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Where to stay in Peterborough
Peterborough is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 194,000 people. This guide covers 3 hotels in Peterborough, with about 212 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
- LTN78 km · London Luton Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Peterborough
Peterborough ( PEE-tər-bər-ə, -burr-ə) is a cathedral city in the City of Peterborough district in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. The city is 74 miles (119 km) north of London, on the River Nene.
In Jurassic times this area was covered by a tropical sea, depositing thick layers of clay, limestone and decomposing dinosaurs. The last Ice Age (the "Devensian") didn't quite reach here but its melt-off left beds of gravel. These are just what you need for pottery, bricks and road construction, and even in Roman times there were brick works here. The land is low-lying but not too low - it's just west of the Fens, so it's fertile, and a natural route for roads and later railways. An important medieval city grew up and the cathedral was built from the 12th century.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Peterborough
See
- Peterborough Cathedral
- Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
- Flag Fen Archaeology Park
- Longthorpe Tower
- Castor Hanglands
- Sacrewell Heritage Farm
Do
- Nene Valley Railway
- Planet Ice
- East of England Arena
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Peterborough
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 Peterborough Central hotel | 71 | 4.1/5 1,198 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Peterborough Eye Green hotel | 80 | 4.1/5 460 reviews |
| 3 | Travelodge Peterborough Alwalton hotel | 61 | 4.0/5 543 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Peterborough
20 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 Bull Hotel | 0.2 km | |
| Black Horse Inn | 12.6 km | |
| Blue Bell Inn | 2.7 km | |
| Box O Chicken George Hotel | 16.6 km | |
| Former Lion Hotel | 16.6 km | |
| George Hotel | 8.0 km | |
| Sibson House Hotel | 9.5 km | |
| The Bell Inn | 9.8 km | |
| The Bull Inn And N L Sandall And Sons | 12.5 km | |
| The Falcon Hotel | 7.9 km | |
| The Haycock Hotel | 11.6 km | |
| The Red Lion Inn | 13.0 km | |
| The Stilton Cheese Inn | 9.6 km | |
| White Horse Hotel | 12.7 km | |
| Holiday Inn Peterborough West | 3.1 km | |
| Oliver Twist Country Inn | 21.0 km | |
| Queens Head Public House | 12.5 km | |
| Royal Hotel | 0.3 km | |
| The Dog in A Doublet | 8.3 km | |
| The Pearl Hotel | 0.7 km |
All 23 hotels in Peterborough, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Peterborough
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Peterborough are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; August is the wettest, with about 60 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 Peterborough: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Luton Airport (LTN), about 78 km from the city centre in a straight line; East Midlands Airport (EMA, 79 km) and London Stansted Airport (STN, 83 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
From London take A1(M) northwards. From Cambridge, take A14 northeast onto A1(M).
Getting around
Local buses run from the bus station to Orton, Paston and Bretton. There is a good cycle and footpath network. Much of the centre is pedestrianised, with a step-free route from the bus and railway stations to the main square and Cathedral. Taxis wait at the railway station.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
LTN · London Luton Airport
EMA · East Midlands Airport
STN · London Stansted Airport
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Peterborough
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 3 places
of 3 places
Questions
Peterborough: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Peterborough?
By published guest score: Travelodge Peterborough Central (4.1 / 5 · 1,198 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Peterborough Eye Green (4.1 / 5 · 460 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Peterborough Alwalton (4.0 / 5 · 543 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Peterborough?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Peterborough are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; August is the wettest, with about 60 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Peterborough?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Luton Airport (LTN), about 78 km from the city centre in a straight line; East Midlands Airport (EMA, 79 km) and London Stansted Airport (STN, 83 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Peterborough?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Peterborough
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.