England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 264,000 people. This guide covers 4 hotels in Milton Keynes, with about 540 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 4
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- LTN33 km · London Luton Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes is a city in Buckinghamshire, England, about 50 miles (80 km) north-west of London. At the 2021 census, the population of its urban area was 264,349.
Imagine being able to design the perfect city almost completely from scratch. This is the premise under which internationally renowned urban planners and architects set out to create Milton Keynes in the 1960s and '70s. Of course, when mentioning Milton Keynes, people will often be met with "Ugh, it’s a soulless new city" or "What, is that the place with the concrete cows?" Most irritating is that often, the people that make those comments have neither lived there nor indeed spent much time there.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Milton Keynes
See
- Bletchley Park
- The National Museum of Computing
- Concrete Cows
- The Peace Pagoda
- Stony Stratford
- Iron Trunk Aqueduct
- National Film and Sci-Fi Museum
Do
Milton Keynes has attractions for the adventurous. Willen Lake has a wakeboard tow rope system; the Xscape has an indoor snow slope, a climbing wall and an indoor skydiving tower; the central bus station has a skate park' and the town has also a BMX track at Pineham.
- Xscape
- Formula Fast
- Milton Keynes Dons
- Milton Keynes Theatre
- Planet Ice
- National Bowl
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Milton Keynes
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 | Leonardo Hotel Milton Keynes hotel | 279 | 87/100 6,062 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Milton Keynes Old Stratford hotel | 84 | 4.4/5 624 reviews |
| 3 | Travelodge Milton Keynes at The Hub hotel | 99 | 4.0/5 2,451 reviews |
| 4 | Travelodge Milton Keynes Central hotel | 78 | 4.0/5 1,103 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Which part of Milton Keynes to stay in
Milton Keynes offers a variety of chain hotels, including Holiday Inn, Hilton, Ramada, Jury's Inn, Travelodge, and Holiday Inn Express. Some are located in the bustling town centre and others in more peaceful spots, including the Holiday Inn Express adjacent to Willen Lake.
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Where to stay
More hotels in Milton Keynes
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chicheley Hall | 9.8 km | |
| Bull Hotel | 14.0 km | |
| Swan Revived Hotel | 6.7 km | |
| The Bull Hotel | 6.5 km | |
| The Castle Inn | 14.6 km | |
| The Cock Hotel | 6.5 km | |
| The Dolphin Inn | 6.6 km | |
| The New Inn | 3.7 km | |
| The Plough Inn | 6.2 km | |
| The Swan Hotel | 5.2 km | |
| The Swan Inn | 13.9 km | |
| The Talbot Inn | 1.6 km | |
| The White Hart Inn | 9.9 km | |
| White Horse Inn | 6.5 km | |
| Holiday Inn Milton Keynes Central | 0.9 km | |
| Montpellier House | 10.0 km | |
| The Bull Inn | 6.7 km | |
| The Coachmakers' Arms Inn | 6.4 km | |
| The Cowpers Oak Inn | 12.8 km | |
| The George Inn | 6.7 km | |
| Woughton House Hotel | 3.1 km |
All 25 hotels in Milton Keynes, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Milton Keynes
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Milton Keynes are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 62 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 Milton Keynes: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Luton Airport (LTN), about 33 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Heathrow Airport (LHR, 66 km) and London Stansted Airport (STN, 71 km) are also within reach.
Getting around
Buses in Milton Keynes are frequent, and all estates are quite well covered. There are regular buses from most places to the city centre, train station, and Bletchley. Travelling by car is usually preferable as one of Milton Keynes's saving graces is its road network, although during rush hour, it can get somewhat congested in some areas. The dominance of the car is greatly helped by the road layout – the main roads of the city are laid out in a grid system with roundabouts at the intersections, so getting about is quick, although predictably less so in rush hour.
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LTN · London Luton Airport
LHR · London Heathrow Airport
STN · London Stansted Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Milton Keynes
Eat
Milton Keynes has a wide variety of restaurants both in the City Centre and in the outlying areas. In the city centre the restaurants are centred around the theatre district, Xscape and a new area called "The Hub".
Drink
On a summer evening a trip to the theatre district or Xscape almost transports you to a Spanish holiday resort, such are the number of bars and clubs with people walking between them. Not much for a CAMRA member here though, as it's more for the bottle of Bud or Smirnoff Ice crowd. More traditional pubs can be found along the Stony Stratford high street, popular for pub crawls at weekends. The nightlife (pubs and clubs) in Milton Keynes are focussed around the theatre District, Xscape snow dome and The Hub areas.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Milton Keynes
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Questions
Milton Keynes: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Milton Keynes?
By published guest score: Leonardo Hotel Milton Keynes (87 / 100 · 6,062 reviews · www.leonardo-hotels.com (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Milton Keynes Old Stratford (4.4 / 5 · 624 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Milton Keynes at The Hub (4.0 / 5 · 2,451 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Milton Keynes?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Milton Keynes are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 62 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Milton Keynes?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Luton Airport (LTN), about 33 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Heathrow Airport (LHR, 66 km) and London Stansted Airport (STN, 71 km) are also within reach.
Are there accessible hotels in Milton Keynes?
1 place in this guide list accessible rooms.
What currency is used in Milton Keynes?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Milton Keynes
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.