jonthomas Posted October 2, 2023 #1 Share Posted October 2, 2023 any reasonable recommends, close to port? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony s Posted October 2, 2023 #2 Share Posted October 2, 2023 White Star Tavern but it has no elevator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John Bull Posted October 2, 2023 #3 Share Posted October 2, 2023 This website lists the vast majority of Southampton city centre. The vast majority are modern chain hotels, Pig-in-the-Wall and Ennio's are the main exceptions - they plus White Star Tavern (rooms over a pub, near blue 15) mentioned by @tony s are more-individual boutiques. Check the thumbnail map on this website, it shows the locations of the city centre hotels and the five cruise terminals. https://www.londontoolkit.com/travel/southampton_accommodation.htm Hotel numbers blue 12, 13 & 14 are less convenient than the others, blue 4 to 8 plus 16 are the best compromise between convenience to cruise terminals, the city shopping centre and the few old-town sights & waterfront. Blue 5 is Holiday Inn, it's adjacent the port gate for City Cruise Terminal and rooms at the back overlook the terminal & ship. Standards / facilities & prices vary from two-star Ibis Budget to 5-star Southampton Harbour Hotel but there are none that I'd caution against. JB 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irisbax3 Posted October 3, 2023 #4 Share Posted October 3, 2023 We stayed at Holiday Inn on Herbert Walker which is very close to the cruise terminal and Moxy which is one block from the Holiday Inn. Moxy is also very near the West Quay Mall where there are numerous restaurants. I recommend both hotels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare 3rdGenCunarder Posted October 3, 2023 #5 Share Posted October 3, 2023 I have stayed at Premier Inn West Quay several times and always been happy with them. It's also near the West Quay Mall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrmende63 Posted October 6, 2023 #6 Share Posted October 6, 2023 We have stayed multiple times at Ennios Boutique hotel. There is no elevator. But a really cute and nice place to stay. It is close to the ports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs f. Posted October 7, 2023 #7 Share Posted October 7, 2023 We stayed at Moxie. Great location. Short walk to train station and West Quay mall. 5 minutes taxi ride to pier. However depends what you are looking for in a hotel. No closet...a few hooks on wall. No t.v. No telephone in room. Small but very clean. We stayed 2 nights....would stay again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacurl Posted October 9, 2023 #8 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Premier inn city center Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John Bull Posted October 9, 2023 #9 Share Posted October 9, 2023 6 hours ago, kacurl said: Premier inn city center For clarification,................. there are two P.I.s which they have described as "City centre". The one that has always been named "P.I. City Centre" is in New Street on the eastern side of the city centre. Nothing wrong with the place other than it's not ideally located, especially for cruisers. When a new one was built on Harbour Parade the new one was called "P.I. West Quay". It's adjacent the West Quay shopping mall & entertainment centre, and a stone's throw from the walls of old-town and several cruise terminals. It's a pound to a penny that's the one you mean. A year or so back, some bright spark at P.I. decided that its name should reflect its convenient location, and the name was changed to "P.I. City Centre (West Quay)". The only thing that achieved was to cause confusion 🙄. It seems they've realised that, and "City centre" has now been dropped from its name. So "P.I. West Quay" is the name to look for JB 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacurl Posted October 9, 2023 #10 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Now I'm confused. Is the New Street location also walkable to old town? We have stayed in Southampton twice before and now I might have booked wrong one. Where we stayed we could walk there. Tried to look up my previous booking but not showing. Cathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacurl Posted October 9, 2023 #11 Share Posted October 9, 2023 This was 6 years ago and then I thought was called city center? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacurl Posted October 9, 2023 #12 Share Posted October 9, 2023 It was about 1/4 of mile to mall, cutting through a park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John Bull Posted October 9, 2023 #13 Share Posted October 9, 2023 3 hours ago, kacurl said: Now I'm confused. Is the New Street location also walkable to old town? We have stayed in Southampton twice before and now I might have booked wrong one. Where we stayed we could walk there. Tried to look up my previous booking but not showing. Cathy Yes, the New Road one is less-convenient than the West Quay one, but it's still walkable. It's about 1/2 mile (10 min walk, yes- partly thro Palmerston Park) to the city's centre-point Bargate, the main entrance thro the city walls into the old town The Bargate & adjacent city wall are close to the West Quay Mall and neatly divides old-town from that mall and the mainly-pedestrianised post-war main shopping street of Above Bar. From there it's the same distances to the old town's few sights as the West Quay one. https://maps.app.goo.gl/NjVkvAyZ5yXAj6ix5 JB 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kacurl Posted October 9, 2023 #14 Share Posted October 9, 2023 Thank you John, dh says it is the New Road p i. This time we will be there for 2 nights. Are there any second hand stores near by? Hoping to find him a sports jacket to wear on QM2 as this time we are Definitely planning to travel light and his suit jacket takes up a lot of room. Or maybe find a reasonably priced one at the mall. What I remember most at the pi was how friendly everyone was, the food was good and they poured a nice drink! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjg46 Posted October 10, 2023 #15 Share Posted October 10, 2023 On 10/9/2023 at 9:17 AM, John Bull said: Yes, the New Road one is less-convenient than the West Quay one, but it's still walkable. It's about 1/2 mile (10 min walk, yes- partly thro Palmerston Park) to the city's centre-point Bargate, the main entrance thro the city walls into the old town The Bargate & adjacent city wall are close to the West Quay Mall and neatly divides old-town from that mall and the mainly-pedestrianised post-war main shopping street of Above Bar. From there it's the same distances to the old town's few sights as the West Quay one. https://maps.app.goo.gl/NjVkvAyZ5yXAj6ix5 JB 🙂 Sorry to get off the track. We will be staying at the Elizabeth House Hotel on The Avenue. Can you tell me if there is a City Bus we can take to the Central train station? We would like to visit Portsmouth. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John Bull Posted October 10, 2023 #16 Share Posted October 10, 2023 1 hour ago, kjg46 said: Sorry to get off the track. We will be staying at the Elizabeth House Hotel on The Avenue. Can you tell me if there is a City Bus we can take to the Central train station? We would like to visit Portsmouth. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Blue Star / Unilink bus, route U2C. Normally a double-deck blue bus. It passes the door of your hotel & goes direct (no changes) to Southampton Central station. Turn left out of the hotel, walk straight across the traffic lights & the bus stop is about 100 yards. Frequency every 15 minutes or better, journey takes about 10 minutes. When you return it'll be numbered U2 or U2B . If there's no live information board on the bus ask the driver to let you know when it gets to Stag Gates. That'll be right by those traffic lights which you crossed that morning & almost opposite your hotel. Use the traffic lights to cross the road. (If you miss that stop, get off at the next one, Northlands Road & walk back, its only a few hundred yards - but it's a busy road, use the pedestrian crossing lights part-way back.) Sorry I don't know anything about fare (it'll be peanuts) or payment methods. BTW, don't get off the train at the big "Portsmouth & Southsea" station - take the train all the way to its terminus, Portsmouth Harbour. That's right by the Historic Dockyard & Ships, Spinnaker Tower etc JB 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjg46 Posted October 10, 2023 #17 Share Posted October 10, 2023 14 minutes ago, John Bull said: Thank you very much for the excellent information. Looking forward to the Port and the visiting the town.. All the best Kevin Kingwood, Texas USA Blue Star / Unilink bus, route U2C. Normally a double-deck blue bus. It passes the door of your hotel & goes direct (no changes) to Southampton Central station. Turn left out of the hotel, walk straight across the traffic lights & the bus stop is about 100 yards. Frequency every 15 minutes or better, journey takes about 10 minutes. When you return it'll be numbered U2 or U2B . If there's no live information board on the bus ask the driver to let you know when it gets to Stag Gates. That'll be right by those traffic lights which you crossed that morning & almost opposite your hotel. Use the traffic lights to cross the road. (If you miss that stop, get off at the next one, Northlands Road & walk back, its only a few hundred yards - but it's a busy road, use the pedestrian crossing lights part-way back.) Sorry I don't know anything about fare (it'll be peanuts) or payment methods. BTW, don't get off the train at the big "Portsmouth & Southsea" station - take the train all the way to its terminus, Portsmouth Harbour. That's right by the Historic Dockyard & Ships, Spinnaker Tower etc JB 🙂 14 minutes ago, John Bull said: Blue Star / Unilink bus, route U2C. Normally a double-deck blue bus. It passes the door of your hotel & goes direct (no changes) to Southampton Central station. Turn left out of the hotel, walk straight across the traffic lights & the bus stop is about 100 yards. Frequency every 15 minutes or better, journey takes about 10 minutes. When you return it'll be numbered U2 or U2B . If there's no live information board on the bus ask the driver to let you know when it gets to Stag Gates. That'll be right by those traffic lights which you crossed that morning & almost opposite your hotel. Use the traffic lights to cross the road. (If you miss that stop, get off at the next one, Northlands Road & walk back, its only a few hundred yards - but it's a busy road, use the pedestrian crossing lights part-way back.) Sorry I don't know anything about fare (it'll be peanuts) or payment methods. BTW, don't get off the train at the big "Portsmouth & Southsea" station - take the train all the way to its terminus, Portsmouth Harbour. That's right by the Historic Dockyard & Ships, Spinnaker Tower etc JB 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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