Things to do/where to stay in Oxford

[MintyBubbles]

Help, please! I have a few days in Oxford. My friend might join me from London. Where’s good to stay?
Has anyone stayed in any good, mid-budget hotels lately?

If there is availability, it can be good fun (and budget friendly) to stay in one of the colleges
www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/
There is tons to see and do in Oxford. I'd suggest downloading a walking tour, I like the GPS My City app.

Tower House Guest House

@Fivemoreminutes1 Did you stay here? Is it good for the museums?

Ooh thank you! I will look into this. Great idea, walking tour. Will look up some tripadvisor places to eat. Can you/anyone recommend some of the nicer restaurants?

I wonder which museums I should do. a friend of mine recommended Waterperry gardens a few years ago but I think it maybe too far away. Also William Morris’s house.

Yes we’ve stayed there and it was within walking distance of pretty much everything www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/oxfordshire/oxford/hotels/the-tower-house-hotel/

We've just had a weekend in Oxford. Stayed at one of the University halls. Very reasonably priced but basic as you'd expect (very basic!). Oxford is a lovely small city, walkable everywhere or really well set up for cycling. If you're coming by car use the park and ride or find accommodation with parking as the city centre car parks are £££££.

Natural History & Pitt Rivers museums were interesting. If we'd had more time we would have gone to the prison museum and the story museum (art fund museum of the year shortlist) but just mooching round the colleges was good. Some charge for entrance eg Balliol £3, Christchurch apparently due to Harry Potter connections charges a lot more. Some free but there are often events which means they are closed.

Blenheim Palace which is just up the road at Woodstock is worth a visit.

The quod on the high street was a lovely restaurant. Think you can stay there too.

I've used University Rooms too, in various places n England and Scotland. We stayed at Keble n Oxford. Breakfast was served at a long refectory table, which was interesting, because it meant you spoke to the other people staying there.

The Ashmolean is the principal museum (free). The Alfred Jewel lives there.

You can visit the Bodleian Library - take a paid tour, or just visit the cafe or shop.

Blackwell's bookshop.

And Dorothy L Sayers' Gaudy Night for your bedtime reading, if you haven't already read it.

The Perch is a lovely pub for a meal.

Oooh thank you, everyone!
Someone else recommended the Perch to me. Really looking forward to the museums. Thank you for that hotel guide, too!