| There are quite a few hotels in and around | | | | solarium. One major plus offered to guests |
| the city of Winchester, offering different | | | | when staying in The Winchester Hotel is the |
| standards of accommodation at different room | | | | large, free car park - a very rare luxury for |
| rates to suite all tastes and budgets. | | | | a hotel in the center of any English city. |
| Winchester in a very popular and world famous | | | | |
| city with many thousands of tourists coming | | | | If you're looking for something that exudes |
| to visit the city each year. Therefore, it is | | | | charm then the Winchester Royal Hotel could |
| advisable to book your hotel room in | | | | be the place to stay. Parts of the building |
| Winchester well in advance, especially during | | | | go back to 1530 and it has been a hotel for a |
| Summer and holidays. | | | | century and a half. There are 75 bedrooms and |
| | | | the hotel has a 3 star AA rating. The |
| No tourist can come to Winchester without | | | | restaurant is superb. It's called the |
| going to visit the Cathedral. The Winchester | | | | Conservatory and serves quality a La Carte |
| Cathedral is probably the most beautiful of | | | | and Table d' Hote menus at lunch & |
| England's cathedrals. It has played an | | | | dinner. The restaurant was awarded a |
| important part in English history and its | | | | nationally recognised AA Rosette award for |
| setting, surrounded by parks, is sublime. The | | | | quality food. Rooms start at a very |
| Macdonald Wessex Hotel overlooks the | | | | reasonable rate but if you can afford it you |
| cathedral, making this hotel very special. | | | | might want to book a room in the West wing; |
| The hotel itself was built in the 1960s and | | | | all these rooms overlook the beautiful walled |
| is of no architectural interest but its | | | | garden. |
| situation overlooking the cathedral makes up | | | | |
| for this. The Wessex Hotel in Winchester is 4 | | | | Lainston House Hotel is almost certainly |
| star, has 94 bedrooms, all en-suite with | | | | Winchester's best hotel. The hotel is |
| private bath and shower. They also come with | | | | situated on the outskirts of the city. It is |
| satellite television, mini bars, hair dryers, | | | | an elegant William and Mary house that was |
| trouser press, iron and ironing board and tea | | | | built in the 17th century and is set in 63 |
| and coffee making facilities. There are | | | | acres of Hampshire's downland countryside. It |
| direct dial telephones with modem points for | | | | has a 4 star AA rating. All guest rooms have |
| easy access to the Internet and email | | | | been furnished to reflect the period charm of |
| services. All in all, the Macdonald Wessex | | | | the house. Guests can enjoy afternoon tea or |
| Hotel lacks charm but the standard of | | | | a pre-dinner cocktail in the Drawing Room and |
| accommodation and facilities provide are very | | | | Cedar Bar, both of which have enchanting |
| good and the location of the hotel is the | | | | views along Lainston's spectacular avenue of |
| best in Winchester. | | | | Limes. The hotel really does offer the very |
| | | | best of elegant charm from bygone years - for |
| Another modern hotel in close to the center | | | | those who can afford it. |
| is The Winchester Hotel. The rooms are | | | | |
| cheaper than those of the Wessex Hotel. The | | | | The hotels discussed above are just some of |
| Winchester Hotel has a 3 star rating and | | | | the wonderful hotels that are on offer to |
| comprises 71 rooms. You get all the | | | | tourists wanting to spend a few days in the |
| facilities you would expect of a 3 star hotel | | | | beautiful cathedral city of Winchester. There |
| but, in addition, the hotel has a comfortable | | | | are others, suiting all budgets and tastes. |
| air-extraction gymnasium with fixed and free | | | | There are also many fine hotels within easy |
| weights where qualified instructors are on | | | | driving of Winchester. Hotels situated in |
| hand. There is also an indoor heated pool | | | | Salisbury, Southampton and the New Forest are |
| with spa, sauna and steam room as well as a | | | | only half an hour away. |