Oatlands Park Hotel, Weybridge
Site visit date 13th October 2022.
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Oatlands Park Hotel was built in 1836 and is a 4star hotel set in 10acres of parkland in a semi residential area, literally just 2miles from the M25. It couldn’t be easier to get to or find.
Weybridge train station is 1 mile from the hotel, by train from Waterloo is 30minutes and to drive from Heathrow is 20minutes. The hotel has a 180-space car park with two active car charging points, 5 in total.
This Grade II listed hotel stands on the original site of a royal Tudor palace built by Henry VIII with views over Broadwater Lake and the Surrey hills. More recently, in fact over the past 4 years, the hotel has undergone a £15m refurbishment by its current owners.
The renovations are obvious from the minute you walk through the door into the hotel’s lobby, lounge, and bar area which has been beautifully decorated.
Entrance Lobby
Bar 1509, named after the year Henry VIII became king, serves all the drinks you would expect plus others that the hotel’s resident mixologist can dream up for you along with assorted bar snacks, light bites, burgers, and sandwiches.
It is open daily from 10am to midnight.
The York Suite
Cabaret Style x 152 maximum.
Meeting space
Leading off the main entrance lobby are 8 of the hotel’s 12 meeting rooms (counting the main York Suite as three rooms).
The main, and largest function room is the York Suite, divisible into three sections, located at the far end of the corridor. Maximum capacity is x 152 cabaret style with the room completely open. This suite has its own bar, small foyer, and dedicated entrance.
The corridor to the York Suite from the lobby passes five of the hotels smaller meeting rooms, Parr (8 boardroom), Howard (8 boardroom), Cromwell (32 cabaret), Surrey (16 boardroom) and Cedar (16 boardroom).
Ideal for stand-alone smaller meetings, for syndicate rooms combined with the York Suite, storage, admin/organisers office, speaker ready room, etc.
All function rooms have natural daylight and plasma screens, the Cedar has an interactive whiteboard, and the Cromwell has a drop-down screen and projector included.
La Terrazza
Dining for 80, Reception for 120 maximum.
Back to the main lobby and moving towards the rear of the hotel are the Garden Room (16 cabaret) and the Drawing Room (32 cabaret), these are adjacent to the La Terrazza.
La Terrazza was added to the hotel in around 2016/2017. It is a permanent addition to the hotel, conservatory in style with a retractable roof and bifold doors, bringing the outside to the inside.
Capacity-wise the function space can hold x 80 for dining, x 120 for a reception and comes with its own in-built BBQ kitchen and heat lamps. It also interconnects to the Drawing Room and Garden Room for greater capacity.
The Mulberry Restaurant
Theatre Style maximum x 150.
The hotel isn’t precious over its main restaurant, the Mulberry Restaurant and are happy to hand this over for private dining, lunches and dinners and convert it into a meeting room when the need arrives, particularly for an exclusive use event.
There is also a bar in the Mulberry Restaurant so no need to go far for a top up during dinner.
The Mulberry can accommodate x 150 theatre style and x 150 covers.
Superior Double Room
Accommodation
The hotel has a total of x 160 bedrooms with approximately x 60 of those rooms being Superior Doubles, x 30 being Executive Rooms and the balance being feature or deluxe rooms.
The rooms have either a shower or a bath, there are no combination rooms, ie, shower over the bath in this hotel.
The hotel has x 6 rooms that can be offered as twin rooms with zip link beds in each.
All rooms have a Smart TV with Netflix, etc as standard.
What to do
Oatlands Park Hotel does not have a gym or pool, but it does offer treatments and running routes in the grounds.
Locally you have Mercedes Benz World for driving experiences, or purely to go and look around (there’s plenty to see), Brooklands Museum and Hampton Court Palace.
By the way, all three of those named above can also double as off-site gala dinner options when twinned with the hotel.
Activity-wise the hotel tends to recommend GOTO events who can offer a whole host of team building events both in the hotel and within the grounds. Motorised activities and clays are not permitted but everything else is go, go, go.
You may also consider De Vere Beaumont Estate near Windsor.
If you want more information or to check meeting availability contact us.
