Hotel or B&B Winchester

[reluctantbrit]

We are currently looking at university visits with DD and plan to add Winchester and Southampton to our list. As we don't know either towns we thought we go for a weekend and have a look around before doing the official Open Day visits.

Can anyone recommend a decent place to stay? We do need two rooms and compared to other places it feels like Winchester is really expensive. Even the Premier Inn quoted nearly £300 for a one-night-stay end of April.

Are you driving or using public transport?

Driving.

Winchester does tend to be expensive as it is a year round tourist destination. The cheapest place is probably the Travel Lodge it’s central but doesn’t have parking so that does add to the cost. The reviews aren’t great either. I think I would stay in Southampton and visit Winchester for the day. It’s only a short drive on the M3 between the two and it has a lot more budget options.

Yes, you only need one place to stay for both. However I’m not seeing many places I’d be confident in recommending for much less that £265 for the two rooms. There are cheaper options there which might be fine.

Also look at Eastleigh.

Basingstoke has cheaper options but it’s north of Winchester so more of a drive to Southampton.

Thanks. We had a re-think and will do only the Open days.

Winchester can be done as a day trip, long but doeable and then Southampton separately.