Bristol, United Kingdom

Hort's Townhouse

Price per night from$124.27

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Style

The ‘gert’ Gatsby

Setting

Town centre on tap

Pub with rooms Hort’s Townhouse brings a dash of art deco glamour to the heart of Bristol. Rooms pull inspiration from the Roaring Twenties, pairing velvet and geometric prints in sumptuous hues. Step outside, though, and the city’s modern-day cultural cachet is all around, with its headline-grabbing graffiti, grassroots museums and budding gastronomic scene a stroll away. And the simple pleasures of this boutique bolthole – seasonal pub grub, keep-them-coming cuvée spritzes, and breakfast in bed the next morning – are timeless.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

19.

Check–Out

11am. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates usually include breakfast. If you're on a room-only rate, a Continental spread and heartier à la carte options are available to buy at the pub.

Also

The pub is wheelchair accessible, with elevator access to all floors and ramps into communal spaces. One Bigger Boutique room has been adapted for guests with limited mobility, with lowered door handles and switches, and a roll-in shower with grab bars.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, bathrobes and Bramley bath products.

Our favourite rooms

You can ogle all sorts of original architectural flourishes in the Feature Boutique. After a day pounding Bristol’s art-scrawled streets, the Bigger Boutique’s freestanding bath tub is an alluring prospect.

Packing tips

A capacious tote will see you right from vinyl store rummaging to valley-gazing picnicking.

Also

Appoint yourself the designated fun fact dropper of the trip after flicking through the selection of books about Bristol in your room.

Pet‐friendly

Hort’s has a handful of dog-friendly rooms, where Fido will find treats, a water bowl and a bed or blanket. There’s a maximum of two dogs a room, and a pet fee of £20 a night. The pub is pooch-friendly, too. See more pet-friendly hotels in Bristol.

Children

Welcome. Some rooms have sofa-beds or space for cots, which can be added on request, and there are connecting options to give the whole gang their own space.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Choose based on your favourite chair – a regal rollback, chintzy floral tub or classic velvet scalloped number.

Dress Code

Casual is cool here, but don a drop waist and vintage sparkle if you want to rep the Roaring Twenties.

Hotel restaurant

The pub menu makes cockles-warming use of seasonal British produce, with classics like haddock and chips, and gravy-soused pie and mash, alongside more mould-breaking morsels – Dingley Dell pork schnitzel, perhaps, or gnocchi with lemon thyme and fennel. At breakfast, a Continental buffet is bolstered with indulgent à la carte options including mascarpone-topped French toast, St Ewes eggs benny and a croissant croque-madame.

Hotel bar

It might seem wrong — when in Rome, and all that — but it’s worth straying from cider, here. Hort’s shook up Bristol’s bar scene back in the day when it served the city’s first cocktails. That mixological MO is still going strong today – the Nyetimber cuvée punch and lime, coriander and chilli-laced picante prove that.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 7am to 11am, Monday to Friday, and 8am to 11am on Saturday and Sunday; the lunch menu is available from 11.30am to 7pm, and dinner is served from 5pm to 9pm. The bar pours from 11.30am to 9pm.

Room service

If breakfast (or supper — no judgement) in bed sounds like a plan, you can order dishes up via a handy app.

Location

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Address
Hort's Townhouse
49 Broad Street
Bristol
BS1 2EP
United Kingdom

Hort’s Townhouse is in the heart of Bristol’s bustling, Banksy-daubed old city.

Planes

It’s a half-hour drive from Bristol Airport, where flights touch down from all over Europe.

Trains

Breeze in direct from London Paddington, Manchester Piccadilly, Edinburgh and more to Bristol Temple Meads station, a 20-minute walk (or 15-minute cab ride) from Hort’s.

Automobiles

There’s no parking at the hotel, but Bristol city centre has plenty of public car parks. The nearest, NCP Bristol Nelson Street, is a five-minute walk away and costs £25 for 24 hours’ parking.

Worth getting out of bed for

Nearby St Nicholas Market is worth a prowl for foodie bits and offbeat souvenirs. The Stokes Croft neighbourhood is enduringly community-focused, with its local artist-run shops, vintage stores and clothing boutiques smattered with colourful street art. Down at the harbourside, M Shed is a lively museum charting local people’s history and the Arnolfini hosts globe-spanning contemporary arts exhibitions. For act two of your cultural tour, catch a play at the Bristol Old Vic. And it’s worth the trip a little further afield to see the Clifton Suspension Bridge – the view from the Clifton Observatory over the Avon Gorge makes it prime picnic territory, perhaps while pondering the magnificence of the name Isambard.

Local restaurants

A short wander away, Wapping Wharf has a thriving indie dining scene, from vegan delis to chin-drippingly dirty burgers. When in doubt, make for Magari, a cosy Italian restaurant where the pasta is made daily with Cacklebean eggs and sauces pop with West Country produce.

The menu changes monthly at Marmo, but you can always expect fine local produce, spun into elegant plates and paired with organic wine at this owner-run spot just round the corner from Hort’s.

For lunch on the hoof, head down the road to St Nicholas Market. When faced with competing wafts from the spectrum of street food stalls, getting stuck in indecisive limbo is a real danger, so we’ll take one for the team and recommend La Lola for its sizzly Spanish comfort food.

Local cafés

This’ll put a pep in your step, coffee snobs – speciality roastery Full Court Press, which serves filter and espresso from a rotating line-up of top-shelf beans, is a sub-60-second stroll from the hotel.

Local bars

Gentlemen’s club styling can lean gimmicky, but it’s difficult not to feel dapper nursing a whisky-laced craft cocktail on one of the Milk Thistle’s burgundy chesterfields – and the seasonal specials are so inventive, we’ll even excuse a wall-mounted stag head or two.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this city-centre pub stay in the West Country and unpacked their street-art snaps and theatre ticket stubs, a full account of their culture-brimming break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Hort’s Townhouse in Bristol…

It’s an unusual juxtaposition: Bristol and the Jazz Age. Hip hop and reggae run DNA-deep here; flappers and Fitzgerald, not so much. It’s an offbeat pick for a city-centre pub, too – seasonal Sunday roasts with all the comforting West Country trimmings, served beneath geometric chandeliers and Twenties fashion plates.

But the folks behind Hort’s Townhouse’s art deco makeover are onto something. After days spent seeking out the works of Banksy and Brunel, or becoming a connoisseur of traditional local delicacies (by which we mean, of course, consuming gluttonous quantities of chocolate and cider), returning to a more-glam-than-expected boudoir feels a welcome treat. A Hugo spritz and a sound night’s sleep on your Hypnos bed, and you’ll be Charlestoning down for breakfast the next morning – and keen to give fringe, feathers and flirty knee-length hemlines a comeback.

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