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Where to stay in Woking
Woking is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 63,000 people. This guide covers 1 hotel in Woking, with about 89 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- June to September
- Nearest airport
- LHR19 km · London Heathrow Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Woking
Woking ( WOH-king) is a town and borough in north-west Surrey, England, around 23 mi (36 km) from central London. It appears in Domesday Book as Wochinges, and its name probably derives from that of a Saxon landowner.
Built around its large train station, Woking grew up in the Victorian era. It experienced a boom in the post-war period when modern buildings, car parks and large retail outlets were constructed in the town centre. In the original version of HG Wells' War of the Worlds, the woodland area northeast of the town known as the 'Sandpits' (due to the presence of beach-like areas of golden sands on Horsell Common) was the location for the aliens' attacks on Earth.
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Things to do
What to see and do in Woking
See
- Underpass Mural
- Henry VIII's Royal Palace
- The Shah Jehan II Mosque
- The Lightbox
- Brookwood Cemetery
- North Cemetery
- South Cemetery
- Brookwood Military Cemetery
Do
- New Victoria Theatre and The Ambassadors Cinemas
- Woking FC
- Basingstoke Canal
- Horsell Common
- Surrey History Centre
- Woking Rotaract
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Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Woking
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 Woking Central hotel | 89 | 4.2/5 1,370 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
More hotels in Woking
3 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 White Hart Inn | 4.5 km | |
| DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Woking | 2015 | 0.7 km |
| Gorse Hill De Vere Hotels | 3.0 km |
When to go
The best time to visit Woking
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Woking are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 23 °C; October is the wettest, with about 84 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 Woking: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Heathrow Airport (LHR), about 19 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Gatwick Airport (LGW, 32 km) and London City Airport (LCY, 48 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Woking railway station is served by fast trains from London and is on the line to London Waterloo (24-minute direct service) from Exeter St. Davids, Weymouth and Portsmouth Harbour. Woking is about 6 miles (9.6 km) off the M25 (Junction 11/ Wisley Interchange) and the same distance from the A3. Travelling northbound on the A3, turn off at either Painshill and follow the signs through Byfleet and West Byfleet, Burnt Common near Ripley and follow the signs through Send and Old Woking or further south at Burpham or Stoke both in Guildford.
Getting around
Woking town centre is very compact, and is nearly completely pedestrianised with several small walkways and passages such as Church Path which has several bijou establishments. Woking is reasonably well served by buses to the surrounding villages and districts with buses leaving from Woking Station and Cawsey Way outside the Toys'r'us and Wolsey Place shopping centre. Areas with large areas of housing rather than traditional high streets such as Brookwood and Goldsworth Park are particularly well catered for.
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LHR · London Heathrow Airport
LGW · London Gatwick Airport
LCY · London City Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Woking
Eat
Woking is not a fine dining destination. More gastronomic choice can be found in Guildford, or by fast train to central London. The predominant local cuisines are Indian and Italian, and numerous examples of these can be found in the town centre. The town's restaurants are located primarily on Chertsey Road, where there is KFC, Nandos, Pizza Hut, several Indian restaurants, an Italian restaurant, McDonald's, and Roosters Peri Peri (a cross between KFC & Nandos). In addition, the High Street/Broadway has Sang Thai restaurant, kebab shops, some Chinese and pizza takeaways, more Indian restaurants. On Commercial Way is a Chinese Buffet (eat as much as you like).
Drink
Woking's major drinking spot is based on Chertsey Road with several pub chains such as Wetherspoons operating pubs. Eight pubs and bars can be found on this street alone, with two or three others on the south and west side of the town. However drunkenness and bad behaviour can all too often be found here due to increased alcohol intake on 'pub crawls' and 'benders'. This has improved in the past five years with increased policing and ID requesting though the fault rests entirely with the young adult drinking population.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Woking
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Woking: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Woking?
By published guest score: Travelodge Woking Central (4.2 / 5 · 1,370 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Woking?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Woking are June to September. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 23 °C; October is the wettest, with about 84 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Woking?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is London Heathrow Airport (LHR), about 19 km from the city centre in a straight line; London Gatwick Airport (LGW, 32 km) and London City Airport (LCY, 48 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Woking?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Woking
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.