The Holiday Inn Reading is delightfully located next to the Caversham Bridge in Reading. The hotel is set in leafy surroundings on the banks of the River Thames, yet is only minutes away from Reading town centre. With easy access to Reading mainline railway station, junctions 10,11 and 12 of the M4 motorway and only 20 miles from Heathrow airport, the hotel is an ideal base for your stay whether business or pleasure.Enjoy a relaxing drink in our Lobby bar or on our terrace overlooking the river. We also offer a superb bar menu. Our Bridges Restaurant overlooks the river and offers excellent menus and service in relaxed surroundings.Conference and meeting facilities are available from 2 to 200 delegates. All our meeting rooms benefit from natural daylight and are comfort cooled. Why not relax at the end of a hard day in the hotel Leisure Club featuring an indoor swimming pool, sauna and fully equipped gym. Car parking available for up to 200 cars. We are delighted to announce the full refurbishment of the hotel during 2006, including the introduction of air conditioning to all bedrooms by September 2006. From 10/02/06 until 31/05/06 we will be upgrading our public areas. We will be offering alternative Bar and Restaurant facilities. NEW RIVERSIDE BUSINESS CENTRE NOW OPEN Please contact our Sales office for further details on: 01189 259933 WERE BEING CROWNED! From July 2006 we will be upgrading to a Crowne Plaza hotel
Amenities
Air Conditioned
AM/FM Alarm Clock
Bar/Lounge
Bath Tub
Business Center
Coffee Maker in Room
Concierge Desk
Connecting Rooms
Copy Service
Cribs Available
City Center
Currency Exchange
24 Hour Front Desk
Desk with lamp
FAX
Florist
Golf
Exercise Gym
Hairdryers Available
High speed internet access
Iron
Mini Bar
Mini Bar
Modem Lines in Room
In Room Movies
Multilingual
Free Newspaper
Pool
Indoor Pool
Parking
Radio
Rollaway Beds
Room Service
24 Hour Room Service
Safe Deposit Box
Safe
Sauna
Secretarial Service
Turndown Service
Television with Cable
TV Remote Control
Satellite TV
Laundry/Valet Services
Wake-up Service
Miscellaneous Information
British Pounds is the native currency.
Check in time is 1400
Check out time is 1200
Time Zone is GMT
114 rooms.
0 suites.
2 floors.
Guarantee Policy
Credit Card Guarantee Required For All Arrivals - Deposit May Be Required During Special Events
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation policies vary by hotel. Since a hotel can set a cancellation policy up to 30 days prior to arrival, please review rate rules prior to booking to avoid possible charges.
Related United Kingdom Content
Despite its relatively small size, the United Kingdom is one of the most culturally diverse countries on Earth, peopled by four main ‘native’ nationalities, plus later arrivals from all over the world. The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), plus Northern Ireland. The Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (principally Jersey and Guernsey) are also parts of the British Isles, but somewhat confusingly not officially part of the UK.
The UK is also a topically diverse country, with such landscapes as the rolling
moors of Yorkshire, the lakes and mountains of the Lake District and Scotland, and the ancient forests of Nottinghamshire or the stunningbeaches of Wales. All this, as well as genteel villages with chocolate-box cottages or vibrantcities at the forefront of modernity, means the UK has something to offer everyone.
London is the natural starting point for visitors and is a great introduction to this varied country, with famous sights such as the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye and renowned exhibitions in the National Gallery, Natural History Museum and Tower of London.
Not far out from the capital are the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, with their elegant architecture, and Windsor, home to the Queen’s famous castle residence.
The British seaside is at its best in the south coast resorts of Brighton and Bournemouth or the harbor villages in Cornwall, Dorset and Devon. For more beautiful, wilder, windswept beaches, head to the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales or the Scottish islands of Skye, Shetland and Orkney.
Walkers have no end of choice with hundreds of miles of hiking trails in the hilly Peak District, the mountainous Lake District, Wales and Scotland or along the coastal paths of southern England. For more gentle pursuits, pretty villages of the Cotswolds and Suffolk offer endless photo opportunities of thatched cottages or leaning timber-framed houses.
Geography The British landscape can be divided roughly into two kinds of terrain – highland and lowland. The highland area comprises the mountainous regions of Scotland, Northern Ireland, northern England and North Wales. The English Lake District in the northwest contains lakes and fells. The lowland area is broken up by sandstone and limestone hills, long valleys and basins such as the Wash on the east coast. In the southeast, the North and South Downs culminate in the White Cliffs of Dover. The coastline includes fjord-like inlets in the northwest of Scotland, spectacular cliffs and wild sandy beaches on the east coast and, further south, beaches of rock, shale and sand sometimes backed by dunes, and large areas of fenland in East Anglia.
Note: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Although they form one administrative unit (with regional exceptions), they have had separate cultures, languages and political histories. The United Kingdom section consists of a general introduction (covering the aspects that the four countries have in common) and sections devoted to the four constituent countries. The Channel Islands (Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Herm) and the Isle of Man are dependencies of the British Crown. These are included here for convenience of reference.
More detailed geographical descriptions of the various countries may be found under the respective entries.
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