Hotel | 22.1 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Bicester
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Bicester are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; December is the wettest, with about 70 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 Bicester: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Luton Airport (LTN), about 54 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Heathrow Airport (LHR, 67 km) and Birmingham Airport (BHX, 74 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Bicester is only a one-hour car or train journey from the cities of London and Birmingham. Exit Junction 9 of the M40 Motorway. For fastest access, take the M40 Motorway to Junction 9. Follow the A41 for 2 miles towards Bicester. If you've come for the shopping village, follow the signs to 'Village Retail Park' and 'Bicester Village Outlet Centre' Don't miss the excellent Bicester Avenue home and leisure shopping outlet. Bicester can be reached from Oxford by following the A34 northwards out of the city (12 miles/18 km).
Getting around
The town is small enough to get around on foot. Some local buses run between the suburban estates and villages.There are also taxis available at Market Square and both rail stations. Most buses leave from Manorsfield road in the town centre. The town is friendly to walking with both rail stations being less than a 10-minute walk from the town centre.It is also only a 10-minute walk from the town centre to Bicester Village shopping centre. There is also a shuttle bus between Bicester North rail station to Bicester Village shopping centre, avoiding the town centre.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
LTN · London Luton Airport
LHR · London Heathrow Airport
BHX · Birmingham Airport
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Bicester
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 2 places
of 2 places
Questions
Bicester: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Bicester?
By published guest score: Travelodge Bicester (4.6 / 5 · 512 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Bicester Cherwell Valley M40 (4.0 / 5 · 1,733 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Bicester?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Bicester are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; December is the wettest, with about 70 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Bicester?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Luton Airport (LTN), about 54 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Heathrow Airport (LHR, 67 km) and Birmingham Airport (BHX, 74 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Bicester?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Bicester
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.