Oxford, United Kingdom

The Store Oxford

Price per night from$251.76

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (GBP201.67), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Top of the shops

Setting

Bookstore-lined Broad Street

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Let’s talk shop: the Store Oxford now sits where locally loved Boswells & Co department store used to trade for almost 300 years. Today it’s a one-stop oulet for a stylish city break, which will sell you on its spa time-outs, terrace-trimmed suites and talk-of-the-town rooftop bar. British-branded furnishings and throwback photography nod to this stay’s high-end heritage, and you’ll brush shoulders with yet more refined retail on scholarly Broad Street. When it comes to a UK city break, there’s no need to shop around: this hideaway knows how to satisfy customers…

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

101, including four suites.

Check–Out

11am. Check-in, 3pm; both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates at the Store Oxford don’t include breakfast, but a Continental buffet or à la carte options are available from £20 a guest. You’ll find a free Fatso chocolate bar in your room on arrival.

Also

There are five accessible rooms at the hotel, plus all communal areas, the spa and restaurant are adapted for wheelchair users.

At the hotel

Gym with Nohrd equipment, free bikes to borrow, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV with Chromecast, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes and slippers, hairdryer and Verden bath products.

Our favourite rooms

The Store’s well-dressed rooms give you all the more reason to shop till you drop (on a soft bed, that is). No mere window-dressing, these hideaways have art deco flourishes, brushed-brass detailing and Crittall windows. In the Superior Super King room, a scalloped burnt-orange headboard contrasts with pistachio-hued wood panelling and windows overlook the inner courtyard’s living wall. But the big-ticket booking is Arthur’s Suite, a terrace-toting showstopper named after former Boswells owner Arthur Pearson.

Spa

Retreat to the walnut-wood-panelled spa for soothing stints in the sauna, steam room or immersion shower. Massages, facials and treatments for two are enhanced by luxe products from British brand Oskia.

Packing tips

No need to pack any reading material: Broad Street, where the hotel sits, is home to famous bookstores.

Also

The round-the-clock gym is decked out in state-of-the-art Nohrd equipment, and staff can arrange private Pilates and yoga classes here on request, as well as sound bath and meditation sessions.

Pet‐friendly

Well-behaved pooches are welcome in all rooms for £50 each a stay. See more pet-friendly hotels in Oxford.

Children

Welcome. The Cornmarket Street Suite or Superior with Sofa-Bed rooms are family-friendly, and baby cots, connecting rooms and babysitting can be arranged with notice. The gym, thermal suite and rooftop bar are adults-only.

Sustainability efforts

At this heritage-rich hotel, you’ll find solar panels, a living wall with its own irrigation system, locally sourced produce and a recycling system.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Skylights brighten the sage-green banquettes at Treadwell and, in summer, the lobby doors open out to streetside tables, channelling Paris’s café culture.

Dress Code

Lean into quintessentially British styling with Oxford-blue hues, cable knits and fine tailoring.

Hotel restaurant

Before its iteration as Boswells & Co department store, this corner of Oxford was home to a lively — and sometimes debaucherous — market in the 19th century, along what used to be Treadwell’s Passage. Today, Treadwell restaurant is a more refined homage to this colourful heritage (though spirited sorts are still welcome), where chef Andy Robinson reworks locally sourced produce and trad British flavours to create fresh, seasonal plates. Brunch is served on Saturdays, and family-style Sunday roasts come with all the trimmings. Any day of the week, leave room for decadent nursery puds like honey-glazed, spotted-dick pain perdu.

Hotel bar

The ground-floor bar runs parallel to Broad Street, so it’s ideal for people-watching. The petrol-blue bar is open at all hours, and also serves light snacks and afternoon tea in a fireside snug. If you’re in the market for something stronger, try the Store’s own bespoke rum, vodka and gin, crafted at local distilleries (the latter is best sampled in the house Negroni). Or head all the way to the top floor to hangout at  the Roof, a city-surveying bar and terrace with classic cocktails that can be customised to your tastes, breath-snatching views and American barbecue-style eats hot off the Bertha grill. 

Last orders

At Treadwell, breakfast is 7am–9.30am (8am–10.30am on weekends); Saturday brunch is 11am–3pm; lunch is noon–3pm, Monday to Friday, and 12.30pm–3.30pm on Sundays; dinner is 6pm–10pm, Sunday to Thursday (until 11pm, Friday and Saturday).

Room service

You can order dishes to your door around the clock from a separate menu.

Location

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Address
The Store Oxford
1-5 Broad Street
Oxford
OX1 3AG
United Kingdom

The Store Oxford sits on Broad Street in the historic heart of university city Oxford, opposite Balliol College.

Planes

London Heathrow is a one-hour drive from the hotel, while Luton is closer to a 90-minutes drive; staff can arrange transfers from either from £50 each way.

Trains

Rail services from Heathrow, Bristol, and Paddington or Marylebone in London call at Oxford station, a 10-minute walk or five-minute drive from the hotel. Staff can arrange transfers from £10 each way.

Automobiles

You won’t need a set of wheels while you’re in the city, which is easily explored by foot or public transport. Should you drive, Gloucester Green and Westgate Shopping Centre both have parking spaces close by for a charge.

Other

Private jets can land at Oxford Airport, which is a 20-minute drive from the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

The Store Oxford’s private terraces and rooftop bar overlook Oxford’s spires and historic, honey-hued buildings. If the stellar city views have made you eager for a closer look, start with Broad Street on your doorstep. It’s lined with bookshops including Blackwell’s and Gulp Fiction; continue the bookworm-like behaviour at Bodleian Library, and once you’ve got your nose out of a book, poke it into Balliol College, or browse at the Covered Market, a bazaar dating back to the 18th century. If the weather isn’t playing ball, dip into the world-class Ashmolean Museum; if it is, soak up the sunshine at Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum or try your hand at punting along the River Cherwell. While away your day wandering — or biking through — the storied streets, or book onto one of many walking tours, perhaps around the prestigious university or the filming locations for Harry Potter or Inspector Morse.

Local restaurants

Modern British brasserie No.1 Ship Street delivers on date nights, with rock oysters, champagne cocktails and candlelit corners. A stalwart of Oxford’s culinary scene, locally loved bistro Pierre Victoire impresses with French set menus using seasonal produce. Head to picture-perfect Gee’s Restaurant & Bar for Italian-inspired brunches, fresh fish and indulgent desserts, all served up in a Victorian glass conservatory.

Local cafés

For a seasonal espresso blend, single-origin coffee or sourdough sandwich, make a pit-stop at Missing Bean on Turl Street. Or at Coffeesmith you’ll spy aspiring authors drafting novels and visitors penning postcards as you sip on latte-art-topped brews.

Local bars

Casual cocktail bar the House stays lively until late with jovial games of snooker and Philippe Starck sofas to watch from. If you’re feeling nostalgic about your university experience, you can (try to) blend in with Oxford’s scholars and students at 17th-century pub the King’s Arms.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

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 heritage hotel in Oxford and unpacked their notebooks and novels from Blackwell’s bookstore, a full account of their British break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside the Store Oxford…

You’ll soon see why Oxford’s moniker is the ‘city of dreaming spires’ as you admire the caramel-coloured colleges and churches surrounding the Store Oxford from its rooftop bar. And this historic stay’s façade is just as inspiring as its neighbours: the original Boswells & Co signage still hangs above the entrance, a nod to the building's almost 300-year-old legacy and its most storied stint as a department store.

Nowadays you’ll want to browse its modern interiors and antique detailing, and road-test its wares: all-day eatery Treadwell with its remixed British fare and sharing Sunday roasts, or a streetside bar with bespoke spirits. And you’re in a privileged position for exploring — zeitgeist-followers can stroll to Saltburn filming locations, literature lovers will be in seventh heaven on bookshop-lined Broad Street, and you don’t need to be a scholar (or a student) to roam around the university colleges. When it comes to this covetable crashpad, we’re sold.

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