Remont Oxford

About Remont Oxford

Remont is at 367 Banbury Road, next door to Cotswold House and in the same band of North Oxford villas, but it takes a deliberately different approach. The house has been refurbished into something closer to a small contemporary hotel than a traditional Oxford bed and breakfast - flat-screen televisions, wi-fi throughout, dark leather, bright throws and clean lines rather than florals and dark wood.

It remains independent and family-run, and the scale is small enough that you deal with the owners rather than a front desk. Rooms are en suite and range from singles up to family rooms; breakfast is included and there is off-street parking, which is the reason a lot of guests choose this part of Oxford in the first place. The gardens at the back are a genuine asset in summer.

Being on the Banbury Road puts you on one of the best bus corridors in the city, with services into the centre every few minutes and Oxford Parkway station a short ride north for Chiltern trains to London Marylebone. Summertown is walkable for restaurants and a supermarket, the Cherwell Boathouse is ten minutes away for punt hire and dinner, and the walk into town past the university parks and the Natural History Museum is one of the nicer approaches to central Oxford. As with the neighbouring guest houses, there is no bar or restaurant, and rooms go quickly for June graduations and early October.