England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Norwich
Norwich is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 196,000 people. This guide covers 3 hotels in Norwich, with about 217 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 3
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- NWI5 km · Norwich Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Norwich
Norwich ( NORR-ij, -itch) is a cathedral city and district in Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about 100 mi (160 km) north-east of London, 40 mi (64 km) north of Ipswich and 65 mi (105 km) east of Peterborough.
Norwich is by no means the United Kingdom's biggest city - indeed, with a population of about 140,000, it ranks as Britain's 41st most populous city, far from a major metropolitan centre. It's frequently, and unfairly, maligned in British culture as an inbred backwater - partly due to the typical (and grossly inaccurate) Norfolk stereotype more generally, but mainly not helped by most peoples' exposure to it being solely through the comedy character Alan Partridge and his various shows portraying it as exactly that. But in reality, Norwich is nothing like what these stereotypes might suggest.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Norwich
See
- Norwich Cathedral
- Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
- Dragon Hall
- The Forum
- Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
- Cow Tower
- The Great Hospital
- The Cathedral of St John the Baptist
- Plantation Gardens
- City of Norwich Aviation Museum
Do
- Crystal Seas
- SportsPark
- The Halls
- Eaton Golf Club
- Norwich Arts Centre
- Norwich & Norfolk CAMRA Beer Festival
- Norwich Theatre Royal
- Norwich Playhouse
- Maddermarket Theatre
- Norwich Puppet Theatre
- Eaton Park
- Catton Park
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Norwich
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 Norwich Central hotel | 71 | 4.2/5 892 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Norwich Cringleford hotel | 71 | 3.9/5 860 reviews |
| 3 | Travelodge Norwich Central Riverside hotel | 75 | 3.8/5 1,252 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Norwich
61 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata; the 40 best known are shown, by the number of Wikipedia editions that cover them. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
| Hotel | Opened | From centre |
|---|---|---|
| Assembly House | 0.2 km | |
| Maids Head Hotel | 0.5 km | |
| Dunston Hall Hotel | 1878 | 6.5 km |
| Sprowston Manor | 1973 | 5.2 km |
| The Ferry Boat Inn | 1.0 km | |
| Angel Inn | 22.9 km | |
| Annesley House Hotel | 1.0 km | |
| Bell Hotel | 0.2 km | |
| Black Boys Hotel | 18.7 km | |
| Buck Inn | 3.1 km | |
| Cock Inn | 24.3 km | |
| Cross Keys Inn | 13.8 km | |
| Dolphin Inn | 1.6 km | |
| Dun Cow Inn | 7.8 km | |
| Falcon Inn | 22.5 km | |
| Feathers Inn | 22.3 km | |
| Goat Inn | 16.0 km | |
| Griffin Hotel | 22.3 km | |
| Holiday Inn Norwich City | 1.4 km | |
| King's Arms Hotel | 22.3 km | |
| King's Head Inn | 19.4 km | |
| King's Head Public House And Adjoining House | 7.4 km | |
| Kings Head Hotel | 24.2 km | |
| Lamb Inn | 0.2 km | |
| Marsham Arms Inn | 12.8 km | |
| Queen's Head Hotel | 13.7 km | |
| Ram Inn | 23.6 km | |
| Recruiting Sergeant Inn | 11.6 km | |
| Red Lion Inn | 24.5 km | |
| The Bell Inn | 24.1 km | |
| The Bull Hotel | 24.4 km | |
| The George Hotel | 1.3 km | |
| The Gull Inn | 7.4 km | |
| The Old Brewery House, Gates And Railings | 19.3 km | |
| The Pelican Inn | 15.8 km | |
| The Swan Inn | 16.1 km | |
| White Hart Hotel | 21.5 km | |
| 8 Newmarket Road | 1.0 km | |
| Arrandale Lodge | 2.3 km | |
| Barnham Broom Hotel, Golf & Spa | 14.0 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Norwich
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Norwich are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; November is the wettest, with about 71 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 Norwich: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Norwich Airport (NWI), about 5.3 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Stansted Airport (STN, 110 km) and London Southend Airport (SEN, 125 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Norwich is a fairly isolated city. Even journeys from nearby places, such as Cambridge, Ipswich and King's Lynn, will take around an hour in the car. You can get to Norwich using several major routes.
Getting around
Norwich city centre is fairly compact and can be explored easily on foot; in many cases this will be the quickest and easiest way to reach your destination. It is also a cycle-friendly city, with many major streets having separate bike lanes and also several cycle tracks along the two rivers.
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NWI · Norwich Airport
STN · London Stansted Airport
SEN · London Southend Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Norwich
Eat
Norwich has a vast array of small and independent restaurants catering to most tastes and budgets, as well as hosting most of the major chains. Many of the best restaurants can be found clustered around the Norwich Lanes, the loosely-defined area roughly bounded by and including St Benedicts Street, as well as the equally olden Triangle area between Colman Road, Newmarket Road and Earlham Road.
Drink
Norwich was once famous for having a church for every week in the year, and a pub for every day of the year. It had the highest number of pubs per square mile in the UK. For real ale enthusiasts, Norwich is home to the multi award-winning Fat Cat, a real ale paradise serving over 25 ales, and the only pub in the UK to twice win the prestigious CAMRA National Pub of the Year. Other popular real ale pubs in the city centre include The Coach & Horses and the historic Adam & Eve. North of the city are the King's Head in Magdalen Street, the Shed (with Fat Cat Brewery), and the Duke of Wellington, all real ale pubs with an extensive selection of ales and some cider.
Stay safe
Although Norwich is generally a safe city to visit, caution should be taken when wandering the city centre at night. Use common sense and avoid back streets; staying in groups is always a good idea. Areas to avoid during the night would be Anglia Square, Eaton Park and Cathedral Close, although there is not much to do there at night so reasons to be there are limited anyway. Prince of Wales Road is the city's main nightlife area, and gets extremely busy and filled with drunk people on a Friday or Saturday night. The immediately adjacent Tombland is another nightlife hotspot that may be best avoided on weekend nights if you wish to avoid drunk people.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Norwich
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 3 places
of 3 places
of 3 places
Questions
Norwich: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Norwich?
By published guest score: Travelodge Norwich Central (4.2 / 5 · 892 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Norwich Cringleford (3.9 / 5 · 860 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Norwich Central Riverside (3.8 / 5 · 1,252 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Norwich?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Norwich are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; November is the wettest, with about 71 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Norwich?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Norwich Airport (NWI), about 5.3 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Stansted Airport (STN, 110 km) and London Southend Airport (SEN, 125 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Norwich?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Norwich
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.