The Randolph Hotel, Oxford

The entrance on Beaumont Street leads to a concierge desk and the Morse Bar.

- Tom Otley

BACKGROUND The Grade II listed Randolph Hotel was built in 1864 by William Wilkinson and has a Victorian Gothic façade and internal arched windows as though it has been converted from a chapel. It is named for the Rev Dr Francis Randolph, who was the chief benefactor of the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Technology which it faces across Beaumont Street. The Randolph reopened in 2021 after an extensive renovation. It is now a Graduate Hotel, a brand which has 30 US locations as well as the former Doubletree Hilton in Cambridge which is now Graduate Cambridge. The brand is owned by AJ Capital Partners which also owns and operates Marine and Lawn, a collection of hotels in golfing locations, including the rebranded Rusacks Hotel in St Andrews, the Marine North Berwick and the Marine Troon.

WHERE IS IT? In the centre of Oxford, on the corner of Beaumont Street opposite the Ashmolean Museum and Magdalen Street by the Oxford Martyr's Memorial. Car parking is available with prices beginning at £45/US$55 per day for overnight parking. Rates include parking from 2pm on day of arrival until 12pm the following day.