,url-https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tripexpert.com%2Fimages%2Fmarker-fade%402x.png(-1.260294,51.759426)/-1.2586192041635513,51.75666997989492,13.576349478161298/1280x214@2x?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoidHJpcGV4cGVydHdlYiIsImEiOiJja2Fud3l2MDcwbXZ0MndyeGF3eGI3ZWhzIn0.zLqNa1RECyZZadF8zfQM5w)
Tower House vs Old Parsonage Hotel
Both properties are rated very highly by expert reviewers. On balance, Old Parsonage Hotel ranks significantly better than Tower House. Old Parsonage Hotel comes in at #4 in Oxford with recommendations from 9 publications including Star Service, Rough Guide and DK Eyewitness.
Tower House
Insight Guides
The Telegraph
Lonely Planet
15 Ship Street, Oxford OX1 3DA
From $163 /night
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Free Breakfast
- Restaurant
- Accessible
- Breakfast included
Insight Guides
"Located centrally off Cornmarket, this friendly, family-run guesthouse dates to the 17th century. The seven bedrooms are furnished with antiques and decorated to a high standard."
The Telegraph
8.0
"This social enterprise combining a townhouse and restaurant offers a unique Oxford experience: a quirky room within the bastion of the medieval city wall and a buzzing space for breakfast and dinner."
Full review
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"In a peaceful central location, this listed 17th-century town house holds eight good-value double rooms, simple but tastefully decorated"
Full review
Old Parsonage Hotel
Fodor's
Frommer's
Lonely Planet
DK Eyewitness
Star Service
Show All Reviews
1 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN
From $190 /night
- Pet Friendly
- Bar/Lounge
- Free Internet
- Room Service
- Laundry Service
- Concierge
Fodor's
"A 17th-century gabled stone house in a small garden next to St. Giles Church, the Old Parsonage is a dignified retreat."
Full review
Frommer's
"This intimate old hotel is filled with hidden charms such as tiny gardens in its courtyard and on its roof terrace."
Full review
Lonely Planet
Top Choice
"Wonderfully quirky, the Old Parsonage is a small boutique hotel in a 17th-century stone building covered with wisteria, with just the right blend of period charm and modern luxury."
Full review
DK Eyewitness
"Walls of Cotswold stone screen the Old Parsonage from Oxford’s passing hubbub, creating the pleasing illusion of a country retreat."
Star Service
"Privately owned and managed, this building dates from Shakespeare's day (1660) and was once a royalist fort and a haunt of Oscar Wilde.
"
Full review
