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St Botolph's Hotel Colchester

3.0 star property

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Bar (on property)
Front of property
Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed, Ensuite, City View
Food and drink
Restaurant

Reviews

7.8 out of 10
Good

Popular amenities

  • Breakfast included
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Restaurant
  • Laundry room
  • Room service
  • Housekeeping

Explore the area

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4 Saint Botolph's Circus, Colchester, England, CO2 7EF
  • Place, Colchester Castle Park
    ‪6 min walk‬
  • Place, Colchester Town Hall
    ‪6 min walk‬
  • Place, Colchester Castle Museum
    ‪6 min walk‬
  • Airport, London (STN-Stansted)
    ‪60 min drive‬

Room options

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Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed, Ensuite, City View

Standard Double Room, 1 Double Bed, Ensuite, City View

  • City view
  • 25 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed
  • Free Wi-Fi

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Superior Double Room, Ensuite

Superior Double Room, Ensuite

  • City view
  • 30 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Single Bed
  • Free Wi-Fi

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Economy Double Room, 1 Double Bed, Ensuite

Economy Double Room, 1 Double Bed, Ensuite

  • City view
  • 20 sq m
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed
  • Free Wi-Fi

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About the area

Colchester

With a stay at St Botolph's Hotel Colchester in Colchester, you'll be within a 10-minute walk of Lion Walk Church and Colchester Natural History Museum. .This hotel is 0.4 mi (0.7 km) from Headgate Theatre and 0.6 mi (1 km) from Roman Circus House.

What's nearby

  • Colchester Natural History Museum - 5 min walk - 0.4 km
  • Colchester Castle Park - 6 min walk - 0.5 km
  • Colchester Town Hall - 6 min walk - 0.6 km
  • Colchester Castle Museum - 6 min walk - 0.6 km
  • Mercury Theatre - 10 min walk - 0.9 km

Getting around

  • Colchester Town Station - 1 min walk
  • London (SEN-Southend) - 59 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Istanbul Delight - ‬2 min walk
  • ‪The Odd One Out - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪Small Talk Tearooms - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Curzon Colchester - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪Subway - ‬2 min walk

About this property

St Botolph's Hotel Colchester

St Botolph's Hotel Colchester offers 7 accommodations with safes and coffee/tea makers. Flat-screen televisions are featured in guestrooms.

Bathrooms include showers and complimentary toiletries. This Colchester hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Stay in one of 7 guestrooms featuring flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless internet access and concierge services.
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant or snacks in the coffee shop/cafe. The hotel also offers room service (during limited hours). A complimentary English breakfast is served on weekends from 8 AM to 10 AM.
Featured amenities include luggage storage, laundry facilities, and a safe deposit box at the front desk.
A complimentary English breakfast is served between 8 AM and 10 AM on weekends.
St Botolph's Hotel Colchester has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transport

  • No on-site parking available

Food and drink

  • Free English breakfast available on weekends 8 AM to 10 AM
  • A coffee shop/cafe
  • A restaurant

Family friendly

  • Laundry facilities

Conveniences

  • Laundry facilities
  • Limited-hour front desk
  • Luggage storage
  • Newspapers in lobby
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Housekeeping (daily)

Room amenities

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • Flat-screen TV

Food and drink

  • Coffee/tea maker
  • Limited room service

More

  • Desk
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2 PM; Check-in end time: 10:30 PM

Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staffed during limited hours

This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in

Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Front desk (limited hours)

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome

Rollaway/extra beds are not available

Payment types

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards

Property is also known as

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St Botolph's Hotel Colchester Reviews

Reviews

7.8

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 15 out of 45 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 18 out of 45 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 7 out of 45 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 45 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 3 out of 45 reviews

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.6/10

Staff & service

8.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Vikkie

Liked: Staff & service

Convenient location!

Perfect location for Colchester town centre. Ideal for an overnight stay, maybe 2 nights at the most. Beds were cheap, shower needed a proper clean, towel rail heater wasn't working and tea tray wasn't replenished. Breakfast was nothing special, although it was cooked well. Host was very pleasant and check in and out was straight forward.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely breakfast 🍳 and room big and clean and comfy😍 definitely recomend 💯
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Perfect if you need a place to sleep, clean and comfortable. The breakfast was great.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

barry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

2/10 Terrible

James

Disliked: Property conditions & facilities, room comfort

shocking

'bed' was two mattresses chucked on top of each other
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2019

4/10 Poor

Emily

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness

Bathroom

The bathroom was cold, the shower was not good because the water went from cold to hot, and then it was hot for 5 minutes, and then went cold again.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Beverley

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice place

Nice place but very dodgy area at night
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

6/10 Okay

Michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort

Basic and clean

The gent who checked us in was pleasant enough and took us to the room, good job as it’s a maze of corridors, staircases and doors requiring key pass entry. The room itself was ok and clean. However, the bed was extremely soft and uncomfortable not conducive to a good sleep. The bathroom looks almost new, the shower itself wasn’t very powerful and the it was impossible to change the water temperature. The worst thing was the location mainly for the external noise. The room was facing the main roundabout and the traffic noise was constant until about 4.30am. Thank you to the motorcyclist who kept riding round town for several hours revving the engine and making as much noise as possible to keep us awake. It is the main walking route to a busy night club, so we had the pleasure of drunken shouting and arguments to also disrupt our sleep. The breakfast was OK nothing special cooked by the person who checked us in the night prior. Parking is offsite but close by you can pay by phone/email which was very useful. Free WiFi which was quite speedy and didnt drop out.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very good
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Room comfort
Good value for what we paid but the bed was uncomfortable.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Room comfort
Noisiest hotel I have ever stayed in.. hotel is next to one of busiest roundabouts in Colchester.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Bad food and noisy

This experience was way below our expectations. It was very noisy in the room. The food tasted like it wasn't fresh and was rather scanty and not filling. No fruits to go with the meal or even a breakfast menu. The food that came was burnt. One of the curtains was broken and although they eventually fixed it the next day, we had to sleep with the window exposed and we were basically told to manage it. As if nothing was going to be done about it.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Leslie, Worksop

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good budget hotel

For 1 night the price was good clean through out Good location drinks a bit expensive But over all a good experience
Stayed 1 night in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Pete, Cleveleys lancashire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel right next door to Colchester town station. Run by the owner who seems to do most things himself, very well.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018

2/10 Terrible

Hollybarn, herts uk

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Really not for us

I am so sorry to have to leave such a negative review and I really don’t understand how this hotel has attracted anything other than one star reviews but here is our experience anyway. My two daughters and I booked a two night stay to attend a family wedding. Our confirmation said that check-in is available until 10:30pm but when we arrived shortly before 8:00pm everything was locked up and we had to phone the hotel number to get someone to let us in. We were shown to our room which was large but fronted onto an extremely busy roundabout. The weather was particularly hot so the windows were fully open and although the room was still at sauna temperatures we could not have a conversation over the roar of traffic. Dismayed I sat on the bed and I’m afraid I can only agree with the previous review that compared the bed to sitting in a bowl of blancmange. Although we had only been there half an hour or so we handed the keys back and drove down the road to the Premier Inn where we had a lovely stay. The chap who had shown us to our room did promise a refund for the second night which we never received but to be honest it was never about money, we could not have stayed there at any cost.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

6/10 Okay

Carolyn

Needs better bedding

Owner is making improvements, but needs to sort out water pressure and desperately needs to invest in new mattresses, ours was lumpy and our friends had one that totally snack to the middle. Other than that it was fine.Owner is a young man trying to do it all himself - I wish him good luck.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Stuart

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Pleasant overnight stay in fresh hotel.

We had a very pleasant overnight stay at St Botolph’s Hotel when we visited Colchester for a family wedding... Fresh and clean rooms with a comfortable bed. Breakfast was freshly cooked and tasty. The only downside was the parking... the public car park behind the hotel was a bit pricey for what was effectively from 2pm to 11am the following day... had to keep topping up via mobile app. I’m sure if we’d not been in such a rush for the wedding we could’ve found a better way of doing things. This didn’t detract from the stay though and we would definitely stay there again.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

Mathew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great for getting an early train.

Just an overnight to catch a morning train. The room was fine, but up too many flights of stairs for my liking - oddly, the trip down by a convenient external staircase seemed much shorter. The only person I met was a very polite and friendly guy who seems to do everything. Other guests suggested he was very helpful, though I didn't need much. I had a water problem due it seems to poor pressure - not a big deal. Altogether a very clean, well-organised small hotel with a competent guy in charge who looked out for my comfort. No aircon or fridge, and those people who are sensitive to traffic noise might have a problem - I didn't. Recommended. Oh, loads of electrical points for tablets etc, and OK wi-fi.
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Tin Wu

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice stay

A small hotel. Good location. Good service. The food in the restaurant was good. Breakfast was excellent. Spacious room. Will visit again.
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018

8/10 Good

Robert

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Suitable for my needs, water pressure in the shower not great. The room and breakfast were great.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

8/10 Good

Marc, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A good hotel

The staff where very friendly and the breakfast was good! I enjoyed my stay overall, would stay again if in Colchester

8/10 Good

Derek

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort

Good for 1 night stays

Service good and efficient, bit of a rabbit warren with plenty of stairs. better signage would help. Breakfast was good and tasty, evening menu slightly expensive.

8/10 Good

Margaret

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good, well situated hotel, great breakfast

Good standard hotel well positioned next to Colchester Town railway station and walkable to town centre and main tourist area in Colchester Excellent quality food, beautifully presented Staff keen to be helpful. Room comfortable. Would stay again

10/10 Excellent

Liam

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great little hotel

Brilliant customer service, room clean and basic, unfortantely it was snowing when I stayed so couldn't do much activitys but I did manage to do some shopping.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2018