England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Washington
Washington is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 67,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Washington, with about 140 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
- July and August
- Nearest airport
- NCL19 km · Newcastle International Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Washington
Washington is a town in the Sunderland district, in Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham, it is the ancestral settlement of the local Washington family, from which the first president of the United States, George Washington, descended.
Washington was just one of a series of small mining villages hereabouts: the coal lay deep but had profitable seams and associated industry up to the mid'20th century. Then these declined, but in 1964 Washington was designated as a "New Town". It was laid out in some 15 tracts, some around existing villages and others greenfield, and the grand concept was that each would have its own employment and amenities. The reality is that this created a sprawl of samey burbs with no real centre to the place except Galleries Shopping Centre.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Washington
See
- Washington Old Hall
- Washington "F" Pit Museum
- WWT Washington
- Lambton Castle
- Penshaw Monument
- North East Land Sea and Air Museums
- Angel of the North
Do
- Hollywood Bowl
- Arts Centre Washington
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Washington
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 Washington A1(M) Northbound hotel | 76 | 4.2/5 452 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Washington A1(M) Southbound hotel | 64 | 4.2/5 372 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Washington
2 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bowes Incline Hotel | 3.1 km | |
| Mercure Newcastle George Washington Hotel Golf and Spa | 2.8 km |
All 4 hotels in Washington, with their history and operators
When to go
The best time to visit Washington
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Washington are July and August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; November is the wettest, with about 76 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 Washington: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Newcastle International Airport (NCL), about 19 km from the city centre in a straight line; Teesside International Airport (MME, 44 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 115 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Newcastle International Airport is 14 miles northwest of Washington: take the Metro into Newcastle or Gateshead and change for the bus, see below. A taxi from the airport to Washington might be £22. Washington was planned as a shiny modern town so the first thing they did was close the railway. Railways were dirty, obsolete, taxpayer-subsidised and (worst of all) heavily unionised. In the future, men would drive to work in British-built cars; the women would take the bus to go shopping, with head scarves drawn over their 1960s beehive hairdos.
Getting around
It's a sprawling district and you need your own wheels, which fortunately they manufacture at the northeast edge of town.
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
NCL · Newcastle International Airport
MME · Teesside International Airport
LBA · Leeds Bradford Airport
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Washington
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 2 places
of 2 places
Questions
Washington: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Washington?
By published guest score: Travelodge Washington A1(M) Northbound (4.2 / 5 · 452 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Washington A1(M) Southbound (4.2 / 5 · 372 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Washington?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Washington are July and August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; November is the wettest, with about 76 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Washington?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Newcastle International Airport (NCL), about 19 km from the city centre in a straight line; Teesside International Airport (MME, 44 km) and Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 115 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Washington?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Washington
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.